telegraph.co.uk reported that Venezuela is not the only Latin American nation that is monitoring every moment of president Hugo Chavez’s illness. His ally Cuba has relied on him for economic help, and that could soon come to an end. Away from the constitutional wrangles and impassioned crowds of Caracas, the future of Venezuela after Hugo […]
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On January 14, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that Brazil’s Federal Electoral Tribunal (TSE) spent R$3.8 million in overtime pay to 567 employees in the month of November. Between September and November, the total was R$9.8 million. Moreover, 161 of those employees received between R$26,000 and R$64,000 in the month of November, signifying a lack […]
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On January 11, 2013, O Imparcial reported that Maranhão’s Attorney General, Regina Rocha, has opened a commission to investigate expenses made by the former Mayor of São Luís, João Castelo (PSDB). It marks the first action done by the Attorney General’s new task force, created to investigate possible improprieties in the public administration of São […]
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On January 13, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Henrique Eduardo Alves (PMDB-RN), favored to be the next Speaker of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, has been accused of hiding money abroad by the Brazil’s Department of Justice (MPF). On November 19, the First District of the Federal Regional Tribunal (TRF) met with […]
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Economist.com reported it was supposed to be a moment of triumph, the inauguration of a third six-year term for Hugo Chávez, secured by a comfortable victory in a presidential election last October. Yet on January 8th Nicolás Maduro, the vice-president (pictured left), wrote a letter to the National Assembly on Mr Chávez’s behalf, stating in […]
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On January 12, 2013, R7 reported that a new federal justice will take on the task of deciding the final appeals and suggestions of defense attorneys representing those convicted in the Mensalão scandal. Teori Zavascki assumed his post in the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) in November of 2012, after the retirement of Cezar Peluso (and […]
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Ecuadorian Foreign Minister condemned the U.S. standard that seeks to prevent Iran’s influence in Latin America…. “We will fight for our sovereignty. This is a government other than that defined its foreign policy based on the concerns and fears that instilled the United States,” Patino said in an interview with the government newspaper ‘The Telegraph’. […]
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On January 11, 2013, Folha de São Paulo reported that Federal Deputy Natan Donadon (PMDB-RO) will not be held in detention immediately, in spite of being convicted in 2010 of a money diversion scheme. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Joaquim Barbosa, rejected Attorney General Roberto Gurgel’s request to send the Deputy to […]
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On January 11, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Paulo Alexandre Barbosa (PSDB), former Economic Development Minister of the state of São Paulo, was implicated for helping in the scandal that triggered Operation Porto Seguro. Barbosa currently serves as the mayor of Santos, a port city about 80 kilometers from São Paulo. The […]
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On January 11, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that Paulo Furiati, ex-mayor of the city of Lapa, in the state of Paraná, was arrested by authorities for his role in a scheme involving bidding procedures in the area of education. The scandal encompassed Paraná, as well as the states of Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and […]
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On January 11, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a hacker said to have posted personal information of influential Workers’ Party (PT) members convicted in the Mensalão scandal now has posted sensitive personal information from Brazil’s ex-President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The hacker, using the Twitter handle @nbdu1nder, also posted information on […]
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On January 10, 2013, A Tarde (Bahia) reported that Brazil’s Attorney General requested an investigation surrounding the leader of the Brazil Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in the Federal Senate, Renan Calheiros, of Alagoas. Calheiros is a stockholder in Agropecuária Alagoas Ltda., responsible for constructing a 700-meter cobblestone path through a federally-protected natural reserve in the […]
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On January 10, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Brazil’s Attorney General, Roberto Gurgel, made a formal petition Tuesday to send federal deputy Natan Donadon (PMDB-RO) to prison immediately. Donadon was convicted in 2010 of a scheme in which he helped to divert R$8.4 million from state coffers in the state of Rondônia […]
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On January 9, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Brazil Social Democracy Party (PSDB) welcomed the announcement of an investigation examining the activities of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Alvaro Dias (PSDB), president of the Federal Senate, said that without a proper investigation, the mensalão could damage the Workers’ Party’s (PT) […]
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On January 10, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) reacted strongly to announcements that federal prosecutors will pursue information connecting ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the federal Mensalão scandal. Marco Maia (PT), leader of Brazil’s federal lower house, the Câmara dos Deputados, dismissed the testimony of […]
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On January 9, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that a federal judge of the Third Region of the Federal Regional Tribunal rejected a request by prosecutors to monitor the activities of Paulo Vieira, accused of corruption in a national scandal involving the National Water Agency. Vieira is accused of falsifying technical reports to receive funding […]
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On January 9, 2013, Correio da Manhã reported that ex-President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva will be investigated by federal prosecutors for ties to the infamous Mensalão scandal. Marcos Valério, said to be the chief actor of the scandal and sentenced to 40 years in prison, brought forth the charges. Valério’s testimony, which included charges […]
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Eluniverso.com reported ….. Despite the presence of military police, arson attacks continued Tuesday in the Mapuche region of Araucanía, in southern Chile, with victimless attacks against at least two properties, raising a serious conflict in one of the poorest regions of country. “We are in the presence of an organized terrorist group with terrorist methods, […]
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On January 5, 2013, Correio do Brasil reported that Kátia Rabello, ex-director of the Banco Rural (Rural Bank), closed a luxurious rural pousada, the Pousada Refúgio do Caracará, suspected of having ties to the Mensalão scandal. There is suspicion that politicians connected to the scandal laundered money at the Banco Rural while staying at the […]
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On January 6, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the pending case against a member of Brazil’s Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in the state of Minas Gerais puts the party in a difficult position, as PSDB represents the opposition in Brazil’s federal government and currently is the strongest force ensuring the continuation of […]
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On December 28, 2012, Rondoniagora reported that Rep. Hermínio Coelho (PSD) made remarks regarding the continuing fight against corruption in Rondônia in 2013. In his presentation outlining tasks accomplished in 2012, Coelho vowed a greater moralization of public administration and cited the scandal involving the former mayor of the capital, Porto Velho, leading to the […]
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New São Paulo Mayor Names Cabinet Members Connected to Scandals On January 3, 2013, R7 reported that Fernando Haddad, São Paulo’s newly elected mayor, named two men to his staff connected to corruption at the state and federal levels. Oswaldo Napoleão Chaves, new chief of staff for Vice-Mayor Nadia Campeão, and Miguel del Busso, assistant […]
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BRAZIL: Online Poll Conducted to Determine Most Corrupt Politician of 2012 On January 4, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the July 31 Movement (Movimento 31 de Julho) launched a poll on Facebook to survey public perceptions on the most corrupt politicians in Brazil. Named the Golden Handcuffs Trophy (Troféu Algemas de Ouro), […]
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A new Brazilian penal law prohibiting preventative detention for those under investigation by Polícia Federal has led to a 40% drop in detentions since the law’s inception, according to a January 7 report from Folha de São Paulo. The new law advocates alternative forms of detention, such as the use of monitoring techniques and travel […]
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On January 3, 2013, Jornal Nacional reported that José Genoíno, recently convicted on corruption charges related to the Mensalão scandal, was installed as a federal deputy for the new term. Genoíno served as president of the Workers’ Party (PT) from 2002-2005. He will represent the PT once again as a federal deputy from São Paulo, […]
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Bolivia has said that the US embassy in La Paz is actively working to undermine the government of President Evo Morales. There is “irrefutable evidence” that the US mission is working “to damage the image and prestige of the government,” AFP quoted Juan Ramon Quintana, the minister of the presidency, as saying on Sunday. The […]
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Telegraph.co.uk reported the likelihood that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is close to death will pitch rivals against one another in a battle for power and oil riches, and trigger political shock waves across the region. With the president’s demise, several factions will be vying for control of the country’s political future and oil wealth — the […]
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A new and violent arson attack perpetrated yesterday in La Araucanía Chile ended with the death of a well-known local businessman and his wife, prompting the immediate reaction of President Sebastián Piñera to enact anti-terrorism law and order dreaded an unprecedented police enforcement in the area. The incident occurred at dawn on the farm Lumahue […]
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“As part of our commitment to the people of Guatemala have been carried out for three days the operation called” OpDemocraciaGT “that is a result of seeing how our government manipulates at will the Guatemalan heritage,” said a pirate group video posted on the portal YouTube . Similarly, Anonymous threatened to “invade” the Guatemalan cyberspace […]
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The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas (PGJECH) announced yesterday the arrest of the former mayors of Chicomuselo, Ixhuatán, Cacahoatán, Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Reform and Francisco Leon, accused of embezzlement and conspiracy, who surrendered his statement in prison, although government sources state that there will be more arrests. Read Article
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Pedro Delgado, President of Ecuador’s Central Bank and cousin of President Rafael Correa, resigned on December 19 after admitting that he had faked his economics degree. He used the falsified degree 22 years earlier to gain access into the prestigious Central American Institute of Business Administration, where he received his MBA. Read Article
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. She accused Britain of taking part in an act of “blatant colonialism” in claiming the archipelago and called on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to honour UN resolutions that indicate both […]
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Last year Mexico, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic held presidential elections, leading to some of the region’s biggest news stories of the year: the PRI’s return to power and the strong second place showing from Venezuela’s opposition. With four scheduled presidential elections (and a possible fifth) in 2013, along with congressional and municipal elections in […]
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The Venezuelan José Rafael Marquina doctor warned yesterday that the health of Hugo Chavez is very serious and “there is a 90% chance that it comes alive at January 10,” the date of resumption as president of Venezuela. “Chavez loves to use the media and if it could talk, would have called on Venezuelans to […]
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Univision.com reported that growing uncertainty in Venezuela by the state of health of President Hugo Chavez, who is admitted to a hospital in Havana, Cuba. Chavez’s Health presents new complications Hugo Chavez sent a message to Venezuelan military year Chavez has a ‘complex health box’ but a ‘will to live giant’ Doctors doubt official report […]
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One of the complaints ofter heard about Ecuador, is the high rate of corruption among government employees and law enforcement. The following examples demonstrate that the pernicious act of corrupt activity reaches many levels of society in Ecuador, even when it comes to visiting a patient in a hospital. This information was provided by roving […]
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Some 12,000 people, mostly from Colombia, sought refuge in Ecuador in 2012, the Latin American country most foreigners in need of protection in their home territory, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. About 56,000 immigrants living with refugee status in Ecuador, which in the last decade has received about 162,000 applications for […]
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The populist Correa, who has won strong popular support for a range of measures including expanding access to health care and improving roads and highways, hiked the minimum wage to 318 dollars per month from 292 per month. He has gradually raised the minimum wage during almost six years in office and insists companies should […]
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Pedro Delgado, a cousin of President Rafael Correa, announced yesterday at a press conference in which he admitted no questions, who left his post as president of the Central Bank of Ecuador and as a representative in the Management Unit of Public Law (Ugedep) after admitting he falsified his title of economist. Read Article
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Telegraph.co.uk reported that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will miss a regional trade summit in Brazil today, amid growing speculation over the state of his health. Before he went to Cuba last week for more cancer-related treatment, Mr Chavez had spoken enthusiastically about attending the Mercosur bloc’s meeting in Brasilia to celebrate Venezuela’s entry. He has […]
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International leaders Simon Wiesenthal Center asked the Argentine government claiming “an immediate apology” to President Rafael Correa for his “contempt for the victims of terrorism sponsored by Iran.” The center was reacting to statements made Correa on Tuesday in Argentina, in which defined Iran as “one of the few democracies” in the Middle East and […]
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Assad seeking political asylum in Latin America if forced to flee Syria Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister held meetings in Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador over the past week, and brought with him classified personal letters from Assad to local leaders. Syrian President Bashar Assad has been looking into the possibility of claiming political asylum for himself, […]
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El Universo.com reported that Venezuela, Haiti, Paraguay, Honduras and Nicaragua are the most corrupt countries in Latin America, while Chile and Uruguay are the most transparent countries in the region, according to an international study released Wednesday. In two out of three Latin American countries public sector corruption high on the list appears Perceptions Index […]
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President Evo Morales installed today the new Army High Command, replacing two military commanders and urging the new authorities to continue the work done by the outgoing general staff. The new High Command includes Maj. Gen. Edwin de la Fuente, who swore in as new commander of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State, replacing […]
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President Rafael Correa visited in prison the only two that were arrested in the case ‘Cofiec’ and ‘declared’ innocent. Soon after, they were released. Police arrested a blogger Paul Moreno, a personal publishing on the Internet last week. In his last sabatina, Correa said that, he can release quickly and he can break all personal […]
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Rafael Correa’s government has different ways of interpreting the figure of the asylum. It is based on who requests it. The first is a critical, when an Ecuadorian citizen seeking asylum in a third country, feeling persecuted politically for his regime. Since last February, six people have applied for such protection, considering that his integrity […]
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Gunmen murdered one of the last surviving leaders of a peasant movement in Paraguay whose land dispute with a politician prompted the end of Fernando Lugo’s presidency in June. Vidal Vega, 48, was hit four times by bullets from a 12-gauge shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver fired by two unidentified men who sped away on […]
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Peru’s Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo, recalled today that Peru tried to negotiate with Chile since the eighties before resorting to the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) court to establish that the maritime boundary between the two countries. In a statement to reporters after the first hearing of the oral proceedings, which began […]
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Upon the reelection of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the government is clearing the way to inflation, thus far contained. With intent to upgrade people’s purchasing power, government authorities put the rise of regulated goods on hold until after the presidential election. Having attained the political objective, a period has started where staples will be unavoidably […]
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61 people missing in Barinas state are recorded in the reports issued by the Peace and Life Committee. Its director has been denouncing and holding responsible a specific pillar of the political and trade union sectors…Oscar Pineda’s office is not a comfortable place. Pineda is an old man, an elderly who perhaps should not be […]
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The Mercosur summit which meets this week, December 6/7 in Brasilia is scheduled to debate the incorporation of Ecuador and Bolivia to the regional block which earlier this year, after waiting since 2006 finally integrated Venezuela as full member. President Dilma Rousseff is the host and will pass the chair on to Uruguay for the […]
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The IMF ratified last week that by December 17 Argentina must reply to Managing Director Christine Lagarde on the latest advances referred to the country’s statistics both on inflation and GDP growth. Gerry Rice, head of IMF Public Relations was in charge of making the announcement following on a question from an Argentine journalist who […]
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GOOGLE TRANSLATION FROM LAREPUBLICA.PE Interview with President of Ecuador: The Republic has a minority stake in Teleamazonas. What do you think of foreign investment in Ecuadorian media? See, I am a critic of fundamental rights in the hands of private property and businesses for profit. It is a contradiction, are providing the right business. How […]
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In Ecuador moved to the front of a seafood dealer. He used three names: Hector de Jesus Ramirez, Octavio Leon and Henry Betancourt. His near what was known as ‘El Charro’. At the hearing of support and opinion of the case formulation on drug-Rise which has been linked, the prosecution makes it the “foreign financier” […]
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The country has the spot with 3.487 million barrels of reserves, which at current rates of extraction of 188 million barrels a year, will be exhausted within 10 years. The president gave this information in the context of the launch of a tender for companies set to explore the southeast of the country this week. […]
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The Electoral Council of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), created a few hours ago, will be released formally in Ecuador’s presidential election on 17 February next year. It will also be invited to play that role in the elections observer Ecuadorian Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations, […]
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The Galapagos Islands authorities seek to control birth through extra rules regent special law to prevent overcrowding and protect this natural World Heritage Site. Residents in these islands of Ecuador increased from 300 in 1950 to 25,000 in 2010, while about 30 years ago came to its shores around 20,000 visitors a year and in […]
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Chewing gum tax proposed in Mexico / Mexico is considering forcing gum manufacturers to pay a 50% tax on top of the selling price of products to pay for clean-up costs on streets. PRI states that they intend to use the tax to clean the areas where chewing gum off of the streets and benches. […]
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Almost three years after her husband was arrested and jailed in Cuba, Judy Gross still talks to Americans who haven’t heard his story. Now she is speaking more openly than in the past, hoping to make her husband’s case as well-known as those of other Americans who won freedom after being jailed overseas. Read Article
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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held talks on bilateral ties with Suriname’s Foreign Minister Winston Lackin here on Wednesday. Yang hailed the achievements of China-Suriname cooperation since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1976. As developing countries, both China and Suriname face major tasks in developing their economies and improving people’s livelihood, Yang said, […]
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Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, has begun a tour of five countries within the Caribbean. The journey, which began last Wednesday in Grenada, will see the controversial religious and social leader visit Barbados, Dominica, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Belize and the Bahamas, respectively. Read Article
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Canada is working to reverse a controversial decision to impose visa requirements on Mexican visitors. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the pledge to his new Mexican counterpart, Enrique Pena Nieto, who visited Ottawa Wednesday just days before he is officially confirmed as president… The 2009 move by Canada – an effort to curb bogus refugee […]
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Colombia has withdrawn from a treaty that binds it to the UN International Court of Justice in anger at a ruling that shifts some of its resource-rich waters to Nicaragua, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday. The Hague-based court last week reduced an expanse of sea belonging to Colombia, drawing a demarcation line in […]
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Brazil and Peru are attempting to block online retailer Amazon.com Inc. from acquiring new internet domains using the name of the world’s greatest tropical rain forest. The two South American countries have lodged a formal complaint with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Los Angeles-based nonprofit private organization that oversees the […]
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Peruvian prosecutors have reopened the case of forced sterilizations performed during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), archived for two years. The Inter-American Commission asked the Peruvian State in October 2011 resume tax investigation following the complaint of 2,074 women who did not give informed consent or to whom food aid and social conditioned to […]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from a chronic lung ailment that could worsen at any time and is being checked regularly by doctors, the Andean country’s ambassador to Britain said. Assange, 41, whose website angered the United States by releasing thousands of secret diplomatic cables, has been holed up inside Ecuador’s embassy in London […]
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nortedigital.mx reported that: Mexico Navy warns guerrillas Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) and the Revolutionary Army of the Insurgent People (EPRI) have been rearmed with automatic rifles and rocket launchers also have in their arsenals. EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army) known locations of operations: Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Mexico […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today named new ministers of Defense, Policy Coordination and Environment, and a new National Secretariat for Migrants, in positions left by members of the ruling movement that are candidates in the upcoming elections. The new ministers were sworn in today by a ceremony in the Yellow Room of the […]
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The Venezuelan leader said he will be absent from today and will remain in Havana the duration of the therapy schedule. President Hugo Chavez sought permission today to members of his country to allow him to travel to Cuba to continue his treatment. This was announced by the President of the Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, who […]
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Army chief of Nicaragua, General Julio Cesar Aviles, said Tuesday that Nicaraguan Guard remain in the maritime awarded by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to their country, without any presence of Colombian frigates. “We are at the limits that the ICJ has assigned us. We sailed east of longitude 82 and cays Quitasueño, Serrana […]
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Retailers are to issue a letter of clearance to purchase goods when purchasing a used furniture article of this nature to a person who maintains that activity occasionally, in order to legalize the acquisition. The second rule setting SRI must be met when a person delivers a well as payment or part exchange for another. […]
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Author: Jordi Jaria i Manzano One of the most significant events in recent comparative constitutional law on environmental issues has been the recognition of rights to nature in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008. A claim has been made of being a change of paradigm in the constitutional tradition, which goes beyond Western legal culture to […]
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February’s election as an opinion poll published on Monday showed him more than 30 points ahead of his closest rival. High government spending on roads, hospitals and schools has made the 49-year-old economist very popular with the low-income majority, and he will have the advantage of facing a divided opposition that will include at least […]
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The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entered into force on May 15, 2012. It is a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia, which will eventually eliminate tariffs and other barriers in bilateral trade in goods and services. On October 3, 2011, President Barack Obama submitted draft legislation (H.R. 3078/S. 1641) to […]
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The Honduran National Congress is currently reviewing the law to geographically define the first four “Charter Cities” in the world, three sites along the Caribbean coast in Garifuna afro-indigenous territory, Trujillo, the Valle de Cuyamel and the Sico-Paulaya Valley, which includes Miskitu indigenous territory. One is proposed in the Gulf of Fonseca which would include […]
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Wall Street-owned media group “Clarín” spearheading anti-government drive in South America’s Argentina. Wall Street-owned media group “Clarín” spearheading anti-government drive in South America’s Argentina. The US-engineered “Arab Spring” brought us the “April 6 Youth Movement” in Egypt, run by Wall Street-backed Mohammed ElBaradei in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood, the “February 17 Revolution,” consisting of […]
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The South American media has reverberated lately with reports that the CIA has been using drug money in efforts to destabilize the government of Ecuador’s President, Rafael Correa. If these stories are accurate, then the plan’s exposure and apparent failure may illustrate the impotence of traditional U.S. interventionism in the new South America, which increasingly […]
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With his trimmed white beard and rounded metal spectacles, Paul Singer might come across as a slightly miffed professor, his lips pursed and one eyebrow arched a touch higher than the other reported Independent.co.uk. But the balding billionaire behind the New York hedge fund group Elliott Management is in fact one of Wall Street’s reigning […]
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$64m has been deposited and $187m pledged to help protect Ecuador’s biologically rich rainforest, figures show… More than $300m (£188m) has been promised to stop the exploitation of 846m barrels of oil below the Yasuní national park in Ecuador, one of the world’s most biologically rich areas of rainforest, new figures show. Ecuador’s idea to […]
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They call Adela, but its official name is José Agustín Hernández. Declared transsexual and lives as a woman in a village in central Cuba where he was elected delegate municipal (council), his “greatest victory” against all “repudiation” who claims to have suffered in its 48 years. In the second round of local elections held this […]
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A senior negotiator Colombian rebels on Monday announced a unilateral ceasefire at the start of peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Havana. Iván Márquez said that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have decided to stop all military operations and acts of sabotage from midnight Monday until January 20, 2013. Read Article
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Colombian government negotiators have arrived in Havana for peace talks with leftist FARC rebels aimed at ending Latin America’s longest-running uprising. Rebel delegates, including Tanja Nijmeijer, a Dutch woman who fights alongside the FARC rebels, are already in Cuba awaiting Monday’s talks that had been delayed for four days over a lack of clarity over […]
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Today at the Halifax International Security Forum, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, signed a Canada-Colombia Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation, with his Colombian counterpart, Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno. This Memorandum of Understanding provides a strategic framework for the growing defence relationship between our countries. Read Article
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today recognized the sacrifice that Ecuadorians have emigrated from their country and invited them to return: “We are waiting with open arms,” he said. Correa participated in a ceremony in Madrid with thousands compatriots, where they gave an account of his presidency, he spared no praise for those who […]
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The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature. At least 40 people paraded their candidate through the city’s streets to the electoral council offices. Read Article
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Bolivia, Brazil and Peru studying create a common fund to pay rewards to informants who report drug trafficking, said the Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero, who met Wednesday with their counterparts in Lima. The resources for the fund will come from the confiscation of drug traffickers to the implementation in the three countries that […]
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BRAZIL: Two Lula Loyalists Head to Prison for Active Corruption Notícias de Hoy reported that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court sentenced two members of the Brazilian Workers’ Party for their respective roles in the “Mensalão” scandal, conducted under the term of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. José Dirceu, then-Chief of Staff to President […]
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According to eltiempo.com.ec, Vivanco said the newspaper has not committed any fault, and was even willing to go to jail, however in today’s edition will be published apology to the Government, as reported Ecuavisa channel. In the morning, Vivanco said “this is the beginning of the end of the press in Ecuador because it creates […]
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The assets of the Kirchner went from 7,000,000 to about 82 million pesos from 2003 to 2012. Weeks ago Cristina Fernandez denied a Harvard student asked him how he had managed to increase its equity from 2 to 79 million pesos. The figure was not correct, because the increase reached 82 million, as reported by […]
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The Foreign Ministry said Friday the abolition of visas for citizens of Colombia and Peru who travel to Mexico as visitors without permission to work in the country. “The abolition of the visa requirement for nationals Peruvians and Colombians favors a large number of people who enter our country for periods of less than six […]
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This Thursday, November 8th, Ecuador and Belgium evaluated 24 interventions among programs, projects, studies and consultancies that run in the country as part of the Bilateral Cooperation Program. At this meeting, Ecuador also positioned the reorientation of cooperation that defined the country, according to which Ecuador requires international cooperation to enhance technical skills development, the […]
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Angry over inflation, crime and corruption, hundreds of thousands of Argentines of all ages flooded the capital’s streets for nearly four hours to protest against President Cristina Fernandez in Argentina’s biggest anti-government demonstration in years. In a Thursday night march organized on social media, demonstrators filled the Plaza de Mayo in front of the pink […]
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Bolivian President, Evo Morales made clear in the last few hours that his personal fortune is of thousands of dollars, especially for the large amount of knitted ponchos he has, gifts given by his indigenous brothers. Morales faced for the first time the accusations on alleged multiplication of his goods, and specified that just in […]
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In Colombia, the judicial strike continues despite the agreement reached between the Government and the National Association of Professional Employees of the Judicial Branch. Judicial Asonal president, Francisco Otálvara said Thursday at the 20 Hour program, nine thousand judges and prosecutors still unemployed looking to take advantage of recent negotiations with the Government to achieve […]
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Ng the “gag law” that silences journalism are carried preventing corruption investigations in the field policy, the country’s unions would be joining to form in the next few days a massive march and rally in an effort to unite all sectors of society and thus require the Government to repeal this law. This was expressed […]
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The legalisation of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, which will allow the drug to be taxed and regulated, in two U.S. states will prompt debate on anti-drug policies in Mexico as well, and on the coordination of strategies between the two countries, experts say. “The least bad option is legalisation,” Jorge Chabat, at […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday demanded his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, to reflect, to engage in their own state rule and forget to invade and destabilize other countries. This is the first reaction of President Chavez made public after the re-election of Obama in the presidential election held on Tuesday, which defeated the Republican […]
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa on Thursday urged Barack Obama, the U.S. president re-elected, to facilitate institutional turnaround in U.S. policy to Latin America and the Caribbean. The Ecuadorian president regretted that, although both U.S. presidential candidates considered the “land of opportunity” to Latin America, did not address U.S. relations with Latin American southern hemisphere in […]
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