Two brothers were sprayed with gasoline and tried to ignite to bonzo at the door of Government House this morning. So far unknown identities of the protesters and their purposes. The brothers were aided by the SAME and Argerich were taken to hospital with injured to varying degrees. The protest reminds Tibetan monks who set […]
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Two million Argentines across the country join the biggest anti-government protest in years Almost two million Argentines marched on Thursday evening across the country’s cities and towns in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy, corruption, street crime and President Cristina Fernandez efforts to reform the media, […]
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Chilean students announce another march and protest for the May 8, 2013. Chilean students announce another great place for 8 mayoSantiago of Chile, April 14 (Prensa Latina) Chilean students will come back to the streets of the country on May 8, to reiterate their rejection of profit in education, and to demand a public education, […]
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The President, Rafael Correa, warned yesterday irregular groups of Colombia after the attack occurred this week in the province of Sucumbios, on the border with Colombia, where a helicopter was shot Armed Forces. “Gentlemen of the illegal groups in Colombia: FARC, paramilitaries, as they are called, with Ecuador not play,” he told the Citizen Link […]
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Federal police use tear gas to clear Mexico teachers Hundreds of federal police cleared protesting teachers from the main highway between Mexico City and Acapulco after the demonstrators blocked the roadway for hours, causing a huge traffic backup. The teachers were protesting against an educational reform that will submit them to evaluation and loosen union […]
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An Indian attack against an Aboriginal clan in voluntary isolation in the Amazon occurred, left at least 18 dead, said Thursday the native leader Gilberto Nenquimo. “After consultation with a person who participated in the attack, I have information that there are 18 dead, men and older women without children also died,” said Nenquimo from […]
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salvalaselva.org …… reported that…With this purpose, the environmental organization founded DECOIN already twice stopped the intentions of government and transnational extractive mining as Japan’s Mitsubishi in 1997 and the Canadian Copper Mesa / Ascendant Copper in 2009. For many years, Rainforest Rescue accompanies Intag residents. With donations helped purchase and protect 3,000 hectares of mountain […]
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This time, a group of Huaorani have attacked an uncontacted tribe, allegedly in retaliation for the murder of Ompore Omeway, 70 years old, and his wife, Buganei Cayga, 64, which occurred on March 4, done that Prosecutor investigates. The couple’s crime occurred in a path leading to the house of the victims, in a place […]
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suspension sleeves The Chilean airline LAN will use in the coming days to Justice to address the sudden suspension of service at airports sleeves of Argentina. The decision was announced to the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio by company sources and confirmed yesterday the NATION by a source close to the airline directory. According to this […]
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In a bizarre incident, hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week. Members […]
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According to mercopress.com, Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, came on stage to once again question the Government of President Cristina Fernandez. In an interview with the Spanish media, the dictator said that in case the Kirchnerites try to “perpetuate in power, the armed and security forces along with the people will prevent it.” “Kirchnerism […]
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A total of 16 firefighters Monday Panamanians began a hunger strike on the headquarters “Ricardo Arango” located in downtown Panama City, the dismissal of seven of his companions. The president of the Firefighters Association, Gabriel Gomez, said that “we as an association we present reimbursement resources, we expect a prompt response from the director.” The […]
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The demands of the protesters were no new taxes, improved security, the fight against impunity, the refusal to reform teaching and allocation of funds to the University of San Carlos, among others. From 9.30 am bus lot in caravan made its entry into the capital on the routes to the Pacific, the Atlantic and on […]
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Chief of Naval Honduran ensures that navigates to the mouth, but recognizes that there is always persecution. Presidents would meet after Easter. Chief of Naval Honduran ensures that navigates to the mouth, but recognizes that there is always persecution. Presidents would meet after Easter. Gen. Rene Osorio said they have orders to continue performing normally […]
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Belizetimes.bz reported that a number of small but very significant issues popped up in the news over the past week. By all indications they may be the catalyst, or the spark, that could ignite a national uprising against a government that is failing to meet the needs and aspirations of the majority of Belizeans across […]
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President Porfirio Lobo will meet this week with fishermen from the south to address problems with Nicaraguan Naval. President Porfirio Lobo Sosa said Sunday that Honduras will press UN to enforce the judgment bordering the International Court of Justice in the Gulf of Fonseca shared with Nicaragua and El Salvador. The president spoke after constant […]
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Health workers argued that if the government intends to pursue increased 23.63% by decree, employees return to the streets. So threatened with two strikes, one for next week and another 48 hours for the next 72 hours. “In the hospitals of the province has seen substantial compliance to the extent of unemployment. When operating with […]
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Bananaleaks.co reported……Santiago Villa wins dispute against the president of Ecuador, who spent millions trying to censor the treasury sums documentary “Rafael Correa, Portrait of a father of the nation”. “As set out in the Copyright Act Digital Millennium, we have completed processing your appeal regarding your video. The content has been restored. Your account will […]
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Some 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested inside an atomic power plant in Argentina on Monday at a protest on the second anniversary of the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan, the group said. The protesters “were beaten and detained after entering the Embalse nuclear facility in Cordoba” some 700 kilometers (450 miles) northeast of Buenos […]
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Mercopress.com reported that Argentine President Cristina Fernández rejected the referendum held at the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, and assured it “was a parody” likening to a “squatters’ condominium meeting” who illegally live in an occupied territory. The president made her remarks on Tuesday during the presentation of a “Science, Technology and Innovation National Plan: Innovating Argentina 2020” […]
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Falkland Islands’ message to Cristina Fernandez: we have absolutely no desire to be ruled from Buenos Aires “President Cristina Fernandez, we have sent you a message: we have absolutely no desire to be ruled by the Government in Buenos Aires and we hope that now you might respect that”, said the spokesperson for the Falklands’ […]
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nationalgeographic.com reported that Native officials and conservationists fear possible reprisals in eastern Ecuador following an attack by uncontacted tribesmen that killed two Waorani Indians last week. According to a preliminary investigation by officials from the Orellana Province public prosecutor’s office, the victims were speared to death last Tuesday morning while walking near their village of […]
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As heroes were welcomed home three Bolivian soldiers who were released after being imprisoned in Chile accused of illegally entering the country on 25 January. Jose Luis Fernandez (18) Augusto Cardenas (19) and Alex Shock (20), who accepted the conditional suspension of proceedings at the hearing made this morning in Pozo Almonte, arrived at the […]
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mercopress.com reported, President Rafael Correa said he expects the regional groupings Alba and Unasur to meet urgently and address the “legal aberration” committed by a UN trade law arbitrage tribunal against Ecuador in a case involving US multinational Chevron and decades of environmental damages. “We urgently need Latinamerican unity to avoid the abuses of the […]
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prensa-latina.cu reported that Honduran authorities today confirmed the discovery of the bodies of two peasants in the Bajo Aguan Valley in northeastern Honduras. The bodies were found in a decomposed state in a boundary of the La Concepción, handcuffed, with signs of torture and multiple impacts of firearms. The victims were identified as Yoni Adolfo […]
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prensalibre.com reported that the mayor of Santa Barbara, Suchitepéquez Otto Orlando Franco-Najera, 26, elected by the National Transmission Unit (NCU) -, two council members and a bodyguard of the commune were arrested yesterday morning by Army and neighbors who performed patrols in communities surrounding Chicacao. Council members are captured Juan de Dios Rodriguez Quevedo, 53, […]
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Tapachula, Chiapas (25/FEB/2013.) – Guatemala’s government prepares a group of highly specialized military, to combat drug trafficking and organized crime in his country on the Gaza border with Mexico, Guatemalan authorities said. Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic of the Central American nation, Francisco Cuevas Gallardo, said officers will be operational […]
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Student teachers, teachers and social organization that supports a dozen workers made redundant protest actions this day remain severe complications vials in Oaxaca. For the third time in 10 days, students from 11 state colleges retain urban transport buses to block streets and avenues of the capital to protest against the federal education reform. Mobilizing […]
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infobae.com reported that….. Las Damas de Blanco reported that paramilitary brigades harassed and arrested 56 of its members. They were also arrested dozens of activists. Cuban dissidents reported, on Sunday, while constituted the new People’s National Assembly and Raul Castro was reelected as president until 2018 , was organized a huge nationwide operation to prevent […]
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Argentina accuses Britain of sending nuclear ships to the Falklands The government Tuesday accused England of carrying nuclear weapons submarine to the Falkland Islands and violating international treaties that prohibit the use of these materials in the area. The ausación was made by Eduardo Zuain, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, during the Conference on […]
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greenleft.org.au reported that WikiLeaks has published over 40,000 secret documents regarding Venezuela, which show the clear hand of US imperialism in efforts to topple popular and democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez. The documents, which date from July 2004 to December 2011 and which were published through WikiLeaks twitter account @wikileaks and which are now available […]
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Trust.org reported….Brazil nut harvesting – a sustainable use of the forest in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios region – provides thousands of people with an income in the first few months of each year. But mining and agriculture concessions overlap the harvesters’ concessions, threatening both their way of life and the forest, according to a […]
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vanguardia.com reported that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its annual report on the situation in Colombia, said criminal gangs, known as Bacrim, have become one of the largest sources of human rights violations. “The post-demobilization groups, are considered by all sectors of the biggest threats to public order, and responsible for the greatest […]
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Police and the prosecution of Osorno investigate arson attack on the works of the hydroelectric Rucatayo, located in the area of Carimallín, bordering the regions of Los Ríos and Los Lagos. According to the police, campus guards ensured that at about 04:00 hours in the morning, five hooded persons fired at the lights, left the […]
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Colombian Army troops were seized in the south kilos of explosive ANFO 1850 allegedly by the FARC would be used to carry out attacks in several departments in the area, military sources said. The explosives were in a hideout that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were in a rural village of El Quebradón, […]
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SALON.COM REPORTED: In January 2009, Correa reactivated hundreds of mining permits and granted foreign companies access to indigenous territory and resources in any projects he deemed “in the national interest.” All of this occurred just before the start of the Mining World Fair in Ontario, where Correa administration officials told the gathered, “In Ecuador, large-scale […]
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Barbacoas Nariño Colombia: A Prosecutor located a mass grave with the bodies of three Awá children. They were allegedly kidnapped and murdered in the southwest part of the country by the FARC in September, 2011. The children’s bodies were found in a jungle area of the village Barbacoas on Friday February 8, 2013, in the […]
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elmundo.es —– “Acapulco has deteriorated because there is no authority, not prevented the crime, not prosecuted, not investigated, not punished and impunity is what has made it the most violent city in Mexico and the second in the world, after Honduras San Pedro Sula.’s almost a failed state. ” The president of the NGO Citizens […]
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Elpais.com reported, Optimism that the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos , displayed on a happy ending future peace negotiations with the FARC keeps government in Cuba-sentiment shared by the negotiating team of the guerrilla clashes with what happens in the battlefield. Military and guerrillas have intensified the fighting and the latter have resumed the […]
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According to carcol.com, FARC proposed legalize some marijuana crops, poppy and coca leaf in the country, and to suspend the granting of mining rights and concessions for oil exploration and extraction. These measures are part of a document entitled “Eight proposals for minimum social and environmental management” the guerrillas of Colombia presented to the table […]
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arcoiris.com.co reported ……Today the neighborhood where it is called the Laguito Cubanacán and are 120 houses in total, with between one and six rooms, all fully furnished and with domestic service and limo driver, serving guests what they call houses Protocol which are numbered and have a strict monitoring service, directly linked to the Interior […]
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Strategic-culture.org reported that…..A NASA study measuring the Amazon rainforest canopy over the last decade found that droughts in 2005 and 2010 were severe enough to inhibit regrowth, portending deep ecological consequences if this cycle proceeds. (8) And researchers have registered an alarming retreat of the Andes glaciers in South America, by some 30-50 percent since […]
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cpj.org press release -Authorities in Colombia should ensure the safety of two journalists who have fled the northern city of Montería after being threatened for their reporting on criminal groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Amilkar Alvear, a reporter for the daily El Heraldo and its sister newspaper, Al Día, and Jairo Cassiani, […]
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This entry was written by our regular contributor Asier Hernando (@ asierhm). Oxfam today launched an international campaign of signatures to return their land to 769 farming families. On the afternoon of Thursday 24 in Guatemala, and l CUC peasant leader Daniel Pascual death threats and assaults suffered by unidentified men who were demonstrating in […]
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zeenews.india.com reported that the armed strikes would be implemented from February 1 Aurelio Rodriguez in front of the FARC, which offends in boundaries between Choco and Risaralda. With the release of a pamphlet, the front of the FARC Aurelio Rodriguez threatens to arrest armed Mistrató municipalities of Risaralda and Pueblo Rico. Phemplets began circulating January […]
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ACTIVISTS DEMAND REMOVAL OF Felipe Calderon Harvard’s faculty. Ilfinanciero.com.mx reported that on Tuesday January 29, authorities received Harvard University 34.605 signatures gathered by activists Eduardo Cortes and John Randolph thereby demanding the revocation of the former academic stay of Mexico, Felipe Calderon. Eduardo Cortes Rivadeneyra, the main driver of the petition to Harvard, published today […]
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One person was arrested after firing a gun against strikers of the Union of Employees of the University Michoacana (SUEUM) who kept a guard in University City facility in Morelia, two weeks ago, and managed to slightly injuring two them. According to the police report, on Monday night a person 38 years of age was […]
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Ciudad Juarez start breathing after hold for three consecutive years the sad title of being the most dangerous city in the world, and remain in second place in 2011, virtually tied with San Pedro Sula Honduras. Killings, femicide, kidnapping, rape and extortion have built the terrible image of this border city, and numerous works have […]
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Nearly 84 people have reached the town of Tierralta after armed raid men who perpetrated a criminal gang of drug traffickers, apparently from Los Urabeños, Santa Isabel Manso, located in the middle lane Paramillo knot south Tierralta Township. A similar situation is being generated with the Embera Katio near the area, which are moving towards […]
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greenpeace.org reported that trucks filled with timber from illegal logging operations in the Amazon have been stopped in their tracks by an indigenous village protesting the continued exploitation of their lands. With little or no support from the local or federal authorities, the Pukobjê-Gavião people in Maranhão state, Brazil, are refusing to stand aside as […]
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Colombiareports.com reported that the guerrilla leader Rodrigo Granda rejected General Fernando Proaño’s statements after he accused the FARC of increasing weapons purchases in Ecuador during the unilateral cease-fire. “Since the beginning of the peace process…we have captured a great amount of ammunition, arms and therefore we know they [FARC] took advantage of this situation to […]
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Amazon Defense Coalition Press Release: U.S. federal judge Lewis A. Kaplan is again denying due process and improperly acting as “the world’s judicial police” to help Chevron try to block a $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, says a new analysis by representatives of the Ecuadorians. Representatives of thousands of Amazon villagers in Ecuador who […]
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Guardian.co.uk reported that Easter Island, a Pacific paradise only 164 sq km in size, has seen demonstrations in recent months. The indigenous Rapa Nui – the Polynesian name for the island and people – assert that Chile has robbed them of their ancestral lands. They are threatening to declare independence and lodge a complaint against […]
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guardian.co.uk reported in what looks set to be one of the most one-sided struggles in the history of Amazon forest conservation, an indigenous community of about 400 villagers is preparing to resist the Ecuadorean army and one of the biggest oil companies in South America. The Kichwa tribe on Sani Isla, who were using blowpipes […]
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The economist.com reported that the fall of the “father of all Paraguayans” was even more abrupt than his rise. In 2008 Fernando Lugo, a Catholic bishop and liberation theologian who called himself a champion of the poor, won his country’s presidential election and broke the Colorado Party’s chokehold on power. Shortly after his inauguration, however, […]
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Ecuadorian Foreign Minister condemned the U.S. standard that seeks to prevent Iran’s influence in Latin America…. “We will fight for our sovereignty. This is a government other than that defined its foreign policy based on the concerns and fears that instilled the United States,” Patino said in an interview with the government newspaper ‘The Telegraph’. […]
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Eluniverso.com reported ….. Despite the presence of military police, arson attacks continued Tuesday in the Mapuche region of Araucanía, in southern Chile, with victimless attacks against at least two properties, raising a serious conflict in one of the poorest regions of country. “We are in the presence of an organized terrorist group with terrorist methods, […]
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Thestarphoenix.com reported that Chilean truckers blocked the country’s main highway on Monday to protest a string of arson attacks, including one that killed an elderly couple in a southern region that Mapuche Indians call their usurped ancestral land. The couple’s death has triggered a national debate on the escalation of a conflict in Araucania, where […]
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. She accused Britain of taking part in an act of “blatant colonialism” in claiming the archipelago and called on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to honour UN resolutions that indicate both […]
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The April 10 Movement, which groups Ngäbe-Bugle indigenous and peasants, convene a peaceful march this Wednesday, January 9, at 10:30 am from Tolé center to the American Way. The purpose of this march is to draw attention of the government of President Ricardo Martinelli, to the expert’s report to Barro Blanco hydroelectric project on the […]
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Nineteen years ago today, the neoliberal North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, and in response, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista National Liberation Army; EZLN), a group of rural indigenous peoples and leftist intellectuals, rose up, using the internet and a global community of rights activists to object to the impact of […]
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House Representative member Angela Robledo, denounced on Tuesday in political control debate, members of the armed forces were involved in cases of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict. “We have evidence that some members of the security forces, abuse of children and adolescents in conflict zones. Sexual exploitation by these officials and adolescents […]
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State preventive police evicted a group of protesters Jantetelco Township, which tied up the City Hall, to protest the passage of a pipeline terminal which is projected in the municipality Yecapixtla. In fact four people were arrested, two of them elderly, who were presented before the Public Ministry of the entity as presented. It was […]
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Gunmen murdered one of the last surviving leaders of a peasant movement in Paraguay whose land dispute with a politician prompted the end of Fernando Lugo’s presidency in June. Vidal Vega, 48, was hit four times by bullets from a 12-gauge shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver fired by two unidentified men who sped away on […]
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Colombian, Nicaraguan Leaders to Discuss Boundary Dispute The Colombian and Nicaraguan leaders plan to meet in Mexico City, where both will be attending Saturday’s inauguration of new Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday he hopes to speak in the most respectful, civilized way with Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega […]
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Another round of talks between the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and the Colombian government is due to be held in Havana on December 5th. This came in a statement for reporters by the former Vice-President of Colombia Humberto de la Calle. According to him, the talks will be held behind […]
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Colombia has withdrawn from a treaty that binds it to the UN International Court of Justice in anger at a ruling that shifts some of its resource-rich waters to Nicaragua, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The Hague-based court last week reduced an expanse of sea belonging to Colombia, drawing a demarcation line in […]
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The Bahamas flagged cruise vessel ‘Seabourn Sojourn’ that on Thursday berthed at Ushuaia reported to Argentine port authorities it has no plans to visit the Falklands/Malvinas Islands according to press reports from the capital of Argentine Tierra del Fuego. Apparently the Seattle based Seabourn Cruise Line told the local officials in Ushuaia that “Malvinas are […]
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In recent days, the country’s foreign ministry has launched an action plan to thwart the success of a March referendum to be held by the islanders, Argentine and regional media reported. The 3000-strong population of the Falklands are overwhelmingly pro-British and the vote is expected to deliver a resounding rejection of Argentine efforts to claim […]
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nortedigital.mx reported that: Mexico Navy warns guerrillas Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) and the Revolutionary Army of the Insurgent People (EPRI) have been rearmed with automatic rifles and rocket launchers also have in their arsenals. EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army) known locations of operations: Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Mexico […]
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Ecuador: people demonstrate against oil licensing granted by Correa “The goal is to plunder our resources, everything that is damaged is the environment.” A hundred people demonstrated today Ecuadorians with drums and spears against the Bid Opening of new oil fields in the Amazon region where there is currently little wells. The Indians gathered at […]
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Army chief of Nicaragua, General Julio Cesar Aviles, said Tuesday that Nicaraguan Guard remain in the maritime awarded by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to their country, without any presence of Colombian frigates. “We are at the limits that the ICJ has assigned us. We sailed east of longitude 82 and cays Quitasueño, Serrana […]
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Maiah Jaskoski – Author ABSTRACT This article challenges two prominent explanations for military behavior: militaries, like other bureaucracies, will seek to maximize their budgets; and in the interest of maintaining professionalism, militaries will perform sovereignty missions—external defense and counterinsurgency—more intensively than policing functions. Running counter to these expectations, since 2000, Ecuador’s army has neglected its […]
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Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro rejected at the International Maritime Organization, IMO, British complaints on maritime security in Argentine waters and navigation obstacles for British and Falklands flagged vessels which access Argentine ports. Read Article Read Article
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Britain has called on the European Union to intervene after hard-line nationalists in Argentina ransacked a shipping office that handles cruises to the Falkland Islands, pelting it with stones and paintballs. Foreign Office mandarins accused the Argentinian government of seeking to “strangle” the Falklands’ economy by failing to prevent last Monday’s raid in Buenos Aires, […]
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The Council of Canadians is issuing a statement of solidarity as hundreds of protestors gather in front of the Canadian embassy in Mexico City (1 p.m. EST) to express their outrage at the growing death toll of community activists opposing Canadian mining in Mexico. Most recently, in the state of Chihuahua, a married couple who […]
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Wall Street-owned media group “Clarín” spearheading anti-government drive in South America’s Argentina. Wall Street-owned media group “Clarín” spearheading anti-government drive in South America’s Argentina. The US-engineered “Arab Spring” brought us the “April 6 Youth Movement” in Egypt, run by Wall Street-backed Mohammed ElBaradei in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, the “February 17 Revolution,” consisting of […]
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Her call for free education in Chile led to a nationwide shutdown last year. Now student leader Camila Vallejo is aiming higher – she wants a social revolution…..I almost didn’t meet Camila Vallejo. She missed her flight from Chile, and by the time the allotted hour arrived, she was still 7,000 miles away in Santiago. […]
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Unions oppose the Argentine government on Tuesday blocked roads and streets, paralyzed air and ground transportation and grain exports slowed in the first general strike in nearly 10 years to demand compensation for workers by high inflation in the country. The 24-hour protest called by the main labor union, the Peronist Confederation of Labour (CGT), […]
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According to Hispantv.com, judicial sector workers in Colombia to demand a wage leveling, hundreds of strikers launched a protest Friday, after attending the court complex Paloquemao, agency headquarters in Bogota, the capital. Esperanza Medina Luz Guerrero, a prosecutor sectional Bogotá, said that about 300 employees of the National Association of Professional Employees of the Judiciary […]
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At least 51 members of the security forces and many civilians were injured in the clashes arising from a conflict of territorial boundaries in Bolivian region of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. “The police were attacked with sticks and stones. There are 51, including chiefs and officers, injured, injuries of varying magnitude, “said Friday the police […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos , said in an interview with Efe that for now the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s second largest guerrilla group, would not join the peace process with the FARC open. “What I say is that we will not open the door to let the ELN to these […]
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Losandes.com.ar reported that the General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)- The head of the CGT opposition and dissident CTA couple announced they will march to Plaza de Mayo. They warned that there will be 100 roadblocks, bridges and roads across the country. The head of the opposition CGT, Hugo Moyano, and his counterpart from the CTA […]
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Cellular blackout to protest poor service and collection calls abuse diariouno.com.ar reported that this Wednesday from 16 to 17 mobile phone users turn off their devices as a sign of dissatisfaction with suppliers. They are supported by several consumer associations. The call arose spontaneously in social networks under the slogan “We turned the phone to […]
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Ghana today submitted a complaint for contempt and left without water, electricity and fuel to the ship “Freedom” after armed sailors prevented an operation to move to another berth the vessel held since early October in a Ghanaian port by a legal claim hedge fund, spokesmen said yesterday Tema port. The defense ministry had previously […]
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By Federico Tessore. The snare the dollar is getting stronger. Government officials acknowledge, the President insists on denying and meanwhile Argentine savers are seeing their capital is destroyed, unless they do something. This was a hell week in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires. Massive power outages, garbage in the streets, very hot, many demonstrations, strikes […]
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Nicholas Ayuso, a young man who beat the journalist Néstor Dib, C5N channel, during the protest held at the Obelisk and Plaza de Mayo recovered in the last hours of freedom after being held at the police station on the 2nd of this capital. Ayuso, 29, was arrested on Thursday night when they face the […]
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Angry over inflation, crime and corruption, hundreds of thousands of Argentines of all ages flooded the capital’s streets for nearly four hours to protest against President Cristina Fernandez in Argentina’s biggest anti-government demonstration in years. In a Thursday night march organized on social media, demonstrators filled the Plaza de Mayo in front of the pink […]
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In Colombia, the judicial strike continues despite the agreement reached between the Government and the National Association of Professional Employees of the Judicial Branch. Judicial Asonal president, Francisco Otálvara said Thursday at the 20 Hour program, nine thousand judges and prosecutors still unemployed looking to take advantage of recent negotiations with the Government to achieve […]
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Ng the “gag law” that silences journalism are carried preventing corruption investigations in the field policy, the country’s unions would be joining to form in the next few days a massive march and rally in an effort to unite all sectors of society and thus require the Government to repeal this law. This was expressed […]
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Six police officers have been killed by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the latest attack by the insurgency while peace talks aimed at ending the 50-year-old armed struggle try to get off the ground in Oslo, Norway, officials said Monday. Since the preliminary discussions between the Colombian government and FARC […]
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The community of the Ecuadorian Amazon, which has won court battles in his country and the United States in a lawsuit against Chevron for environmental damage between 1964 and 1990, now wants to seize the assets of the U.S. oil in Argentina and Colombia. The Union of People Affected by Texaco (company that in 2001 […]
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During the military operation was captured the third leader of the gang and recovered Miller Salcedo four minors, according to emisoraejercito.mil.co. Chaparral. In the last hours in the department of Tolima, troops of Task Force Zeus National Army, reported the death of developing a terrorist military operations, the capture of two more and the recovery […]
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A group of secondary and university students staged a unique protest in downtown Concepción, which caught the attention of passersby to present their demands. The girls showed their bodies painted with slogans tariff demands on universities and the role of women in social struggles. The seizure was part of a new education march in the […]
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