Debate over civil unions for gays has divided Peru’s socially conservative electorate ahead of next month’s presidential vote, drawing particularly fierce opposition from the Catholic church. Read Article
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Panamanian authorities are continuing to work on a double taxation treaty with France that would bring the country into compliance with standards set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to avoid being included on a list of tax havens. Read Article
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A look at the border disputes beginning in October 18 up until the International Court of Justice decision made Tuesday. .Oct. 18, 2010: Nicaragua begins dredging the border of the Río San Juan with the goal of facilitating better navigation on the river. Oct. 21: Costa Rica denounces that Nicaragua allegedly moved sediment from the […]
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Bolivian president Evo Morales has accused the United States and the United Nations of conspiring to defame his government in two drug reports. He said criticism over Bolivia’s handling of the war on drugs were part of a strategy to falsely link his government to drug trafficking. Read Report
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Peru’s presidential election race has been rattled by allegations that cash from the drugs trade has made its way into campaigns and that traffickers are extending their political influence. Read Article
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The Minister of Defence of Bolivia, Ruben Saavedra, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ma Xiaotian han have signed a military cooperation agreement which includes, inter alia, the provision of communications equipment and the exchange of officers and military trainees. Read Article
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The ruling Tuesday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the border conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is allowing both sides to claim victory and helping to defuse – at least for the moment – a high-stakes showdown that many feared would end in violence. Read Article
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The officials of pro-US Costa Rica fear the aggression by Chavez’s closest ally – Nicaragua. Costa Rican cabinet of ministers shared their suspicions to that effect on March 4. According to their statement, in recent days Nicaraguan President Ortega received an insane by the standards of the banana republics sum of money of the unknown […]
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Brazil is a developing nation well situated in time and place. Unlike other areas of the world, it has no bloody religious or ethnic conflicts, and its last border conflict took place in the early 19th century. However, Brazil is the most populous Latin American nation, with nearly 200 million inhabitants, and thousands of miles […]
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As part of government initiatives to help increase food production and decrease prices, Venezuelan Minister for Agriculture and Land, Juan Loyo, and the president of the Chinese Heilongjiang Beidahuang State Farm Business Trade Group LTD, Quian Biamo, signed an agreement to form a joint venture food company on Saturday. Read Article
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Lina Ron, a prominent leader in the Bolivarian Revolution, well known for her radicalism and grassroots activism, died on Saturday morning of a heart attack, aged 51. Read Article
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Mexico will cut tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. products after the United States agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border, Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said. Read Article
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A statement by the Cuban government Saturday night said that during the trial Gross accepted some responsibility but added that he had been “used” and blamed the company that sent him to the island. The fate of Alan Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native detained for more than a year since being caught bringing communications equipment […]
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More than 50 years of conflict between Cuba and the United States, and in particular Washington’s consistent support for dissidents in this Caribbean island nation, will leave their mark on the trial of U.S. citizen Alan Gross that began this Friday. Gross was arrested Dec. 3, 2009 when he was attempting to return to the […]
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Brazil, firmly opposed to a militarisation of the crisis in Libya and in favour of negotiated solutions without foreign intervention, is heading to a Mar. 7-8 ministerial meeting with India and South Africa. At next week’s meeting in New Delhi, being held by the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum, the foreign ministers of the three […]
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PT federal deputy and an active member of the leftist movement Regeneration, Gerardo Fernandez Norona, said the plant will look for Sempra Energy, which serves foreign interests, will be closed. After criticizing the double mask of the deputies of the PAN, the legislator said he will not insist on the issue because the country’s president […]
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The US government considers that the bilateral counternarcotics cooperation between Venezuela and the United States is “inadequate,” according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) submitted by the Department of State to the US Congress and disclosed on Thursday. Read Article
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Mexico and the U.S. agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border to operate across the United States. The agreement, announced today after a meeting by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, would lead to Mexico dropping tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. pork, cheese, corn […]
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Costa Rican authorities fear that the court ruling due next Tuesday on the Isla Calero dispute, Nicaragua could close its borders to Costa Rica. The International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) is due to render its decision on Costa Rica’s request for temporary measures stopping Nicaragua from continuing the dredging of the San […]
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When President Obama sits down Thursday with Mexican President Filipe Calderon, they might want to take heart about a part of Mexico that won’t be on their agenda. A vibrant, peaceful area in southeastern Mexico underscores why America’s southern neighbor has to win its fight against drug traffickers and why Mexican society may be strong […]
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Chilean congressional commission has found two mine owners responsible for the accident that trapped 33 men a half-mile underground for 69 days last year. The commission’s report, which is expected to be approved by the lower house on Thursday (local time), said members unanimously found Alejandro Bohn and Marcelo Kemeny responsible for the collapse that […]
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The Archivo General de la Nación will close for 90 days due to the inability to establish a proper budget restraint and appropriate technology that allows the preservation of historical material. Speaking to RPP Noticias, the director of this exhibition Joseph Dager said that will be closed from today the Colonial Archive and the Republic, […]
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Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, La Nación will begin publishing a series of reports and complete documents obtained from WikiLeaks on U.S. diplomatic communications on Costa Rica. La Nación, Costa Rica’s biggest media said it entered into an ‘understanding’ with WikiLeaks on February 15 in London, England, that allowed the media giant to obtain 827 diplomatic cables […]
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A new survey in Peru ratified the rise in the intention to vote for the candidate Ollanta Humala, for the forthcoming elections scheduled for April 10. The survey by the company IDICE says the nationalist candidate has at this time 15 percent support, to settle in fourth place. Read Article
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Two former Argentine dictators appeared in court Monday for the first time to face charges over the kidnapping of some 500 babies decades ago, seized from their mothers in secret maternity units minutes after birth. Read Article
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The 4th Special Congress of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) proclaimed Daniel Ortega as its candidate for the Nicaraguan presidential elections in November. In the meeting held on Saturday, Ortega was nominated by acclaim by the 1,019 Sandinista delegates from all of the country’s 15 departments. Read Article
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President Sebastian Pinera marked Sunday’s anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history by praising his government’s progress on reconstruction and calling for national unity. Instead, his political opponents staged protests and questioned his numbers. Read Article
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A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring. Read Article
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In a warehouse converted into a disaster shelter, hundreds of people are living out of backpacks and duffel bags while they wait for President Hugo Chavez to come through on his promises of new homes. Read Article
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An opponent of President Hugo Chavez released from house arrest this week has taken his seat in Venezuela’s National Assembly. Biagio Pilieri had been unable to serve as a legislator due to charges accusing him of corruption. The former mayor denies any wrongdoing. Read Article
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Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said that his controversial proposal to ban the slaughter of animals in public spectacles covers bullfights, but not cockfights. “Cockfights are exempt and will be allowed,” Correa told the government-run news agency Andes on Tuesday. Read Article
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The Salvadoran government plans to spend some 770.5 million USD to create 143,000 jobs this year. The details of the ambitious program were announced yesterday by several ministers and the technical secretary of the presidency, Alex Segovia. Of the 770.5 million USD, 566 millions will be allocated for infrastructure projects, in the hopes of creating […]
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Presidential hopeful Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a stellar Wall Street career and is widely seen as qualified to lead Peru, but he is struggling to win over poor voters who view him as a light-skinned outsider. Read Article
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A congressman-elect who is an adversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has been released from house arrest. Read Article
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Mario Robles is a political cartoonist in Mexico’s Oaxaca province. He has been violently attacked several times for his critical cartoons.
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A trade delegation from Panama will arrive in Nicaragua this coming Thursday, Feb, 24, to explore partnerships with farmers and exporters and provide momentum to the liberal free trade agreement signed two years ago, industry sources said. Read Article
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Cuba and Nicaragua have sprung to the defense of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Tuesday that Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests. Read Article
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Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador RECORDED INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR: DR. MARC BECKER This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities […]
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For the first time in over 20 years, a Venezuelan government gave in Tuesday to the demands of students, more than 60 of whom were on hunger strike, and released or promised better conditions for members of the opposition who are in prison. Read Article
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Iván Hernández Carrillo, a correspondent for the small independent news agency Pátria, returned to his family home in Matanzas province on 19 February after eight years in jail. Sentenced to 25 years in prison during the March 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown on dissidents, he is the second of the “Black Spring” journalists to be allowed […]
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The Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario has been under pressure since the start of the year. One of its reporters, Luis Galeano, has received death threats over two sensational corruption stories he wrote for the newspaper, one in January and one in February. At the same time, its management accuses the authorities of obstructing importation […]
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0.70 to 8 percent of Bolivians agree with re-election of Evo Morales for a third term from 2015 to 2020, according to a survey released on Tuesday in La Paz. The survey was conducted by the Fides radio group 12 and February 13, interviewing 400 people in ten districts of La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of […]
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The Peruvian government has offered to put Israeli citizen Dan Cohen on trial in Peru, after refusing to extradite him to Israel on the grounds that there is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Cohen is alleged to have taken bribes of 4.1 million dollars while serving on the board of directors of the […]
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Reuters has a flash report quoting British foreign minister William Hague, who says he has seen intelligence that suggests Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has already fled the capital in Tripoli and is en route to Venezuela. The New York Times had previously reported that Qaddafi’s grip on power was slipping: Read Article
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President Rafael Correa denied that he resumed trade talks with EU for his government will not trespass the “red line” despite EU “serious proposals which we were to determine whether to agree or not, promissing to answer this week. The terms of the document include public purchases, having EU and Ecuadorian companies compete under similar […]
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Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (SAIME)From 2009 till date, ID Administrative Service, Immigration and Nationality (Saime) and state security agencies dismantled 14 criminal gangs were involved in forgery and became the order of the Public Prosecutor to 270 citizens who extorted users, reported Sunday the general director of that institution, Dante Rivas. Read […]
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Israel was working with the Chilean government to spy on the Iranian Embassy in Chile, according to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. A cable from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago to the State Department in Washington, dated July 21, 2008, stated that the Israeli military attache in Chile, Col. Yoeli Or, had informed his […]
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s chief doctor says he has been hospitalized for surgery to correct lesions on his tongue. Dr. Alejandro Aguinaga tells The Associated Press that Fujimori entered a hospital Sunday. It will be the fourth time since 1997 that he has undergone such an operation. Read Article
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Ecuador’s constitutional Court approved this week a 10-question referendum that will let voters decide whether to ban gambling and bullfighting but also ask them to boost President Rafael Correa’s power over the judiciary. Read Article
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Pursuant to the agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Venezuela for the Promotion and Protection of Investments, Canadian mining company Crystallex International Corp. has filed a request for arbitration against the Venezuelan government. Read Article
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BIAGIO PILIERI, a former journalist and mayor, was until recently little known in Venezuela. But last September he was elected to the National Assembly. He has been unable to take his seat because, despite parliamentary immunity, he is under house arrest, awaiting trial for the third time on corruption charges of which he has already […]
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There’s no reason for us to make up any excuses. We’re still talking to Argentina and working as best as we can in order to solve this conflict,” Mr. Crowley explained in a press conference. The secretary assured that both countries “share a history of close cooperation,” so the US government is still “surprised and […]
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The Argentinean Minister of Interior, Florencio Randazzo, justified Tuesday the requisition carried out last Thursday of an airplane belonging to the US Air Force, a third of whose load had not been declared. Read Article
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The proposed reforms, which Correa argues will help fight crime and better regulate the economy, have come in for fierce political opposition. “The proposals to amend the constitution got the green light (from the court) and it’s now up to the president to make a final decision,” Chief Justice Patricio Pazmino told reporters. The court […]
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A national poll shows former President Alejandro Toledo with 28% voter support in the run up to Peru’s April 10 presidential elections, compared with 22% for Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori. Read Article
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The Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) is a specific anarchist organization in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded on August 30, 2003, the FARJ identifies its origins in the work of militants as Ideal Peres (1925-1995), his father Juan Perez Bouzas (or João Peres) (1899-1958), José Oiticica (1882-1957) among others. It […]
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Argentina’s strict abortion laws prohibit terminations except when the life or health of the pregnant woman is in danger or if the pregnancy results from the rape of a mentally disabled woman. The government has rolled out national contraceptive campaigns, but despite this there are still up to 500,000 clandestine abortions in every year. Read […]
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Argentina has accused the United States military of trying to bring guns and surveillance equipment into the country under the cover of supplying a police training course, creating the latest diplomatic rift between the countries. Argentine customs officials seized undeclared equipment on Thursday, including what they described as machine guns and ammunition, spy equipment and […]
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez rejected comments by dissenters who have compared his government to the “dictatorship” of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who last Friday stepped down and turned over the government to the Army after a strong popular rebellion. Read Article
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According to Argentine sources the joint declaration reaffirms the “importance of the strategic relation between both countries” and is the continuation of what was agreed during the recent presidential summit of Dilma Rousseff with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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Two political prisoners who had refused to leave prison were freed against their wishes on Saturday as Cuba released more jailed government opponents. Hector Maseda and Angel Moya were among the last of 52 prisoners President Raul Castro agreed to release in a deal brokered in July by the Roman Catholic Church. Read Article
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President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he has no intention of ceasing his efforts to make Venezuela a socialist country, and he expressed confidence that his allies would take the reins of his “Bolivarian Revolution” if he died or decided to step down. Read Article
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I wasn’t planning to get too far ahead of yesterday’s news suggesting that a more unified, US-backed regional security plan for Central America may be in the works. But Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez seems to have opened the door. Minister Alvarez, speaking to reporters yesterday about the arrival in Honduras of US Assistant Secretary […]
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The amount of military construction in Latin America planned by the Pentagon for this year has doubled since 2009. This annotated map of current and planned U.S. military construction in Latin America is based on publicly available information on federal contracts (see www.usaspending.gov) and on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activities. This map was created […]
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Last January, I wrote an essay for The Nation on Washington’s integration of Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a “security corridor.” I called it a “rump Monroe Doctrine,” an explosive mix of militarism and neoliberal economics. Militarily, assorted bilateral and regional treaties are fusing the region’s military, intelligence, and judicial systems into unified, supra-national […]
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President Hugo Chávez may have to deal with more popular protests in Venezuela in the coming year, amid a “poor economic performance” and an “energized opposition,” predicted a report released by the director of National Intelligence (DNI). Read Article
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Venezuelan lawmakers exchanged punches in parliament Thursday when a fight erupted between members of President Hugo Chavez’s socialist party and rivals, in a sign of the OPEC member nation’s political polarization. Read Article
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Former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez says he may run again for the presidency in three years. Read Article
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Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.” Read Article
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On the afternoon of 9 February, Marcos Baquero, a member of the municipal council of San José de Guaviare, was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and handed over to former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a member of Colombians for Peace. […]
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Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations took place. Read Article
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Venezuela’s Minister of Defense Carlos Mata Figueroa replied to criticisms made by opposition lawmaker William Ojeda concerning the presence of Cuban military in Venezuela by stating that international advisers have always been present in the Armed Forces. Read Article
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The Mexican government condemned comments by a top U.S. Defense Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” — remarks the official later apologized for and retracted. Read Article
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Venezuelan prosecutors have brought criminal charges against two retired generals for their roles in violence during unrest in 1989, the attorney general said Tuesday. Read Article
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Visits to Senegal this week by Bolivian President Evo Morales and Brazil’s ex-President Lula da Silva highlight what analysts say is Latin America’s growing geopolitical interest in Africa. Read Article
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From Crystallex Website Crystallex Updates Status of Las Cristinas Mine Operating Contract 02/06/2011 Download this Press Release TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Feb. 6, 2011) – Crystallex International Corporation (TSX:KRY)(NYSE Amex:KRY) announced today that it has received a letter from the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (“CVG”) that states that the Company’s Mine Operating Contract (“MOC”) for the […]
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Since 1948 Costa Rica has had no army, relying on international law for defense of its borders, to live in peace and democracy. However, the incursion of Nicaraguan troops on a piece of land claimed Costa Rica – the alleged border invasion – has become a challenge to its neutrality. Read Article
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Former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez is facing seven years prison for his role in the ICE-Alcate case bribery and corruption case that came to a close after more than a year. The prosecution requested for Rodriguez a penalty five years prison for the crime of aggravated corruption and two years for illicit enrichment and prohibition […]
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The first Emirati embassy in Chile will open this year in Santiago, signalling a growing bond between the two countries. That connection has been strengthened by an influential Chilean family with roots in Palestine and experience in the UAE. Jean-Paul Tarud, Chile’s ambassador to the UAE since 2009, was born here and has lived here […]
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Peru’s Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde tells The Associated Press on Saturday that the summit could be delayed. It is currently set for Feb. 13-16 but political unrest in Egypt and some other countries may prompt the Arab League to set the date back. Read Article
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Bouterse Friday swore in a new army commander, as the man who once led a military coup made his first visit to a troop barracks since he was inaugurated in August. Read Article
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Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry protested to its Nicaraguan counterpart the “intentional alteration” mapping of Nicaragua, as published earlier this week by the Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER) that includes the Harbour Head or Isla Calero, the piece of land in dispute between the two countries, as part of its territory. Read Article
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The Haitian ruling party INITE accepted the final results of the first presidential round, though its candidate, Jude Celestin, will not be able to compete in the upcoming runoff vote to be held on March 20. Read Article
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Argentina’s government plans to force multimedia company Grupo Clarin SA to roll back a recent price hike on more than 3 million of its cable television customers. Read Article
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Argentina is threatening to fine economic consultants if they don’t release information about how they calculate changes in consumer prices, opening up a new front in its battle with the private sector over the credibility of inflation data. Read Article
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67% of Ecuadorians said they knew of the call for referendum posed by the President of the Republic while only 39% say they are aware of its contents. The responses from the last national survey conducted by CEDATOS city between 27 and 31 January 2011 in 15 cities, a random sample of 2,220 people, between […]
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The mayor of the municipality of Antioquia Briceño, in northern Antioquia, from today shall notify the voluntary evacuation order about 300 people who claim to be mines and farms which recently reached the Pescadero Ituango hydro apparently motivated by compensation to be gained from Macroproyecto.Read Article
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Economy Ministry sources reported that the National Government is exploring the possibility of applying the Law of Supply before the price increase by Shell. Supply Law allows Cristina Fernandez management through the Ministry of Domestic Trade bind “roll back fuel prices.” Read Article
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A Venezuelan court on Wednesday granted house arrest to a judge who has been jailed for more than a year in a case criticized by human rights groups. The judge, Maria Afiuni, has been imprisoned since December 2009 on charges stemming from her decision to release a banker, Eligio Cedeno, who later fled the country. […]
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Banks and stores closed early and people rushed to get home in the capital Wednesday as Haitians feared unrest with the expected announcement of final results from the disputed presidential election.Read Article
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The companies that run trips to Panama agreed to suspend travel to that country to protest immigration restrictions that implement the canal authorities since last week. Carriers made that decision after a meeting with officials of the Consular Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, who attended in place of Foreign Minister Samuel […]
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Cuban cyber-journalist and dissident Guillermo “El Coco” Fariñas Hernández has been arrested for the second time in 24 hours and though it is thought likely he will be released shortly Reporters Without Borders calls attention to the fact that his sole offence has been to campaign for freedom to inform and liberty of movement, a […]
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The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and Reporters Without Borders are waiting for the Honduran authorities to give a clear undertaking to provide physical and legal protection to the country’s minority news media and will hold them responsible for any act of censorship against Radio Faluma Bimetu. Read Article
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Nicaragua has released a new map that includes as part of national territory in the Caribbean area of the Isla Calero or Harbour Head as it is known in Nicaragua, that Costa Rica considers its own the subject of a dispute between the two countries. Read Article
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Costa Rica calls Nicaragua’s apparent removal of its troops from the Isla Calero a “ploy” mean to “fool and confuse” the judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ministerio de Seguridad Pública announced Monday afternoon that no troops were seen in the disputed territory in four flyovers of the area between […]
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The Haitian government says it is ready to issue a passport for the exiled former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, paving the way for his possible return to the country. Haiti’s information ministry said in a statement on Monday that the government would swiftly grant a passport to the former leader, as soon as he asks for […]
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On 28 January the Colombian Minister of Defence, Rodrigo Rivera, and the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bogotá, Christophe Beney, signed a security agreement governing the pending release of five persons being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). The FARC-EP […]
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A 12-member delegation of the Chilean Parliament, visiting the Palestinian Territories, vowed to do what is necessary and fight for preventing their government to sign a free trade exchange treaty with Israel. Read Article
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Colombia on Monday identified three airports from which will come from and where will the helicopters with the humanitarian mission to receive the five hostages FARC guerrillas agreed to release, and said they are given all the security . Read Article
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If Wikileaks documents are any indication, Chinese investors might have a big surprise in store as they continue their push into Latin America. In their effort to extract raw resources, the Chinese have fared relatively well in such areas of the globe as Africa. However, recently disclosed U.S. cables hint that Latin America may not […]
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