Brazil’s National Advertising Council denied a request Thursday to ban a television ad featuring lingerie-clad supermodel Gisele Bundchen after a government agency called it sexist.
“The stereotypes in this ad campaign are common in society, easily identifiable and do not denigrate women,” the council’s members said. Read Article
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Check your name and document number in the newspapers and the Internet was an unwelcome surprise to many of the 296 Mendoza who appear in the log of food debtors. It then approved the amendment to the Provincial Law No. 6879, the list of people who must share to support their minor children to her […]
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Colombian attorney aims to establish whether former officials and candidates in Antioquia, Córdoba and Chocó had link with the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc of the AUC, El Espectador reports. Read Article
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The National Student Expanded Bureau reported that the crime was part of a strategy of stigmatization, intimidation and persecution of the student movement, whose primary goal away to students of all Colombian society.The National Student Expanded Bureau (NSAIDs) in Colombia reported that the boy died on Thursday during one of the protest marches was killed, […]
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After more than 6 days of walking, a march by representatives of various social organizations, peasant origin, settlers, coca farmers, miners and other sectors, arrived Wednesday to the city of La Paz to support the process of change, democracy , judicial elections and the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, among other […]
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Amnesty International positively noted reported statements that the mandatory death penalty will be abolished in Barbados by the end of 2011 and urged the county’s authorities to swiftly move to turn these affirmations into reality. Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite was reported in local newspaper The Barbados Advocate on 2 October […]
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Around 500 clowns from Latin America marched through the streets of Mexico City on Monday, against violence through laughter. Laughter Fair in its 16 edition will feature clowns, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and the United States, who will share experiences through conferences, workshops and competitions.This time, participants will seek to […]
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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The vice president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, and Guatemala, Rafael Espada, will sign next Wednesday in Quito, a memorandum of understanding for bilateral cooperation on disability, said the Ecuadorian government. Espada will visit Ecuador between 19 and 22 October, the Vice President said in a statement. This is a step in matters of cooperation after […]
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Public spending on security in the region in 2010 accounted for 2.66 percent of gross domestic product, about 4,000 million dollars, not that the policies implemented by governments against crime have been successful. The Central American countries assume a loss of 6,500 million dollars as a result of violence, almost 8 percent of GDP, more […]
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“If we can manage it, we buy something at the butcher’s every 15 days, even if it’s only a bone, although we normally just eat maize and beans,” says Marvin Fajardo, a small-scale farmer and father of three from the southern Guatemalan province of Escuintla. Like Fajardo and his family, thousands of Guatemalan families subsist […]
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In Venezuela, nothing and no one seems to escape inflation. This time, baseball is the one that presents a significant rise in the price of match tickets, which go up in different percentages depending on the equipment. In Venezuela, nothing and no one seems to escape inflation. This time, baseball is the one that presents […]
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Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling (born in Santiago, April 28, 1988) is a leader of the student movement in Chile and the 2011 Chilean protests. She is a member of and activist for the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile (Chilean Communist Youth), and is the current president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de […]
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Not since the days of Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos has Latin America been so charmed by a rebel leader. This time, there is no ski mask, no pipe and no gun, just a silver nose ring.Meet Commander Camila, a student leader in Chile who has become the face of a populist uprising that some analysts are […]
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Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution.It began early one morning in May, when dozens of teenage girls emerged from the predawn darkness and scaled the spiked iron fence around Chile’s most prestigious […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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With paint and a potato bomb, students who move to the Plaza de Bolivar attacked the policemen. The squadron attacked remains located off the premises of the Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol), in downtown Bogota. About 500,000 students in public universities in the country now entering an indefinite national strike to demand the government to […]
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The criminal gang would initially threaten their victim by demanding 200 million pesos (US $ 100,000) in exchange for their safety, El Espectador reports. The band was disbanded due to a lawsuit in Boyacá by one of the victims. Detainees will be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Read Article
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According to a study by Colombia’s Central Bank, the level of household debt is reaching worrying levels at the end of the first six months of this year (2011), El Espectador reports. The study says household debt is reaching similar levels to those recorded during the economic crisis of the 1990s. The report notes that […]
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The flow of Central American migrants who cross Mexico has fallen 70% in five years, said the commissioner of the National Migration Institute (INM), Salvador Beltrán del Río. He said that the calculation of the flow reduction in the fall based on the number of migrants detained in Mexico, which went from 433,000 in 2005 […]
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Honduras led the world in homicides per capita in 2010, according to an international study. The Central American country was not the only Latin American country listed among the most dangerous places in the world, according to the first United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Study on Homicide. In fact, four of the […]
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The Association of North Lima announced that it signed in the coming days an agreement will serve to provide greater security to the residents of this sector of the capital. This is an agreement with the National Police with the aim of a helicopter that institution to patrol the area and thus help prevent and […]
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The owner of a Chinese supermarket in the city was killed by three bullets when attacked in their trade by a hooded man. The incident occurred on Sunday night and, in principle, the researchers believe that this was a new case involving the so-called “Chinese mafia”. The victim was identified by police as He Xin […]
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A Buenos Aires court ruled that the exchange of “words or messages and erotically charged fantasies” between a married man with a woman not his wife is only “virtual infidelity” and not adultery. A court found that the exchange of “words or messages and erotically charged fantasies” between a married man with a woman not […]
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In an unprecedented action, a six German parliamentarians announced their decision to recommend conditional cooperation with El Salvador until that country to implement an effective program to combat violence and impunity that plague the people of this Central American nation. During the Civil War (1980-1992), governments Washington and some European countries support conditions continued to […]
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The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, who is seeking re-election next November 6, said today that the government continue to expand the fight against poverty in this Central American nation. With the support of social programs executed during the last five years, the Sandinista leader reiterated the purpose of banishing poverty through more education, health, […]
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The more than 15 000 women who attended the National Meeting of Women yesterday marched through downtown San Carlos Bariloche, venue of the meeting, and demanded the sanction of a law Congress that includes the abortion safe, legal and free.”There is no room for discussion of abortion or abortion do not, because society is mature […]
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The National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela (INE) today posted 14 million 256 thousand 389 people registered at the Fourteenth Census of Population and Housing, which represents 48 percent of the population. That entity reported on its website that this figure corresponds to three million 484 thousand 715 houses visited in the whole country since […]
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According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), women over 45 years married to men younger than they have risen by 23% in 10 years. And although the figure is still marginal -478 cases in 1998 against 622 in 2008 – increasing aware of a phenomenon that is also replicated between cohabiting and revealing, according to […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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The community of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Tlaxcala, members of the Sexual Diversity Tlaxcala, held a peaceful demonstration in Congress to reproach local lawmakers have not played since October 2, 2009 two bills concerning Prevention and Eradication of Discrimination and Societies of Coexistence. Read Article
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In the city of Quito on Tuesday began a campaign against sexual harassment and Ecovía trolleybus system, where it has been more evident this type of aggression towards women. I want to walk quiet streets without harassment!, And called this campaign aims to eliminate sexual harassment that is manifested in street looks, phrases and groping. […]
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More than 160 children abandoned in 2011 In less than a week, the PNC reported the second discovery of a baby abandoned. There are on average 19 children a month left in neglect.For the second time in less than seven days, the National Civil Police (PNC) reported the discovery of another baby that was abandoned […]
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COESIDA reports that in Oaxaca there are 996 thousand infected with the virus, of which 86 are children.Based on the latest report of the State Council for the Prevention of AIDS (COESIDA) in the state of Oaxaca has killed more than 2 000 people in the last 25 years because of this virus, as reported […]
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In Peru, there are more than 15,000 persons from the period of internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that are still missing. Their relatives refuse to give up hope of finding their whereabouts. The numbers are impressive, but the disappeared and their relatives are more than numbers; more than mere statistics. Read Article
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The House of Representatives rejected on Monday October 3, 2011 a bill to reform post-secondary education in Colombia, El Tiempo reports. Colombia’s education Minister, Maria Fernanda Campo, said that the government seeks to improve the quality of higher education and to make it more accessible, especially for poor young people. She also said that the […]
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Marticela Moreno Pérez, mother of 7, was shot three times a few meters away from family members, El Universal reports. The gunmen left in a red motorcycle. One person resulted wounded in the shooting as well, Alberto Avila Julio, 24. Both were taken to a hospital in Cartagena, where the woman was pronounced dead. The […]
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Colombia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Maria Angela Holguin, reiterated Colombia’s position of creating a Palestinian state, insisting that Israelis and Palestinians must hold “direct negotiations”, El Espectador reports. According to diplomatic sources, Abbas will ask Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos to reconsider his country’s position before the Security Council of the United Nations where Colombia is […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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8 out of 10 women have been victims of violence at some time in Ecuador 21% of children and adolescents in Ecuador have been sexually abused ECUADOR | They call themselves ‘neomasculinos’ Youths fight sexism in Ecuador with pink helmets. Under the symbol of a Helmet Rosa, a group of j oung who call themselves […]
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Civil servants of Invima manipulated the organization’s databases to grant illegal sanitary registries, El Tiempo reports. According to an internal investigation, there were seven cases of duplicity from registries. Some of the products the organization deals with can be utilized for criminal purposes, though no product was commercialized; however, the problem is that the registry […]
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Buenaventura is accustomed to violent death and, ultimately, increases the number of bodies, because there are vendettas between the FARC and a band called ‘the Company’, composed of former guerrillas and former paramilitaries, who decided to steal a packet of dollars (product of other packages coca), which claims ‘Mincho’, leader of the front 30. Read […]
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It keeps the climate of insecurity among Guatemalans because of the violence. The most recent report on the human rights situation in Guatemala, and incidents of violence during eight months of 2011, prepared by the Mutual Support Group (GAM), reveals that up to August 2231 were killed in violence in the country . Of these, […]
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According to contrapunto.com.sv, since 2006, hundreds of corpses have been discovered in dozens of clandestine graveyards in San Salvador and its outskirts. Ninety five percent of the corpses are for individuals under seventeen years of age and eighty five percent of them are female. These numbers are frightening, even for one of the most violent […]
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Chilean analyst, Giovani Cuadra, commented recently in presentations to officials in El Salvador regarding several social issues according to laprensagrafica.com. She explained that inhumane treatment of people as a result of migration and other factors including trafficking is yet to be considered a significant issue in El Salvador and other countries in Latin America. The […]
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Every 24 hours, express kidnappings comment to 677 in the 52 metropolitan areas in the country, making it essential to ensure that crime victims counseling and protection, as appropriate. Read Article
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Between 2009 and 2011 there were 146 violent and nonviolent deaths in the 35 federal prisons in our country. The annual report Attorney’s Office Prison appears that the criminal Ezeiza is the unit with more deaths. The Procurator’s Office, Francisco Mugnolo, reported 91 deaths in federal prisons in Argentina. The figure comes from the 2010 […]
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Antiretrovirals 10 times more expensive in Mexico Despite the many experiments in France, Cuba and the United States, especially in mice, medical science has failed to achieve a vaccine against infection with human immunodeficiency virus, said Apolonio Gomez, a member organizer Global Village for the World AIDS Conference 2008 in Mexico. Read Article
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Secretary of Health, Solomon Chertorivski Woldenberg, proposed during their participation in the plenary on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals related to health, strengthen the prevention and vaccination campaigns, and suggest that those countries not yet included against pneumococcus and rotavirus biological study the measures to restore. Read Article
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Driving vehicles without carrying a driver’s license is the most traffic violation committed in Cartagena. According to the Administrative Department of Traffic and Transportation Cartagena (DATT) , so far, 2011 have been imposed for this violation 5803 subpoenas to the National Traffic Code, incurred in both motorcyclists and other types of vehicles. The report of […]
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The sale of drugs, vehicle theft, robbery and assault people in shops are the crimes that affect the citadel Sauces, located in the north of Guayaquil. This sector is divided into nine stages of which, according to its residents and the police, the most contentious are the 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. Read Article
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A soldier and four civilians are dead and six others injured Sunday evening in a shooting rampage in San Antero, Córdoba, Colombia, reports El Pais News. The four men were on two motorcycles and used small semi-automatic weapons to shoot indiscriminately to clients at a bar. The governor attributed this shooting to disputes between bandas criminales […]
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Policing Democracy: Overcoming obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America – Recorded interview with author Dr. Mark Ungar (Recording Time- 01:06:56) Recorded September 23, 2011. Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 PURCHASE BOOK:Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the […]
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There is no doubt that opening the borders without restrictions was a cause of increased crime in the correísta regime with the introduction of new forms of violence and corruption as the crime of hired killers and mafia networks that administer the nationalization of foreign and trafficking in persons. It is not enough that here […]
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The coordinator of the Youth Research Seminar of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), José Antonio Pérez Islas, warned that more than 7 million young people without school or work is a “time bomb” that will burst soon, because there a generation in total indifference to the institutions that will make it easier to […]
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President Rafael Correa, the leftist leader of Ecuador, took on the media on Friday at the home of one of journalism’s pinnacles, Columbia University in New York.The school awards the Cabot Prizes, journalism’s oldest, which honor the best and most courageous reporters covering the Americas. Oh, and let’s not forget the Pulitizer Prizes. Read Press
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The lack of employment opportunities, school dropouts and low quality of education makes the phenomenon “nini” a time bomb whose magnitude and costs the state has not sized Mexican writer Margo Glantz said during the ceremony invested with honorary doctorates by the UNAM. When picking a study of the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of […]
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According to the World Bank, the violence has become a major obstacle to economic development in Mexico , with Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and above all, which shows the highest concentration. This is demonstrated by the perception of Mexicans who, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey on Public Safety 2011, increased the feeling of insecurity […]
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Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance […]
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This monograph examines Chinese military engagement with Latin America in five areas: (1) meetings between senior military officials; (2) lower-level military-to-military interactions; (3) military sales; (4) military-relevant commercial interactions; and, (5) Chinese physical presence within Latin America, all of which have military-strategic implications. This monograph finds that the level of PRC military engagement with the […]
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In Argentina, on 30 August this year, the National Film and Visual Arts (INCAA) Official Gazette published a new regime of “screen quota” greatly deepen the concocted in 1973 in full assault on freedom individual. Se trata -nada más y nada menos- de limitar por la fuerza del aparato estatal las exhibiciones de producciones cinematográficas […]
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With hidden cameras provided by police, a mother could see how Fidel León Mejía Honorius tried to sexually abuse their minor daughter. Outrageous images. Fidel León Mejía Honorio was recorded with a hidden camera in the middle of trying to rape his daughter , a child under 12 years. This occurred in the district of […]
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Rodolfo Rubio Salas is a professor and researcher at the Juárez City campus of Colegio de la Frontera Norte where he has been for 16 years. He specializes in border migration studies and affirms that behind all the numbers about the violence-propelled exodus of people from Juárez into El Paso there is a lot of […]
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As we celebrate today the International Literacy Day, in Mexico 6.9 percent of the population aged 15 and older can not read or write, that is, 5.9 million people, according to official sources consulted by Xinhuha. Despite the achievements of the national education system, which has a coverage of 97 percent at primary level and […]
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According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]
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“We have an epidemic of cerebral vascular disease that has already become a serious public health problem in Latin America ‘says the BBC Dr. Carlos Cantu, head of the Department of Neurology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán in Mexico and founder of the Mexican Association of Cerebral Vascular Disease. And this […]
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A monthly average of 110 cases of fleeing from road accidents have occurred so far in 2011, denoting a loss of human valuesand ethics, said the Department of Roads, whose fines can amount to several thousand dollars per irresponsible driving. The events are divided in-flight collision, hit-and injury-drain leakage, the first category presents the most […]
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During the month of July, the causes of traffic accidents focus on the inexperience of the drivers. La ingesta de licor por parte de quienes van al volante sigue siendo un problema en el tránsito, independientemente de que en los accidentes se den o no víctimas mortales. The intake of alcohol by those behind the […]
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With 39 suicides in 2010, of which 27 occurred in Cartagena and 26 so far in 2011, of which 21 have occurred in the capital of Bolívar, attempts, completions and suicidal attitudes remain a concern for health authorities of the department, according to consolidated data from the National Institute of Legal Medicine.Read Article
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The Minister of Education, Alonso Lujambio, admitted yesterday that organized crime had “right of territory” and “had infiltrated the whole sections of public institutions.” As the only speaker at the commemoration of the 201 anniversary of Independence, Lujambio defended the fight against crime launched by Felipe Calderón:Read Article
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In just five years, at least 140 000 people have formalized their divorce in the courts of Puerto Rico, statistical reports show this branch of government, resided between 2005 and 2010. Read Article
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Against a background of high mortality rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Brazil, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from […]
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In protest of the Colombian government’s higher education reforms, students have gathered in protest kissing each other rather than using traditional actions of protests. According to El Espectador’s video, this action contrasts the last protest against these reforms, which lead to violent conflict with the government and officials and the police.
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The alarm and sad news: in Ecuador two languages may be lost (Ando and Zápara), but in the world, 6,000 census, is 2,500 which would disappear in the coming years, according to the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). It is a warning to the entire world to recognize that […]
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The latest National Survey of Risk Factors (ENFR), conducted in 2009 by the Ministry of Health, showed that 53.4 percent of the population has maintained overweight and physical inactivity increased going from 46.2 in 2005 to 54.9 percent. Read Article
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During the third quarter (July, August and so far this month of September) of 2011, according to the balance contributed by the staff working in the first health center in this city, and workers morgueros funeral homes can not keep to meet so many lifeless bodies, especially on weekends. More than fifty bodies shot wounds […]
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murder became the leading cause of death among the country between 2007 and 2009, a trend that overtook the car accident that for years were the leading cause of deaths in this population group, according to figures released by the violent deaths National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Between 2007 and 2009 the murder […]
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Page 1 Cancer: Alarming numbers for Argentina in 2020 They just days half was published in a national newspaper article entitled Cancer deaths in Argentina would double by 2020, which indicate the Experts same for the rest of Latin America and Africa, estimated for 2010 as the main Deaths because of the World This is […]
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PHILADELPHIA “Band of brothers,” the U.S. Department of Justice calls them. These brothers number just five, hail from Ukraine, and stand charged with one of the most insidious crimes in the illegal immigrant underground: human trafficking. Omelyan Botsvynyuk, 52, and Stepan Botsvynyuk, 36, are set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in […]
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Los Zetas, with traffic of drugs, kidnapping and extortion of money as casinos and betting sites, have occupied at least one third of the territory of Nuevo Leon, according to the operational files of the Federal Police. The corporation has verified the active presence of the arm in 17 of the 51 municipalities that make […]
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The smoking prevalence in the neighborhoods of records exceeds the provincial capital. Also detected high levels of alcohol, marijuana and tranquilizers. Prepare plans to intervene with NGOs in each area. 738 people participated in surveys on drug abuse that took place in 7 of the Caps Capital. Read Article
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Although a good relationship of cooperation between Mexico and Belize, requires the participation of society in general to combat organized crime and tackle, as the police forces alone can not solve the problem, we must support them, said former neighboring country’s prime minister, Said Musa. “Although only 30 years Belize will Independence and Mexico more […]
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Young people, workers, housewives, women who suffer every day with the sexist oppression took to the streets of Bethlehem to put their banners and their claims. Many men also wrote the act, showing that sexism is not a struggle of women against men, but a political struggle of all workers against the capitalist system. Altogether […]
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Young radical eco-anarchists are multiplying their attacks against what they see as symbols of capitalism in the country. Anarchist violence in Mexico Grows Young radical eco-anarchists are multiplying their attacks against what they see as symbols of capitalism in the country, bank tellers, animal products companies, automotive. The parcel bomb against a scientist Tec de […]
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Most users intertet in Peru is between 15 and 24 years, according to the latter one study presented today at the Third International Seminar on Digital Advertising and Marketing organized by IAB Peru. Thus, the results of this study indicated that the average Peruvian spends 27 hours per month online. But young people are those […]
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One of the complaints you hear about police in Ecuador is lack of police response or involvement when a crime. Well I had the chance to observe police action in August 2011. Enjoying myself in a small house in a lower income neighborhood in Guayaquil, I heard a commotion outside and saw a man run […]
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The Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents identified six children as victims of a pedophile of 22 who was arrested yesterday in an educational unit of the district’s Tusequis. The man was trying to be lured to two girls for child pornography. Read Article
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Rousseff: “serious” shortage of physicians in Brazil. The President announced a plan to resolve a situation that is worse in the countryside. Once approved, the new graduates should make a period of social service in cities located in the rural areas of Brazil. Read Article
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A delegation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam headed by Deputy Director of the Party Central Committee’s Office Hoang Cong Hoan attended events in Brasilia , Brazil from Sept. 1-4. The Vietnamese delegation attended an international seminar on the situation in Latin America and upcoming presidential elections on Sept. 1 and the extraordinary congress […]
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Perhaps the greatest challenge for the radical left today is to articulate a politics that decisively breaks with the disastrous experiences of many 20th century socialisms. This is a difficult task that requires self-reflection, active questioning, and openness to new expressions of struggle by the always complex and fluid global working-classes. Making this task even […]
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The Province of Buenos Aires has a population of 15,625,084, representing 38.9% of the total population, according to final results of National Census 2010 provided by the Provincial Department of Statistics under the Ministry of Economy. Economy Minister, Alejandro Arlia, said that in relation to the 2001 Census, “the provincial population increased by 1,797,881 people, […]
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Thousands of cities of Peru need, urgently, an urban development plan. The state can not be outside the housing. And the reality also shows an enormous lack of architects, with defined specialties, although the country has 108 universities and 36 colleges of Architecture. In the words of Italo Calvino Cuban, our “Invisible Cities” in its […]
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Argentina for five years (2003-2007), grew to more than eight percent a year, generating a wealth not seen since the beginning of democracy back in 1983, without redistributing it has reached those most in need which according to recent surveys more serious than over half the population of Argentina. A social situation that exists in […]
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Tired of low wages, alarmed by the insecurity prevailing in hospitals and disappointed at the inadequate staffing and infrastructure faced by health centers in the state, in the last year have migrated to other countries twice as many doctors that form the core Aragua.Así universities reported by the President of the College of Physicians of […]
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According to an international study by Ipsos, half of Argentines negatively evaluated the arrival of foreigners to settle in the country. In addition, 61% believe that immigrants finding employment difficult for the natives and complicate access to public services. Counter to this view, Brazil is the country that better agrees. Specialists are saying. Most of […]
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Brazil’s population increased 0.85 percent in the last year and totaled 192 376 496 inhabitants in July according to a forecast released yesterday by the state Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). With its more than 192 million people, the largest Latin American country almost equal to the sum of the populations of other […]
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The cantons Portoviejo, Manta Montecristi and concentrate 42.10 percent of the population of Manabi, according to Census Population and Housing in November 2010. According to the figures, Portoviejo Manabi is the most populous cantona (county) with 280,029 inhabitants. Manta is second with 226,477, and the sixth with 70,292 Montecristi residents. Manta is the most densely […]
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Mestizos form the majority of Ecuadorians PDF Print E-Mail Quito, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) 71.9 percent of Ecuador’s population was defined as mestizos, according to results of Census of Population and Housing 2010, released today during the usual Saturday accountability of President Rafael Correa. At this meeting in the northern province of Canar, one of […]
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As we commemorate the date 30 years recalls the “crimes which offend” human rights, the American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (FEDEFAM) pointed to Argentina as “the country with more trials and convictions of those responsible of these crimes against humanity “but regretted the disappearance since 2006 of Julio Lopez, a witness […]
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