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Ecuador: Latin American Banking Federation questions tax reform involving banks

Last Thursday, the Latin American Federation of Banks (Felaban) , announced its deep concern at the proposal of President Rafael Correa, to use part of the income of private banks, to finance the announced bonus increased from 35 to 50 dollars according to Ecuavisa.com. The statement, which was published in several newspapers across the country, states that “the elimination of profits likely affect capital strengthening the banking system and will lead to not be able to continue generating productive activities”. “The decision to take part in bank profitability discriminates against Ecuador’s private banking system, and puts it at a disadvantage compared to other financial institutions, and other economic sectors.” Read Article

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Venezuela produces socialist soap opera

It took a while, but the dream of President Hugo Chavez came true: Venezuela Teresa premiered in three seasons, the socialist telenovela broadcast by the channel TVES, which was RCTV’s frequency, channel that brought worldwide fame to gender and the government did not renew in 2007 according to ecuavisa.com With giant screens, ball gowns and […]

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Ecuador: Chilean Journalist Reports CIA In Operation to Prevent Correa’s reelection

According to Chilean journalist, the CIA has prepared an operation to destabilize the regime. Elmercurio.com.ec reported that President Rafael Correa, picked up a complaint filed by a Chilean journalist on alleged operation of Central Intelligence Agency U.S. (CIA) to destabilize his government and prevent his reelection. In his usual Saturday report, released yesterday but recorded […]

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Brazil government to assist state of Sa aulo in fight against violence, organized crime

The Brazilian government will assist the state of Sao Paulo in the fight against organized crime by the violence in this country of 42 million people. ( RadioPL ) The decision to support Sao Paulo was recorded after the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, were holding a telephone conversation with the governor of that state, […]

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Argentina: legal age for voting changed to sixteen

After 11 hours of debate, between chants, booing, rudeness, abandonment of the rooms and insults crossings, the Chamber of Deputies Argentina approved Wednesday night the right to vote from the age of 16. He did it with 131 votes in favor, two against and one abstention. The text, which was approved in the Senate in […]

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Decision to drop visa requirement for Colombians visiting Mexico postponed

The decision to eliminate visas for Colombians traveling to Mexico was postponed according to diner.com. The measure, due to come into effect this November first, will not operate because the negotiations are not over between the foreign ministries of Colombia and Mexico. Through a statement issued by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the […]

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Venezuela: socialsts plan 450 communes on annualized basis

You cannot see it at first sight, but it is there. It grows slowly in light of oil revenues. It has been boosted by a president who in his next six year in office intends both “to fully crush the bourgeois State we inherited, the one existing upon the continuity of old and harmful practices; […]

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Cuban Commission urges governement to accept international aid for victims of hurricane Sandy

The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) today urged the government of Raul Castro to accept international humanitarian aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy, who last week caused havoc and extensive damage in the eastern part of the island. In a statement, the group led by activist Elizardo Sanchez asks, before the […]

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CIA attempting to influence elections in Ecuador, goal to defeat President Correa, per Former British Ambassador

Former British Ambassador states CIA paying bribes to defeat Correa in Feb 2013 elections according to actualidad.rt.com Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, posted on his blog that the CIA invests $ 87 million “to influence elections in Ecuador , an amount “from the results [election] in Venezuela have been tripled,” he says. After the […]

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U.S. issued visas to Brazilians up 16 percent in 2012, talk of ending visa requirement

Since October 2011 were issued by the embassy and consulates around one million visas, and end of the year it is expected to reach a record number according to americaeconomia.com. The number of visas issued to Brazilians came to 800,000 from January to September this year, an increase of 16% over the same period last […]

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300 Argentine sailors to leave Ghana via jet

The crew of an Argentine navy ship, which was impounded as part of a debt dispute more than three weeks ago in Ghana, have boarded a plane for Argentina, according to bbc.co.uk. Almost 300 sailors will leave on an Air France plane chartered by the Argentine government. Read Article

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Ecuador: Correa to send bill to assembly for funding human development payment from bank profits

Eluniverso.com reported that the president of the Association of Private Banks of Ecuador (ABPE), Cesar Robalino, warned yesterday that the Government’s proposal to fund the Human Development Bond of $ 35 to $ 50 in bank profits represents a “cuasiconfiscación” of sector earnings. Rafael Correa announced it will send a bill to the Assembly for […]

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Argentina: impounded ship in Ghana evacuated

The Argentine government ordered on Saturday the evacuation of the naval training frigate ARA Libertad impounded in Ghana by international creditors, following the warning made on Friday that complaints would be taken to the UN over the controversy. Read Article

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Cuba: Documents reveal Castro hired former member of Nazi SS

According to Elpais.com, documents from the secret services in Germany, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), reveal that the then president of Cuba, Fidel Castro , hired two former members of the Nazi SS to coach Cuban military. The information has been published on the online edition of the German newspaper Die Welt , in a lengthy attempt including […]

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Inter American Press Association reports Ecuador lacks full freedom of expression

Eluniversio.com reported that a special report indicates that Ecuador’s government and state institutions take actions that undermine freedom of information in the country and used public resources to “attack” journalists and media systematically, according to a preliminary report by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) released this Sunday. The document, prepared by the Committee on […]

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Argentine naval shipped stranded in Ghana, over Argentina debt issues

The Accra High Court rejects Argentina frigate release “Freedom”, held at a port in Ghana for a complaint against the Argentine government over unpaid debts. The Accra High Court today rejected the frigate Argentina release “Freedom”, held at a port in Ghana since last day 2 by a complaint filed by creditors of the Argentine […]

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Bolivia: Morales states having a relationship with U.S. embassy is like “poop”

According to EFE – The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said today that have a bearing on the U.S. Embassy “is like a poop”, contrary to what happened before when politicians, military and police sought the support of the embassy to get positions in the Bolivian government. Earlier in Bolivia the “I had good relations […]

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Chavez Declared Winner in Venezuela

NBCNEWS.com reported……CARACAS – With 90 percent of the votes in, President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner in the Venezuela presidential election. Chavez received 54 percent of the vote to serve an unprecedented third term after he changed the country’s constitution, NBC News reported. Read Article

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Venezuela, elections get off to peaceful start

According to (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s 2012 presidential elections got underway this morning, with many citizens queuing from 3 am in the early hours of the morning outside polling stations to cast their vote. Numerous supporters of the government began the day’s activities with the “toque de Diana;” a trumpet call at around 3.30 am reminding […]

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Chavez says in interview he doesn’t even remember cancer

Lavanguardia.com reported that the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, said in an interview with Efe that no longer remembers the cancer and was “absolutely sure” that Venezuelans give her confidence again next Sunday in elections to elect the president who will lead the country between 2013 and 2019. “I do not remember that, but I […]

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Venezuela, presidential candidate claims Chavez gave 9 billion dollars to Mercosur allies

Mercopress.com reported Presidential candidate Capriles claims Chavez ‘handed out’ 9 billion dollars to Mercosur allies Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles claims that the regime of President Hugo Chavez handed out nine billion dollars to Mercosur members (except for Brazil and Chile) as part of his plan to “export the Bolivarian revolution”. Read Article

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Ecuador, China sign seven agreements on cooperation for trade and security

According to eluniverso.com, Ecuador and China signed seven agreements on cooperation, trade and security, reported Saturday the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry. The agreements were signed yesterday in his meetings Trade Minister of the Republic of China, Chen Deming, with various government representatives. “During the meeting they expressed the willingness of China to establish a car factory […]

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CHILE, Students to march Thursday September 27

A call to the public to join the march organized by high school students and supported by the university for Thursday October 27, made ​​on Tuesday leaders of the student movement. Gabriel Boric, president and spokesman DATE Confech stressed the importance of the call, as occurs “in the context that between now and Friday to […]

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Chavez accused of organizing groups of revolutionary militants for elections

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, prepares cells “revolutionary militants,” partly from the so-called “collective” (street gangs), to control a possible adverse vote in the presidential elections of October 7. With any survey that begins impossible not to believe a victory for the opposition Henrique Capriles and obvious problems of Chavez election to fill certain […]

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Venezuela, opposition tells military not to fear Capriles victory

The executive secretary of the opposition alliance of Venezuela, Democratic Unity Table, Ramon Aveledo, said the National Armed Forces (FAN) should not fear for the potential success of their candidate, Henrique Capriles , and voters should not be afraid of military institution. “They have nothing to fear in the National Armed Forces of our success […]

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Bolivia, Woman takes command of government while Morales is at United Nations Assembly

The head of the Bolivian Senate Gabriela Montaño assumed on an interim President of Bolivia Evo Morales in replacement, who travels to the United Nations Assembly, and by the absence of the Vice President Alvaro Garcia, mission to Vietnam, reported Sunday the Government House. The event “will be historic” Morales said, in the transfer of […]

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Paraguay President secured employment with the government for 25 family members, close friends

A report by the Paraguayan Radio Ñanduti certifies that more than 25 family members and close relatives of current President Federico Franco government posts. The paper appeared Monday morning September 17 Site Paraguay Voices, a community media organization created South American country after the coup d’état in that country on 22 June. Read Article

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FARC requested to provide locations of minefields, Colombia

Caracol.com.co reported that Daniel Avila, director of the Presidential Program for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines, called on the FARC to reveal the areas where these explosive devices have to proceed to its deactivation. “We need to have information to know where these minefields, that way we could develop protection measures, education and prevention, and […]

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In countdown to elections, Chavez uses four methods for higher visibility

As the presidential election is less than one month away, President Chávez deepens his presence in the media in four different ways: press conferences, calls to radio shows, calls to the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) during ordinary press conferences, and approaches to journalists before or after his rallies, where he is willing […]

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Mexico: Another State representative murdered

State Rep. Jaime Serrano Cedillo was killed today in the municipality of Nezahualcoyotl, authorities said. It is the second politician belonging to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) murdered in the last 48 hours. The Attorney General of the State of Mexico said the lawmaker admitted around 1:30 pm in the Clinical Diagnostics mexiquense municipality with […]

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Ecuador: since Correa took office, government salaries have nearly doubled

Eluniverso.com reported……. However, the increase in the number of servers does not match the cost that the state has had to take on staff costs since 2007. According to the Fiscal Policy Observatory (MRO), technical agency citizen, during the first five years of the Correa administration salary payments increased by 96.7%, almost double……”To be a […]

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Venezuela: Political scandal hits opposition candidate Henrique Capriles

The political scandal triggered by a video that appears opposition MP receiving money from an employer caused an earthquake in the campaign of the candidate Henrique Capriles. This when three weeks to the presidential elections in Venezuela. Read Article

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Antigua Guatemala: mayor arrested on corruption charges

elnuevoherald.com reported that the mayor of the tourist town of Antigua Guatemala, Adolfo Vivar, was arrested on Thursday by police and prosecutors accused of corruption, said the head of the Prosecutor against money laundering, Rolando Rodenas. Alongside Vivar, also was arrested Boris Asensio, who serves as treasurer of the City of the “colonial city”, 45 […]

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Ecuador: legislature approves protocol against illicit manufacuturing, trafficking in firearms

The full Legislature unanimously approved yesterday the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, which includes the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The purpose of this international agreement is to promote, facilitate and strengthen cooperation between States in order to prevent, combat and eradicate […]

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Venezuela: pre-election violence leaves numerous people injured near airport

Television footage showed dozens of supporters of the two sides in a kind of pitched battle outside the airport of Puerto Cabello, in central western oil country, where he planned to get the single candidate of the opposition, Henrique Capriles, for a campaign. Puerto Cabello has a mayor-government, but the government is one of the […]

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Chile: confirmed 39 years after death, Allende committed suicide

On the day of the 39th anniversary of the coup of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean justice yesterday finally closed the investigation into the death of ousted socialist President Salvador Allende committed suicide and confirmed that among the military uprising. Read Article

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Ecuador-Assange Standoff

N.Y. Times reported…..Juan José Illingworth has English bona fides that are hard to beat. He is the sixth-generation namesake of an Englishman who became one of Ecuador’s national heroes, fighting for independence from Spain, helping to lead the young nation, founding its naval academy and drafting the law that freed the country’s slaves. Read Article

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Colombia: legislation would regulate sale of acid to help eliminate attacks on women

The State shall regulate the acquisition of acid to prevent street attacks. The project is in its final stage in the Senate provides that the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce shall regulate the purchase of acid has been used to attack women. It also proposes that this crime captured achieve the benefit of parole. Read […]

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Colombia: new bill proposed being debated in congress making medical malpractice, criminal offense

With the alarming numbers of death from medical malpractice in the country, is already beginning to debate a bill in Congress that would include this issue as a bailable offense. This was announced by Senator Colombian Conservative Party, Juan Mario La Serna: ‘We want to prevent medical malpractice and obviously force the government to go […]

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Mexican President states some countries in Latin America losing democracy battle

“We need to raise a strong voice against any authoritarian attitude no matter the government and independently whether it is left or right” said the Mexican president after admitting that in “some cases we are losing that battle”. The Mexican president added that in Latin America “we are battling exactly between the past and the […]

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Peru: Shining Path, attempt to form extremist party

The Economist – TWENTY years ago this month, police arrested Abimael Guzmán, the founder of the Shining Path, and Elena Iparraguirre, his partner. With that, the group’s violent insurgency soon came to an end. A truth commission reckoned that the Maoist guerrilla group, which engaged in terror, was responsible for a majority of the 70,000 […]

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Ecuador revokes permissions of 26 foreign NGOs

They came from countries like Spain, Colombia, Argentina and the United Unidos. According to the Correa government, many did not give details of their actividadesen the country. The Technical Secretariat of International Cooperation (SETECI), the government agency responsible for completing the agreements of the 26 NGOs, took three years to review the operations of all […]

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Bolivia: President Morales states U.S. qualifies as haven for criminals, paradise of impunity

President Evo Morales on Friday flatly rejected the government’s refusal to extradite U.S. exmandatario Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (2002 -03), to respond to genocide trial that followed in Bolivia, and said the country’s north becomes a “haven for criminals and paradise of impunity”. Read Article

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Is There Democracy in Ecuador – video

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U.S. Strategic Communication Policy Toward the South American Andean Ridge

The United States Government and its people have a long relationship with the other Western Hemisphere nations. Over the centuries the strength of bilateral relations and the relations between the United States and various regions of the Americas have vacillated. Security issues, economic prosperity, and immigration are among the key aspects of those relationships. The […]

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Ecuador: Interview with Larry Birns, Director of Council on Hemispheric Affairs

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Peru: computer hackers attack Ministry of Justice website

EMOL.COM reported that a Peruvian cyber hacking group named “LulzSecPeru” which has hacked sites in other countries hacke Peru’s Ministry of Justice website. Their assault was announced over social media networks. LulzSecPeru placed their emblem on the main page of the Minister’s website that contained an insulting phrase against President. According to EMOL.COM the group […]

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Venezuela will have envoy in Colombia/FARC peace process

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro has remarked that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will be appointing in the next few days an envoy to join the commission leading the Colombian peace process. “The guidelines, activities, and the scope of Venezuela’s support in the talks,” will be set out by the Colombian Government, said Maduro during an […]

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Colombia: Students, teachers demonstrate against privatization of education

Hundreds of students and teachers marched through the main Colombian cities, in what they called a demonstration of respect for public education, students and teachers, called by the Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE). The day was disrupted by violent protests staged by some of the participants in the marches, especially in Bogota and Medellin, where […]

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Bolivian senator passes 100 days of asylum in Brazilian Embassy in La Paz

The daughter of Bolivian opposition Sen. Roger Pinto, who yesterday met 100 days asylum in the Brazilian embassy in La Paz, said that President Evo Morales is “a prisoner of his own fears and contradictions” in denying the pass that required his father to move the neighboring country. In a letter released yesterday, Denise Pinto, […]

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Honduras: New head of airforce installed amidst controversy.

Miguel Palacios took office instead of Colonel Landa Pastor Ruiz, in a ceremony at the airport Toncontin FAH, south of the capital, with the notable absence of President Porfirio Lobo, who used to attend these acts. The Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, General Rene Osorio praised Pastor Landa, who according to local […]

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Colombia defends sovereignty border with Nicaragua at 82 merdian

Eltiempo.com reported – Defense Ministry said that country comes in the Caribbean to meridian 82. The words of a senior Nicaraguan in the sense that its forces have crossed the maritime border with Colombia that country several times and caused alarms set on convincing answers during the weekend. Defense Minister of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzon […]

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Ecuador: Minister of Interior’s brother murdered in Cuenca

The early hours of Sunday, between 01:45 and 02:00, an incident would have been recorded in the historic center of Cuenca, leaving a toll of one killed by the name of Juan Antonio Serrano Salgado, 34, brother of Minister Interior José Serrano. According to reports from the police, apparently strangers entered a private party that […]

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Venezuela: Chavez supporters clash with opposition in Carabobo

Government demonstrators clashed with a walk attendees opposition candidate in Carabobo. “It is a sign of fear and weakness,” said the former governor of Miranda. The incidents occurred in Tocuyito, state of Carabobo, Henrique Capriles performed when one of his regular traversed by the Venezuelan people. According to a journalist Site News 24 , the […]

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Colombia: Santos revamping cabinet

on 22 August, President Juan Manuel Santos announced it would renovate your cabinet, after the resignation protocol asked all his ministers. This application will allow to consider accepting some resignations, and deny others, but as the president said, the intent of this “ministerial reshuffle” was to seek “a cabinet of the country you peace of […]

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Discussions with FARC gains support in Colombia (Video Report)

FARC discussions with government win support in Colombia

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Venezuela: Chavez blocks video from opposition to broadcast, showing public insecurity

Hugo Chavez has long hands and handled at will a lot of people and various institutions in Venezuela. Proof of this is the way is that it has managed to block a shocking announcement made by opponents who support Henrique Capriles, which highlights the fear and insecurity that dominate the streets of Caracas and other […]

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Ecuador: Emilio Palacio, journalist granted political asylum United States

Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio — sentenced last year to three years in prison for denouncing President Rafael Correa — has been granted political asylum here in the United States. Palacio announced the news this morning during a press conference with his lawyers. He pointed out, however, that he received notice of the decision just 24 […]

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Ecuador: Currency Controls on outflow going into effect

Exemption from tax on foreign exchange outflow (ISD) to transactions not exceeding one thousand dollars now only apply for two monthly movements, said the director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Carlos Marx Carrasco. Previously these movements had no limitation. With this resolution, which will be ready tomorrow and will apply from the next week […]

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Belarus citizen gains political refugee status in Ecuador

Aliaksandr Barankov’s case drew attention after Ecuador granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange earlier this month. Judge Carlos Ramirez of the National Court of Justice found the political refugee status granted Mr Barankov to be justified, according to a court official. Mr Barankov, 30, had argued he could be killed if sent back […]

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Chile: Student movement regains momentum

150,000 people gathered Tuesday in the Alameda, the main avenue of the city, according to figures released by the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH) . “The government said we were a minority: today we saw a clear signal and call massiveness. The government said we were divided, today gave a clear signal of unity. […]

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Violence on drug routes in Mexican states of of Mexico, Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco

Specialist believes that drug traffickers seeking to intimidate the new governments in seeking a greater control of the territories in which they operate. The violence in the triangle formed by the State of Mexico, Guerrero, Michoacan and Colima and Jalisco, mainly due to the rearrangements of criminal groups and seeking to influence or intimidate the […]

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Mexico: Federal Police officers ordered to custody for 40 days in firing of U.S. embassy vehicle

A judge ordered the detention for 40 days of 12 federal police fired at a U.S. embassy vehicle in Mexico and wounded two employees of the government of that country. An official of the Attorney General..The official said Monday that the police will be taken to a detention center in Mexico City from the state […]

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Colombia: President Santos states that he has developed exploratory talks with FARC

Minuto30.com reported President Santos stated ….’We have developed exploratory talks with the FARC’: Santos “From the first day I met my government’s constitutional obligation to seek peace. In this direction, there have been exploratory talks with the FARC to seek an end to conflict. I want to state clearly that the Colombians approaches that have […]

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Paraguay: Youth reject call to military service

A long line of young Paraguayans dawned today at an office of the Ministry of Defense, in this capital, to express their opposition to a possible call to military service. Attendance at what is called Conscientious Objection address is part of a massive response from last week unleashed across the country to a military order, […]

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Numbers of undocumented deported from U.S. at Juarez border increases

The number of Mexican immigrants deported by this border, grew this year, according to figures from the National Migration Institute (INM), which alerted the Bureau of the Todos Somos Juarez program and human rights organizations. Unemployment in the United States, is an important factor to be generated this situation, he said, Olga Rosa Ortiz, UACJ […]

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Ecuador has largest number of refugees in Latin America, 65% without visa

Ecuador is home to the largest number of refugees in Latin America, according to the High Commissioner of the United Nations on the matter (UNHCR). But only 35% of foreigners with that status appears in the record as a carrier Migration Visa 12-IV. This visa is granted for people displaced from their country of origin […]

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AI reports Ecuador misused judicial system to stop protests

Ecuador’s judicial system is being used by the authorities to clamp down on indigenous and campesino leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting against projects that will affect their environment and lands, said Amnesty International in a new report today. The report ‘So that no one can demand […]

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Mexico City: Federal Police fire on vehicle with U.S. diplomat employees, two injured

– Two officials of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico were shot and wounded on Friday after federal police fired on the vehicle they were traveling diplomat confirmed secretariats and Marina Public Safety. In the text state that “today at 08:00 am, a vehicle Embassy diplomat USA received multiple bullet wounds in the road stretch Tres […]

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Peru’s first lady uses presidential jet on trip to Brazil, possibly illegal

Abusing the power?? In the midst of a severe crisis in the government by the scandals of the president’s brother, Alexis Humala, and your company’s contracts with the State, together with the problems in the pension program 65, the first lady, Nadine Heredia, in a controversial decision, traveled to Brazil using the presidential plane, when […]

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Ecuador: President Correa asks investigation into insults tweeted about him

According to Eluniverso.com, President Correa asked SENAIN to investigate insults made towards the President, and that legal action be taken. Read Article

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Puerto Rico: disagreement over accuracy of crime reporting by officials

During the last few months has broken out between the Puerto Rico Police and the Forensic Science Institute of the true number of murders that have occurred in Puerto Rico during the year that has passed. The police provide a figure and the Institute of Forensic Sciences provides another figure significantly exceeds that provides the […]

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Chile: government tells students they are open to dialogue but not under pressure or compulsion

Minister Secretary General of Government, Andrés Chadwick, spoke on Wednesday to march that morning called for student leaders and said that the government is open to dialogue, but does not accept pressure or force measures as taking educational establishments. The spokesman said about that “space is completely open dialog, both here in La Moneda and […]

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Correa warns, invading embassy to arrest Assange would be “suicidal”

Rafael Correa warned such a provocative precedent would leave British embassies across the world facing similar “violating”moves by foreign governments. In an interview with his country’s state television, Mr Correa continued his strong rhetoric suggesting the diplomatic impasse with Britain was no closer to being solved. Read Article

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Relations between Colombia and Ecuador (essay)

This essay seeks to analyse the development of relations between Colombia and Ecuador from the perspective of space, borders and armed conflicts. For this purpose, this paper resorts to historical elements, including references to the formation of the first armed organizations and its impact on the development of the Colombian State and its relationship with […]

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In Assange Asylum, A Stand Against Neo-colonialist Policies

In Assange Asylum, A Stand Against Neo-colonialist Policies By Roger Burbach and Marc Becker Rafael Correa, the president of one of South America’s smallest countries with almost 15 million inhabitants is taking a dramatic stand against Great Britain, Sweden and the United States by granting political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last Wednesday the […]

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Peru continues free contraceptive options for women

The female condom, implant and monthly injection was officially incorporated by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the products delivered free to the population of reproductive age. The launch of such contraceptive methods was carried yesterday in the International Day of Family Planning, by the Deputy Health Minister Jose del Carmen Sara, in the main […]

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OAS to hold emergency meeting in Quito Ecuador on Assange case

The Organization of American States (OAS) has scheduled an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers next week to discuss the differences between Ecuador and Britain over the asylum that Quito granted to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read Article

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Ecuador Defies UK/US Pressure in Assange Case

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Assange Case: British authorities surround Ecuador’s embassy

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Ecuador will permit Assange to remain in embassy

The government of Ecuador is prepared to allow Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection, a government official said in Quito on Wednesday night. Mr. Assange has been holed up in the embassy for two months seeking asylum. Read Article

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Murder of mayor culminates week of severe violence in Mexico

Edgar Morales Perez, mayor-elect of Matehuala , municipality of San Luis Potosi State (North), has been murdered on Sunday morning with Juan Francisco Hernandez Colunga, who was the coordinator of his election campaign last July 1 . With the assassination of the mayor and his assistant, members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), closes a […]

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Ecuador’s Correa may announce decision on Julian Assange, Wednesday

Guardian.co.uk reported Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, says he hopes to be able to announce this week whether he will grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Correa told state TV a large amount of material about international law needed to be examined to make a responsible, informed decision. He said he expected to have […]

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Mexico: Mayor elect murdered in Matehuala

A mayor-elect of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and his secretary were killed early yesterday morning in the town of Matehuala, San Luis Potosi state, sources said the state police. The politician Edgar Morales Perez, who last July 1 Matehuala was elected mayor of a city of some 91,500 inhabitants located in the northern state […]

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Argentina: labor claims basic food basket prices higher than government statistics

Argentine organized labour CGT, announced that based on their own analysis of the products that make up the basic food basket, on average they are 52% more expensive than those analyzed by the official statistics office, Indec“However the definitive figures will be released later” said the CGT spokesperson who responds to Hugo Moyano, recently elected […]

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Bolivia regrets the U.S. position regarding Ostreicher case

Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, has deplored on Wednesday a proposal by U.S. Congress to withdraw visas Bolivian officials, the presence of an American businessman suspected of money laundering, in a prison in Bolivia. “This draft resolution (U.S. Congress) is another of the abusive aggression of which our country can be part of a […]

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Ecuador: government assembly under state of emergency 60 days

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, informed the Assembly decision to extend the state of emergency in the Legislative Branch. The state of emergency remains in the Assembly since last September 30, 2010, when there was the riot police. The Executive Order stated in Decree 1258 of August 6, it has a duration of 60 […]

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Kenya charges Venezuelan diplomat in murder of Venezuelan ambassador

The prosecution has accused Kenya on Monday the first secretary of the Embassy of Venezuela, Dwight Sagaray, the murder of interim ambassador in Nairobi that South American country, Olga Fonseca, occurred in late June. Fonseca was found dead with signs of strangulation on 27 July at his home in Nairobi, a fact which added to […]

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Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy on Freedom of Expression in Ecuador

Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Freedom of Expression in Ecuador In the United States Senate August 2, 2012 Mr. President, several weeks ago I spoke in this chamber about the assault on freedom of expression in Ecuador, where President Correa has sought to silence his critics including the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression […]

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Chavez denies rumors he received medical treatment in Brazil

Venezuela’s president and candidate for reelection, Hugo Chavez said Wednesday he feels in good health and denied rumors launched by “mentally ill” about that during his visit to Brazil to have visited a clinic to pass a review of its health status. Read Article

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Expatriates upset in Cayman Islands on proposed tax of foreign workers

Proposal to levy a 10 per cent tax on expat workers has sparked anger in the Cayman Islands. Controversy has broken out in the Cayman Islands over a proposal to tax foreign workers. The plan, which was announced by the Cayman political leader William McKeeva Bush last week, will see expats on work permits who […]

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Costa Rica suspends government minister over post on Youtube

COSTA Rica has suspended a junior-level minister after she appeared in a video posted online wearing only her underwear and delivering flirtatious messages. Deputy Minister for Youth Karina Bolanos lost her job after a video showed her lying in bed, pointing at her chest and inviting a man she refers to as “little one” to […]

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Ecuador: Vanguardia magazine’s computers, equipment seized, employees removed from premises

Yesterday, at 15:10, personnel from the Ministry of Labour Relations and the police entered the premises of Vanguard magazine located on Avenida Eloy Alfaro and Jose Doors, north of Quito. From 17:00, the National Union of Journalists (UNP), Ivan Flores, general editor, Juan Carlos Calderon, director of Vanguard and the news team of the magazine, […]

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Mexico: new systems set in place to help locate missing Central Americans

The state attorney, together with the consuls of Honduras and Costa Rica along with the Mexican Red Cross, coordinate the search efforts of Central American migrants reported missing in this region. The head of the Attorney General of the State (PGJE), Rommel Moreno Manjarrez said that work together and permanently in the search for aliens […]

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Ecuador: President Correa announces government to suspend advertising from newspapers critical of mandates

Ntn24.com reported that President Correa to suspend advertising in newspapers that have criticized its mandate “to see if they do by calling or business.” He also spoke about the protests against Televisa in Mexico saying the protesters “are leading by example.”

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Venezuela authorizes up to 30 billion bolivars in additional public credit

It was published in the Official Gazette No. 39,970 circulating today, the Special Law of Indebtedness Supplemental Fiscal 2012. It was published in the Official Gazette No. 39,970 circulating today, the Special Law of Indebtedness Supplemental Fiscal 2012. Through this Act, authorizing the Executive, through the Ministry of the People with expertise in planning and […]

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Cuba: opposition leader killed in automobile accident

The International Press Center (ICC) today confirmed the death in a traffic accident Oswaldo Paya of the opposition in eastern Cuba. “In the afternoon the day died of a traffic accident Oswaldo Paya,” the source said Sunday, under the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paya, 60, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), was author […]

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Mexico: government signs accord with mobile phone companies to counter black market

The federal government signed an agreement with leading mobile operators in the country to bring down the black market of mobile telephony, which regularly encourages organized crime. In signing the agreement with representatives of Telcel, Movistar, Nextel and Iusacell and Marisela Morales, head of the PGR. Read Article

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Bolivia not to grant safe passage to senator who received asylum in Brazil

“The Constitution says that the Bolivian state can not grant a safe conduct and can not accept political asylum to a person having ordinary processes of justice for reasons having to do with common crimes, and now Senator Pinto processed” , Davila said the media in La Paz. He reiterated that “deplores” the alleged “pressure” […]

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Bolivia: Prosecutor investigating possible coup attempt by police

The District Attorney of La Paz reported that, pursuant to instructions issued by the Attorney General, opened a case to investigate a possible coup attempt led by police officers who participated in the riot that lasted from 21 to 27 June. “We and the prosecutor investigating, according to the instructions, the prosecutor assigned is Dr. […]

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