Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the body David Niño de Guzmán, a journalist who had been missing since 19 April, was found yesterday in La Paz. An explosive charge was apparently used to kill him. Residents in the area where the body was found heard an explosion in the early hours of the morning after he disappeared, the police chief said. Read Article
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The National Secretary for Communication, Fernando Alvarado, denied that the book has been banned Big Brother, the booth of Ecuador, during the Book Fair which takes place in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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The victims of forced sterilization program that the IMF demanded that the president Fujimori seeking justice in the Peruvian courts. She was 30 when I had the operation and since then I almost useless in the field, “says Cléofl Neira, 50, from the door of her adobe house. In Yanguil, a village a few hundred […]
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In a letter sent from prison, Mapuche leader Héctor Llaitul criticized the political backing of the verdict against him and three other community members. The Mapuche imprisoned in Angol have been on hunger strike since 15 March. The leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) held that the trial of Cañete is part of the […]
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Black communities of the Pacific coast of Cauca in Popayan reported, amid an outcry, the slaughter of seven youths amid a tough onslaught of paramilitary activity in this area, it has reached with operators of gold mines. Amanda Hurtado, a spokeswoman for the community, said armed men appeared at the bottom Timbiquí Township and killed […]
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Costa Rica must legalize in vitro fertilization according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or face penalties for alleged violations of human rights protected by international law. Read Article
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After the killing, the guerrillas mounted next to the bodies a minefield to try to kill the patrols to try to recover the bodies. Near the gorge Taques in Toledo (Antioquia), were found shot in the head with the corpses of two soldiers kidnapped last Monday by the front 36 of the Farc in the […]
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Carabobo Stereo 102.3 FM, a radio station based in the northern state of Carabobo, has been off the air since the evening of 18 March when around 30 representatives of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) turned up unannounced with soldiers, shut it down and seized its equipment. Read Article
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Reporters and photographers working for several news media were attacked by police at Apacheta (20 km outside La Paz) on 15 April while covering clashes between police and members of the Bolivian Workers Federation (COB), which is demanding a wage increase. Read Article
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Guatemala: 145 thousand families need food assistance this year The Government of Guatemala declared next week “nutritional risk” in the Central American country with the aim of creating policies to solve the malnutrition problem faced by millions of Guatemalans. Read Article
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said in an interview that justice in a country is “priceless” and “No justice, no development”, in reference to the restructuring of the judicial system in the Andean nation to be held through a referendum on 7 May. Read Article
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German radio correspondent based in Buenos Aires Gabriela Weber, who is investigating the alleged theft of children by a US diplomat during the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) apparently has been permanently denied her request for an entrance visa. Read Article
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A network of human traffickers was broken up by the national government. Six people who headed (five Pakistanis and one Ethiopian) were deported because they were wanted by the Interpol, national media reported, the Agency detailing the Andes. Read Article
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PRESS RELEASE R32/11 OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION EXPRESSES CONCERN REGARDING THE EXISTENCE AND APPLICATION OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAWS AGAINST PERSONS WHO HAVE CRITICIZED PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN ECUADOR Washington D.C., April 15, 2011. – The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression express its concern over the existence and […]
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Maria del Pilar Mite, 35, was killed with a machete in her sleep and before her sons, 18 and 10 years. The crime occurred at 04:00 yesterday in the block 8 of the cooperative’s Orchards in the north of Guayaquil. The main suspect in the murder would Agapito Chamaidán Gabriel Bohorquez, 42, exconviviente of Mite, […]
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The army commander, Gen. Alejandro Navas, admitted on Tuesday that if there were irregularities in the prison of the military fort. The senior officer said the army command in December knew about the irregularities in the prison, especially what I had to do with the improper use of the huts where relatives of the inmates […]
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On April 12, 1797 a group of black Caribs are transported by British forces from San Vicente to Punta Gorda on Roatan Island, where they are abandoned. In May of that year set out in the sea and grow to become one of the most important living cultures of Honduras. Read Article
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Three remain in custody Brigade sub-inspectors of Police Narcotics Investigation Iquique, for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery against two Bolivians. The incident occurred in the border sector Colchane far as 263 miles inland from Iquique. According to initial investigations, the police controlled the foreigners who were waiting for a bus and forced them […]
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This is the trailer from the documentary ‘TRANSLATINA’ released in 2010. It documents the lives of transvestites – the trailer focuses on transvestites in Peru. WARNING: THE TRAILER SHOULD BE VIEWED BY MATURE AUDIENCES – GRAPHIC.
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Telesur correspondent in Mexico, Aissa Garcia, reported through their social network account on Twitter that”the state of Tamaulipas Attorney advises that there are 59 dead bodies found in clandestine grave.” This new discovery coincides with a massive demonstration that took place in several locations in the North American country to protest the violence. Read Article
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The continent’s dramatic successes have been overlooked, even if the region remains one of the world’s most unequal.The idea that a successful model for development in one country could sensibly become a blueprint for another is now unfashionable – but important lessons can still be learned by examining other nations’ development paths. Read Article (Guardian)
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The activity of social media and journalists is becoming weaker and more restricted in Ecuador.In the first three months of the year, supporting media and journalists were attacks and pressures from different sectors of the country.The restrictions and insecurity include criminal prosecutions, threats, intimidation, insults, physical attacks. The violence reached a TV presenter who was […]
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Among the many crises competing for international attention, the ethno-territorial conflict plaguing the Afro-Colombian population on Colombia’s Pacific Coast is barely making headlines. Afro-Colombians have been systematically displaced from their communities, often violently, at the hands of guerillas and neo-paramilitary groups since the mid-1990s. Yet few Colombians, let alone foreigners, are paying attention. Read Article
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Mexico – An increase in convictions for trafficking, 27 to 58 years in prison on anyone who commits this crime, was the result of reforms at the federal Act approved by the House of Representatives, and will be applied in this state that already has its own rules for trafficking in persons, as announced on […]
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Corruption is widespread “in the ranks of the National Police of Ecuador and who was their commander, Jaime Aquilino Hurtado, used his power as the ultimate authority to extort body, accumulating money and property, facilitate the trafficking and obstructing investigations against corrupt colleagues. These are the conclusions drawn by the U.S. Embassy in Quito, citing […]
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In the first two months of the year the United States repatriated 66 000 704 Mexicans, of which 63 thousand 970 are over 18 years and two thousand 734 were minors. Read Article
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According to the Diariorepuesta.com.mx, there have been over 20,000 Mexicans jailed for offenses in foreign countries. Since 2010, the number has been 2,000 and approximately 10 percent are women. Most of the crimes they have been charged with are drug related. The organization that keeps tabs on these individuals is called ‘Proteccion a Mexicanos en […]
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The report from the National Commission on Human Rights reported that from 2006 to 2011, it recorded a total of 5,397 people who have been reported “missing or absent.” The commission said that 3,457 were men and 1,885 women, while there was no data provided on 55 cases. Read Article
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The Protection of Rights of the Ministry of Interior and National Police rescued 31 Haitians, alleged victims of crimes of smuggling of migrants, reported the ministry. After several days of investigations, in an operation called “Dawn”, officers went to a house in the north of the capital where they located the citizens “who have entered […]
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FROM: REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS – LETTER TO PRESIDENT CORREA Mr. Rafael Correa Delgado President of the Republic Carondelet Palace Quito, Ecuador Dear President Correa, You have just brought two legal actions in quick succession against journalists. Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom NGO, is very concerned about the consequences of these legal actions and […]
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The community members asked that these cases of sexual discrimination are investigated. She is the second member of the LGBT community who is murdered in the last 15 days in violent circumstances at the hands of strangers in the town of Santa Fe. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that Noel López Olguín, a journalist based in the eastern state of Veracruz, has been missing for the past two and a half weeks. López works for the local weeklies Horizonte and Noticias de Acayucan and the daily La Verdad. Read Article
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Organized crime seems to have been responsible for the murders of two journalists on 25 March in Monterrey, in the northern state of Nuevo León – José Luis Cerda Meléndez, 33, a program host on the national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for La Prensa, a daily based in […]
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Eliminate immigration visas in Chiapas, asks J. Sabines, the governor of Chiapas. The governor of Chiapas, Juan José Sabines Guerrero, yesterday asked the Federation to address comprehensively the issue of migration in the southern border, including visas which is a central issue, with the possibility of elimination in the state, in order to they achieve […]
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The daughters of Chile’s assassinated former army chief, Gen. Carlos Prats, have sued the Chilean government for $15 million dollars, their lawyer said Wednesday. Read Article
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Honduran authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by police to disperse teachers union demonstrations in Honduras and prosecute anyone found responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Read Article
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Conducted for the first time last October, the evaluation showed that 89% of students couldn’t understand everyday phrases and short, simple texts. Acknowledging the poor results, Education Minister Joaquín Lavín admitted that it was not a surprise, as “we know our reality and we knew our weaknesses, but we must be clear that what is […]
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Uruguayan Committee for the Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents has received 10 complaints this year about child prostitution, said Tuesday Luis putchar, president of the institution. Read Article
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A retired Argentine general nicknamed “The Hyena,” active during the 1976-1983 military junta period, was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity on Wednesday. Read Article
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Friday police rescued 10 children in Bolivia, obliged to forced labor in the international pass-Villazón La Quiaca, northern Argentina. Young people between 11 and 17 were used to transport illegal goods between southern Bolivia and the nation. The operation, which were also arrested five men and a Bolivian woman, was conducted by the Gendarmerie, Argentina […]
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The Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) – Costa Rica’s child welfare agency – says it rescued on Monday a group of 20 American minors who allegedly received psychological and physical abuse by managers of a reformatory in Puntarenas. The academy “Teen Mentor” has been operating since 2010 in the Hotel Carra in Tarcoles de […]
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President Rafael Correa said the government should have a representative in the agency responsible for regulating the content of the media, as the “primary victim” of the press in the country. Read Article
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Pamela Yates, director of the new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and a documentary filmmaker with Skylight Pictures, believes taking a journalistic film about war crimes prosecution to the Academy Awards could help elevate human rights causes in the West. Read Article
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This is a clip from the film ‘Impunity’ which is a new documentary that Hollman Morris produced with filmmaker Juan Lozano. It won a special mention at the International Human Rights Film Festival and Forum on March 11th, 2011, in Geneva. The film condemns the amnesty which paramilitaries received under the Justice and Peace Law […]
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of a new message from the “central column” of the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) paramilitary group voicing threats against journalists, civil society figures and NGOs. Dated 14 March and sent from a Gmail account in the name of “fenixaguilasnegras,” the message promises the “extermination” and “purge” of a […]
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The crime report describes the body of the shooting victim in the plain, unadorned language of the police: Thin. Black hair, light brown skin, purple blouse. Bullet wound in chest. Then comes the age: About 4 years old. Children, from toddlers to early teens, are increasingly falling victim to the brutal violence of Mexico’s drug […]
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The Guerrillas’ Youth Armies Claudia Sánchez-Bustamante/DIÁLOGO 16/03/2011 Abuses against Minors and Vulnerable Populations in the Hands of Terrorist Movements Seventeen thousand minors are part of the internal armed conflict in Colombia according to the Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO) “Our Children: Task without End” (“Nuestra Niñez Tarea Sin Fin”). The International Tribunal on Children Affected by […]
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Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness. Read Article
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The military courts, police ruled the operational management of the confrontation between the indigenous and the National Police of Peru, which occurred on June 5, 2009 and left the balance of 34 Peruvians dead at Devil’s Curve in Bagua, Amazonas. According to the statement, Gen. Elias Muguruza Luis Delgado was convicted of “failure of performance […]
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Members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and social organizations are promoting a law against silence and oblivion that would allow the State to investigate past cases of torture and murder. Read Article
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The director of the Hospital Carlos Juliaca confirmed the first case of hemorrhagic dengue fever in the city. The case was reported after a 14-year-old from Madre de Dios presented symptoms had to be taken to hospital in the city. It was learned that the child had contracted the disease by working in the informal […]
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The U.S. government will be hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who were infected with syphilis unless it offers a way to settle claims before Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said. Read Article
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As the world celebrates the advances of women over the last century, an additional 70 million Latin American women have a job today thanks to improvements in education, health and job opportunities in the last four decades, said World Bank experts. Read Article
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Five underaged children were rescued while they were being transported to work in the gold mines of Madre de Dios. Police stopped the truck the children were riding in at Quispicanchi, Cuzco. During questioning the children revealed they were kidnapped by a female at the Plaza De Armas de Urcos(Cusco) who was transporting them to […]
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Mexico City .- Metro Authorities instructed the security personnel and surveillance to allow transgender persons to assume their identity of female, have access to cars intended for the exclusive use of women. Read Article
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As the world marks the annual International Women’s Day on Tuesday, some women in Mexico consider discrimination against them remains a problem despite the attention on the issue over the years. “Mexican women now have more opportunities to be in public charges, to have similar salaries compared with men,” said college student Martha Perez, who […]
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American Court of Human Rights yesterday heard the arguments of Venezuelan former mayor Leopoldo Lopez , the first of two hearings in which will discuss the political disqualification of more than 800 public officials in Venezuela, decided by the Comptroller General of this country (Tribe -tional Accounts) between 2005 and 2008. What Lopez claims in […]
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TV and radio journalist Peter Deselaers has been in Bolivia on behalf of DW-AKADEMIE since mid-2010. He talks about the media situation there and his work in this Andean country. Read Article
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Spanish journalists Paco Gómez Nadal and Pilar Chato agreed under pressure to be repatriated yesterday, 48 hours after being arrested during a demonstration by indigenous groups outside the parliament building in Panama City in protest against a mining law reform. While transiting through Costa Rica yesterday, the couple told journalists the Panamanian authorities pressured them […]
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Two former Argentine dictators appeared in court Monday for the first time to face charges over the kidnapping of some 500 babies decades ago, seized from their mothers in secret maternity units minutes after birth. Read Article
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The Human Rights Secretariat of the Brazilian presidency began a campaign on Friday to fight the sexual abuse of children and teenagers and to raise public awareness. The campaign, launched at Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, aims to protect Brazilian children and teens during the carnival time, when sexual abuse is common and […]
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Costa Rica declared violence against children a national epidemic because of the worrying increase in cases over the last decade. The Hospital Nacional de Niños (Children’s Hospital) said that in the last 10 years aggressions against minors increased six times. According to the medical director of the hospital, Roberto Hernandez, the medical centre cared for […]
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the way some local courts permit the use of multiple lawsuits and other abusive judicial procedures to censor journalists. Carlos Santos, a freelance journalist and blogger based in Mossoró, a town in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered this month of February to pay 6,000 […]
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Amnesty International has called on the Guatemalan authorities to investigate the killing of three indigenous rights activists found shot dead in the east of the country, and to protect the rest of their community. Read Article
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An opponent of President Hugo Chavez released from house arrest this week has taken his seat in Venezuela’s National Assembly. Biagio Pilieri had been unable to serve as a legislator due to charges accusing him of corruption. The former mayor denies any wrongdoing. Read Article
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Colombian criminal bands linked to former paramilitary groups drove a 40 percent rise in massacres in 2010, slaughtering human rights activists, public officials and civilians, the United Nations said on Thursday. Read Article
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International organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) published a report entitled “Organized Crime, Muscling in on the Media,” according to which a total of 141 journalists and media workers were killed by criminal groups during the decade of the 2000s. Read Article
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Mario Robles is a political cartoonist in Mexico’s Oaxaca province. He has been violently attacked several times for his critical cartoons.
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Two people were arrested when they moved to six children to the city of Ica. According to police investigations, girls would be sexually exploited in the various brothels in the city. Police were able to stop by the timely reporting of persons whose identities are kept confidential. Read Article
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For the first time in over 20 years, a Venezuelan government gave in Tuesday to the demands of students, more than 60 of whom were on hunger strike, and released or promised better conditions for members of the opposition who are in prison. Read Article
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ElUNVERSAL.com reported that a group of Venezuelan students lifted a hunger strike they have held for 23 days, after the government agreed to talk to them, said Lorent Saleh, a spokesman of the protest and coordinator of the NGO Active Youth, United Venezuela (JAVU). Read Article
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Iván Hernández Carrillo, a correspondent for the small independent news agency Pátria, returned to his family home in Matanzas province on 19 February after eight years in jail. Sentenced to 25 years in prison during the March 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown on dissidents, he is the second of the “Black Spring” journalists to be allowed […]
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Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (SAIME)From 2009 till date, ID Administrative Service, Immigration and Nationality (Saime) and state security agencies dismantled 14 criminal gangs were involved in forgery and became the order of the Public Prosecutor to 270 citizens who extorted users, reported Sunday the general director of that institution, Dante Rivas. Read […]
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The hunger strike started a youth group for 21 days in Venezuela for the release 27 alleged political prisoners continued today to receive the support of opposition political leaders, while up to 80 the number of people linked to the protest. Sources of the strikers, who also requested a visit of a mission from the […]
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What started off as a small hunger strike of Venezuelan students, is now growing as dozens of people have joined the protest demanding that the government let the Organization of American States investigate alleged human rights abuses under President Hugo Chávez. Read Article
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BIAGIO PILIERI, a former journalist and mayor, was until recently little known in Venezuela. But last September he was elected to the National Assembly. He has been unable to take his seat because, despite parliamentary immunity, he is under house arrest, awaiting trial for the third time on corruption charges of which he has already […]
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The overwhelming majority of U.S. media coverage of Mexico is on the brutal drug violence there. That violence is real. The struggle on both sides of the border over booty from the enormously lucrative drug industry has without a doubt resulted in horrific violence. More than 35,000 Mexicans have died in the last four years […]
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Brazilian authorities say they have arrested nearly 20 police officers suspected of taking part in a death squad that allegedly murdered and tortured innocent women and children. Read Article
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President of the Grandmas of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, rejected on Tuesday those economic groups that are playing down the persistence in Argentina of aberrant crimes like peopleâ�Ös trafficking and slave labor. Now that the State is dealing with it, concerned parties like the Argentine Rural Society are trying to play down the […]
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The Costa Rican Legislative Assembly passed a reform to the Criminalization of Violence against Women Law, which describes as crimes the mistreatment and offenses. By an overwhelming majority, 41 of the 45 legislators voted in favor of the reform and agreed to add articles 22 and 25 of the 8589 Law, which had been voided […]
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Six students who are members of the NGO Active Youth, United Venezuela (JAVU), have joined a hunger strike that a group of fellow members is staging outside the local chapter of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas. Read Article
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Two political prisoners who had refused to leave prison were freed against their wishes on Saturday as Cuba released more jailed government opponents. Hector Maseda and Angel Moya were among the last of 52 prisoners President Raul Castro agreed to release in a deal brokered in July by the Roman Catholic Church. Read Article
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An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a French woman imprisoned in Mexico for kidnapping, a case that has ignited passions in both Mexico and France and caused friction between the two governments. Read Article
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L to known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez described on Wednesday as to “ the long night of censorship”that the government suddenly unblocked access to its Web site and 40 other opponents. Read Article
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On the afternoon of 9 February, Marcos Baquero, a member of the municipal council of San José de Guaviare, was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and handed over to former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a member of Colombians for Peace. […]
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Just after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Lincoln authorized plans to pursue a freedmen’s settlement in present-day Belize and another in Guyana, both colonial possessions of Great Britain at the time, said Phillip W. Magness, one of the researchers who uncovered the new documents. Read Article
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Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations took place. Read Article
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“He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I had a black and blue mark on my arm,” Heidi Velásquez told IPS in Guatemala. Read Article
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On Tuesday, the Ombudsman of Panama and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the “Campaign Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents”, which seeks to put a stop to this crime and promote a culture of zero tolerance for this crime among the Panamanian population. The Ombudsman, Ricardo Vargas, said in his […]
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One of the last survivors of the Indian indenture system in the Latin American country of Suriname is no more. Ninety-eight-year-old Goeroepersad Girbaran died in the Netherlands without being able to fulfil his lifelong dream – visiting the country of his forefathers. Goeroepersad was among the last Indian immigrants to arrive on a ship carrying […]
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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For girls living in the rural, indigenous communities of Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, be married by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager. About 60 percent of school-aged children complete primary education in Guatemala, according to UNICEF, and the rates are […]
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The people in human trafficking are similar to cockroaches. Once you stamp them out of one area they adjust, adapt, and keep coming back. The same is true with the human traffickers in Peru. There needs to be better education among all levels of the community about promises of jobs ect. to young people and […]
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Officials in Brazil say at least five inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the northeast, including some who were decapitated. Read Article
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A KEY witness into events surrounding the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer by Bolivian police has said his confession implicating Dwyer in terrorism was obtained under torture. Read Article
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For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body. Read Article
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The trial of staff at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital for the deaths of 26 patients who died of cold and neglect revealed a dark chapter in an institution that was once a shining symbol of Cuba’s much lauded health care system, and drew reactions of shock and criticism. Read Article
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“The moral reserve of this country is low. People have let too many things happen without taking to the streets…and they continue to let them go by,” peace activist Pietro Ameglio told IPS in this Mexican border city. Read Article
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Hunger strikers ask Chávez to release congressmen Ten young members of the Youth Platform for Resistance (JAVU), a dissenting organization, continue a hunger strike at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas. They requested on Tuesday that José Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the regional organization visits Venezuela to monitor […]
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