The arrest of a woman and the attempted assault of the mayor of La Concordia, Walter Ocampo, among other incidents, left last Tuesday’s visit of President Rafael Correa and several secretaries of state to the canton Quinindé (Esmeraldas). The detainee would niece of the late politician Jorge Chiriboga Guerrero, which seems to have made obscene […]
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The oil minister of Venezuela, Rafael Ramirez, Minister of Mines and Colombian Mauricio Cardenas, announced significant progress in terms of the bilateral agreement on oil and gas. The first point has to do with the end of this year, the two countries must list the conceptual engineering of the pipeline project bilaterally, Pacific will have […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday morning returned to Caracas in Cuba after receiving the first course of radiotherapy for cancer you have and that will force you to maintain a virtual presence in government and lower the pace in the race to reelection in October. Read Article
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Military leaders of Bolivia and Brazil began a meeting yesterday in the city of Santa Cruz to plan joint air exercises in the framework of the fight against drugs by the two countries agreed last October. This is the Initial Meeting Planning BOLBRA II operation, which runs until Friday, detailed the Brazilian Embassy in La […]
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The transfer of weapons at a U.S. diplomatic vehicle, from Trinidad to Santa Cruz, unleashed another impasse between that country and Bolivia. The Government said the move threatened the security of the state, although the northern country denies irregularities. The car of the U.S. Embassy, registration number 27-MI-30, was arrested yesterday at about 05.00, in […]
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The Maldivian authorities confirmed that operations were suspended rescue of a cargo ship flying the flag of Bolivia, who was kidnapped by pirates because it was away from the guarded waters. In a statement from the Maldives National Defense learned that the ship MV Eglantine sailing the Indian Ocean on Monday, when he was approached […]
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Doctor Jose Rafael Marquina who lives in Florida and is a professor at the Nova University and consultant for several Venezuelan intensive care clinics, told ABC from Madrid that he has ‘first hand’ information of the Venezuelan president health from specialists working close to him. “Chavez has a cancerous tumour which has extended to three […]
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Incident with Poland: Argentine official refers to Poles as “bums” and “stinking feet” Argentina has picked a diplomatic incident with Poland following on alleged coarse expressions from a top Argentine official towards members of the local Polish community in the north of the country, most of them farmers involved in growing ‘yerba mate’ the popular […]
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The Ecuadorian government will launch this year a project to develop a culture of peace on the border with Colombia, as part of comprehensive security policy in the area, reported the Minister of Culture, Erika Sylva. She said that intervene in areas of the three provinces bordering Colombia: Esmeraldas (Costa), Carchi (Andes) and Sucumbíos (Amazon). […]
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Decision making becomes slow during absences of the president. Opposition asked to name manager. The rest to be met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, after the radiation treatment they are submitted in Cuba to fight cancer, forcing him to maintain a virtual presence in government and slow down in his race for reelection in October. Read […]
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The UIA criticized the U.S. decision to remove Argentina from the GSP The head of the Union Industrial Argentina (UIA), José Ignacio de Mendiguren, ruled on Monday against the decision of the U.S. government to suspend Argentina as a beneficiary of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Read Article
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Although the government insists qualify as a “failure” which toured the indigenous march in fifteen days eight provinces (left El Pangui, Zamora Chinchipe, on March 8 and arrived in Quito on 22), that shaped a movement new political landscape dominated by President Rafael Correa over the past 5 years. That is the reading of analysts […]
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The governments of Bolivia and Chile on Friday staged a verbal duel hard on the conflict unresolved maritime and marked greater distances around a possible dialogue. While President Evo Morales of Bolivia claimed the right to keep all instances, including an international tribunal, the government of Santiago dismissed all value the statements of the president. […]
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President Cristina Kirchner received yesterday Olivos Rattenbach report , which criticizes military action during the War of the Malvinas , and disseminated on the website of the Presidency, as a way of formalizing the harsh condemnation of the Argentine State to war military dictatorship and took her on. Read Article
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he leaders of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) do not share or even to their bases. They say that to prevent information from leaking to the Government held in reserve the time and route taken to end their march in the park the tree. This mobilization, which started last March 8 from […]
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A former governor of the department of Caquetá (southern Colombia) was arrested for his alleged role in the murder of two teachers and links to paramilitary groups, prosecutors said Wednesday. Medina Germain Triviño (governor from 2010 to 2011) “is identified as allegedly responsible for the deaths of two teachers,” said Attorney in a statement. The […]
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“On April 9, will travel to Havana to sign that treaty,” said Foreign Minister referring to the agreement to delimit the maritime borders of the countries in the Caribbean. The negotiations to delimit the maritime boundary are several decades and had announced the signing during the administration of President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a coup […]
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Brazil reached an agreement with Brazil on trade dispute over cars, setting a cap on its exports in that sector for three years. Brasilia demand was finally accepted by the Mexican Secretariat of Economy. “For the first year, the amount of exports will be of 1,450 million dollars, the same that will increase in the […]
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In less than four years, Russia has gone from being considered by the Bolivian government as the best ally against drug trafficking to be excluded from the new agreement against drug trafficking, especially cocaine, has signed with Brazil and the U.S.. And without any explanation from the government of Morales, who in recent days also […]
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Peru, Colombia and Bolivia seek to establish a system to measure the same criteria as the production of coca leaf, informed the president of the Peruvian anti-drug office, Carmen Masias. The decision, which includes the formation of teams in the three countries, was taken after the last two years to discrepancies about the amount of […]
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Beyond these problems, Ecuador is also beset with rising drug violence. That is partly a result of geography: Its location between Colombia and Peru makes it a major transit point for South American drug trafficking. According to the Los Angeles Times, roughly one-fourth of the annual cocaine output in the two neighboring countries ultimately moves […]
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Generally, the distribution of avisaje is performed unattended or technical criteria of proportionality. In Argentina, the arbitrary division led to two lawsuits-one against the province of Neuquen and other anti-national government to return the advertising media that had been stripped from it. None of these decisions has been met. “Some media come to depend almost […]
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Venezuela and Ecuador are the most hostile environments for the press, but the problem covers several countries. These are not good times for press freedom in America . Although, by definition, quality journalism is always antagonistic to the healthy dialectic between press and government is less common than open confrontation. The diagnosis varies by country, […]
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She was killed when police officers went to a reunion with his school friends” very near his home in Maracaibo, Zulia state capital, said the Consul Fernando Berendique according to review the Panorama newspaper in its online edition. According to the report of Berendique, at dawn on Saturday his daughter was with his brother Fernando […]
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Ecuadorians with mortgage problems who moved from Barcelona to Murcia to participate in Saturday’s link President Rafael Correa, returned disappointed after 16 hours of travel, 8-way and 8 turn. Their mobilization was funded by the Consulate of Ecuador in the city that made the call to the platforms affected by this problem, through email. According […]
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President Evo Morales warned to “close” the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, if “still bothering” their government, following a wave of social protests in Bolivia and regional of various kinds, as the government reported Sunday. “I want to warn publicly, I have no fear. If again the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia continues to trouble, as […]
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The office of the elected frontrunner Josefina Vazquez Mota denounced the “dirty war” waged in social networks, which based on slander and defamation seeks to undermine the price and the social acceptance that has aroused among the citizens. Read Article
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Latinamericacurrentevents.com has now completed three years as an open source media monitoring solution for organizations with a 100% focus on Latin America. In the next several months the website plans to be available ONLY via annual subscription. If your firm has any involvement with Latin America you will clearly benefit from a group of professionals […]
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The leader of the protests mining in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios, Luis Otzuka yesterday announced a truce to bury the three dead in clashes on Wednesday and on Monday to negotiate with the government. Otzuka told the TV channel that will keep America “calm to find a viable solution in Lima”, which […]
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The government announced that at midnight on Friday March 16th is the deadline for the closure of casinos and gambling halls across the country, in strict compliance with Executive Order No. 873, establishing a period of 6 months to The closure of these places, after the popular consultation of May 7, 2011. (TC Television) Read […]
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The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been replaced by surprise the Minister of Agrarian Development, Afonso Florence, member of the radical wing of the Workers’ Party (PT), and has put in place the deputy Pepe Vargas, also of the PT and , as Florence, to the left of the currently forming the Government. Vargas, […]
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Hours after the government and the residents of El Alto agreed to the creation of neighborhood brigades, a mob burned the vehicle and the house suspected of murdering two brothers journalists. It was not coincidental but a major mistake. First was the announcement by neighborhood leaders of El Alto (Bolivia) the creation of brigades surveillance […]
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, he resumed his official duties on Monday after two days of rest in which he was subjected to routine medical checks, said the presidential Palacio Quemado. Morales met early “with the Joint Chiefs of Staff office” in the city of La Paz, as they do every Monday, according to […]
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On Sunday, hundreds of political and social movements gathered in the vicinity of the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Caracas to express solidarity with imperial aggression to destabilize that country. With so many expressions of support and affection, the Syrian ambassador brother Ghassan Abbas thanked the Venezuelan people and nations that today the […]
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President Hugo Chavez said today that within 6 days of being undergone surgery for removal of an injury, is “open, sustained, progressive, fast” recovery. “There have been met at this time the 6 full days and we are here in a broad recovery so I say: ‘Thank God, thank you to everyone,’” said the president […]
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Rafael Correa has backed down in his attempt to bankrupt a newspaper. But his assault on media freedom continues to set a worrying example. HIS country rarely attracts much international attention. But when Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, used the courts last year to bankrupt one of its main newspapers and intimidate others, he touched off […]
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said on Saturday that this month will travel to Turkey to enhance trade relations with the Arab country. He noted that probably a scale advantage in Murcia (Spain) to visit their fellow migrants. During the Saturday program Citizen Link, the Ecuadorian president said the official visit to Turkey is scheduled for […]
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Britain urgently convened yesterday at the British Foreign Argentine charge d’affaires to demand an explanation on the decision to discourage the purchase of British goods and said that these anti-commercial behavior “also of concern to the European Union.”A very diplomatic veiled threat that it could only have mutual concerns but reprisals and sanctions for the […]
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In an environment of rising tensions over a possible government intervention in the oil company YPF, the company president, Antonio Brufau, emergency traveled to Argentina and is now in Buenos Aires, predictably, meet with government officials. Brufau had already met with Hernan Lorenzino and Julio De Vido, minister of Economy and Planning, before the YPF […]
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Gutenberg Alembert and Vera, President Rafael Correa’s lawyers, went this afternoon to the National Court of Justice (CNJ), to give the judges a letter requesting the case file and remission Universe debt for damages. Monday morning, the Head of State granted a pardon to the leaders of the Guayaquil newspaper and former editor of Opinion, […]
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“It’s not worth wasting time on people who do not deserve” Quito (Pichincha). – The President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, announced today its decision to refer (forgive) the legal process that began months ago against the newspaper El Universo, for having insulted in the editorial “No lies” , in which he said that the […]
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The latest twist in the lawsuit against El Universal by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has the original judge in the case seeking asylum. (Judge in Ecuador libel case flees country) The judge, Monica Encalada, told the press she was seeking the protection of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission after she publicly accused the judicial system […]
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From the Theatre Catia, the head of the ministry of Interior and Justice added that the Head of State approved resources on 150 million bolivars to benefit more than 13 thousand families. The Minister of People’s Power for Interior Relations and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, said on Sunday that President Hugo Chavez instructed that all […]
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The governor of Argentina’s Chubut province, Martin Buzzi, the largest oil producer in the country, said the “reality” of the oil company YPF, Repsol controlled by the Spanish, “is decadent” and warned it could take the granting of mining areas in the district. “YPF must show signs in a couple of weeks, because otherwise our […]
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The defense minister of Venezuela, General Henry Rangel and Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua, have led the first public event on Saturday after the arrival of President Hugo Chavez to Cuba to undergo a second surgery. Both have urged the army to defend the country from “foreign threats” looming over Venezuela in the absence of […]
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Stratfor e-mails reflect the political tug of war with Britain over the Falklands. Reports say that the subject is agitated only as a smokescreen and expressed surprise that “still” has in Argentina who believe that the islands are of this country. Beyond the processes of regional integration and strategic alliances, as the global intelligence agency […]
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The President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, announced that the country already has a draft law for the protection, promotion and preservation of the ancestral knowledge of the country’s biodiversity, which will face the biopiracy. Biopiracy is a practice whereby researchers or companies illegally used the biodiversity of developing countries and the collective knowledge of […]
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The Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, in his opinion column Sunday in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, entitled ‘The honor of the president “, refers to the condemnation of the newspaper El Universo, its officers and journalist Emilio Palace, for insulting the president, noting that she Rafael Correa “has taken another step in […]
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The $42 million criminal libel case against Ecuador’s El Universo newspaper keeps generating controversy and asylum seekers. On Thursday, Monica Encalada, an Ecuadoran judge who reviewed the case, said she was seeking the protection of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission after exposing what she called “bald corruption” in the judicial system. During a press conference […]
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He announced that no official published data Indec because they seem “a deliberate attempt to defraud investors””Since 2007 the Argentine government published inflation figures that almost no one believes. Show that prices have increased between 5% and 11% in one year. Far from it, independent economists, provincial institutions and surveys of inflation have those figures […]
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The clashes and police have not stopped in the Aysen region, leaving 63 people for various crimes formalized in Coyhaique and Puerto Aysen. The regional prosecutor, Pedro Salgado, said the looting, robbery and theft, are propitiated by the current scenario that exists in the region, however, the prosecution said it took into account because of […]
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Washington, Andina. American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered the government of Ecuador to take precautionary measures in favor of four journalists of the newspaper “El Universo” convicted in court for allegedly insulting President Rafael Correa. Cesar Perez, Carlos Perez and Nicolas Perez, directors of “The Universe” as well as the former head of environmental […]
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and other social groups today called for a protest march for March 8 against the policies implemented by the government of President Rafael Correa. The leader of CONAIE, Humberto Cholango, said at a news conference that the mobilization is due to the unpopular policies implemented by Correa […]
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A series of expression and religious activities will be coordinating the Movement for a Just Reconstruction in Talca, due next Monday met the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami of 27 February 2010. As expressed by the speakers to Radio Bio Bio to Monday morning will be a mass protest of the earthquake victims […]
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Flores is one of about 2,000 women who reported being sterilized against their will, as part of a program of “family planning” undertaken by the government of Alberto Fujimori in 1996. The program consisted of the forced sterilization of some 300,000 women, according to information the government itself. Read Article
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Chavez is again the subject of comments and questions through social media, after an alleged “surprise trip” the president last weekend to Cuba, while government spokesmen choose to maintain a silence, which generates more than soothe a new wave of rumors and information, both in Venezuela and abroad. Read Article
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The president has more than ten lawsuits against him in the halls of the Criminal and Civil Justice National Court. Joffre Campaña, procurador judicial de El Universo, lo demandó por cinco millones. Campaign Joffre, judicial attorney in El Universo, sued him for five million. A total of 11 lawsuits for injuries and emotional harm has […]
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With the presence of all the unions, social, political and human rights who marched next to the CTA on 29 December last year to demand the annulment of the Act, on Monday 13 met again at the headquarters of the Central to convene to a new mobilization to take place on Wednesday 15 to 17 […]
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The whole fight against organized crime is on the agenda of a meeting Monday between President of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, and his Salvadoran Mauricio Funes, said Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla. “It is very important to all the mechanics of communication and coordination relationships allows us to have a joint agenda in terms of […]
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Five Ecuadoreans were arrested by policemen from the police station Bonola (Milan), accused of introducing 40 kilograms of cocaine in Italy by diplomatic bag, police said. This is the director and playwright Cristian Loor, Jorge Luis Redrobán, Julio Jesus Manor Toro and Jean Paul Flores, all residents of Milan, who were arrested two weeks ago […]
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CICIG was conducted almost three years by the Spanish judge Carlos Castresana, who resigned on June 7, 2010 after reporting that it was “systematically targeted by groups who want to stay in power.” Guatemalan President Otto Perez announced it will extend by two years the mandate of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), […]
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More than 30 workers of the Public Ministry (MP) and the Judiciary (OJ) Quiché held hostage by hundreds of supporters of the mayor-elect Pedro Raymundo Cobo, who took government facilities. Reportedly, the protest that made 200 people is a measure of pressure to the judges of the Constitutional Court (CC), as the elected mayor could […]
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Josefina Vazquez Mota represent the ruling National Action. The former MP and former Minister Josefina Vazquez Mota was elected presidential candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), which governs Mexico from 2000 to the July elections, with 55% of the vote in an internal consultation held this Sunday. “I’ll be the first woman president […]
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The defense ministers of Brazil, Celso Amorim, and his counterpart from the Republic of Surinam, Lamure Latour, agreed to maintain closer cooperation between the two countries in the military in combating transnational crime and in the area of training. For projects to modernize the Suriname, Minister Amorim called for the secretary of the Ministry of […]
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Family members of Luis Gutierrez Maximiliano Seraina, Chilean arrested in Peru on charges of spying Air Base “El Pato” in the town of Talara, met in Valparaiso with the consul of Peru Dora Salazar. The detainee’s closest living in the port saw the possibility of facilitating travel to the town of Sullana, where he is […]
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The National Director of U.S. Intelligence, James Clapper, said today in written testimony before the Senate that “there is still doubt” that the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, is cured of his cancer. According to Clapper, “Chávez announced that he has cancer, but there are still doubts about his health” and recalled that during his 12 […]
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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, met yesterday in Bogota with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, during a visit to this country marked by secrecy. Sherman began his visit on Sunday in Cartagena de Indias, where he traveled to hear firsthand how are the preparations for the celebration of the […]
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The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that “Argentina rejects the British attempt to militarize the conflict which the United Nations have already been issued on numerous occasions and have indicated that both nations should be resolved through bilateral negotiations.” Read Article
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Although the idea was introduced in 2005 was taken up in recent days, amid the tension between Britain and Argentina over the claim around the Falkland Islands. The British Government plans to build an airport that connects with St. Helena Islands, an archipelago of 4 000 inhabitants. Faced with the possibility to interrupt the current […]
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The Ministry of Defense announced today that Britain sent to the Falkland Islands the Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless n, one of the most powerful and modern Royal Navy. However, it was clarified that the arrival of the ship was already scheduled, and will replace another patrol boat. Read Article
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Reforms to Ecuador’s electoral law that will take effect on February 4 could hamper the ability of the country’s journalists to cover political campaigns and elections, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The government of President Rafael Correa, who is expected to seek re-election next year, promoted the legislation, which was passed on January […]
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Bogotá Comptroller Mario Solano said that the previous administration of the city during the last week of 2011 signed 4974 contracts worth of $ 582 000 708 000 000, regarding this as a lack of planning in public agencies. “Clearly the lack of planning in the execution of programming resources. This absence leads to an […]
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The Public Ministry is investigating the kidnap brief (express) from Mexico’s ambassador to Venezuela, Carlos Pujalte Pineiro, and his wife, Paloma Ojeda, who were kidnapped at about 12 pm this Sunday January 29 by four armed men as they were leaving a reception at the Florida High urbanization of Caracas. Read Article
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Ecuador has invested $ 110 million in the process of justice reform started six months ago, in the framework of which were completed 1.7 million pending cases, said the body in charge of restructuring. This amount represents 94% of the amount allocated for 2011, within a total budget of nearly $ 596 million to be […]
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The government has already nationalized 15 companies between May 1, 2006 and January 2012, a report by the Millennium Foundation, but notes that many former owners have not yet reached an agreement. Read Article
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Ministers of Defense of Chile, Andres Allamand, and Ecuador, Javier Ponce, reviewed existing military cooperation agreements between the two countries signed a memorandum for peacekeeping missions in Haiti, the Ecuadorian government reported yesterday. Allamand, who finished yesterday a two-day visit to Ecuador, met Ponce in particular to evaluate a strategic alliance between the companies of […]
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The integration of Alba is not how it looks from the governments, as in trade, which is the heart of all integration is emerging. The relationship of this block with Iran is not smooth, rather it is merely discursive and propaganda. Physical distances, economic and cultural rights are difficult to overcome with a country that […]
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The Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, and his pair of Peru, Alberto Otárola, agreed today after a meeting in Bogota that both countries will increase joint operations and cooperation to cope with crime transnational border area between the two nations. “We will schedule joint and combined operations in coming months will be conducted, both […]
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Deputy Minister of Finance Why is there no control on the southern border? For December, operating as part of Nicholas, reinforce the Fiscal Police presence there. In the second half of last year, established a series of measures to improve the operation. He appointed a new manager of the customs for the contest. Fiscal Police […]
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Kazakhstan the thirteenth country with which Ecuador established diplomatic relations in six months. Alternate Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, Diego Morejon, signed the agreement with his counterpart from Kazakhstan, Byrganym Aitimova. The document will be forwarded to the Secretary General of the United Nations for the record, the Agency detailed the Andes. […]
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President Rafael Correa of Ecuador is leading a relentless campaign against free speech, harassing his critics, forcing independent broadcasters off the air and hijacking the nation’s courts in his bid to bankrupt the country’s largest newspaper. After Emilio Palacio, the editorial page editor of El Universo, wrote a column accusing Mr. Correa of ordering the […]
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Uncertainty. That is what has generated, mainly in Venezuela the news published by ABC that President Hugo Chavez has no more than a year of life if not subjected to more intensive treatment , according to medical reports to which it has had access to this newspaper. The Venezuelans have doubts about the poor state […]
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Mapuche community members complained that the Chilean police force acted with tear gas and used s during a raid in the south of the country in which the officers arrested a 18 year old accused of theft. Police said the device was deployed special police in the region of Araucania, Mapuche conflict zone called, and […]
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The case of a pregnant 11 year old girl, whose mother asked the justice to be allowed for termination of pregnancy was the result of sexual abuse, but unexpectedly withdrew from it, Argentina has revived the controversy surrounding the legalization of abortion. Social organizations today denounced any pressure to the family of the girl pregnant […]
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Developments pirate, counterfeit and informal writings have been common farm and even Bogota traditional, and generally in cities of rapid urban growth. Bogota has seen increasing these actions in the last decade, in general situations seeking to extract urban rents. These phenomena in other countries are classified as “urban crime”. However, the Colombian Criminal Code […]
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The new law concerns 140,000 buildings in Buenos Aires accounting for 20% of the 200 million square metres of the city. Under the previous law, which expired on 31st January, the Consejo de Asunto Patrimonial judged if a building had patrimonial value, and if so, would rule that it could not be destroyed. Since 2007, […]
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The UN special mission is investigating a possible coup organised by Ecuadorian opposition parties in the chaotic events that happened on the 30th of September 2010 in the capital city of Quito. During a protest, president Rafael Correa was hospitalised after being hit by tear gas, at least one person died and 250 were wounded. […]
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran wrapped up his five-day tour of Latin America Friday, securing the political support of leaders in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Surinam, and Ecuador for Iran’s right to peacefully develop nuclear technology, even as the United States ramps up economic pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Read Article
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OPINION IT’S hard to believe that this would happen today in a largely democratic region, but the beginning of 2012 finds much of Latin America suffering the worst wave of press censorship since the rightist military dictatorships of the 1970s. Like never before in recent history, elected presidents who already control their congresses and judicial […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, denied that the Government has begun a dialogue with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) aimed at reaching a peace agreement, as noted by former President Andres Pastrana, while urged stop the speculation. Read Article
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Elcomercio.com reported that Ecuador granted 1 314 visas to Peruvian workers in the framework of a regularization program implemented since last year, said Tuesday the Secretariat (Ministry) National Migration (Senami). He noted that since March 2011, the Ecuadorian authorities gave visa to that number of Peruvians living in the Andean provinces of Loja and Azuay, […]
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Ecuador’s President does not rule out seeking re-election. “That depends on the party and my family,” he said. The president ignored the opposition and identifies as an adversary to the media. Opponents, aspire to the fragmented opposition and appoint a single candidate that can stand up to the president, whose nomination likely will be defined […]
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Peru’s attorney general, Jose Pelaez Bardales, has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consider returning to a visa requirement for Mexican citizens wishing to visit the country, a requirement that was eliminated in 2009. The reason, he explained, is the growing presence and activity of drug cartels in that country in Peruvian territory. According […]
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Correa drove in five major projects with foreign billionaires Indigenous communities announced their strength and warn of serious conflicts. “We will move to a new era, that was mine.” “Ecuador could have the second largest copper mine in the world.” “We can not be beggars sitting on a sack of gold.” President Rafael Correa has […]
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In his tour of Latin America , President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been the photographs with the presidents of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Cuba, a small business firm and good memories. Nothing more. Now that Brazil has taken a step back in supporting Iran’s nuclear program and its human rights policy, Ahmadinejad only counts in the […]
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The border is Colombia with Ecuador and Venezuela are the two main strategic rear areas of the Colombian guerrilla groups operating in this country. The Ecuador Defense Minister Javier Ponce, admitted today in the central Colombian town of Villa de Leyva’s presence “occasional” from FARC rebels in Ecuadorian territory. “We have always recognized an intermittent […]
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A Guatemalan congressman was shot dead in his car within blocks of the legislative assembly on Friday, one day before a new president and new body of lawmakers take power. Valentin Leal, who defected on Wednesday to the party of incoming President Otto Perez, was killed when two assassins on a motorcycle pulled alongside his […]
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Police recover stolen ammunition and vests after an assault on police station in Jaen. Specialized police arrived from Lima continue to research to find those responsible for the attack. Specialized police arrived from Lima continue to research to find those responsible for the attack. He explained that there are two bulletproof vests, in addition to […]
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Venezuela sent more than 100 million gallons of fuel to Colombia in 2011 as a result of the relaunch of bilateral ties, said the Ministry of Oil and Mining in Venezuela. It said in a statement that under the Fuel Export Scheme Norte de Santander department of Colombia 105,458,678 liters of fuel dispatched to the […]
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