Informality employmnet more attacks in cities outside the capital axis as Bogota, Cali, Medellin and Bucaramanga. In fact, Medellin has the lowest informality, with 50 percent. In contrast, the worst case is Quibdó whose informality reaches 84.14 percent, followed by Riohacha, with a rate of 81.23 percent. According Farné Stefano, director of the Centre of […]
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As criminal activity has spread over Mexico, criminal organizations began to manage minor- criminal groups preparing them to be high-impact criminals. The requirement for the implementation of a new security model has been crucial. The new strategy model includes fighting and preventing crime through citizen participation.Read Article
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Cuba police arrested Sunday at fifty activists of the opposition group Ladies in White, in two separate operations, eight days before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to the island, while dissent is increasing its protests. Twenty Ladies in White were arrested as they marched after noon after attending Mass in the parish of Santa […]
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Latinamericacurrentevents.com has now completed three years as an open source media monitoring solution for organizations with a 100% focus on Latin America. In the next several months the website plans to be available ONLY via annual subscription. If your firm has any involvement with Latin America you will clearly benefit from a group of professionals […]
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Five thousand young people, called by the Assembly coordinator of high school students (Aces), star in the first year student protest. Chilean students clashed again Thursday with police in Santiago, to resume the demonstrations by a public education quality, which last year spread over seven months in a constant headache for the government. Some 5,000 […]
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The City Treasurer Apazco Magdalena, Joe Roque Jimenez was killed, apparently by 2 shots from a firearm in this municipality. The victim was part of the City Council president, Enrique Martinez Chavez, who disputes the Municipal Presidency Antonio Perez Montes. Roque Jimenez, after being attacked, was rushed to Civil Hospital, but on reaching the hospital, […]
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Saltillo. – The Attorney General of the State of Coahuila (FGEC) confirmed the deaths of two people after two clashes yesterday in this city, while four were injured, a suspect was arrested and seized weapons and vehicles. Reliance announced that in one case, state police who were on a harmonica on the boulevard Antonio Cardenas […]
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Mexico: Exile of a Woman Promoting the Safety of Women in Chihuahua Marisela Ortiz was obligated to leave her house in Chihuahua, taking her family with her on March 10, 2010. She was part of a women activist group called “Hijas de Regreso a Casa” favoring the protection of women in the country. She had […]
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The government announced that at midnight on Friday March 16th is the deadline for the closure of casinos and gambling halls across the country, in strict compliance with Executive Order No. 873, establishing a period of 6 months to The closure of these places, after the popular consultation of May 7, 2011. (TC Television) Read […]
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At the headquarters of the Superintendent of the Federal District, which includes Brasilia and 29 satellite towns surrounding, the architect and superintendent [Administrator] Alfredo Gastal discussed with a group of people their illegal status, dating back more than 40 years ago when they occupied the land where they live. The land ownership, land speculation and […]
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Thousands of people gathered at an event organized by the Prefecture of Azuay Citizen and Government Fair Basin, called bastion of citizen revolution, was the scene where the opposition yesterday brought thousands to the streets to support the motion that the CONAIE and other social organizations began in Zamora Chinchipe March 8 to protest against […]
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An assessment by Ecuadorian security forces reportedly says that Ecuador is home to an increasing number of organized criminal groups, and that the authorities have underestimated the problem. El Comercio reports (in Spanish) that a review by the military says that drug trafficking and organized crime may soon overwhelm the country, if “adequate measures” are […]
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Quila Quila – Near Sucre Bolivia In a pit, handcuffed and signs having been beaten and stoned. So two men were found denounced by the church theft The two men accused of robbing the church of Quila Quila yesterday lay in a pit, handcuffed and visible signs of having been beaten and stoned. Thus the […]
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The mayor charged that this move would represent a political party. Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro said that behind the blocks that were announced by tomorrow TransMilenio system would Colombian Student Organization (ECO) which has representation from a political party in the Congress. “That organization is calling on children from schools in the city to block […]
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From this point of view, this purpose promoters claim that sexual violence has been used by all armed groups in the country as an instrument of war, in order to intimidate, silence, expropriate, moving and dominate, which makes rape in a widespread throughout the country. Therefore, according to Ivan Cepeda, this transformation in the offense […]
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Few women have heard the term “verbal harassment street”, but most know their meaning. Verbal street harassment is the bastard relative of the “compliment” unnatural and deviant, but borrows its legitimacy to settle in everyday social life. We talk about what is commonly known as “rude” spoken by strangers, usually women, but also transvestites and […]
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At least 50 residents of a community in the state of Mexico tried to lynch a suspected thief. The incident took place in San Diego, a city in San Mateo Otzacatipan. The attempted lynching following the theft of money from one account holder, said the Public Safety Secretariat (SSC). According to the agency, Erika Chavez […]
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Karla Michel Salas, a member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (ANAD), mentioned that Esmeralda is one of dozens of missing children and adolescents in the last three years of the center of Ciudad Juarez, and at least 10 of them disappeared from an area whose radius is not more than 10 blocks and […]
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The spokesman of the National Coordinator of Secondary Students, Rodrigo Rivera, reported today that at least five thousand young Chileans were expelled for taking part in protests last year. Rivera, who announced a demonstration on March 15 and pulled the student movement in 2012, urged the government to ensure enrollment of all students from the […]
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Jaime Montejo of the Independent News Agency Noti-Calle, Mexico City, March 6 March 2012. – “This March 8th we have nothing to celebrate sex workers in Mexico,” said Lucia, who engages in prostitution from 17 years ago in Merced. “The authorities consider us victims of trafficking and pimps, but in their operations, the police treat […]
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At least 800 were discharged during the first stage of the “Warriors for Literacy”, which got 35 000 adults are no longer illiterate, according to the state coordinator of the program, Ricardo Castillo Barrientos. In turn, the operating state coordinator of this program, Felix Moreno Peralta, said that for various reasons such as migration, death […]
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Interview with Ada Beatriz Rico, Director of La Casa del Encuentro, health care, counseling and comprehensive prevention of violence against women and trafficking. Power relations and class struggle appear as private appropriation of collectively generated. Capitalism is, among other calamities, how life is played through the oppression of the few over the many. But not […]
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Virtually all cases respond to domestic violence. “Legally they are treated as personal injury and go unpunished by the difficulty to verify authorship,” he told AFP Congresswoman Gloria Estela Diaz. The legislator presented on March 16 a bill to criminalize these attacks, with imprisonment from eight to 30 years with no right to a reduction […]
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The kidnap express or “secuestro express” continues to plague residents of Guayaquil Ecuador. Below are some key facts and figures regarding this crime modality. There was some reduction in this type offense in 2011 compared to 2010. 1. 50% of express kidnappings occur in yellow taxis. 2. 23% of express kidnapping occur in pirate taxis. […]
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El Alto residents burned alive to find a thief caught in flagrante delicto. There were other similar cases. This reignited the debate over the death penalty, although the government denied. The lynching of offenders occurred on Sunday after he was caught stealing a house in the Rio Seco neighborhood, said Jorge Toro, national director of […]
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Gearing up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held here, officials celebrated plans for a futuristic “Olympic Park,” replete with a waterside park and athlete villages, promoting it as “a new piece of the city.” There was just one problem: the 4,000 people who already live in that part of Rio de Janeiro, in […]
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Rafael Correa has backed down in his attempt to bankrupt a newspaper. But his assault on media freedom continues to set a worrying example. HIS country rarely attracts much international attention. But when Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, used the courts last year to bankrupt one of its main newspapers and intimidate others, he touched off […]
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In the dark, lit only by torches, each shaman performed his clean, some amulets only accompanied by pre-Hispanic, and others with images of Santa Muerte, San Judas and Christ. Shamans, sorcerers, healers and spiritualists held at midnight the first Friday in March in Catemaco, when it charged for its clean energy, healing, voodoo, spells and […]
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The first place is Brazil, according to the Security Centre of the OAS. The report was released at an event on the crime in the hemisphere that concluded Friday in Mexico City. That being said across the region came homicides in 2010 to 154,836, meaning that occur daily or 424, which is equal, 17 each […]
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In search of the ‘Islamic menace’ in Bolivia One US congresswoman is convinced that the Iranian government is a danger to Latin American countries such as Bolivia. he possibility of a bomb in La Paz was raised in December 2011 by Ros-Lehtinen, co-star of a non-factual documentary entitled “La amenaza iraní” (“The Iranian Threat”), in […]
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They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century, when the U.S. and European appetite for cocaine created an equally insatiable demand for the drug’s key ingredient. Coca harvests exploded, […]
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Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. – The coordinator-Mexico Binational Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB), Bernardo Ramirez Bautista, announced that on Monday February 27 was held up in the capital of a contingent of more than 10 thousand people belonging to that organization, of which 2 000 are from the Mixteca region. That is because today […]
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In addition to the precarious living in the Oaxacan indigenous families, cultural issues that impact women suffer higher rates of malnutrition than men. According to the Ministry of Health of Oaxaca (SSO) for each malnourished child, two girls. Dr. Reynaldo Miguel Zavaleta, head of the Public Health Unit Health Services Oaxaca (SSO), explained that this […]
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The capital appears in a list of the British newspaper “The Telegraph” thanks to prices “cheap” rental and purchase of properties. The condition of the country’s economy is one of the arguments by which Lima has been included in a list of “Top 20 cities for young people to emigrate.” The list drawn up by […]
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A smiley face is his brand. Possibly the largest producer of pirated copies of Nicaragua. Just as everyone calls it. Its headquarters is in the Eastern market. On a bad day about two thousand copies sold of a good film and can reach double that amount. In terms of revenue means between 18 000 and […]
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One hundred disabled people remain in vigil, two blocks from the main square, where four others on Friday simulated a crucifixion at the door of a temple although lifted last night as the heavy rain. Read Article
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Cordoba, Argentina, will give the green light Saturday to the days of action organized by the Latin American and Caribbean student movement in defense of a free appropriate public education quality. The cross-walking cast just a week after the end of a meeting in Havana of the General Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean […]
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Over 17% of Ecuadorian youth between 15 and 19 are mothers, the second highest rate in Latin America, behind Venezuela, according to data released today by the Government, which has launched a campaign to reduce this figure by a quarter in two years. In 2010, the latest year for which official figures, 20% of births […]
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Flores is one of about 2,000 women who reported being sterilized against their will, as part of a program of “family planning” undertaken by the government of Alberto Fujimori in 1996. The program consisted of the forced sterilization of some 300,000 women, according to information the government itself. Read Article
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Consistently, the media blamed Brazil to Paraguay to be the mecca of counterfeiting, piracy and smuggling. Announced with great fanfare the seizure of large quantities of electronics, drugs and cigarettes. However, do not say is that this business was initiated by the “Brazilian brothers” in Paraguay. The fierce attack on the illegality is simply because […]
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One night in December of 2010, Father Rafael Rojas Reatiga failed to give his blessing to his parishioners at the end of the Eucharist. After delivering the sacrament of communion, he fell unconscious on the floor of the Cathedral Jesus Christ Our Peace of Soacha, where he was pastor since 2003. That moment of panic […]
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Council authorities and Primary Education (CEIP) study how they will implement the ban on the sale and consumption of unhealthy foods in schools. Some consider it necessary to ban, for others the veto is not possible. The former director of CEIP and current Secretary of Education, Oscar Gomez, was in favor of prohibiting the consumption […]
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The poor economic situation that currently lives in Spain, gradually complicates the permanence of Ecuadorians in that country. In fact, the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, a few days ago predicted that unemployment will be even greater in 2012. “We are facing a critical situation, with an unemployment rate of 22.9% (5.3 million people out […]
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The death of two journalists in a week in Brazil has sounded alarms and increased concern in the government of Dilma Rousseff. The murder, last Thursday, Randolfo Mario Marques Lopes, who was kidnapped along with his girlfriend at home and whose bodies were found in a street in Barra do Pirai in the state of […]
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With the presence of all the unions, social, political and human rights who marched next to the CTA on 29 December last year to demand the annulment of the Act, on Monday 13 met again at the headquarters of the Central to convene to a new mobilization to take place on Wednesday 15 to 17 […]
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The mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro, signed today a cooperation agreement on disability with the Vice President of Ecuador, which will send three teams of experts to the city to report on the “Manuela Mirror”, which has helped thousands of people in the country. At the signing ceremony, the secretary general of the Vice President […]
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The President led by social policy flag ended his management on January 14 with a speech in which he emphasized macroeconomic stability, good moment that passes through the seized banks and multi-million dollar organized crime. During the presentation to Congress of its fourth report on the work, Alvaro Colom made a single reference to the […]
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Farmers of the Coast and Galapagos yesterday received permits to carry firearms as a defense. The measure allows your arms move without being seized by the police or armed forces. The commander Jaime Ortiz, Commander and Chief of Staff of the Center for Arms Control, said that “those who carry guns were trained by specialized […]
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More than 30 workers of the Public Ministry (MP) and the Judiciary (OJ) Quiché held hostage by hundreds of supporters of the mayor-elect Pedro Raymundo Cobo, who took government facilities. Reportedly, the protest that made 200 people is a measure of pressure to the judges of the Constitutional Court (CC), as the elected mayor could […]
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The group of hackers Anonymous in Colombia threatened today to attack the websites that promote bullfighting or any other event relating to bullfighting. Through a video released on the online video platform YouTube, the group called “strongly reject any act which endangers life or being abusive to the voiceless.” “Anonymous pursue relentlessly and viciously punished […]
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According to data provided by Ms Graciela Beatriz Moreno, member of the team of psychologists belonging to the body of the province Interdisciplinary Forensics (ICF), in most sexual abuse cases reported, the main victims of this crime are under age. He also noted that the amount of sexual abuse of various kinds that work in […]
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As part of the shares of joint programming among different sectors of government, the Ministry of Education of Honduras has been included on the ballot for school enrollment indicators that provide information on the situation of children and Working Girls. This small change is a major step in the fight against child labor in the […]
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In the month of January, reported the stabbing death of the president of the state table tennis, Angel Chavez (47), which was found inside his home with a date of death of 72 hours. He was also shot and killed a dealer, Gilberto Camargo, where he waited for her 3 years at the door of […]
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Reforms to Ecuador’s electoral law that will take effect on February 4 could hamper the ability of the country’s journalists to cover political campaigns and elections, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The government of President Rafael Correa, who is expected to seek re-election next year, promoted the legislation, which was passed on January […]
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This school year will begin with new texts that are classified as terrorist Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA , as they explain the real criminal action developed, announced Education Minister Patricia Salas. Disappear also the terms “internal war” or “internal armed conflict” to refer to the violence unleashed by these terrorist groups, said Salas O’Brien […]
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Ecuadorian children and adolescents are still at risk. The figures that manage the agencies responsible for protecting children reflect this (see pg. 11). However, that does not mean there is no progress. The legislation, for example, are guaranteed certain rights, as contained in international treaties and conventions, as well as the Constitution and other specialized […]
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The number of Colombians entering Ecuador to escape violence in their country has risen steadily over the past two years to put in between 1,200 and 1,500 per month, the UN said today. Currently there are 55,000 recognized refugees in Ecuador, according to which the Government has provided the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the […]
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This was stated by Terry Morell, UN representative for displaced people in Colombia. He did it during the hearing of accountability in this displaced displaced citing that he had convened the Constitutional Court. Morell said that while the UN recognizes advances in clarifying the prosecution of cases by forced displacement, there is still impunity for […]
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A Brazilian drug dealer is giving free cocaine to addicts in exchange for tattooing his name on their body, police said Monday. About 70 people in the village of Itapetinga have tattooed the name “Freudenthal” in the body, authorities said in the northeastern state of Bahia. Read Article
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The bodies of two children were found in the domestic sector “Hex” rehabilitation center under Resume (San Salvador), this morning, with apparent signs of torture, confirmed Inspectorate of Prisons. Around 7:00 in the morning reported the fact, after a routine surveillance conducted by security personnel. Until the end of the report, know the cause of […]
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President Funes announced that the Ministry of Justice and Security is working on a security strategy focused on paddling the levels of violence that affect the education sector. The past year, 139 students lost their lives due to violence. Read Article
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Seven out of ten women are raped But if something really irritates you is to talk about migrant women, the most vulnerable, the most unprotected: “It’s rare that is saved from being raped,” says circumspect. I ask what data you have. I look and reflect. That it is difficult to get reliable statistics because women […]
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A report published by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, through its National Reference Center on Violence, states that the homicide was the leading cause of violent deaths in Colombia during 2011. According to the report, during 2011 there were 23,742 violent deaths across the country. The 60.54% of these, 14,374 words […]
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New student protests in Chile hilean students call to radicalize their struggle with the Government More than a dozen prisoners left the past in Santiago de Chile a march organized by some college student organizations, the first of 2012, which did not have the backing of the major federations of students, they said their leaders. […]
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Brazil is a country of the middle class. Six out of every ten Brazilians 16 or older already belong to this group, according to Datafolha. With 90 million people, a number larger than the population of Germany, the Brazilian middle class, however, is far from being homogeneous. The variety of indicators for income, education and […]
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To better understand the problem of bullying and what it represents this serious problem in schools across the country, teachers and primary school pupils Francisco I. Madero talks given by the Department of Public Safety. Read Article
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The migration of Ecuadorians to Spain has come to an end and now, in times of crisis, and more people are those who come, as evidenced by current population estimates prepared by the National Statistics Institute (INE) , cut to December 13, 2011. The data conclude that the net migration of Ecuadorians in Spain was […]
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The following information was submitted by an anonymous source. Scanning the online classified advertisements in Ecuador reveals a chilling aspect of criminal behavior. Assassins appear to be openly advertising their services to eliminate anyone for a price. Here are a few examples: Phone numbers and emails have been removed. One of the advertisements claims they […]
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Felicita Pinto arrived early at the gates of the luxurious community where she labors as a maid, but the minibus to her employer’s home was late. So she decided to walk six blocks to work, on streets lined with broad lawns and imposing homes. Security guards quickly chased her down and forced the 57-year-old widow […]
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A couple was arrested by police in Ciudad Juarez on the border between Mexico and the United States, forcibly prostituting four children under 15 years old, said Friday the local government. The detainees, a 31 year old man and a woman of 28, “were accused of forcibly retaining several underage girls, to whom they forced […]
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The case of a pregnant 11 year old girl, whose mother asked the justice to be allowed for termination of pregnancy was the result of sexual abuse, but unexpectedly withdrew from it, Argentina has revived the controversy surrounding the legalization of abortion. Social organizations today denounced any pressure to the family of the girl pregnant […]
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Developments pirate, counterfeit and informal writings have been common farm and even Bogota traditional, and generally in cities of rapid urban growth. Bogota has seen increasing these actions in the last decade, in general situations seeking to extract urban rents. These phenomena in other countries are classified as “urban crime”. However, the Colombian Criminal Code […]
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The new law concerns 140,000 buildings in Buenos Aires accounting for 20% of the 200 million square metres of the city. Under the previous law, which expired on 31st January, the Consejo de Asunto Patrimonial judged if a building had patrimonial value, and if so, would rule that it could not be destroyed. Since 2007, […]
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OPINION IT’S hard to believe that this would happen today in a largely democratic region, but the beginning of 2012 finds much of Latin America suffering the worst wave of press censorship since the rightist military dictatorships of the 1970s. Like never before in recent history, elected presidents who already control their congresses and judicial […]
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Before the São Paulo Police operation that surrounded the ‘Crackland’ last week, Folha checked neighborhoods such as Vila Mariana, Bixiga, Paraíso, Penha and Bela Vista, in the past six months. In those places, Folha reporters found houses and apartments where a scheme, unknown to authorities till then, took place – the private ‘Cracklands’. Read Article
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(FROM NOV. 2011)INFOBAE reported, given the lack of job opportunities, more than 300 thousand citizens of that country and regularized their immigration status in the South American nation so far in 2011. The good momentum within the economy is the big attraction for skilled foreigners. About 328,826 Portuguese regularized their immigration status in Brazil in […]
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Today it adds an economic racism, where race may be less important when discriminating as the socio-economic factor (income, habits, customs). In the Mexican case the kind of racism that most can identify discrimination are behaviors that correspond to giving inferior treatment to another person usually for social, ethnic, sexual (Torres S, Alcantara, H, and […]
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Homicides against children – 1,248 Interpersonal violence – 23, 587 Domestic violence cases – 13, 731 Sexual abuse – 17, 318 Source: Fuentes Forensis – Date: 2010
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Recent research investigations conducted by member of The Observatory on Femicide Civil Society, Marisel Adriana Zambrano, has discovered a large number of women and girls murdered in domestic violence situations in 2011. 282 women and girls died of victims in domestic violence situations in the hands of their boyfriends, spouses, or partners. According to Univision.com, […]
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The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world’s natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn. According to the Maya […]
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Miguel Angel Jimenez Corona, a researcher at the Department of Business at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero) Puebla, revealed that more than 50 percent of the population in the state live on less than 100 pesos a day, also indicated that this sector is poblanos which has the highest debt ratio in the first months of […]
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EMOL.com reported, according to Mexican government official’s data released January 11, 2012 indicates more than 47,000 deaths were associated with criminal organization groups in Mexico since 2006. The total number of deaths represented an increase of 11% since 2006, which ultimately gave birth to an outstanding 47,515 deaths.From January through September of 2011 more than […]
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Although the Resource Center for Conflict Analysis (Cerac) estimates that in Bogotá is a record of between 200,000 and 250,000 legal firearms, authorities have not specified the exact number of weapons circulating pass in the city. As security expert Jerome Castillo says “It is strange that the authorities do not give a reason about statistics,” […]
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The inhabitants of the area’s Spring Nelson Mandela, yesterday staged a protest against the company busy Electricaribe, which reported cost overruns on electricity bills, in addition to continuing power outages, ensuring they have led to major losses in their appliances.During the day, in which protesters burned tires and the energy meters detached from their homes, […]
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According met this writing, the town of Arenal, on Thursday morning full of pamphlets signed by a group calling Gaitanistas Self, which challenged the national government and security forces for the death of top leader of the “Urabeños” alias “Giovanni” , which occurred in the department of Chocó. Read Article
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The region of Latin America was in 2011 the world’s most dangerous region for the integrity of journalists, and especially Mexico, according to a report of the entity International Press Institute (IPI), which listed 103 media professionals killed in the year. “With 36 journalists killed in Latin America is the world’s deadliest region for journalists […]
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The study by the NGO Active and the Chilean Association of Municipalities commune revealed that the greatest number of offenders under 18 years is Antofagasta. An increase of 10.4% experienced the participation of minors in murder offenses during 2011, according to a study by the NGO Active and the Chilean Association of Municipalities. Read Article
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Mexico Vivo Foundation launched a campaign to promote is performed early testing for HIV during pregnancy, which has caused controversy in social networks. The campaign uses three posters, and in each place the image of a child. In each of them accompanied by the motto “Have HIV” and swap the words How queer? “,” Drug […]
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Cuban President Raul Castro, launched about a year ago and half a profound process of reforms to save the economic model imposed on the island for more than half a century. To that end, has implemented more than 200 reforms to “refresh the exhausted economic model,” explained the president. Read Article
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The preliminary census figures throw that 3,216,257 people were surveyed so far in Uruguay, according to the report presented this Thursday Laura Nalbarte, technical director of the National Statistics Institute (INE) and Jose Maria Calvo, director of the Census 2011. The figures are as high as 22 December, when it began with the preliminary count, […]
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he Bolivians feel that social conflict will increase in 2012, according to the results of a public survey released Monday. According to public opinion survey, 56% of respondents believe that social conflicts will increase, while only 16% expect the situation becomes more calm and to reduce social protests. In contrast, for 21% of respondents did […]
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In the center historic district of Mexico City (Hidalgo(Donceles, Regina, Alameda)there are dozens of establishments that serve as bookstores by day. However, there is an underground of bars, cheap beer, drugs, and sex for a price operating in many of these establishments after dark until dawn. Read Article
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Ecuador signed an agreement with the European Union to 91 rural communities to access the installation of connectivity, internet and IP telephony. This project is part of EUROSOLAR program promoted by the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy jointly with the EU. Read Article
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As part of the regulations of the initiative Minha Casa, Minha Vida*, the Brazilian government is planning to give 3% of the newly constructed living spaces to the elderly and 3% to those with disabilities. The participants will have to register in the national registry of social programs, CadÚnico according to economia.ig.com.br. Read Article ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ […]
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The Chihuahua state ranks first in incidence of reported kidnappings, with E103 so far this year, while the business of extortion is in ninth place in the “Top Ten” national, according to the National Public Security System ( SNSP). Meanwhile, capital Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua are also among the 14 cities that concentrate most of […]
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After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to close the eight restaurants that remained open in the three main cities: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de the Sierra. It is a question of the first Latin-American country that will […]
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The Foundation Journalism Communications Agency Allied Children, Social Development and Research – Pandi, found through investigation that the institutions of the country has no statistical records show that actually allow risks to which children are exposed work and how it will affect their health. According Pandi, who works in partnership with the Telefónica Foundation serves […]
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In Bogota were reported 103 cases of theft mode ‘paseo millonario’ or ‘express kidnapping’ from January 2011 ocubre, ie there was an increase in 17.4 percent compared to 2010, where 88 cases were filed in the tolalidad the year. According to information provided by the Center for Study and Analysis on Coexistence and Citizen Security […]
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