Perhaps the greatest challenge for the radical left today is to articulate a politics that decisively breaks with the disastrous experiences of many 20th century socialisms. This is a difficult task that requires self-reflection, active questioning, and openness to new expressions of struggle by the always complex and fluid global working-classes. Making this task even […]
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Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands is well documented, but lesser known is her continued claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. HMS Edinburgh has successfully completed her flag-flying mission to South Georgia whilst carrying out duties which the Royal Navy rather blandly describes as Atlantic Patrol Task (South) or APT(S). Read Article
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The narco-understood as a series of attacks by armed groups linked to drug trafficking against civilians, defenseless, with the dual purpose of damaging physically, mentally and materially innocent, and at the same time cause the greatest possible negative impact on a massive scale- , had his breakthrough in our country with the grenade in the […]
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Twelve street theater groups in Bogota this week turned on the alarm and called for measures to protect the authorities, after a wave of threatening pamphlets signed by the Aguilas Negras criminal gang in part composed of former paramilitaries. On Tuesday, the headquarters of the artistic groups in the south of the city received the […]
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The first day of strike called by the Confederation of Workers (CUT) left on Wednesday night arrested a balance of 348, at least 40 wounded civilians and policemen and looting of supermarkets and other shops. The Chilean government said today that the conveners of the day national strike to demand 48 hours of labor and […]
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With a home cacerolazo and some minor incidents in the streets started Tuesday night the 48-hour national strike called by the Central Unica de Trabajadores (CUT) in support of the claim of a profound educational reform being carried out by Chilean students, measured that has broad social and political support. Promptly at 23 hours began […]
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Venezuelans have become much more wary, distrustful of the police, and are more likely to take justice into their own hands as a result of the rise of criminality being experienced by the country, said Wednesday the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence in annual report. The NGO noted that the number of homicides in Venezuela continues […]
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National Newspaper Association in its annual Press Freedom lamented the sharp rise in cases of violence against media representatives in Brazil, because between August 2008 and July 2010, there has been only one murder. Read Article
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While many of Mexico’s tourist areas have remained separate from the bouts of drug violence buffeting the country, the popular resort city of Acapulco has emerged as one of the new hot spots of organized crime. Read Article
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Three men were killed and three others wounded when gunmen opened fire on them in a street in Veracruz, a city on Mexico’s Gulf coast, city officials said. The shooting occurred on Monday in the Hidalgo section of Veracruz, located 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Mexico City, a Veracruz city spokesman said. Several men […]
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The rapid growth of urban population – described as one of the world’s major demographic trends – has triggered an explosion of “mega cities” in Asia, Latin America and Africa, causing a breakdown in basic services, including water supplies and sanitation facilities. And by 2050, about 70 percent of the world’s population will live in […]
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While Panama’s judicial system is believed to be corrupted, with decisions in some cases open to bribery or governmental pressure, organized crime also plays a role by threatening judges and prosecutors. Gangs fighting for territorial control in San Miguelito are suspected of having gunned down two young lawyers, Efrain Rodriguez and Christopher Roman Birmingham, in […]
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Dozens of environmental activists gathered in front of the Commercial Office of Brazil yesterday, urging the Brazilian government to put a stop to the recently approved construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam, which they say will destroy much of the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is never shy when it comes to accusing the US of meddling in the Andean nation’s domestic affairs. This time he says the US is behind a march of more than a thousand indigenous Bolivians protesting a highway that will bisect their territory. Read Article
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“I repeat: there will be no peace talks without concrete actions. Words are not enough,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on a visit to Argentina this week. Earlier, in Chile, he said for the first time since taking office a year ago that he was “willing” to eventually sit down to talks with the […]
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Hundreds of Colombians, with black masks and gowns, marched today in some thirty cities to protest against corruption, a problem considered one of the most serious and affects all of society.The protesters cited through the social network “Twitter” by the author of novels for television Gustavo Bolivar, among others of the organizers, claimed the corrupt […]
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When illegal loggers with their guns pointed him to the head, Miguel de Lima Nilcilene tried to run but his legs betrayed him. “Never mind, said one of them will not die today.” His knees trembled as the gunman was “a month to remove the association and stop bothering us. And if you try to […]
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Gas stations in the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco temporarily suspended fuel sales to protest acts of extortion by organized crime gangs. The owners of service stations located along the main avenues of this popular domestic tourist destination closed shop for six hours Friday to express their displeasure with rampant impunity and a wave […]
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A party of the Mexican first division between local and Morelia Santos was suspended Saturday after allegedly heard gun blasts outside the stadium in SST in the northern city of Torreon. He played the first half of the match when players from both teams left the court running for shelter inside the stadium, as was […]
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News of the suspension in eradication work surprised the United States, which has tried for years to limit coca production in Peru as part of a broader war on drugs. The United Nations says Peru is now the world’s leading coca grower and could surpass Colombia as the top cocaine producer.Read Article
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Protesters are blocking access to a major oil field in eastern Colombia operated by Canada’s Pacific Rubiales to demand the company employ more people from neighboring areas, a trade union leader said on Friday. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.com a young Ecuadorian was willed and an Ecuadorian soldier wounded during a confrontation between the Ecuadorian military and a group of FARC guerillas located on the Colombian side of the San Miguel River. Officials say the confrontation occurred last Thursday, August 11th while a military patrol was performing control operations along the […]
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A conflict arose this morning at the Metropolitan Technological University in Santiago, Chile when a group of masked men set up barricades along the streets near campus, causing a traffic disruption, according to telam.com.ar, per El Mercurio newspaper online. The group hid when special police forces arrived at the scene, and threw stones, sharp objects […]
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•50 rural families, 170 people, have had to leave Pradera, Valle del Cauca, Colombia due to military conflict with FARC in the area. •El Espectador reveals that three soldiers have died and 3 others were injured in a mine field. •The families still do not know when they will be able to return to their […]
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The explosion of a bomb package in a commercial establishment in Campamento, Antioquia, Colombia was attributed to FARC’s front 36. RCN La Radio reports that the explosive device, disguised as a package of panela, left 1 person dead and 3 injured, and among them were members of the army. Read Article
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•The student protests in Santiago, Chile have resulted in 874 arrests of protestors and 90 injured police officers. •Elpais.com.co reports that the protestors utilized the “cacerolazo*” form of protest used during the dictatorship of Pinochet. •Andrés Chadwick, the official spokesperson of the Chilean government, defended the actions of the police as necessary and had foreseen […]
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Extra.ec reports a study by the Catholic University of Quito found that out of 5,643 street vendors, 1,093 are younger than 17 years old. Also, the study found that 64.4% of the vendors are men and 35.6% are women. The basis of the study was to find out the working conditions of the traders. The […]
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•Miguel Ángel Ariñez, also known as the Doctor of FARC, was captured in Cúcuta, Colombia after returning from Venezuela. •Ariñez, according to EFE, was responsible for the health of FARC’s central command and has information and connections to upper members of the group. •He spent years hiding in Venezuela and was forced to return to […]
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•The student march planned for today has turned into various riots and skirmishes with the police in Santiago, Chile. •According to lanacion.cl, the police have utilized such crowd control methods as tear gas and water cannons as the officers announced that the manifestations were not authorized. •Police officers have been preventing groups of students from […]
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According to RPP.com.pe more than 8,000 mototaxistas protested and blocked streets in Piura today, Thursday August 4th, calling for a meeting with the mayor, Ruby Rodriguez to discuss circulation permits and the use of ‘stops’ for taxi drivers in the city. The group was lead by the president of the Mototaxistas Federation, Julio Farfan and […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the group of Internet hackers, Anonymous, threatened yesterday, Wednesday August 3rd, to begin attacking Ecuadorian government websites in retaliation for limiting the freedom of expression and the ruling against the Ecuadorian news company, El Universo. Anonymous announced the threat of attacks via the website, YouTube, through uploaded videos. The group is calling […]
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•In the south of Colombia, in the Caquetá department, FARC guerillas forced 6 truck drivers to exit and burn their own tank trucks carrying crude oil while they were on the highway en route to the Huila department. •And.es reports that the guerillas were members of FARC’s Teófilo Forero, which acts in Caquetá and southern […]
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According to RPP.com.pe three armed assailants robbed a hardware store, Difesur, on Socabaya Avenue in Arequipa today, Wednesday August 3rd. Police say the robbers escaped with more than 16,000 Soles. Police report the assailants used a station wagon and were accompanied by two Daewoo vehicles. The assailants threatened workers and fired three shots in the […]
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According to ElComercio.com an ocean storm that produced forceful waves left the island of Jambeli, in the canton of Santa Rose, without electricity around 3 a.m. today, Wednesday August 3rd. Officials say 21 electricity poles fell due to erosion and harsh ocean conditions from the storm. Personnel from the National Corporation of Electric Energy (CNEL) […]
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A summit of ministers of UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) will meet in Lima to analyze the current international financial crisis and to shield South American countries from the same problems reported La Capital. Discussion of an eventual default by the United States called for the presidents of the organization Cristina Fernandez de Kircher […]
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Residents of four townships, two in Veraguas and two of the Ngobe Bugle, halted the Pan-American highway for an hour and a half near the Ojo de Agua neighborhood due to unfulfilled promises by the government informed La Estrella. Their demands for the construction of 8 miles of road and the installation of electricity in […]
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A 38-year-old women was the victim of rape and kidnapping in Parque Avellande reported infobae.com. The victim was able to escape from the criminals in the early morning and immediately informed the police, which have so far made two arrests. Read article.
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Two men accused for extortion of various Chinese merchants in the last two months were detained by Argentinian police reported Telam. The men, an Argentinian (25) and Korean (38), were at a bar in Balvanera pressuring another victim when they were caught. Investigators believe that the delinquents, who demanded money in return for letting the […]
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According to ElComercio.com the cocaine lab discovered this past weekend, was built in the style of a paramilitary drug distribution center. Ecuadorian National Police say they discovered tunnels for escape routes, underground storage bays for chemicals, refined cocaine and military-type weapons. Police discovered the laboratory in the zone of Rio Bravo in the canton of […]
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According to ElComercio.com supporters of seven council member of La Concordia in Esmeraldas took the municipality building at 5:30 today, Tuesday August 2nd. The mayor, Walter Ocampo was not in the building at the time of the incident, but reported that the protesters stormed the building, broke windows and doors and attacked employees. El Comercio […]
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According to ElUniverso.com in one week 137 people have contracted food poisoning from eating bad food in the canton of Imbabura. Health officials say the first cases of food poisoning occurred eight days ago when 58 people came down with salmonella poisoning after eating infected red meat in a local meat restaurant. The second case […]
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RPP.com.pe reports that Peruvian health officials have issued a health warning in three provinces in the region of Chiclayo due to the outbreak of the Hantavirus. Health officials of the regional office in Lambayeque have initiated pest control campaigns, coordinated with municipal districts for the rural zone that houses a high population of Peruvians. Health […]
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According to RPP.com.pe an accident occurred on Monday, August 1st leaving one Chilean tourist dead and another eight Chileans injured. Authorities say the accident occurred at the 1,331 kilometer mark on the Pan-American Highway near the border complex of Santa Rosa in the Tacna region. Authorities add, the accident is suspected to have occurred due […]
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•Student protestors have deemed the 21 points of the Chilean government’s proposal as insufficient and many of them vague according to america.infobae.com. •Although the points are seen as an advance, student protestors want a structural reform that promotes access and equality according to Camilo Ballesteros, a representative of the student protestors. •The proposal fails to […]
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Maritza Valenzuela was at her residence when former Colonel Raul Vargas Alborta started a shooting that resulted in her death after receiving four bullet wounds, reported Los Tiempos. According to witness statements, Alborta was a difficult person who constantly threatened those around the neighborhood. The case is currently under investigation and the suspect is being […]
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In an interview with Público, two Mexican writers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Hector de Mauleón, spoke about the effect of the war on drugs on journalism in Mexico. Both have written books on the subject. They say that journalism has turned into a high-risk profession and that there are parts of the country in which […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a New York judge in White Plains sentenced the fourth assailant in a gang attack on an Ecuadorian man to 11 years in prison on Wednesday July 27th. On March 15, 2010 Julio Serrano was beaten by four people, which put him in a coma for three weeks. Jarron Slight, one of […]
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According to ElComercio.com a survey completed in Quito by the Observatory of Metropolitan Citizen Security (OMSC) in 4,000 houses during January 2011, reveals that 80% of assaults go unreported. The survey reports 34.7% of the assaults are unreported due to judicial system distrust and 15.7% due to distrust of police. The director of OMSC says […]
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According to ElComercio.com transit was blocked on the Pan-American Highway between the towns of Ibarra and Tulcan, a sector called Chota Valley, at 7 a.m. this morning, Monday August 1st. El Comercio reports that resident of the Afro-Ecuadorian community of Tumbatu blocked the highway with tree branches that contained thorns to protest the governments unfulfilled […]
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Over the last decade, Latin American protest songs have undergone a revolution, going from poetic ode to explicit, raw hip-hop. The first protest songs sung in Central and South America were corridos, ballads that were sung during the revolution that started in Mexico in 1910. The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s were modern […]
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The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) on Friday denounced the deterioration of press freedom in Latin America and, in particular, called upon Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to “cease harassment of the press.” Read Article
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The National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reinec) in Peru , are under investigation for alleged involvement in Chinese trafficking by illegally issuing identity cards reported El Comercio.pe. At least 15 illegal Chinese immigrants were issued authentic ID cards in the first half of the year, although they presented false birth certificates. Employees are […]
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According to ElUniverso.com seven press associations from South American countries stand with the Ecuadorian press organization, El Universo, condemning the attack on freedom of expression by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. On the 20th of July an Ecuadorian court found El Universo opinion editor and three directors guilty of slander against Correa, sentencing them to three […]
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According to America.Infobae.com the Ecuadorian newspapers El Comercio and Hoy altered their papers to protest a ruling that incarcerates three directors of the news organization, El Universo for three years and payment of a fee totaling $42 million. The ruling came after a journalist for El Universo wrote an opinion piece about Rafael Correa’s governmental […]
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Roberto Henriquez said that the Ministry of Trade and Industry has no legal mechanism to stop illegal mining taking place in Panama due to the repeal of Act 8 reported La Estrella. The Act allowed the collection of fines, which would have avoided the law gap against the recent illegal mining allegations. Read article.
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Around 15 Indians were injured by police forces during mining protests at the intersection of San Felix in the Ngobe Bugle region reported La Estrella. Those who were injured were mostly women, which the police shot with pellets ruthlessly. The indigenous groups are requesting medical reports to file a lawsuit against the national police responsible […]
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According to DiarioCorreo.pe after tourists were outraged about the restricted entry into Machu Picchu, officials of the Regional Directorate of Culture in Cusco have decided to allow 400 more tourists to enter the site per day through a new access route. As of Monday, July 25th the limit of visitors to Machu Picchu was raised […]
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Twenty-three students were arrested yesterday in Santiago, Chile for disorderly conduct during a student protest for better public education, reports abc.com.py. The march led to the UNICEF building in the Las Condes neighborhood, where students attempted to break in and overrun the offices. A similar, more peaceful, protest took place in early June when students […]
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According to ElComercio.pe Peruvian National Police raided a club in Lima on Saturday July 9th, finding 62 women being sexually exploited as prostitutes after being lured to Peru via the Internet. Police report the majority of women were from Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, while a group of them were from the Peruvian jungle. The […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a package containing $70,100 in false United States dollar bills was caught being shipped from Cañar to Queens, New York. Cañar police say on Tuesday, July 19th a personal courier alerted them to a suspicious package bound for Queens. Police thought the package contained drugs, however when opened police found fake 100 […]
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DiarioCorreo.pe reports that in the city of Merced is being overrun by illegal bars and taverns that have led to an underground ring of underage prostitution. The sector of Pampa El Carmen houses many of these businesses, especially in front of the municipal stadium. In the three-block sector, Diario Correo reports there are more than […]
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Professors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) say that the Line 4 (L4) bus line construction project is accelerating the damage rate to Mexico City’s historic district, El Universal reports. Most of the district’s buildings date back to the 17th century. Academics and unhappy neighbors are protesting the construction project, saying they will […]
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•The Colombian authorities are performing investigations to determine if Rastrojos leader, alias Sebastián, had been murdered by his own guards. •El Colombiano reports that his own guards called to report that they had murdered him early this morning. •The Police and Army have sent officers to investigate and identify the body found in Cáceres, Bajo […]
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According to RPP.com.pe the Regional Director of Culture, Juan Julio Garcia Rivas says the availability of tickets is not their responsibility and that all ticket sales for Machu Picchu have to be made online or through an authorized ticket agency. Rivas says tourists that were not able to enter Machu Picchu in the last couple […]
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ElComercio.com reports the lawyers for El Universo and the ex-columnist of the article, ‘No To Lies’ are rejecting a courts’ sentencing for slander against President Rafael Correa and his government. The three directors of El Universo and the columnist were sentenced to three years in prison and fines of $30 million and $10 million for […]
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According to ElComercio.pe on Friday June 24th there was a confrontation between the National Police and residents of Azangaro at the Manaco Capac Airport. Officials say the confrontation left 5 dead and 10 wounded. The protester tried to overtake the airport’s control tower while police headed them off with guns, shields and tear gas. At […]
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RPP.com.pe reports residents of Arcata, in the Cayarani District of the Condesuyos province, who have been on strike for 72 hours, just blocked the entrance of the road to the area. Residential officials say they are protesting the pollution from the mining company of Ares S.A.C. and the failure to implement promised projects that would […]
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•In the south of Colombia, FARC exploded a donkey bomb, and according to feeds.univision.com, no human injuries or deaths resulted from the explosion. •FARC was attempting to move the donkey, fitted with 40 kilos of explosives, to the center of the hamlet Guayabal in Caquetá. •This action demonstrates FARC’s desperation in the face of the […]
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Around 2,000 donkeys are used as pack animals carrying illegal timber by smugglers in Bolivia reported El Nacional. The animals were being exploited carrying around 50 kilos each and the estimated value of the timber is 200 bolivianos each. The Supervision and Social Control Authority of Forestry and Land (ABT) have so far managed to […]
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•On Wednesday, July 20th, 2011, a group of 5,000 indigenous Colombians gathered in Toribío to protest war and military actions within their territories. •El Tiempo relates that they have declared themselves in permanent minga* and that they are asking the Colombian government to amend their policies concerning actions within their territories as well as calling […]
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•Yesterday, Colombian Independence Day, the group Anonymous hacked President Santos’s Facebook account and posted a video called “La Falsa Independencia” (The False Independence) against the celebration of Independence Day. •According to Spanish.peopledaily.com.cn, the video stated that in the face of issues such as violence, unemployment, and uneven distribution of wealth, independence could not be celebrated. […]
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According to Peru21.pe a merchant in the commercial center of Lima threw muriatic acid at a group of policemen while the uniforms were attempting to evict the traders from the area in accordance with the Municipality of Lima’s reorganization of street trade. Officials say the Lima mayor, Susan Villaran accompanied the four policemen from the […]
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•This morning, FARC launched an attack using explosives against a Highway Police vehicle patrolling the Pan-American road and left 3 officers injured. •Semana.com reports that another act of violence occurred in Santander de Quilichao in which an explosive device was activated outside of an establishment and left 20 surrounding houses with damages to roofs and […]
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According to Peru21.pe tourists are upset about the possible closure and new limitation of 2,500 visitors per day for the Incan site of Machu Picchu. The Regional Directorate of Culture in Cusco announced the number of visitors allowed into Machu Picchu is restricted to 2,500 per day. Officials say more than 300 tourists expressed anger […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS) reported this afternoon the detention of a fishing vessel, Fer Mary I, while finishing fishing operations inside the 20-mile area of the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR). Fer Mary I’s enrollment number is P-04-00608 and Manta is its port of registry. Officials say Galapagos sea rangers and […]
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Panama alerted that the 48,000 tablets of the drug “histaclor” stolen from a truck might be used to manufacture dangerous drugs in Guatemala and Mexico reported Zona Izabal. The Panamanian Ministry of Health issued an alert of the disappearance of the drug while the truck was near a mall. The drug contains seudofredina, which can […]
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Peru21.pe reports that two soldiers were killed this morning, Tuesday July 19th, in a shootout with terrorists in Llochegua in the Ayacucho province. Officials say the attack occurred during a patrol of Llochegua, where two soldiers were wounded as well. The military patrol belonged to the Base Against Terrorism, “Mantaro Union. Officers of the Joint […]
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According to ElComercio.com, the National Police will continue to provide protection around the outside and inside of Ecuador’s soccer stadiums. Interior Minister, Jose Serrano announced the extension in Guayaquil this afternoon, Tuesday July 19th. After the Minister approved an accord that says military officials cannot be located within sporting venues or locations of public performance […]
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According to ElComercio.com the media organization, El Universo presented a proposal to rectify an opinion article entitled, ‘No a las mentiras,’ or ‘No to lying,’ today Tuesday July 19th. However, El Universo’s proposal was ‘very late’ according to Correa and was not accepted says the President attorney, Alembert Vera. Correa is asking for $80 million […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Federation of Public Workers in Ecuador has signaled, through their union representative, they are leaning toward going on strike. The union representative, Miguel Garcia says the decision comes after the government’s Executive Decree 813 that establishes obligatory or bought resignations for state workers. As of now, Garcia says the union has […]
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According to Peru21.pe the Homicide Investigation Division (Divinhom) in Lima have arrested and charged four people, including a police officer, Jonathan Vargas Cristobal, for the death of Alejandro Morales Chuecas, who was killed during an assault on Sandoval pharmacy in the center of Lima. Officials say the robbery occurred on July 2nd, in which Morales’s […]
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Miguel Ahumadad Correa, suspected for the murder of Jessica Cosio Vivanco, is in custody and the prosecution has started a formal investigation against the perpetrator informed La Tercera. Vivanco was found with a mutilated torso on July 9 in Ahumada’s home. At the hearing, the judge established a five month investigation period while the suspect […]
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According to ElComercio.com Imbabura police confiscated 4,000 liters of rum in Otavalo on Monday, July 18th. National Police Commissioner Marianita Montalvo confirmed the report. The head of Imbabura police, Danilo Espinosa says operations of control will take place throughout the province for liquor sales that are not authorized. An owner of a liquor store where […]
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Prosecutors are investigating the possibility of kickback payment in three other material procurement processes conducted by the Navy in Chile reported La Tercera. These processes include the acquisition of ammunition and spare parts, as well as the purchase of company docks, shipyards, and arsenals. These facts emerged in the investigation, which started in 2007, further […]
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The subway was in the tunnel on its way to Plaza Maipú station when Israel del Carmen Huerta Cespedes opened fire on the 20 passengers of the last subway car with a CZ 9 mm automatic pistol reported Nacion. cl. Huerta left two fatally injured, Meneses Mario Acevedo (58) and Fernando Munoz Onate (43), as […]
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Each year, 220 to 240 falsified lawyer credentials are discovered in Mexico causing misfortune to customers according to El Sol de Mexico. These false lawyers present a large problem not only to the costs of a trial, but also to the process of legal justice. Planned reforms to the National Law School of Mexico and […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the meeting of Ecuadorian heath officials over the past weekend ended with two hypotheses concerning the altered alcohol that has cause 24 deaths in Ecuador. The first hypothesis is that the person who is responsible for making the alcohol is badly educated on how alcohol is made. The second is that the […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Police Commissioner of Tungurahua, Ivan Rios, confirmed that a wine company was closed after primary analysis confirmed that the alcohol contained methanol. The closure comes after the wife of a contaminated alcohol victim confirmed that her husband had fallen ill after consuming wine from this establishment. In a Twitter message, the […]
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According to ElComercio.com Quito native, Ecuador Nelson Ivan Serrano was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in Florida December 1997. His nephew, Alfredo Luna says if Serrano’s defense team does not present an appeal by the next 12th of September, Serrano will be listed for execution in Florida. The article says that […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that PetroEcuador, the state owned oil company in Ecuador, has bought 636,041 barrels of crude oil from Perenco. The purchase is valued at $68.01 million. Officials say the purchase served as a way to cancel the debt Perenco had with the Ecuadorian government for not paying the surplus on the increase in oil […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a debate between the Peruvian Supreme Court and the media is ensuing surrounding a new law that would increase the penalties for journalists who publish information from illegal communication eavesdropping. The bill that the Supreme Court proposed to Congress, includes banning the media for spreading private information or email messages illegally obtained, […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that on Friday July 15th a group of bank robbers entered the National Bank of Fomento (BNF) in Rocafuerte located in the Manabi province, stealing about $20,000. Officials say the bank is located about 50 meters from the police station in Rocafuerte and 70 meters from the Church of Carmen. Witnesses say the […]
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El Universal reports • The Mexico City Civic Council of Public Safety and Administration of Justice recorded 381 instances of bullying last semester • 49% of reported cases were both physical and psychological harassment; 30% were only psychological and 26% were only physical • Seven cases of cyberbullying were reported • Over 90% of the […]
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Thirty years ago, several thousand civilians in the northern Salvadoran community of Santa Marta quickly gathered a few belongings and fled the US-funded Salvadoran military as it burned their houses and fields in an early stage of the country’s twelve-year civil war. Dozens were killed as they crossed the Lempa River into refugee camps in […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that the governments of Peru, Brazil and Chile have found 5,000 stolen vehicles belonging to the three countries in Bolivia. An amnesty decree, signed by Bolivian President Evo Morales, concerning about 130,000 undocumented automobiles helped the three governments locate the stolen property. Officials say that joint operations by all four countries also helped […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Ecuadorian government’s Executive Decree 813, that gives officials the right to “buying” resignations of public servants, became affective on July 12th. Therefore, representatives from state institutions met this past Wednesday, July 13th to establish a position to the modification of the Public Service Law. Authorities at the meeting say representatives will […]
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According to Minda.gob.pe 25% of Peruvian pharmacies and drug stores sell drugs such as anti-depressants, sedatives, narcotics and other psychotropic drugs without prescriptions. The General Directorate of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (Digemid) says that the official sales of these drugs are controlled, however the officials stress that these drugs can cause serious health problems, dependency […]
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•The Colombian military has deactivated a motorcycle bomb that was reportedly installed by FARC in a road between Cauca and Valle del Cauca in southeast Colombia. •The road is functioning normally and is being patrolled by the Police and Army as revealed by EFE. •During an operation in which the military freed two country people, […]
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According to RPP.com.pe, since February, Peruvian police have apprehended 15 senior members of the Shining Path terrorist movement. In a raid on February 3rd in Aucayacu by the National Police of the Huallaga Front, four Shining Path terrorists were captured, responsible for selective assassinations, blackmailing and propaganda activity. Officials say that weapons, ammunition and manuscripts […]
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