On Wednesday the Latin American nations that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) joined regional voices in their “indignation and rejection” of the U.S. government’s decision to impose unilateral sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Read Article
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1000 people are marching to la Plaza de Bolívar to protest the Colombian government’s new policies that they say will end small cellphone vendors as revealed by eltiempo.com. Authorities recommended that commuters take alternate roads to avoid the crowds. Read Article
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Following Decree 1756, the Colombian government is to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol Sunday from 3:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. according to wsp.presidencia.gov.co. This will be during the Internal Consultation of Political Parties and Movements about such public order matters as restrictions of bearing arms, curfew, transport of vehicles, and curfew. The decree […]
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•The protestors are intent on blocking important roads within the 4 departments have affected Meta, Guajira, Arauca and Casanare per rcnradio.com. •They are protesting the royalty reforms passed by the Colombian government including which is a reform in La Guajira that will cut off $328 billion pesos that would have gone to programs for education […]
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•Miguel Prado, director of the Anticorruption office of the Presidency, verified that in the Soacha municipality, there were irregularities amounting to about 28 billion pesos a year. •The report from rcnradio.com calls it a “carrousel of subsidies” in which funds do not go to the students who most need them. •Double registration of students and […]
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Plans for the Union of South American Nations becoming more like its EU model advanced this week with talks on the pact’s structure and strategies for monitoring budgets including defense spending by member countries. Read Article
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The fourteen voting members of the Senate met yesterday and passed a law banning human trafficking in Argentina, according to diarioelargentino.com. The “Trafficking Act” was pushed through by the CTA and Red Alerta who also proposed the creation of a program for the Prevention, Assistance and Protection of Human Trafficking. The new law requires the […]
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About 45 ballots for the plebiscite and referendum which was held on Saturday May 7, were found in a garbage school Chugchilán Juan Jose Flores of belonging to the canton Sigchos. White said so Guamangate, vice Provincial Government of Cotopaxi. Read Article
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The main suspect in the drug-cartel massacre of 27 farmworkers and relatives in Guatemala’s Peten province was arraigned Friday on charges including conspiracy to murder and kidnapping. Suspect Hugo Gomez Vasquez has been identified as a local leader of the Mexico-based Zetas drug cartel and a former member of the elite Guatemalan military unit known […]
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Peru’s President Alan Garcia on an official visit to Ecuador on Friday proposed “to reduce progressively the militarization” of the border as a show of confidence reached by both countries in the last century fought three wars and territorial disputes. Read Article
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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Read Article
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Pedestrian and vehicular bridges in the different municipalities of the region were the places where they were located the various blankets. In Torreon, around 6:20 am, the Mexican Army took to the streets to remove the covers, along with elements of the Municipal Police, for what was said were removed over ten blankets. Read Article
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Otto Guevara, leader of the Partido Movimiento Libertario (ML) and 2010 presidential candidate acknowledged last week receiving political donations from Olman Rimola, but denied knowing if the funds came from illegal gambling sources. On Wednesday the Ministerio Publico raided the ML offices and is actively investigating Guevara and others. Read Article
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•Laradiodelsur.com reports that Carlos Lozano, the director of the magazine Voz de Colombia, stresses that four other deaths are being investigated in the place where Argimiro Hernández was killed in the Tolima department. •Lozana describes that Alfonso Cano, leader of FARC, performs operations in the site at the entrance of the Cañon de las Hermosas […]
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•Among the issues to be discussed are the case of Yidis Medina and the assassination of the mayor of Roble as revealed by caracol.com.co. •Uribe asks the Commission of Accusation of the Chamber to hear him under oath and that the process be public with the victims and their lawyers present. Read Article
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•On the grounds that the chain of custody was not followed, the files and emails lack legal sustainability according to the Supreme Court. •The discovery of these emails led to the investigations of the connection between FARC and leftist political leaders, journalists, and intellectuals. •The court has filed the processes being carried out for “Farc-política” […]
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When Meredith Aby met with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2006, she asked what it would take to get them to stop fighting. Jess Sundin did the same during her trip to Colombia 11 years ago.They returned and openly wrote and spoke about their experiences, while criticizing the U.S. government’s involvement […]
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With almost 100% of the votes officially counted, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa can say for sure who won the referendum on May 7. But you can not say I have won comfortably, as stated on the Saturday of the consultation, even before knowing the results to exit polls. Ecuadoreans have said yes to the Government […]
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The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, workers set fire to some 50 buses and other vehicles, work installations and even their own lodgings, which were built to house […]
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The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in Petén are now surrounded by soldiers after the discovery of the bodies of those murdered Sunday May 15, presumably by Los Zetas, […]
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Left-winger Ollanta Humala’s past ties to Venezuela’s fiery President Hugo Chavez are haunting him, even though he has tried to recast himself as a moderate ahead of Peru’s presidential election run-off on June 5. Read Article
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On Brazil’s northeast coast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dreamed of building an oil refinery and naming it after a Brazilian adventurer who had fought for Venezuela’s independence. The joint venture with Brazil, he said in trips here, would help unify Latin America against his adversary, the United States. Read Article
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Many modern intellectuals (leftist economists and political scientists of various nationalities) have been advocating the readiness of Latin America, under Brazil’s leadership, to take the helm of the region’s defense, against the so-called imperialist powers of the West, and take every step to brainwash the local members of the elite, encouraging them to embrace the […]
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Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, frustrated by Ecuador’s refusal to return the man accused in the killings of a mother and son in Brockton, is urging federal officials to pressure the South American nation to hand him over for prosecution. Read Article
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As tumult rages across the Middle East, and relations with Pakistan border on a breakdown, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled Wednesday night to host a private dinner with at least six former Latin American presidents, part of a quiet campaign to repair relations with a region that complains it has been ignored […]
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Daimler AG was ordered on Wednesday to face a U.S. lawsuit alleging it participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Mercedes-Benz workers in Argentina’s “Dirty War” three decades ago. Read Article
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In 2001, when Chevron acquired Texaco, the company inherited an environmental and human rights disaster in Ecuador. According to a lawsuit originally filed in 1993, Texaco dumped billions of gallons of waste byproduct from oil drilling in the rainforest, and burned hundreds of millions of cubic feet of gas and waste oil into the atmosphere. […]
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With nearly 85% of the vote counted, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is well positioned to walk away with a full slate of victories on ten referendum items that were put to the country a week ago. But while exit polls initially suggested that Correa’s “Yes” side would score resounding wins, with more than 60% of […]
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Prosecutors in Ecuador have said allegations that President Rafael Correa’s election campaign accepted funds from Colombian rebels in 2006 will be investigated. Read Article
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Dr. Marc Becker is a professor of history at Truman State University. Specializing in Ecuadorian Indigenous issues and politics he is an author of several books dealing with Ecuador. His recent book “Pachakutik – Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador” is an excellent study of politics in Ecuador. He has been kind enough to […]
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•According to rcnradio.com, Plan Democracia is in effect to protect the candidates for the October 30th elections, but general Óscar Naranjo, director of the Police, said that it would be impossible to protect all of the candidates due to their substantial number. •Nariño, Córdoba, Antioquia and Valle del Cauca are the departments with the highest […]
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Tehran also is one of the allies of Hugo Chávez. Omitting the mullahs now even build missile silos in his country.The FARC terrorists are not the only villain with by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted. How “World Online” in last November reported that Chavez has with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 19, 2010 […]
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The Chilean government has suspended the use of tear gar by police to disperse protests. The decision comes after police used tear gas on a demonstration in the capital that drew some 30,000 people opposing proposed dams in Patagonia. A tear gas canister fired by police in the city of Concepcion wounded one person in […]
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An effort to declassify U.S. documents on Argentina’s dictatorship failed Friday in the U.S. Congress, disappointing rights activists in the Argentine capital who believe the secret files could help them identify young people stolen as babies by the military junta. Read Article
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•According to eltiempo.com , four candidates for mayor’s offices and four council candidates have been murdered. •Groups such as FARC have been behind these murders as well as threats and several failed attempts to dissuade people from running for or continuing public office. •The police received 2,892 requests for protection and assigned 227 individual security […]
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The Ministry of Culture is preparing a bill to amend some articles of the Civil Code, Family and Child, Children and Adolescents for can be taken as a surname, the mother or that you can choose from 18, if you want to change their surnames, so that is not always carry a standard first father. […]
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Wikileaks cables released on Saturday indicated that the leftist candidate Ollanta Humala received funding from Venezuela in 2006 and the right environment Keiko Fujimori planned in 2006 the return of former President Alberto Fujimori. Read Article
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Security and defense, migration, the financial crisis and climate change will be on the agenda when MEPs and their Latin American counterparts meet 17-19 May in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the fifth plenary of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat). A key issue will be negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur […]
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Argentine Minister for Industry, Debora Giorgi will meet in coming hours with Brazilian Ambassador, Enio Cordeiro, to schedule a series of meetings to address trade disputes between the two neighbouring countries and main Mercosur associates. Read Article
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Cuba has given all small businesses the authority to hire (and fire) labour and will loosen other regulations governing private enterprise as part of the broader measures to reform the island’s economy and boost production, the government said in a statement. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom declared tonight the state of siege in the department of Petén, after the slaughter of 27 agricultural workers who worked on the farm Los Cocos, La Libertad, Petén. He said he ordered the continued presence of the combined forces of police and army ” indefinitely “in Peten jungle region where Mexican drug […]
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Since 2008 the Attorney General has conducted a series of changes in the institution besides the increase of personnel throughout the country. So far there are 2 thousand 624 staff working in different areas. The number of employees doubled from 2008 to 2011. Read Article
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The company Strategic Electricity Corporation of Ecuador (Celec EP) and ISAGEN SA ESP, Colombia, develop, plan and implement the geothermal project bi-Chiles-Cerro Tufiño Black, on the common border, the state agency reported yesterday Ecuadorian Andes. Read Article
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The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador decided today to extend the count in the coastal province of Guayas for 72 hours and, therefore, expected to announce on Friday the final results of the referendum of May 7.The CNE provided to deliver the results on Thursday, but the extension requested by the Electoral Council of […]
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The Peruvian government is sending a high-level commission to solve the social conflict that erupted last week in the southern Andean region of Puno, on the border with Bolivia, against the mining concessions. Read Article
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Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is in Peru accompanying presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on a campaign swing. The candidate told reporters in the northern city of Trujillo that she invited Giuliani to advise her on citizen security. Read Article
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The new Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has decided that in the case of large construction projects, especially infrastructure and hydroelectric sites in isolated regions of the country, there should be a greater presence of the government. Read Article
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his doctors have ruled out surgery on his injured knee and that he has been recovering. Chavez says swelling and pain have continued to diminish in his left knee since he hurt it a week ago. Read Article
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Argentine Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government’s probe of crimes committed by Argentina’s dictatorship, died Saturday morning April 30 at the age of 99 in his Buenos Aires residence, from complications related to bronchitis, though he was in ill health during his latter years including being affected by partial blindness. Sabato only wrote three […]
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Ecuador’s president says he’s prepared to submit to a lie-detector test to prove he didn’t accept money from Colombia’s FARC rebels in his 2006 election campaign. Read Article
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Chile’s Economy Minister Juan Andres Fontaine and Chile’s Energy and Mining Minister Laurence Golborne in a meeting with members of Iranian parliamentary friendship group in Santiago announced their country’s readiness for economic cooperation with Iran. Read Article
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Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted the West’s double-standard policies on different international conflicts, and took Washington responsible for aggravated instability in the world. “The US is the main element of instability in the world which pursues its goals through using military, political and economic tools,” Morales said in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister […]
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Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 65,000 firearms as part of a disarmament program designed to reduce the high levels of violent crime affecting the country. Gen. Julio Cesar Morales says the number is double last year’s total and includes revolvers, automatic pistols, assault rifles, rifles and even homemade firearms. Read Article
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The Colombian government announced on Friday that it will increase military presence on the border with Venezuela to counter the presence of guerrilla groups in that area. “We know for sure that all the cocaine, produced in this region, is coming out through the border” with Venezuela, Minister of Interior and Justice German Vargas Lleras […]
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The latest official data from Ecuador’s referendum vote shows a slim margin in favor of the ‘No’ vote on two of the most controversial questions which relate to the judicial system and the media. Critics say the questions seek to curb press freedom and judicial independence. Read Article
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Recently, the United States and Colombia signed a long-awaited free trade agreement that is expected to boost job growth in both countries. Yet another recent trade deal that received scant attention is perhaps far more important to American interests. Read Article
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Santos Assures A 100 Billion Peso Plan to Improve Colombian Infrastructure Per caracol.com.co, the Colombian president assures that the government will put into place said plan to improve the transportation infrastructure of the country which he says rates below a 3 on a 1 to 5 scale. Read Article
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Argentina’s National University of La Plata is joining hands with NASA and Dassault Systems Solutions in a project that will see the Argentine engineering and aeronautics experts collaborating in the building of a climate change monitoring satellite. Read Article
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Colombian House of Representatives Passes Law on Intelligence Operations • Rcnradio.com reports that the House has passed the Law of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence. • The law seeks to punish the illegal surrender of information and to stop interception of calls. • Another purpose is to protect the identity of members of law enforcement working secret […]
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According to rcnradio.com, Jaime de la Cadena comments that the Spanish Consulate is making an effort to deal with the numerous requests for tourist visas made by Spanish citizens. He stated that these long waits, lasting days, are an unusual, passing occurrence and suggested that anyone planning on traveling in July to Colombia make the […]
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President Correa denied receiving money from the FARC for his campaign in 2006, according to a statement released yesterday, which referred to an analysis of computer equipment of former number two of the Colombian guerrilla, Raúl Reyes. Read Article
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Twenty nine years ago this June, British Forces liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Since that time, there has been much discussion and conjecture over the future of the Islands; however, in public debate at least, seldom have the views of the Falkland Islanders themselves been sought. Read Article
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The Candidates to Replace Moreno as Mayor of Bogotá • Per a report by elcolombiano.com, the National Executive Committee of the Alternative Democratic Pole released the list of three candidates to replace Moreno for three months. • The Colombian Attorney General is suspending him. • The only female candidate is Mariela Barragán, the current Secretary […]
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According to semana.com, Gloria Flórez criticizes the Alternative Democratic Pole for excluding members of the Committee from the decision for the candidates to replace Moreno. She describes that 16 members of the democratic tendency waited hours while a meeting was being held above. Members of the majority were called up, and eventually Flórez and the […]
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Recently, the United States and Colombia signed a long-awaited free trade agreement that is expected to boost job growth in both countries. Yet another recent trade deal that received scant attention is perhaps far more important to American interests. Read Article
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Her grandson, Luis Eduardo Siles, confirmed her death in an interview with Fides radio. He didn’t specify the cause but said she had been sick for weeks. Gueiler was only the second woman to lead a Latin American nation as president when she held the post for about eight months in 1979-80 between coup d’etats. […]
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Colombia: Military Expenditures of 2010 Reach 21 Billion Pesos • A report by elespectador.com reports that 90% of that amount was spent on operation alone with the other 10% going to investment. • That 10% bought the Colombian army, navy, air force and the police force equipment, transportation, and weapons. • The official report from […]
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Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri’s decision not to run for president of Argentina boosts opposition chances of forcing a runoff in the October elections, according to political analyst Rosendo Fraga. Read Article
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Ten ballot questions devised by leftist President Rafael Correa in what his opponents call a blatant power grab all appeared headed for victory Sunday, albeit by modest and even slim margins. Read Article
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa claimed victory in a referendum on government and social reforms that critics have charged is a thinly disguised attempt to consolidate more power. “The Ecuadorian people have triumphed. The truth has triumphed,” he said Saturday on state-run Ecuador TV. Read Article
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The Obama administration’s senior diplomat for Latin America is stepping down, and the top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee is happy to see him go. Read Article
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María del Socorro Mosquera and Mery Naranjo, two Colombian human rights defenders, have been receiving threats against themselves and their family members according to elespectador.com . The Inter-American Commission on Human rights declared in 2004 that preventative measures were necessary to protect these two individuals and the family members of Mery Naranjo. However, harassment and […]
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According to eltiempo.com, current President Juan Manuel Santos and Álvaro Uribe Vélez disagree about the government recognizing an armed conflict with paramilitary groups. Santos support for this part of the law of victims soon to be passed comes from the desire to avoid grouping victims of common crimes with victims of paramilitary attacks. Uribe expressed […]
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A family is fighting to free a former Seattle man jailed thousands of miles away in Nicaragua. Jason Puracal is being held on drug trafficking charges his family claims are not true, and now the U.S. government is stepping in. Read Article
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Honduras’ Supreme Court has rejected a prosecution appeal of a court ruling that dismissed the last two corruption charges against exiled president Manuel Zelaya. The court’s removes an obstacle to Zelaya’s possible return to Honduras. Read Article
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A Cuban court has sentenced a Chilean businessman who was once a close friend of Fidel Castro to 20 years in prison, state media said Thursday. Max Marambio, whose Rio Zaza company made juices and long-life milk sold across the island, was convicted in absentia of bribery and fraud. Cuba has asked for the extradition […]
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Centralization” has become a bad word in the Cuban lexicon lately, blamed by President Raul Castro as the source of the island’s enervating bureaucracy and economic stagnation. Read Article
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Court of Justice refused Wednesday to let either Costa Rica or Honduras intervene in a legal dispute about Nicaragua and Colombia’s maritime border in the Caribbean. Costa Rica applied to join the case last year, saying the area of Caribbean under dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia also covered part […]
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Right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori is in a virtual tie with left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala a month before Peru’s presidential election, a poll showed on Wednesday, driving stocks higher. Read Article
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Progress on a free trade deal with Colombia has cleared the way for the White House to seek Congressional approval of a package of trade agreements that includes pacts with South Korea and Panama, as Republicans have demanded. Read Article
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A delegation from the Inter-American Press Association was in Argentina Wednesday to study complaints that the government is trying to eliminate independent media. The group met with Public Communications Secretary Juan Manuel Abal Medina, who gave them a 10-page letter asserting that government restrictions on free expression don’t exist in Argentina. Read Article
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Journalists in Ecuador are demanding that the administration of President Rafael Correa keep its hands off the press and respect freedom of expression. Read Article
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Colombia’s Attorney General Alejandro Ordonez on Tuesday suspended Colombia capital Bogota’s mayor Samuel Moreno for three months pending further investigations of “irregularities” detected in contracts for a number of public works projects. Read Article
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Representatives of customs agencies from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries on Tuesday met in the capital of Panama to discuss legal measures needed to be taken to improve the control of smuggling and how to apply new technologies. Read Article
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While known to be in relatively small numbers, here is a video from 2008 depicting Skinheads in Ecuador.
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“Fewer postcards, more reality” is the rallying cry of Chile’s port city of Valparaiso. Residents of this picturesque but dilapidated city have taken to the streets over the city’s inability to keep its iconic cable cars clattering up and down its fabled hills. The “ascensores” are the trademark of a city whose residents are fiercely […]
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The president of Brazil’s only public golf course is threatening to “lay down kids” in the middle of the fairways to keep government bulldozers from entering the property, constructing a new highway and destroying the course. Read Article
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Opposition from Bolivia’s independently organized miners stopped President Evo Morales from implementing plans to boost state control over the country’s mines Sunday, according to leading officials who were advocating takeovers of the country’s vast mineral wealth. Read Article
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The night before Graciela Bevacqua finished a report projecting the biggest monthly increase for Argentina’s consumer prices in more than four years, she told her three children she might quit her job as director of the inflation index. Read Article
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The Supreme Court has disbanded two formerly powerful political parties because neither won the minimum level of votes in the 2004 presidential election. The court on Friday said the centrist Christian Democratic Party and conservative National Conciliation Party didn’t meet the 3 percent threshold required. Leaders of both parties denounced the decision but cannot appeal […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to help Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War as revenge for Britain’s crackdown on the Irgun during the British mandate of Palestine, according to a new book. “Operation Israel: The Reaming of Argentina During The Dictatorship,” by Argentinian journalist Hernan Dobry, explains how Israel secretly supplied arms and equipment […]
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Once again, Ecuador finds itself deeply divided leading up to the country’s sixth popular referendum scheduled for Saturday, May 7. The current campaign exemplifies the ideological fragmentation currently afflicting Ecuador, pitting the country’s President Rafael Correa against an array of groups with varying political profiles. Wide-ranging opposition exists against a pro-vote among the indigenous population, […]
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Ecuadoreans will vote next week in a referendum on a package of reforms that a fractured opposition say will give leftist President Rafael Correa too much power over judicial appointments. Read Article
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Ysmel Serrano, the coordinator of @chavezcandanga, said that one year after the creation of the official account of the Venezuelan Head of State in the micro-blogging social network, the account @chavezcandanga. Chávez has more than 1,400,000 followers. Read Article
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On 10 April, Peruvians went to the polls in the first round of the country’s presidential elections. No candidate obtained the 50 per cent share necessary to assume the job outright, and so in just over a month Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori will go head to head in a contest that has ramifications far […]
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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A former Costa Rican president who briefly served as chief of the Organization of American States was convicted of corruption charges Wednesday and sentenced to five years in prison. Read Article
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The local parliament of the Canary Islands resolved to request the Spanish government to encourage a negotiation process to try to work out the “unresolved” serious problems due to the seizures of Spanish companies in Venezuela which have been undertaken by the Venezuelan Executive Office. Read Article
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A Libyan delegation has arrived in Caracas to discuss a peaceful solution to the ongoing war conflict in the North African country, said on Tuesday Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan Head of State is an ally of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Chávez has supported Gaddafi since the outbreak of a widespread revolt against the […]
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