At least twelve vessels attempting to enter the Argentine Sea area around the Falkland Islands were intercepted by the navy Argentina in the last three months, according to a published version of a British newspaper. According to the Daily Mail, in such interceptions “Argentine naval commanders” turned to “Spanish ships” to warn them that were […]
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Argentine patrol vessels have boarded 12 Spanish boats, operating under fishing licences issued by the Falkland Islands, for operating “illegally” in disputed waters in recent weeks. Argentine patrol commanders carrying out interceptions near the South American coast told Spanish captains they were in violation of Argentina’s “legal” blockade of sea channels to the Falklands. Read […]
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The daily Argentines, Chileans and Spanish, who are obedient to corporations, celebrate the approval by the Chilean Government HidroAysen project, a new disaster led by Endesa Spain, a company controlled by ENEL Italy and its Chilean branch, and the corporation trasandina Colbún. The initial investment, not counting bribes to public officials and the press is […]
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Multinational companies, especially mining, are on alert for new conditions in Peru. The Ministry of Environment of Peru (Minam), together with the Ministry of Energy and Mines and other industries, announced today they will review all mining projects that can generate social conflict. The announcement comes after four investment projects were suspended for social protest. […]
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The demand for electricity operator who submitted the Ulysse, is for alleged violations of the Bilateral Treaty on the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments (TBI). The U.S. multinational calls for the Government of Ecuador for compensation for at least $ 56.1 million to the alleged violations of a contract in 2006 to supply 50 […]
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Given the intransigence of the regional leaders and local authorities to end the strike and blockades that affect the main access roads to Cajamarca, the government decided to declare from the OO: 00 am today a state of emergency for 60 days in the provinces of Cajamarca, Celendín, Hualgayoc and Contai. Read Article
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“Cajamarca is kidnapped and helpless, no one to turn to at this time because we have no authorities, the regional president, the mayor, the governor and lawmakers are leading the protests,” he lamented yesterday Teresa Cave Carriers Organization of Cajamarca. Although the release of the roads to the city of Cajamarca has met after the […]
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Effective police of Caracuaro, Michoacan, resigned due to the strong violence in the town, as well as constant threats to the total of the items, so that the Mexican Army seized control of security in this municipality. After the resignation of 14 municipal police, having been ambushed by organized crime and then rescued by military […]
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Federal District Elements of the Mexican army repelled an attack by alleged members of organized crime in Zacatecas, which killed three of his assailants, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). Reliance explained that the November 25 military personnel from the 11th Military Region conducted ground surveys in the community Huitzila, Teulada Gonzalez Ortega. Read […]
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Various sections between km 130 and 152 are constrained within the 48-hour strike against the construction of a penalty. Several sections of the road Panamericana Sur , between kilometers 130 and 152, still blocked in the framework of the second day of the 48-hour strike in the province of Cañete. Another 200 protesters gathered in […]
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On the seventh day of protests against the Conga project in Cajamarca , several tourists, students and people with medical emergency flight civic use military aircraft to leave the city while on the road, food is rotting in trucks stranded. Read Article – Video
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Thousands of people participated in the seventh day of unemployment in Cajamarca continued despite Yanacocha announced the suspension of Minas Conga project . The regional president, Gregorio Santos, and Wilfredo Saavedra, head of Environmental Defense Coalition, reiterated its hope that the work is declared unfeasible, as they had reported a day earlier. Read Article – […]
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Group: Group of Popular Combatants (GCP) Country: Ecuador It is imperative that the environment in Ecuador is of persecution and repression, which no one dares to criticize Correa or its officers, or in the media or the internet, or on the street. Because you will be persecuted, imprisoned, tried and convicted in record time, and […]
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TACTICAL TURNS AGAINST STUDENT MOVEMENT The three phases offensive The government has gone through three distinct phases in the course of student conflict. 1) In the first instance (with Lavin), the government opted for the traditional tactic of the Ministers of Education, to establish a conversation table with key national stakeholders (CONFECH and College of […]
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After three years of relative peace, Hugo Moyano again confront the field. Representatives of the leading truck blocked, for days, the entry of various cooperatives in the villages entrerrianas Crespo, Diamond and Tabossi and prevent the entry and exit of wheat and other cereals for export. Read Article
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Gregory Regional President Santos will meet with provincial and district mayors this November 26 to evaluate the project Conga. The regional president of Cajamarca, Gregorio Santos, announced an emergency meeting with all local mayors on November 26 to discuss the anti-mining strike in protest at the Conga project Yanacocha.Read Article
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It paralyzed the trade and transport, also canceled classes in the school. The refusal of the people of the mining region of Cajamarca to the operation of a millionaire gold mine for its environmental implications is causing serious problems for the government of Peruvian President, Ollanta Humala. Read Article
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As part of offensive operations by Army troops in Norte de Santander, Cauca, Putumayo and Tolima, were found and destroyed in a controlled number of improvised explosive devices, installed by terrorist factions of the FARC and the ELN. The first military action occurred in the village of La Rivera, municipality of Puerto Asis, Putumayo, where […]
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Colombia’s army says it has shut down the main radio station operated by the Farc rebels, after 15 years on air. Troops captured transmitters and other broadcast equipment when they overran a guerrilla camp in the Meta region. Read Article
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The protests of students and teachers held on Thursday in the city of Valparaiso (central Chile) led to the arrest of nine people – two of them minors – while a policeman was injured as a result of the riots that occurred in some areas. Despite these incidents, the governor of Valparaiso, Arturo Longton, called […]
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A total of 2962 children, who were part of illegal armed groups in Colombia, were demobilized in the last nine years, revealed today the Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. According to figures from the Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized (PADH) of the Government, in these 9 years, a total of 24,303 demobilized […]
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Pickets do not let up at Caleta and the governor wants to withdraw subsidies. Access to the Puerto Caleta Paula, blocked by stevedores and unoccupied tents in front of the municipal building and the square of the Gorosito, seem to be the tip of the iceberg of social conflicts that are exacerbated by the delay […]
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The lack of reporting of bullying creates an atmosphere of impunity that encourages discrimination and other violations of human rights inside and outside schools, concluded the State Commission for Human Rights (ECHR) in the assessment of bullying in Queretaro. Read Article
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Education Minister, Felipe Bulnes, and opposition members of parliament met Wednesday to try to reach an agreement to resolve student conflict, but only after the talks have agreed to continue dialogue on the budget for education. Read Article
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Dominicans have partially complied with 24 hours general strike and civil social organizations called for Monday to reject the economic policies adopted by the government of Leonel Fernandez and to demand higher wages in the public sector and private sector. The so-called “national strike” has been organized by the Alternative Social Forum and the Broad […]
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Security and Democracy Centre also ensures that military forces reduce their operations. “The floor of ‘Alfonso Cano’ should not obscure the complex and paradoxical situation of security in Colombia , however, that continues to fall slowly murder, guerrilla actions increase, the operations of the armed forces and most reduced urban safety indicators are deteriorating. ” […]
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Daniel Dominguez, a reporter for El Diario de Juarez and who was beaten by municipal police for taking photographs of a police operation, the authorities demanded guarantees for their safety during the lawsuit filed against their attackers. On Friday, November 11, about 9:40 am, Dominguez left the headquarters of his newspaper to the offices of […]
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Municipal authorities and commons of San Pedro Teozacoalco, located in the Mixteca region, warned a new outbreak of violence in the area due to the invasion of their land by settlers of Santa Maria Tataltepec. In this regard, Mario Caballero Montes, Teozacoalco mayor, said that since the first days of November, Tataltepec commoners began a […]
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A man who allegedly used the Internet to make complaints against organized crime was found beheaded today, handcuffed and with signs of torture in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, police said.This is the fourth person who is murdered in this city bordering Texas (United States) to use online social networks to denounce the activities […]
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The peaceful day of protest by workers of the state oil degenerated into riots in Barrancabermeja and Cartagena, leaving a toll of 26 people injured, three of them seriously. The employees, alleging breach of employment agreements, called a paralysis of 24 hours nationwide. In Barrancabermeja, around 9 am, clashed with riot squads of police throwing […]
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Oil Injustice – Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador – Recorded interview with author Dr. Patricia Widener (Recording Time- 01:44:05) Recorded November 08, 2011. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PURCHASE BOOK: Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador ——————————————————————————————– Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil […]
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The Navy reported yesterday the seizure, 50 miles off the coast of Cartagena, a semisubmersible capable of loading up a ton of cocaine. The ship’s captain, Andrew Vasquez, Chief of Naval Force in the Caribbean, said the seizure was possible thanks to a joint operation between the navies of the United States and Colombia. Read […]
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BBC reported that Defense Minister of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed in the early hours of Saturday at a news conference in Bogota the death of Alfonso Cano, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). According to Finch, the guerrilla leader of 63 years died after a bombing in a mountainous region […]
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Total support college students were calling for the withdrawal of the Congress of the law reform bill 30, 1992, at the hearing of political control that Senator Alexander López cited to know the reasons that the community has to reject the proposal that was filed by the Government. For more than two hours, the Education […]
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Due to the increasing incidence of bullying, known as bullying, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of the State in this city, drove the first two students from the basic level. The head of the agency, Jorge Mario Quintana Silveyra, reported that the state’s six primary school students expelled for that reason, two in […]
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Shopkeepers are concerned and no wonder. It iss that in the neighborhoods, in the center and in most inner cities of the province, the Chinese supermarket competition is becoming stronger. La batalla recién comienza, So are armed with new marketing strategies to survive in a market in which-landed almost daily, new rivals. The tactic to […]
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Declared today, the Green Alert Antioquia hospital as emergency response plan to accompany the electoral exercise next Sunday October 30. In addition, in coordination with the Administrative Department for Prevention, Care and Disaster Recovery-DAPARD, were put in place contingency plans for health emergencies winter and criminal acts, to respond to emergencies, emergencies and disasters that […]
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There are two soldiers are missing in rural area of Caldono. The incident occurred at 11:15 am on Friday, when the troops landed at the village of La Palma in Caldono, to register a FARC camp that was bombed. According to General Miguel Ernesto Perez Guarnizo, commander of the Third Army Division, the troops entered […]
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The Paraguayan government ordered a halt to the start of an airport workers strike scheduled for midnight on Thursday to ensure traffic to the Ibero-American Summit at the weekend. However, unionists who reject a law authorizing the granting of the major airports said they will proceed with the measure and would appeal against the official […]
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UK “defies South America” when it denies Argentina Malvinas sovereignty “Great Britain defies the whole of South America not allowing Argentina to patrol its own waters and denies South America the right to exercise sovereignty over a space which naturally belongs to her”, said ambassador Argüello during a conference at an Italian university to celebrate […]
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In a new episode of tension between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of the Falklands, the Government reiterated tonight his “rejection of the British military presence in Argentine territory and maritime areas of the South Atlantic,” after he knew about the displacement of a warship to the area. Read Article
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Today marks 23 days of protests led by the Truckers Association of Colombia (ACC) and the sectional Ipiales Intergremial Border Committee amid allegations of the transport sector in Ecuador against Colombia load coordinators settled in Tulcán. The measure prevents the entry of trucks loaded Ecuador to Colombia, which at the moment is under police custody […]
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The direct outputs of travel from the bus station in La Paz to Potosi, Sucre and Tarija are suspended due to blockade of Challapata community members who star as part of the pressure measurements of 48-hour general strike called by the committee Oruro. Lieutenant Colonel Agustin Moreno, Traffic Unit of the terminal of La Paz, […]
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The vice coordinator of the PRI deputies, Heliodoro Diaz, requested that the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform install, immediately, a dialogue to resolve the border dispute between Oaxaca and Chiapas in the area of Los Chimalapas. Chiapas Gov. Juan Sabines, asked to withdraw immediately its forces from Oaxaca state’s territory and the representative of Oaxaca, Gabino […]
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Bolivia President Moves to Reroute TIPNIS Road Indigenous Bolivians from the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) won a major concession from President Evo Morales today. The President announced he would change the text of a proposed law so it prohibits construction of a controversial government-backed road planned through the TIPNIS. The new […]
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President Rafael Correa decided yesterday, via executive decree, declaring the project construction zone Multi Chone (IHPM) in Rio Grande, Manabi, and security restricted area. Meanwhile, in the afternoon, villagers in the area weathered the policing and took possession of the land expropriated and the citizen Alfredo Zambrano last Tuesday where he played an eviction operation […]
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Dozens of students and other protesters in Chile occupied the Congress building in Santiago during a Senate committee debate on next year’s education budget. Police sealed off the entrance to prevent more protesters entering. Read Article
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On the second day of unemployment, some 60 000 people marched through the capital and other cities. There were clashes with police when the movement came to an end.”They share our demands, the government must assume that only has 22 percent support,” said Francisco Figueroa university leader from Santiago, where there were two simultaneous marches […]
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More than two thousand teachers in the region Acapulco Coyuca Benitez made this morning a march to the Acapulco International Center demanding more security in areas where its campuses are located. During the trip safely carried banners demanding the state authorities claim that there are no guarantees for back to school, but clarified that this […]
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The road to the sea that was serving as alternates for the communication road between Cartagena and Barranquilla was blocked by residents of the township of Lomita Arena, Bolivar. Victims complain about the lack of attention from local authorities, following the floods suffered by rain in the boundaries between the departments of Bolívar and Atlántico. […]
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The president of the Date, Camila Vallejo, became a participant in the march organized by students and developed a speech at the main stage located in Beauchef with Blanco in the center of Santiago where he insisted that the students’ demands are not “utopian”. “In Europe we have realized that what we are asking is […]
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The day of marches CONFECH convened today by the College of Teachers and the United Workers Central (CUT), was marred by incidents near the main event with Beaucheff Blanco. Was injured, arrested, attempted looting and clashes between protesters wearing hoods who wanted to avoid further violence. Read Article
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Amazon Indians who walked 600 km over 65 days, to protest the construction of a road through a nature reserve on Wednesday triumphantly entered La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales to cancel the project. The column, consisting of nearly two thousand Indians came out in August from the Amazon and in […]
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The first of the two-day strike that began in Buenos Aires teachers rejection of the appointment system reform, securitization and promotions in the sector proposed by the Executive of the city began in a “strong” and a 98 percent compliance , according to unions. The mayor Mauricio Macri called the strike “absurd” and “incomprehensible” and […]
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While the persistent rain fell on Tegucigalpa, the body of a young woman employee of the Tax Office, lay in a car, in a quiet street in the capital. It took more than five hours since he was gunned down by suspected assassins acting on a motorcycle, before the arrival of prosecutors and forensic to […]
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The National Student Expanded Bureau reported that the crime was part of a strategy of stigmatization, intimidation and persecution of the student movement, whose primary goal away to students of all Colombian society.The National Student Expanded Bureau (NSAIDs) in Colombia reported that the boy died on Thursday during one of the protest marches was killed, […]
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After more than 6 days of walking, a march by representatives of various social organizations, peasant origin, settlers, coca farmers, miners and other sectors, arrived Wednesday to the city of La Paz to support the process of change, democracy , judicial elections and the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, among other […]
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Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]
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Indigenous groups, peasants, students and environmentalists in the province of Veraguas took the date of the meeting yesterday of America to make their rejection of the establishment of hydroelectric projects and mining in their communities. The march started from the Parish of San Juan de Canto Llano, traveled Tenth Street, where two panels closed for […]
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Saudi officials advised Argentina four months ago of an alleged Iran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington and possibly attack the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, an Argentine diplomatic source said on Thursday. Read Article
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Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling (born in Santiago, April 28, 1988) is a leader of the student movement in Chile and the 2011 Chilean protests. She is a member of and activist for the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile (Chilean Communist Youth), and is the current president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de […]
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Not since the days of Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos has Latin America been so charmed by a rebel leader. This time, there is no ski mask, no pipe and no gun, just a silver nose ring.Meet Commander Camila, a student leader in Chile who has become the face of a populist uprising that some analysts are […]
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Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution.It began early one morning in May, when dozens of teenage girls emerged from the predawn darkness and scaled the spiked iron fence around Chile’s most prestigious […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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Indigenous peoples demand the government to avail the constitutional mandates of human rights and free, prior, and informed consent, El Espectador reports. The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) called for a march on the Panamerican Highway in order to protest against the extraction of gold in mines located in the protected zones of Canoas […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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With paint and a potato bomb, students who move to the Plaza de Bolivar attacked the policemen. The squadron attacked remains located off the premises of the Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol), in downtown Bogota. About 500,000 students in public universities in the country now entering an indefinite national strike to demand the government to […]
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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A clash between federal, municipal police against alleged gunmen was recorded on Monday night in Mexico International Highway 15 exit north, at the height of the ejido of El Venadillo, leaving three dead two policemen and one gunman, as well three officers wounded.The shooting, which lasted several minutes, causing panic among drivers traveling on that […]
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In an unprecedented action, a six German parliamentarians announced their decision to recommend conditional cooperation with El Salvador until that country to implement an effective program to combat violence and impunity that plague the people of this Central American nation. During the Civil War (1980-1992), governments Washington and some European countries support conditions continued to […]
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14 guerrillas of the FARC’s Front 33 were killed in fighting with members of the police in Norte de Santander.T he incident took place in the village Luis Vero rural Sardinata Township. Read Article
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FARC SUSPECTED IN BOMBING Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers who were traveling in a vehicle to administrative work. In Palo, rural area of Caloto (Cauca), killed seven soldiers were traveling in a vehicle in administrative work, as was stated by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón.”Here in the department of […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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In Peru, there are more than 15,000 persons from the period of internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that are still missing. Their relatives refuse to give up hope of finding their whereabouts. The numbers are impressive, but the disappeared and their relatives are more than numbers; more than mere statistics. Read Article
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Colombia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Maria Angela Holguin, reiterated Colombia’s position of creating a Palestinian state, insisting that Israelis and Palestinians must hold “direct negotiations”, El Espectador reports. According to diplomatic sources, Abbas will ask Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos to reconsider his country’s position before the Security Council of the United Nations where Colombia is […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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Bolivian natives angry over plans to build a highway through an Amazon nature preserve resumed their protest march Saturday after a violent police crackdown a week ago, a top demo leader said. The march began at daybreak in the town of Quiquibey, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of La Paz, protest leader Rafael Quispe […]
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Bolivia’s president late Monday suspended a planned Amazon highway that has sparked clashes between police and Indians who say the road would despoil a nature preserve that is home to thousands of natives. President Evo Morales also distanced himself from the decision to break up a protest march Sunday. His announcement came hours after police […]
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The blackout of the weekend has been Chile, which almost 10 million of the 17 with which the country has once again highlight the current model of energy shortages and public ostracism has rescued the project HidroAysén promoted by Sebastian Piñera. The conservative president’s plan to provide more electricity to Chile had been forgotten, at […]
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Tens of thousands of classified documents from Colombia’s intelligence agency have been sold to illegal armed groups, foreign governments and drug traffickers, according to the Colombian magazine La Semana. The massive sale of secret documents by agents working for the state intelligence agency, known as DAS, is the largest intelligence leak in Colombia’s history, the […]
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The Brazilian government gave the green light to build in the Amazon region of Belo Monte megapresa. He argues that the country needs to produce more electricity to power its booming economic development. But experts say Brazilian and foreign irreparable damage this will cause to the environment and habitat destruction of Aboriginal communities that are […]
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According to the World Bank, the violence has become a major obstacle to economic development in Mexico , with Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and above all, which shows the highest concentration. This is demonstrated by the perception of Mexicans who, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey on Public Safety 2011, increased the feeling of insecurity […]
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A former municipal police Veronica Moreno played him one time, more complicated and violent, most volatile and transient, more uncertain, as to try to consolidate at the top of a drug cartel, his aggressive character, with traits of leadership and command about the members of Los Zetas cells operating in San Nicolas de los Garza, […]
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Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance […]
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1. Communities of Puerto Gaitan Meta, for more than 6 years have been demanding municipal authorities, departmental, and national, as well as oil operators, the solution to a range of social, environmental, economic and employment without get any positive response. 2.Cepcolsa Spanish oil multinational, which operates the fields of Jaguar, Sitting Bull, and Cara Cara, […]
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A peasant coca plants manually eradicated died in a rural area of the department of Nariño, which borders Ecuador, reported Social Action (Presidential Assistance Agency). The government agency did not specify the circumstances in which Benjamin Llanos Gasca, 28, died.However, he explains that the farmer was killed “during the third phase of operations that advance […]
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In protest of the Colombian government’s higher education reforms, students have gathered in protest kissing each other rather than using traditional actions of protests. According to El Espectador’s video, this action contrasts the last protest against these reforms, which lead to violent conflict with the government and officials and the police.
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Military patrols were conducting counterinsurgency operations in the region of Junín when rebels fired on the aircraft. Two army officers shot killed Wednesday in a rebel attack on the rebel group Shining Path against a military helicopter in an area wracked country, the joint command of the armed forces. Read Article
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This past weekend, the county seat of Uruachi, Chihuahua, was the scene of several clashes between gunmen of the Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa, vying for control of a new route for the smuggling of drugs into Sonora. The shootings left a toll of 10 criminals and a policeman wounded, and the facades of the […]
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murder became the leading cause of death among the country between 2007 and 2009, a trend that overtook the car accident that for years were the leading cause of deaths in this population group, according to figures released by the violent deaths National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Between 2007 and 2009 the murder […]
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Revistagobierno.com reported that Brazil’s Guarani Indians demanded that the energy giant Shell to stop using their ancestral lands for the production of ethanol. Vilhalva Ambrosio, a Guaraní man of one of the affected communities, said Survival International : “Shell should leave our land … the companies should stop using Indian land. We want justice, we […]
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With less seriously injured after being hit by a bullet ended in Chile gears with incidents that took place yesterday to commemorate 38 years of the 1973 military coup that ousted then-President Salvador Allende, said the government of President Sebastián Piñera.The deputy interior minister, Rodrigo Ubilla, also reported that there were 280 prisoners and 40 […]
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Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]
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The persistence of armed conflict exacerbates the situation of continued forced displacement of more than 1,000 members of the indigenous people living Jiw in the departments of Meta and Guaviare. His return is not possible at the moment despite the efforts of the authorities and humanitarian agencies. San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, September 6 (UNHCR) […]
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Deforestation affects the stability of soils, water quality, fish kills by catastrophic events such as avalanches and greatly diminishes the ability of the surface to control its own climate and chemical composition.The issue is currently living the Paramillo Natural Park, where the 460 000 hectares of forest that has this natural reserve, about 80 000 […]
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Elmeridianodecordoba.com.co reported that law and order situation in the department has become a source of conflict between local and national authorities, for while Gov. Martha Sáenz Correa wields a figure of 356 dead at the hands of criminal gangs in so far year, the former Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera from Bogota said at the […]
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Young people, workers, housewives, women who suffer every day with the sexist oppression took to the streets of Bethlehem to put their banners and their claims. Many men also wrote the act, showing that sexism is not a struggle of women against men, but a political struggle of all workers against the capitalist system. Altogether […]
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Panamanian political and union leaders opposed to the government of Ricardo Martinelli agreed to unite to face the right-wing leader, facing a crisis in their ranks and a slump in the polls. A diverse group of politicians, former officials, MPs, trade unionists and former activists against the dictatorship of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega in the […]
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