The countries of Latin America are working slowly to overcome barriers in the fight against the often brutal violence suffered by children and adolescents in their homes, schools, workplaces or juvenile detention centres. Five years after the release of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children in 2006, a new study presented Thursday […]
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In six of 10 cases of rape and sexual abuse recorded in the Federal District, the victim is a minor, while the abuser is a relative or acquaintance who acts even from within the home, gave to know the Sex Crimes Prosecutor of the Attorney General of the capital, Juan Camilo Bautista. Read Article
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Avoiding the costs of traditional microcredit models, remote communities in the La Puna high plateau region in northwest Argentina have launched a successful loan programme that enables them to meet extraordinary expenses such as weaving material, school supplies or medicine. Read Article
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The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, workers set fire to some 50 buses and other vehicles, work installations and even their own lodgings, which were built to house […]
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Argentina’s Jewish umbrella organization, DAIA, has won a court injunction against the mammoth Internet Google search engine. The order prevents Google from “suggesting” surfers visit certain anti-Semitic websites – including those that promote Holocaust denial. Read Article
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Dr. Marc Becker is a professor of history at Truman State University. Specializing in Ecuadorian Indigenous issues and politics he is an author of several books dealing with Ecuador. His recent book “Pachakutik – Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador” is an excellent study of politics in Ecuador. He has been kind enough to […]
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While homosexuality is punishable by law in nine Caribbean island nations, gay activism is increasingly taking root in countries like Cuba. “The situation in the Caribbean today is one of contrasts,” Gloria Careaga, co-secretary general of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), founded in 1978 and with close to 700 member […]
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Although gay rights organisations in Brazil are celebrating a historic triumph, legal recognition of civil unions by the Supreme Court, they say the struggle is far from over. Read Article
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They represent just seven percent of the workers building the Santo Antonio hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River, which cuts across the Amazon jungle in northwest Brazil. But the women workers total 1,200, and many of them have had to break down barriers to jobs seen as the preserve of men. Read Article
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With the decision to marry, two gay couples petitioned the Tribunales de Familia (Family Court) on Monday to be allowed to tie the knot. According to the couples, they are tired of making constitutional filings that respects their rights as homosexuals and therefore organized the campaing “Iguales nombres, iguales derechos” (Same name, same rights). Read […]
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The Ministry of Culture is preparing a bill to amend some articles of the Civil Code, Family and Child, Children and Adolescents for can be taken as a surname, the mother or that you can choose from 18, if you want to change their surnames, so that is not always carry a standard first father. […]
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Ruleteros(small vans, minibuses) back for lack of buses in neighborhoods. In the 1980’s, limited bus service originated minibuses appeared ruletero popularly called, which eventually began to use larger vehicles. Ruletero now are back and supplement to units that no longer run at some time, by violence. Read Article
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Security and defense, migration, the financial crisis and climate change will be on the agenda when MEPs and their Latin American counterparts meet 17-19 May in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the fifth plenary of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat). A key issue will be negotiations for a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur […]
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Groups push for the approval of the Anti-Discrimination Law and protection of transsexual rights. The fight against homophobia in Chile is far from over, rights groups say, as countries worldwide commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia today, May 17. Read Article
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President Hugo Chavez confirmed that the major private channels of food distribution that lend themselves to speculation and hoarding should be operated with the participation of workers and community councils. “And possibly seized. it would increase the social networks of food distribution to ensure good quality and fair prices, “he said Sunday during a telephone […]
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The effects of time restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages and began to take its toll the liquor sector. The industrialists speak of a decline in sales volume of about 11% nationally. In liquor stores, however, argue that economic losses close to 30% and 40% of revenues. Since 18 June, the government banned the […]
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According to information from the National Migration Institute, in the same year 20,438 repatriated Mexican migrant children from the United States, of which 13,705 traveled alone. This implies that at least some four thousand children were not channeled through the Mexican immigration authorities. Read Article
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The Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to work in Mexico when shooting broke out and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. Dozens of them were on their way for another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when the violence erupted. Read […]
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Religious liberty is growing in Cuba after a half-century of repression, and the Roman Catholic Church is more able to pursue a humanitarian, public mission than it has been for many years, the archbishop of Havana said Thursday in Omaha. Read Article
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On May 9th, 2011 Belize became the 148th signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Belize joined the global commitment to further promote, protect and ensure the equal enjoyment of all human rights by one of the most vulnerable groups in our society – persons with disabilities. Read Article
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Colombia, Public Housing Space Below World Health Organization’s Standards • Per portafolio.co , according to Professor William H. Alfonso of the Universidad del Rosario, there is less than 4 square meters of available public living space per person. • The WHO’s standard is 15 square meters. • In the next 10 years, Bogotá will have […]
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Over Half of Colombians Suffer from Mental Health Problems • Per rcnradio.com , Héctor Zambrano, the Secretary of Health of Bogotá, stated that more that 50% of Colombian citizens (not just from Bogotá) suffer from some kind of mental health problem. • Although these numbers are lower than those of other Latin American or European […]
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Bolivia was the site of a mass wedding with 350 couples married at the same time. The Andean mass wedding had all couples married in accordance to their customs and traditions of their Indian heritage. “Indian religious leaders presided over the wedding as did symbolically Pachamama — the earth deity of the Aymara and Quechua […]
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In regions of Urabá Antioquia such as Carepa and Chigorodó, there have been invasions of plots of land by various farm hands per elcolombiano.com. Authorities state that these land plots have been recovered and are secured. This Monday the operations concluded as there were 15 plots occupied by around 1,400 families prior to the evictions. […]
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As reported by elespectador.com through video, along the highways drivers, especially those of public transportation vehicles are performing dangerous maneuvers. For example, as the video follows traffic on the Cali-Buenaventura road, it captures drivers passing others on the road multiple times even on curves in the road and even while on a cellphone. Other drivers […]
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The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which brings together more than 100 Mexican civil society organizations, will demand compliance with six demands, which if they are rejected or not met by the government will lead the Movement to call for “civil resistance and peaceful actions to achieve compliance with this ‘end’,” which they […]
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If I had only known that when I was young,” or “if they had only told me” are just some of the statements made by many women who seek assistance at the centre for victims of gender violence set up by the local government in a town on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. Read […]
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Soldiers have evicted hundreds of Nicaraguans from buildings damaged in a 1972 earthquake, as part of a government plan to demolish the decaying structures. Read Article
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Brazil’s high court formally opened deliberations Wednesday on granting gays and lesbians the right to form civil unions, and on guaranteeing them the same legal rights as other couples. President Dilma Rousseff’s top prosecutor Attorney General Roberto Gurgel has backed the plan. Read Article
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In the darkened theater, a mother rocked her baby while another breastfed her little girl. It’s part of a new trend in Brazil where moms go to the movies with baby bottles, diapers and toys. “Getting out of the house with a baby requires a certain amount of organization,” said Irene Nagashima as she placed […]
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A delegation from the Inter-American Press Association was in Argentina Wednesday to study complaints that the government is trying to eliminate independent media. The group met with Public Communications Secretary Juan Manuel Abal Medina, who gave them a 10-page letter asserting that government restrictions on free expression don’t exist in Argentina. Read Article
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Fabricio Mendes remembers a time when just walking around his neighborhood was a matter of life or death. Drug traffickers roamed freely and guns were plentiful. That was before Alemao, a gritty community of narrow winding streets lined with haphazard houses, was “pacified.” In late November 2009, the government announced that police would move into […]
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In another important step towards winning Bolivia’s national sovereignty, the country’s Plurinational Assembly has announced the expulsion from Bolivia of USAID’s Environment and Economic Development (EED) program. Read Article
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Sharp increases in food prices will hit poorer Latin American countries like Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras the hardest, raising their inflation rates by more than 5 percentage points this year, according to a new report released on Monday. Read Article
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Cuarterias” or tenements are big problem in many parts of San José, grouping a large number of people and families all sharing electrical and plumbing facilities into an area designed for many less. And the cause of many disastrous fires. Read Article
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Indigenous Writings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico – Recorded interview with Dr.Mónica Díaz – (Recording Time – 54:41) Purchase Book – Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) (See all History of Mexico Books) Sometime in the 1740s, Sor María […]
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Members of the media are advised that The Cropper Foundation, supported by several international, regional and national partners, will be hosting a Regional Workshop for the Caribbean on Education for Sustainable Development entitled “Assessing progress and developing capacity in the Caribbean region in the context of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).” Read […]
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About a third of the Mexicans surveyed in the federal government’s National Poll on Discrimination in Mexico (Enadis) for 2010 said that what gives them the greatest anxiety is the fear of violent robbery. Another quarter told Enadis, a survey carried out each year since 2005, that they were most afraid of violence by drug […]
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In the heat of a one-day police revolt over benefit cuts last September, President Rafael Correa’s government took the extraordinary step of ordering all TV channels to broadcast the signal of state-run television. Read Article
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Anyone who has any doubt that central planning and corruption destroys an economy should head to Bolivia. The country is a classic example of a resource-rich nation whose economic potential has been squandered by socialism. Read Article
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Argentina is one of the world’s greatest nations when it comes to soccer, but deadly violence is scarring the game there. Read Article
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A town near Buenos Aires, wary of the screeching stops and careening turns it says typifies male drivers, has hired exclusively women to shuttle its passengers around inVicente Lopez, Argentina. Read Article
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I’m at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Buenos Aires, where I have been learning about the issues facing the future of freedom in South America. One interesting case is that of Chile, whose military government of the 1980s, perhaps surprisingly, introduced a series of free-market liberal reforms. One of these was to change Chile’s […]
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Recent public missteps by José María Tijerino precipitated his departure as Ministro de Seguridad Pública (Minister of Public Security) at a time when the Government is also evidencing failures to address the problem of insecurity. Read Article
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Indigenous and campesino (small-scale farmer) movements in the Andean nation of Bolivia are on the verge of pushing through one of the most radical environmental bills in global history. The “Mother Earth” law under debate in Bolivia’s legislature will almost certainly be approved, as it has already been agreed to by the majority governing party, […]
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The Maltese are well known for having big hearts. I experienced the truth of this statement during the past nine years, since I left home for missionary work in Tarija, Bolivia. The Maltese Carmelite Fathers in Bolivia are conveying hope and dignity to 60 per cent of the population through projects that encourage them how […]
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The victims of forced sterilization program that the IMF demanded that the president Fujimori seeking justice in the Peruvian courts. She was 30 when I had the operation and since then I almost useless in the field, “says Cléofl Neira, 50, from the door of her adobe house. In Yanguil, a village a few hundred […]
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The Conference will be in Port au Prince, Haiti, from 4 to 6 May. Community radios reach, allied organizations and radio movement. Analyze the role of community media in the climate crisis and disaster management. Read Article
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An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about the increasing rate of violent evictions taking place in Argentina and called for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country’s housing crisis. In a news release issued at the end of her week-long visit to the country, Raquel Rolnik said she heard countless testimonies […]
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Even the Military Prosecutor of Valdivia arrived Mapuche community representatives Panguipulli to denounce police officers for abuses committed in the area. The parliament werken Koz Koz, Jorge Hueque, said that the police exceeded their authority to care for the farm Trafún owned forestry enterprise Vertientes, conducting illegal searches of the area communities. Read Article
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Former paramilitary attacks against civilians in Colombia alarm the Organization of American States, but its secretary general, Jose Miguel Insulza admitted that “violence has decreased.” The violence was recorded mainly in the departments of Antioquia, Chocó and Nariño Córdoba – AP The Organization of American States (OAS) expressed concern over civilian killings and attacks by […]
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The Costa Rica’s National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) said that the birth rate in the country had dropped to 5% for 2010 due in part to the world economic crisis. Read Article
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The Fuerza Pública has 556 officers ready to stop vandalism and riots during the Quema de Judas ((burning of Judas), which is tradition in several Costa Rican communities on Saturday. José María Tijerino, ministro de Seguridad Pública, is making available as well ten lawyers, seven police analysts police, 61 motorized, eight vehicles to transport those […]
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Bolivia under President Evo Morales is seeking a radical development model based on equality and environmental sustainability – and there are lessons we can all learn. Read Article
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Cuba says it will allow people to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the communist revolution in 1959. For the past 50 years, Cubans have only been allowed to pass on their homes to their children, or to swap them through a complicated and often corrupt system. Read Article
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An estimated 16 million Argentines, (out of a population of 40 million) live on less than 800 pesos per month which is equivalent to 8 US dollars per day, according to the latest data from the official Homes Standing Poll. Read Article
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The Xingu river flows around small isles and islands and across rapids and waterfalls in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, and has a dramatically reduced flow during dry season. Navigating it presents constant hurdles and risks. Read Article
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Maria del Pilar Mite, 35, was killed with a machete in her sleep and before her sons, 18 and 10 years. The crime occurred at 04:00 yesterday in the block 8 of the cooperative’s Orchards in the north of Guayaquil. The main suspect in the murder would Agapito Chamaidán Gabriel Bohorquez, 42, exconviviente of Mite, […]
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At least 15 percent of the population over 18 years in the state of Oaxaca, Oaxaca 331 000 557, has been victim of bribery by members of various security forces, mainly identified a number of cameras business, based on the Seventh National Survey on Insecurity (ENSI) 2010. Canacintra Coparmex and revealed to news that the […]
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Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She grew up bombarded by the first video games and surrounded by people who talked more about how to get […]
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In the throes of Cuba’s economic “reorganisation,” young people are walking a tightrope towards an uncertain employment future. They are finding it increasingly difficult to find jobs that meet both their professional aspirations and their salary expectations. Read Article
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On April 12, 1797 a group of black Caribs are transported by British forces from San Vicente to Punta Gorda on Roatan Island, where they are abandoned. In May of that year set out in the sea and grow to become one of the most important living cultures of Honduras. Read Article
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In the wake of the works of the third largest dam in the world, labor strife and the outbreak of violence will come to the region of the Xingu River in Para. When you start building at least 100,000 people will migrate to the region. Some talk on the double. In addition to possibly facing […]
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Three remain in custody Brigade sub-inspectors of Police Narcotics Investigation Iquique, for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery against two Bolivians. The incident occurred in the border sector Colchane far as 263 miles inland from Iquique. According to initial investigations, the police controlled the foreigners who were waiting for a bus and forced them […]
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Honduran workers will go take to the streets on April 12 to protest the high cost of living and crime, union leaders announced Friday. The Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUT) called Thursday for the general strike to oppose higher prices for the basic family basket and continuing human rights violations, said Jose Luis Baquedano, […]
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During the period 1940 through 1960 the divorce laws in some parts of Mexico were so liberal that a thriving legal tourism industry was built around granting quickie divorces to North Americans. Read Article
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Living on the street. An urban problem that has become visible and dramatic dimensions. Wrapped in nylon sheets on mattresses polyphonic or wet tiles, hundreds of parks occupy Montevideo, portal buildings, shops and cinemas, a reality that defies the voluptuous figures of the economic boom. Read Article
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This is the trailer from the documentary ‘TRANSLATINA’ released in 2010. It documents the lives of transvestites – the trailer focuses on transvestites in Peru. WARNING: THE TRAILER SHOULD BE VIEWED BY MATURE AUDIENCES – GRAPHIC.
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Telesur correspondent in Mexico, Aissa Garcia, reported through their social network account on Twitter that”the state of Tamaulipas Attorney advises that there are 59 dead bodies found in clandestine grave.” This new discovery coincides with a massive demonstration that took place in several locations in the North American country to protest the violence. Read Article
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More than 40 000 people dressed in white marched Wednesday chanting “We want justice!” To demand that Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other authorities of the country put an end to violence and insecurity that has claimed thousands of lives the last four years. The march was called by the poet and writer Javier Sicilia, […]
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“The pipeline will carry gas to Bolivia and seven provinces in Argentina, but we who live in Campo Durán, where the pipeline starts, will not have gas,” Julio Palavecino told IPS. Read Article
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In the weeks since a motorist mowed down dozens of cyclists in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the incident has becoming a rallying flag in the fight to create a more bike-friendly city. Read Article
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The continent’s dramatic successes have been overlooked, even if the region remains one of the world’s most unequal.The idea that a successful model for development in one country could sensibly become a blueprint for another is now unfashionable – but important lessons can still be learned by examining other nations’ development paths. Read Article (Guardian)
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Among the many crises competing for international attention, the ethno-territorial conflict plaguing the Afro-Colombian population on Colombia’s Pacific Coast is barely making headlines. Afro-Colombians have been systematically displaced from their communities, often violently, at the hands of guerillas and neo-paramilitary groups since the mid-1990s. Yet few Colombians, let alone foreigners, are paying attention. Read Article
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In favor of implementing dealers fined public transport was Rep. Flores Eloisa Garcia, who highlighted the importance of turning on air conditioners in these days where you felt intense heat. Read Article
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A Top Gear episode which caused controversy with jokes about Mexicans has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog. Remarks broadcast by the BBC presenters included branding Mexicans “lazy”, “feckless” and “flatulent”. Read Article
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The first time Adela Navarro saw her longtime mentor cry was when a top editor at their muckraking newspaper was murdered leaving a health clinic with his two young children. “How many more deaths do I need to understand that we can’t do this?” asked Jesus Blancornelas, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his own […]
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Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called “The Hand with Eyes.” Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb. Read Article
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Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he was going to be […]
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The report from the National Commission on Human Rights reported that from 2006 to 2011, it recorded a total of 5,397 people who have been reported “missing or absent.” The commission said that 3,457 were men and 1,885 women, while there was no data provided on 55 cases. Read Article
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A 541-day imprisonment was ordered sent a 20-year-old was charged as having committed the crime of abortion, a procedure sanctioned under Chilean law. Read Article
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Inmates of penal Obrajes Chonchocoro Miraflores, La Paz, San Pedro, Oruro, San Roque, Chuquisaca, and Cantumarca, Potosi, overcrowded yesterday its measures of pressure to declare dry hunger strike because the Government signed an agreement to increase prediarios of 5.50 to 10 bolivianos. Read Article
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The community members asked that these cases of sexual discrimination are investigated. She is the second member of the LGBT community who is murdered in the last 15 days in violent circumstances at the hands of strangers in the town of Santa Fe. Read Article
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Chamber of Commerce said it increased from 37 percent to 49 percent between 2009 and 2010. The figure is contained in the victimization survey and the perception of insecurity, which at that time the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá was the last weekend of November and during the first three weekends of December 2010. Read […]
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A serious terrorist threat to the town of Tello, denounced the mayor of the town, Lácides Díaz. Diaz revealed that the front 17 of the Farc extorting builders of a school in the town, in the north of Huila. Read Article
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As demonstrated by Joseph, this office is not exclusive to women, because for every 19 households there is a man who exercises that work for all, time is the worst enemy because they have cooking, cleaning, ironing and perform daily chores in homes of their employers. Joseph lives in Potosí, a department that, like Beni, […]
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Government of Colombia to investigate death threats against organizations defending human rights made by the illegal group ” Black Eagles”. Read Article
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The authorities maintain a warning by the upsurge of insecurity in the premises of the Universidad del Valle in which he denounced as the rector of the institution, Ivan Ramos, have infiltrated hooded gunmen threatening to the integrity of teachers and administrative staff. Read Article
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In RCN Radio advocate for victims of drunk drivers, Maria Bottagisio, said that in the legislative agenda of Congress is not a priority to punish people for driving while intoxicated causing tragedies. Read Article
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he Secretariat of Government of ordered restriction on the movement of children in six districts of Bogotá (Bosa, Fontibón Engativá, Martyrs, Antonio Nariño, Ciudad Bolívar), from 11:00 pm until 5:00 am. Read Article
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Fabiola López Serra, host and resident of Nazareth, denounced the attitude of officials of the Federal Preventive Police located at the junction of the ejido El Huarache-Villa Juárez, because by not carrying a license, they asked 500 pesos “bite” *mordida, bribe), which to refuse, an officer ordered a hooded transit element withdraw the license plate, […]
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Up to two million pesos is the approximate cost to spy and find out if your partner is cheating. Bogota has a record of 144 private detective agencies who promise absolute confidentiality, expertise and evidence through videos, photographs and chat conversations or cell phone. Read Article
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Targeted incidents are recorded on Tuesday night in various parts of the country, under the so-called “Day of the Young Combatant” (Dia del Joven Combatiente)which commemorates the death of the Vergara brothers dictatorship. Campfires, stone throwing and attempted to burn a minibus have been the norm during the early hours of the night has been […]
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Conducted for the first time last October, the evaluation showed that 89% of students couldn’t understand everyday phrases and short, simple texts. Acknowledging the poor results, Education Minister Joaquín Lavín admitted that it was not a surprise, as “we know our reality and we knew our weaknesses, but we must be clear that what is […]
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A total of 25 people attempted to commit suicide, mainly for family reasons, economic and sentimental, so far this year, as recorded entertainment that manages the mental health area of the Regional Health Directorate by Puno Reynaldo Luna. Read Article
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