•Although there is a soldier every two kilometers, on Tuesday there will be a meeting between the minister of Defense, Rodrigo Rivera, and Ricardo Virviescas, the secretary general of the Asociación Colombiana de Camioneros (ACC), to discuss increased security on the highways. •Virviescas expresses worry that armed groups are operating in places in which there […]
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RPP.com reports that severe injuries have contributed to the death of two more soldiers on the eve of the presidential runoff. Two army non-commissioned officers died earlier today from wounds suffered in an apparent terrorist attack by the Shining Path. A special commando patrol in the Apurimac and Ene River valleys was ambushed by ‘terrorist […]
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For the first time in the history of the Regional Council of the indigenous of Cauca (CRIC), a Catholic priest was elected as its highest authority. Rev. Jesus Chavez, a native of Tierradentro and of the town of Inza, was already a leader of the Paez community – Belalcázar – in Colombia. He also served […]
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Leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC continue their cat-and-mouse battles, in the nation’s almost five-decade-old conflict. “It’s tough fighting in all this mud,” a guerrilla named “Adrian” says. Flinching with every shot he or his comrades fired, he explained that “This is to slow the army’s advance. Within two or three days […]
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Online-911.com reports an operation by the National Police of Argentina along the toll road of Molle Yaco in Tucuman, ended in the rescue of five Chinese citizens and the arrest of an Ecuadorian. The police stopped a bus arriving from Salvador Mazza to perform a passenger check, when they detected the five Chinese, including two […]
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According to elciudadano.gob.ec, the Ecuadorian coast guard captured four Peruvian fishing boats with a crew of fourteen, on June 3rd near Chanduy. Navy patrols were taking place in Chanduy in the southwest province of Santa Elena. The military seized seven lockers of snapper, angel and derrick fish, with an approximate weight of 160 kilos. The […]
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According to LaHora.com, Non-Renewable Resources Minister, Wilson Pastor says that the government approved an initial amount of USD 5 million to reintegrate miners in Esmeraldas after illegal activity ceased their activity. In Zamora Chinchipe, where 46 families live off of illegal mining, now will be able to work with the state through the National Mining […]
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Neiva. The fighting yesterday between troops of the Ground Combat Battalion No. 37, organic Brigade No. 29 and the sixth terrorist Farc allowed to expose the massive recruitment that would be suffered by indigenous people living in councils of the department of Cauca, limits to the west of Huila. The incident took place in an […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported at 9:30 in the morning of Wednesday June 1st, more than 600-armed soldiers entered the farming facilities of the community Patria Nueva in the Puembo sector of canton Pujili, seizing weapons (machetes) in a storage facility that previously contained cassava. Farmers demanded a warrant issued by a judge, but no warrant was ever […]
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Iran’s defense minister, whose extradition is sought by neighboring Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, briefly visited Bolivia on Tuesday, raising tensions between the countries. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi is wanted by Buenos Aires as an alleged mastermind of the bombing, which killed 85 people. Interpol issued a red notice for Vahidi in […]
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•Magistrate Maricio Fajarado asserts that the military did not take the necessary preventative measures to prevent the attack and seizure of base Las Delicias according to caracol.com.co. •He points to the lack of a patrol and the fact that reinforcements came a day late in the failure to protect Las Delicias. •This case is under […]
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The Interior Minister, Miguel Hidalgo Medina, said the residents of the southern Puno, concentrated in the capital of the region, began way back to their communities after a meeting held by its leaders in the highland town. Read Article
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The chairman of the Natural Resources Defense of the Southern Region, Walter Aduviri said the Aymara nation “will not lift the strike” The Defence Committee of Natural Resources of the Southern Region of Puno continue its indefinite strike last night even though the executive authorities agreed to suspend for one year highland mining concessions and […]
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Tourism to the islands of the Uros, located on Lake Titicaca shared by Peru and Bolivia, fell on Sunday by anti-mining strike heeded in the border region of Puno. Read Article Reports are indicating that tourists are not able to enter Puno or Lake Titicaca and there is no movement between Peru and Bolivia.
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This Saturday, a FARC minefield left 1 soldier dead and 4 others injured of the Batallón Numancia as revealed by elespectador.com. The Comando Pacífico blames the guerrillas of FARC’s Frente 30 for the incident in Los Robles in the municipality Buenos Aires in Cauca, Colombia known for its rebel presence. Read Article
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An agreement between drugstore employees and corporate ended a strike that would have jeopardized medication supplies in Buenos Aires. According to eldia.com.ar, workers agreed to a 33% wage increase from May 2011 to July 2012. The compromise also includes a slight pay increase for the Convenio Colectivo de Trabajo 120 that corresponds with drugstore employees. […]
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More than 1,000 soldiers arrived yesterday at San Lorenzo for realizing the state of emergency declared in the area to fight the miners. This product damage were several bulldozers used to this activity. The militaries of North Operational Command 1 of Atuntaqui, eight helicopters raided early yesterday morning to the town to close Selva Alegre […]
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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Hiking through rough Arizona desert terrain a few miles north of the Mexican border recently with a group of armed DEA agents, we were approached by a lone U.S. Border Patrol agent. He warned we should be careful up ahead, because two people believed to be spotters for a Mexican drug cartel had just been […]
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Tens of thousands of people massed in the center of Chile’s capital Friday night for new protests against the government’s plan to dam two wild rivers in the country’s southern Patagonia region. Most demonstrators were peaceful, but bands of hooded protesters attacked police and smashed shop windows and damaged other property along a 10-block stretch […]
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Peru’s President Alan Garcia on an official visit to Ecuador on Friday proposed “to reduce progressively the militarization” of the border as a show of confidence reached by both countries in the last century fought three wars and territorial disputes. Read Article
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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Read Article
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Critical is the health of the four Mapuche political prisoners held in prison in Angola, which are now serving 63 days on hunger strike. Héctor Llaitul , 43 years old, has dropped 20 kilos since he began fasting on 15 March, and has weakness, cramps in his limbs, insomnia and intense headache. Huillical Jonathan , […]
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Photographer Marcela Rodríguez’s arrest while covering a protest against a major hydroelectric project on 13 May and a government agency’s refusal to fund distribution of filmmaker Elena Varela’s documentary about the Mapuche people’s land dispute with the authorities have revived concern about a tendency to suppress coverage of environmental issues in Chile. Read Article
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PUBLISHED FROM WARDEN’S MESSAGE WARDEN’S MESSAGE – PETEN GUATEMALA May 16, 2011 Dear American Citizen: The following is a Warden Message concerning Security in Peten. Please share the following information with any other U.S. citizens you know, as soon as possible. It should be disseminated as widely as possible within the U.S. citizen community. Please […]
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President Alvaro Colom declared tonight the state of siege in the department of Petén, after the slaughter of 27 agricultural workers who worked on the farm Los Cocos, La Libertad, Petén. He said he ordered the continued presence of the combined forces of police and army ” indefinitely “in Peten jungle region where Mexican drug […]
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The Peruvian government is sending a high-level commission to solve the social conflict that erupted last week in the southern Andean region of Puno, on the border with Bolivia, against the mining concessions. Read Article
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A fishing trawler has been accused of operating illegally by Argentine Authorities despite being in Falklands waters. Yesterday evening the Korean fishing trawler Pratedina 28 was contacted by radio by an unidentified Argentine Naval vessel. At the time the Pratedina 28 was operating in the Falklands Outer Conservation Zone with a valid licence issued by […]
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A complex multi-dam hydroelectric scheme that environmentalists say threatens a pristine area of fjords and valleys in Chile’s remote Patagonia country was approved May 9 by an 11-to-1 vote of the Aysén Environmental Review Commission, a body appointed by the central government to oversee the project, after a three-year assessment. The 2,750-megawatt HidroAysén project includes […]
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A group of mothers held a group session on breastfeeding in São Paulo, in the Brazilian Southeast, as a protest. The “Mamaço” (Big Breastfeeding Event), as the event was called, happened in events center of Itaú Cultural, on Avenida Paulista, a public space sponsored by Itaú, one of Brazil’s largest financial institutions. Read Article
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Twenty nine years ago this June, British Forces liberated the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Since that time, there has been much discussion and conjecture over the future of the Islands; however, in public debate at least, seldom have the views of the Falkland Islanders themselves been sought. Read Article
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The Candidates to Replace Moreno as Mayor of Bogotá • Per a report by elcolombiano.com, the National Executive Committee of the Alternative Democratic Pole released the list of three candidates to replace Moreno for three months. • The Colombian Attorney General is suspending him. • The only female candidate is Mariela Barragán, the current Secretary […]
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According to semana.com, Gloria Flórez criticizes the Alternative Democratic Pole for excluding members of the Committee from the decision for the candidates to replace Moreno. She describes that 16 members of the democratic tendency waited hours while a meeting was being held above. Members of the majority were called up, and eventually Flórez and the […]
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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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According to eltiempo.com, current President Juan Manuel Santos and Álvaro Uribe Vélez disagree about the government recognizing an armed conflict with paramilitary groups. Santos support for this part of the law of victims soon to be passed comes from the desire to avoid grouping victims of common crimes with victims of paramilitary attacks. Uribe expressed […]
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The president of Brazil’s only public golf course is threatening to “lay down kids” in the middle of the fairways to keep government bulldozers from entering the property, constructing a new highway and destroying the course. Read Article
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Two obscure Cuban dissidents who sewed their mouths partially shut and launched a hunger strike a month ago said they were prepared to die for their demands, which include freedom for jailed US contractor Alan Gross and improved human rights. Read Article
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After seven years of the first “embrace to Uruguay River,” a group of Gualeguaychú activists marched toward the international bridge General San Martín once more and warned that the conflict of the UPM (ex Botnia) pulp-mill “has not been solved yet.” Read Article
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to help Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War as revenge for Britain’s crackdown on the Irgun during the British mandate of Palestine, according to a new book. “Operation Israel: The Reaming of Argentina During The Dictatorship,” by Argentinian journalist Hernan Dobry, explains how Israel secretly supplied arms and equipment […]
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A Libyan delegation has arrived in Caracas to discuss a peaceful solution to the ongoing war conflict in the North African country, said on Tuesday Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan Head of State is an ally of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Chávez has supported Gaddafi since the outbreak of a widespread revolt against the […]
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HydroAysén, a joint venture between utilities Endesa Chile and Colbún, wants to build five hydropower stations, two on the Baker River and three on the Pascua, to produce an annual 18,400GWh. Protestors want the government to block the development and focus on alternative renewable energy sources to meet looming power shortages in Chile, which has […]
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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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A group self-named “Bloque Central Caribe” released pamphlets in Barranquilla, threatening individuals such as journalists, syndicates, public prosecutors, lawyers and public leaders. They are a new group part of the Águilas Negras, a paramilitary group involved in the trafficking of narcotics. The Defender of the People, Valomar Pérez has condemned these threats and has asked […]
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Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (“the Company” or “Buenaventura”) (NYSE: BVN; Lima Stock Exchange: BUE.LM), Peru’s largest publicly-traded precious metals mining company announced today that operations resumed on April 25, 2011 at the Company’s operating unit Uchucchacua after the conclusion of a road blockage that initially started as a strike on April 4, 2011. This […]
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The Nukak-Maku tribe, nomads discovered only 23 years ago who number no more than 600, is struggling to adapt after Colombian guerrillas chased them from their homes deep inside the country’s lush tropical forests. “Llego la plata” (“the money is coming”), someone murmured from inside a palm leaf hut crowded with 10 adults and two […]
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At the largest mass grave site ever found in Mexico, where 177 bodies have been pulled from deep pits, authorities have recovered few bullet casings and little evidence that the dead were killed with a gun. Instead, most died of blunt force trauma to the head, and a sledge hammer found at the crime scene […]
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The Peruvian police force suppressed a popular uprising in the province of Oyón on Sunday. The evacuation of 300 villagers who were blocking a mining venture in Buenaventura left one person dead and thirteen injured. According to reports from the National Radio Coordinator, around 600 police units broke down the blockade that the villagers had […]
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Black communities of the Pacific coast of Cauca in Popayan reported, amid an outcry, the slaughter of seven youths amid a tough onslaught of paramilitary activity in this area, it has reached with operators of gold mines. Amanda Hurtado, a spokeswoman for the community, said armed men appeared at the bottom Timbiquí Township and killed […]
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In a journey that advance this Easter humanitarian agencies in the border area between Colombia and Ecuador, was found in Lake Agrario, the province of Carchi and Esmeraldas, a large number of Colombians fleeing the armed conflict. Read Article
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For Ruben Vargas, an analyst on security and drug trafficking, the Army and National Police of Peru must work in a coordinated manner, to join forces and analyze all the information they have to confront and weaken the Sendero Luminoso. “It would be interesting that the armed forces to share and discuss with the police […]
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While the perception of growing insecurity among Colombians and some indices on the situation of armed conflict, crime and violence show a clear deterioration in the interior of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence revive old personal rivalries and body, presumably overcome, which will hinder the government and the military to adapt its […]
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More than three hundred farmers have occupied Tierras Nuevas, a Dutch farm in Costa Rica. Owned by 54 Dutch investors, the land is used to grow beans and basic grains. Activists have put down plastic tents and are now camping on the 240 hectare site with their families. Read Article
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The members of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) staged riots and various other acts of violence when confronted with riot police, burning vehicles, damaging facilities of the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and physically assaulting the parastatal workers, firefighters and representatives of media. Read Article
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Amnesty International has urged the Mexican government to thoroughly investigate links between drug and criminal gangs and public officials, following the arrest this week of 16 police officers accused of working with gang members responsible for mass killings near the US border. Read Article
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The municipalities of Juchipila and Nochistlán, southern Zacatecas, remain virtually turned into ghost towns, after repeated warnings from Monday night until dawn on Tuesday, about violent clashes between rival groups allegedly linked to organized crime. Read Article
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The U.S. government carefully examines the relationship between President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian media and the state of freedom of speech and press in the country. Several cables released by the website Wikileaks, which had access to this newspaper, newspapers aware of reports that the Embassy in Quito refers to the administration of Barack […]
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After more than an hour delay, Costa Rican and Nicaraguan officials finally sat across each other along the border that separates the two countries at Peñas Blancas on Tuesday, but the discussion proved fruitless, as distrust and chaos reigned. The meeting had been scheduled for 10am but didn’t get underway until past 11am, when both […]
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With the equivalent of a dollar, without any official document can easily cross the border between Mexico and Guatemala, which Washington notes with growing concern about drug trafficking and undocumented and fear of terrorist infiltration. Read Article
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Road Protection Directorate (Provial) confirmed the blockages in the 113 kilometers, 179 and 212 of the path southwest, in Cocales, Suchitepéquez, El Zarco, Retalhuleu, and Colomba, Quetzaltenango. There also is blocked at the border of El Carmen, Malacatán. In the highlands there is protest in Cuatro Caminos, mile 178, Totonicapán, and admission to Huehuetenango. The […]
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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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A group of 150 members of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Youth have begun since Friday a watch of the Isla Calero to, “take care of national sovereignty”, according to the official Nicaraguan portal 19 de Julio. This group took over from the 100 young people who on Monday stood in the conflict zone in an attempt […]
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Relations between the Movement to Socialism government and the country’s largest labor union have hit an all-time low today. The union (COB) bussed its members to La Paz yesterday and surrounded the Bolivian federal government buildings in a giant march, battling police and launching thunderous explosives (petardos). The COB was infuriated when the Bolivian government […]
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Ecuador’s prospective tenth licensing round that will tender oil blocks in the southeast Amazon jungle is shaping up to be a battle between the government and local indigenous peoples, NGO Amazon Watch’s Ecuador program coordinator, Kevin Koenig, told BNamericas. Read Article
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A second person died Thursday following a clash between Peruvian police and protesters who were demonstrating against the stalled Tia Maria copper project owned by Southern Copper Corp. (SCCO), TV station Canal N reported. Read Article
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Chevron is divesting itself of overseas assets that could be used to enforce the $9.5 billion legal judgment against the oil giant for massive contamination of the Ecuadorian rainforest, lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs stated in a legal brief submitted to the Southern District of New York last week. Read Article
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The activity of social media and journalists is becoming weaker and more restricted in Ecuador.In the first three months of the year, supporting media and journalists were attacks and pressures from different sectors of the country.The restrictions and insecurity include criminal prosecutions, threats, intimidation, insults, physical attacks. The violence reached a TV presenter who was […]
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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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WIKILEAKS The Government of Ecuador decided to declare persona non grata to the U.S. ambassador in the country, Heather Hodges, and urged it to abandon Ecuadorian territory in the shortest time possible, reported the Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, who said that it is not expulsion. Read Article
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Yesterday, Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca accused Chile of not only failing to keep to the spirit of the 1904 Peace and Friendship Treat, but also of obstructing it by not allowing the free movement of passengers and freight from El Alto to the port of Arica, on the Chilean coast. Bolivian president Evo Morales […]
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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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Argentina’s foreign minister has denied a reported offer by his government to stop investigating two deadly bombings against Jewish centers in the 1990s in return for improved trade ties with Iran. Read Article
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The members of the Magisterium of Honduras announced that they will resume their days of demonstrations against the privatization of education in the Central American country, after failing to reach any agreement on Thursday at the negotiating table that held behind closed doors with representatives of the Honduran Executive. Read Article
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As teachers continue to strike and protest in several of the country’s cities, a TV crew with opposition station Canal 36-Cholusat Sur said it was attacked by police while covering a protest on 25 March in Tegucigalpa in almost exactly the same way as a crew with the same station and a radio reporter were […]
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he Ecuadorian lawyer Juan Pablo Sanz, one of the litigants in the case, Chevron Texaco, reported Wednesday that U.S. oil manipulates the facts related to a court ruling issued against Ecuador, and the purchase of judges in the (U.S.) thinks no liability for damages caused to Amazon for nearly three decades. “Chevron has long said […]
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One dead, 14 injured and nine arrested Wednesday left the repression of the national teachers’ protest in Honduras, three weeks ago rejected the privatization of education in the Central American country. “Teachers, students, parents, trade unionists, farmers nationwide protested against the privatization of education,” reported teleSUR collaborator in Honduras, Regina Osorio. Read Article
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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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Government authorized the intervention of the armed forces in support of the National Police, as part of protests against the mining project Tia Maria in Arequipa. Read Article
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales decided after a meeting with social organizations, call former presidents and foreign ministers who worked in the maritime claim against Chile to discuss the strategy that drives the government to regain sovereign access to the Pacific. “It’s important to know the contributions of these former officials who played a […]
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Social organizations reported on Monday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) police and military abuses committed in the war on drugs for the management of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon. “Since in 2006, President Felipe Calderon launched the national strategy against organized crime, there have been complaints from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) about the harassment, […]
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The teachers strike in protest at the threat of privatization of education in Honduras began on Monday its fifth week in Honduras, while the Honduran government outlawed the strike and warned the protesters not to resume classes would be “suspended without pay salary. ” Read Article
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The Gaula Police arrested a patrolman asked 600,000 pesos to the auxiliary bus. Patrolman Miyer Rengifo Niño could pay a penalty of four years in prison for the crime of extortion (demanding money by taking advantage of his position as public servant). Read Article
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Israel’s envoy to Buenos Aires has asked the Argentinean authorities for a response to a report that appeared in the press there Saturday, alleging that Iran suggested that Argentina “forget” about the two bombings there in the early 1990s in return for improved financial relations, Israeli diplomatic officials said Sunday. Read Article
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The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry on Thursday sent a protest note to the Directorate General of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica for “violating airspace” of the disputed area. Action “disobeyed the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its resolution of 8 March 2011.” Read Article
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Since last Friday resolved that a complete shutdown of the mining works in the district of Portovelo-Zaruma, the economy of the inhabitants of the country’s main mining center began to falter. The paralysis that is strangling the economy of the Highlands, began to reject the closure of 37 mills in the industry. Read Article
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Colombia has used unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, since 2006 to detect movement of the FARC and drug shipments, according to a leaked official cable published by WikiLeaks. One of the systems mentioned is the ScanEagle of Boeing. The document collected by the newspaper El Espectador, said that unmanned aerial systems arrived in the country in […]
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Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago. President Evo Morales said Chile had failed to respond to a deadline he had set for progress in negotiations. Read Article
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About 50 Mapuche took the church of Our Lady of Carmen, in the city of Cañete, in protest against the sentence of 25 years in prison for the operational leader of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), Héctor Llaitul and the other three Mapuche than 20 years. Read Article
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The angry protesters organized two peaceful rallies on Sunday, complaining that the nuclear agreement was signed despite major nuclear crisis that developed in Japan following the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, AFP reported Monday. Chilean opposition lawmakers and environmentalists argue that the Friday agreement is too risky for their […]
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This is a clip from the film ‘Impunity’ which is a new documentary that Hollman Morris produced with filmmaker Juan Lozano. It won a special mention at the International Human Rights Film Festival and Forum on March 11th, 2011, in Geneva. The film condemns the amnesty which paramilitaries received under the Justice and Peace Law […]
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of a new message from the “central column” of the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) paramilitary group voicing threats against journalists, civil society figures and NGOs. Dated 14 March and sent from a Gmail account in the name of “fenixaguilasnegras,” the message promises the “extermination” and “purge” of a […]
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A Colombian man is jailed in Miami 17 years after he and three brothers were indicted on charges of working for the now-defunct Medellin cocaine cartel. Sigifredo Maya made his first court appearance Friday and was ordered held without bail. Authorities say the 48-year-old Maya was detained a week earlier in Panama while attempting to […]
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A strike by transportation workers that almost paralyzed Asuncion for over 12 hours and the deaths of nine people from dengue fever made headlines this week in Paraguay. The unions decided to call a strike after several days of negotiations with the government to demand that they are allowed to drive vehicles as much as […]
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Hundreds of university students Tuesday marched through the main avenues of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, demanding a rise in government spending for the country’s universities.The students marched from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) to the National Assembly watched by the National Guard as well as officers from the Ombudsman’s office. Read Article
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The military courts, police ruled the operational management of the confrontation between the indigenous and the National Police of Peru, which occurred on June 5, 2009 and left the balance of 34 Peruvians dead at Devil’s Curve in Bagua, Amazonas. According to the statement, Gen. Elias Muguruza Luis Delgado was convicted of “failure of performance […]
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Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said Monday Colombia’s ties with Nicaragua are still difficult, and accused the Nicaraguan government of not showing interest in improving the bilateral situation. Read Article
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Argentine judge Marcelo Aguinsky dismissed charges against the U.S. after an American military aircraft was seized in the South American country for allegedly smuggling undeclared items, including weapons and surveillance equipment, local media reported Friday. Read Article
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