A look at the border disputes beginning in October 18 up until the International Court of Justice decision made Tuesday.
.Oct. 18, 2010: Nicaragua begins dredging the border of the Río San Juan with the goal of facilitating better navigation on the river.
Oct. 21: Costa Rica denounces that Nicaragua allegedly moved sediment from the dredging operation onto Isla Calero, causing environmental damage. Read Article
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Chevron, the second largest U.S. oil company, believes that to overturn the verdict ordering it to pay 9.5 billion dollars in reparations for environmental and public health damages in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle, the best defence is a good offence. Read Article
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Former Foreign Minister and Catholic priest, Father Miguel D’Escoto described the ICJ ruling as a triumph of justice that forces Costa Rica to give up its warmongering attitude and seek harmony with Nicaragua. “Costa Rica overreacts and tells lies to sow fear in its own people towards Nicaragua and go on with its military build-up,” […]
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The ruling Tuesday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the border conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is allowing both sides to claim victory and helping to defuse – at least for the moment – a high-stakes showdown that many feared would end in violence. Read Article
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Ecatepec, Mexico – It’s been two years since Obdulia de Paz’s former boyfriend broke into her home and killed her mother and daughter with the help of his son, nephew, and a friend. “The police carried my daughter out wrapped in a blanket filled with blood,” Ms. de Paz says. “I wanted to see her […]
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José Rodríguez, leader of the Carperos, said union members have already begun the invasion of the properties located in 10 departments. “It is early entry into the premises and are enabling a piece of land with the intention to plant something for a living,” he told the 780 AM. He said that the invasions were […]
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Brazil, firmly opposed to a militarisation of the crisis in Libya and in favour of negotiated solutions without foreign intervention, is heading to a Mar. 7-8 ministerial meeting with India and South Africa. At next week’s meeting in New Delhi, being held by the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum, the foreign ministers of the three […]
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The time, money and patience is running out for the 175 ejidatarios the morning of August 4, 2010 were violently evicted from a property adjacent to the beach known as Tenacatita Jalisco state. Last August, after more than three decades of fighting the ownership of an area of 42 hectares, the employer Andres Villalobos obtained […]
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The peasant leader José Rodríguez, leader of the National League “camp assistants” and president of violent Partido Patria Libre, announced that from Monday, will start massive protests and invasions of stays in several departments. Read Article
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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and “disappeared” during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year’s recipient of the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize. The Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, meeting in […]
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Mexico and the U.S. agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border to operate across the United States. The agreement, announced today after a meeting by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, would lead to Mexico dropping tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. pork, cheese, corn […]
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Costa Rican authorities fear that the court ruling due next Tuesday on the Isla Calero dispute, Nicaragua could close its borders to Costa Rica. The International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) is due to render its decision on Costa Rica’s request for temporary measures stopping Nicaragua from continuing the dredging of the San […]
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Informal miners on Wednesday blocked roads and streets in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios to protest against government intervention in the control of pollution caused by the use of dredges by workers. Read Article
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American Court of Human Rights yesterday heard the arguments of Venezuelan former mayor Leopoldo Lopez , the first of two hearings in which will discuss the political disqualification of more than 800 public officials in Venezuela, decided by the Comptroller General of this country (Tribe -tional Accounts) between 2005 and 2008. What Lopez claims in […]
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Three suspected militants captured, apparently, gave support to the front of the FARC Magdalena. Detectives of the Administrative Security Department, assigned to the Branch Santander Bolivar, supported by troops from the Army and Navy captured three suspected militants of the FARC. Read Article
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Spanish journalists Paco Gómez Nadal and Pilar Chato agreed under pressure to be repatriated yesterday, 48 hours after being arrested during a demonstration by indigenous groups outside the parliament building in Panama City in protest against a mining law reform. While transiting through Costa Rica yesterday, the couple told journalists the Panamanian authorities pressured them […]
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Fighting between informal gold miners and national police on the river of Puerto Moldanado left two dead and more than 20 police injured. Seventeen miners were injured. Read Article
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The coordinating committee for the defense of natural resources and the rights of the Ngobe-Bugle indigenous people and the Panamanian government reached an agreement on mining, and activists removed their roadblocks. Read Article
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A protestor held out a handful of metal dust, part of the “silvery rain” falling that day in Santa Cruz, a low-income neighbourhood on the west side of this Brazilian city, as proof of the environmental nightmare affecting the area ever since a German steel plant opened there. Read Article
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On Thursday, almost 3,000 protesters participated in a peaceful demonstration organized to bring the city mayor to the negotiating table. The police closely monitored the demonstration, but there were no clashes, a Press TV correspondent reported. An increase of 30 cents in bus fare — from $2.70 to $3.00 — was introduced in January by […]
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Amnesty International has called on the Guatemalan authorities to investigate the killing of three indigenous rights activists found shot dead in the east of the country, and to protect the rest of their community. Read Article
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Uruguay’s leading and largest fish processing company Fripur S.A. claimed in full page ads in Montevideo’s newspapers that it is the victim of a “strong media offensive” that “irresponsibly” questions the way in which it processes products that are sold both in Uruguay and overseas. Read Article
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Indigenous organizations in Panama province are preparing a national mobilization against a mining law reform despite government promises not to promote that activity in Cerro Colorado and other districts. District leaders rejected an agreement between the government of Ricardo Martinelli and tribal chief Rogelio Moreno stipulating the abstention from beginning, promoting or approving the prospecting […]
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Cuba and Nicaragua have sprung to the defense of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Tuesday that Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests. Read Article
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The Colombian government’s greater openness to dialogue and the recent release of hostages by that country’s FARC guerrillas have created a climate in which it is possible to move in the direction of a negotiated solution to an armed conflict that has dragged on for nearly half a decade. Read Article
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For the first time in over 20 years, a Venezuelan government gave in Tuesday to the demands of students, more than 60 of whom were on hunger strike, and released or promised better conditions for members of the opposition who are in prison. Read Article
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ElUNVERSAL.com reported that a group of Venezuelan students lifted a hunger strike they have held for 23 days, after the government agreed to talk to them, said Lorent Saleh, a spokesman of the protest and coordinator of the NGO Active Youth, United Venezuela (JAVU). Read Article
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The Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario has been under pressure since the start of the year. One of its reporters, Luis Galeano, has received death threats over two sensational corruption stories he wrote for the newspaper, one in January and one in February. At the same time, its management accuses the authorities of obstructing importation […]
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The National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador said on Monday that weapons belonging to one of its specialized units were driven by gang members who committed a slaughter in a city adjoining the capital, which killed 17 people in June last year. On 20 June a group of gangsters hijacked a bus with 20 […]
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0.70 to 8 percent of Bolivians agree with re-election of Evo Morales for a third term from 2015 to 2020, according to a survey released on Tuesday in La Paz. The survey was conducted by the Fides radio group 12 and February 13, interviewing 400 people in ten districts of La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of […]
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The Peruvian government has offered to put Israeli citizen Dan Cohen on trial in Peru, after refusing to extradite him to Israel on the grounds that there is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Cohen is alleged to have taken bribes of 4.1 million dollars while serving on the board of directors of the […]
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Reuters has a flash report quoting British foreign minister William Hague, who says he has seen intelligence that suggests Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has already fled the capital in Tripoli and is en route to Venezuela. The New York Times had previously reported that Qaddafi’s grip on power was slipping: Read Article
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The hunger strike started a youth group for 21 days in Venezuela for the release 27 alleged political prisoners continued today to receive the support of opposition political leaders, while up to 80 the number of people linked to the protest. Sources of the strikers, who also requested a visit of a mission from the […]
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Opponents of the government’s reform to the mining codes held a number of protests yesterday, calling for the repeal of the reforms. There were protests in Panama City, Chiriquí and Isla Colón in Bocas del Toro. The protesters included indigenous groups and environmentalists. Read Article
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Mexico is a foreign country where there are more violent deaths of American civilians, said the State Department of that country are alert because the number is rising. Potosí. Jaime Zapata, agent of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE by its initials in English) and attached to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, died […]
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Thousands of people have rallied in La Paz, Bolivia to demand higher salaries as the cost of food and fuel increases. Unions led Friday’s demonstrators, who marched in the streets of the capital to protest the cost of living. Some of the protesters set off sticks of dynamite while taking part in the fifth day […]
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The United States has built a huge fence to keep Mexican immigrants out. It has cost billions, split communities – but does it work? Charlie Bruce was a Texas police chief of the old school. In more than four decades on the force he gave homegrown criminals good reason to steer clear of Del Rio, […]
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Police in Panama have clashed with dozens of indigenous protesters trying to prevent copper mining on their ancestral lands. Members of the Guaymi indigenous group occupied a bridge on a major highway on the outskirts of Panama City. Read Article
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What started off as a small hunger strike of Venezuelan students, is now growing as dozens of people have joined the protest demanding that the government let the Organization of American States investigate alleged human rights abuses under President Hugo Chávez. Read Article
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Colombia’s truck drivers will lift their road blockades after reaching a breakthrough deal with the government, reported newspaper El Espectador. The 15-day strike came to an end after an intermediation from vice president Angelino Garzón with the Colombian Truck Drivers Association (ACC), the story reported. Read Article
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On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted […]
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Pursuant to the agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Venezuela for the Promotion and Protection of Investments, Canadian mining company Crystallex International Corp. has filed a request for arbitration against the Venezuelan government. Read Article
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A man and his 8-year-old son were shot and their car set on fire late Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a municipal police spokesman said. Read Article
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Antiriot police began assembling Wednesday in front of striking Colombian truckers, who for three days have been causing major traffic jams by setting up roadblocks on this capital city’s main arteries. The truckers’ strike, which began nearly two weeks ago over deregulation of the industry, involves the majority of some 200,000 Colombian truckers and is […]
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Lawyers for Chevron Corp and plaintiffs who accuse the U.S. oil giant of pollution return to a provincial court in Ecuador’s Amazon this week to appeal one of the world’s largest ecological damage rulings. Lawyers for the 47 named plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they will file papers on Thursday before a three-judge panel at […]
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Bolivia will tap central-bank reserves to boost agricultural production and stockpile food, joining countries from Africa to Asia in a bid to avoid a looming global “crisis,” Finance Minister Luis Arce said. Rising food prices pushed tens of millions of people into extreme poverty last year and are reaching “dangerous levels” in some countries, World […]
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Despite serious trade spats in the past with major trade partners China and Brazil, Argentina has slapped new import restrictions on 200 goods in a bid to protect its domestic industry after a 46 per cent surge in imports last year.The government said it was applying non-automatic licences to the new list of goods, which […]
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President of the Grandmas of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, rejected on Tuesday those economic groups that are playing down the persistence in Argentina of aberrant crimes like peopleâ�Ös trafficking and slave labor. Now that the State is dealing with it, concerned parties like the Argentine Rural Society are trying to play down the […]
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In November 2009, a Philadelphia lawyer suing Chevron Corp. over oil-field pollution in Ecuador had some advice for his colleagues on the case: Now might be the time to settle. Read Article
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Countries in Latin America and Africa including Bolivia and Mozambique are most at risk of food riots as prices advance, said the United Nations. The past month’s protests in North Africa and the Middle East were partly linked to agriculture costs. World food prices climbed to a record in January, the UN said on Feb. […]
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Manifestations of rejection of the recently approved amendments to the Code of Mineral Resources were multiplied in the country yesterday. In Bocas de Toro, Chiriquí, Veraguas, and in different sectors of the province of Panama, here were street closings and protests. Read Article
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A wave of violent protests is shaking Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales had to abandon a public event celebrating Bolivia’s 230th anniversary of Independence after being confronted by protestors angry over food shortages and price rises. Scheduled to talk in the mining city of Oruro, he and his team had to leave the city quickly […]
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Police in Colombia say they have captured a man they believe to be the financial brains behind one of the country’s main drug-trafficking rings. Police arrested Fredy Ricardo Santos Ramirez in central Colombia. Read Article
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The Colombian navy has seized a submarine believed to have been built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico. The 31m-long (100ft) fibreglass vessel was found hidden in a jungle area in Timbiqui, in south-westernern Colombia. Read Article
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Fighting between the Colombian rebel group FARC and the drug gang “Los Rastrojos” left at least 15 people dead, authorities said Friday. Read Article
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Bolivian President Evo Morales hastily left the southern mining city of Oruro on Feb. 11 after protesters angered by rising food prices and shortages jeered him and set off dynamite. Morales canceled plans to lead a march in the city commemorating an 1871 anti-colonial uprising there, and retreated back to the capital, La Paz. Read […]
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Mexican officials say unidentified gunmen have killed eight people in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class suburb of the capital, Mexico City. Read Article
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Mexican researchers are predicting the violence-plagued border city of Juarez will be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year. Read Article
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Indigenous leaders from the comarca Ngäbe Buglé are organizing a number of protests that will take place Tuesday against reforms to the mining code that were ratified this week. The protesters, who are concerned that the changes will allow copper mining at Cerro Colorado, are planning protests in San Félix and David, in the province […]
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday condemned the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the rebel group’s kidnapping of two people on Wednesday evening after it released one hostage.Santos said that the new kidnapping even made him consider stopping the plan of FARC on the release of four more hostages still kept by […]
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Honduran teachers announced that on Friday they will stage the first national strike of the current school year to demand their rights. The teachers decided to dedicate Fridays for strikes and meetings to claim for the payment of arrears, the defense of the teachers’ statute and the end of the privatization policies in the education […]
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Last January, I wrote an essay for The Nation on Washington’s integration of Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a “security corridor.” I called it a “rump Monroe Doctrine,” an explosive mix of militarism and neoliberal economics. Militarily, assorted bilateral and regional treaties are fusing the region’s military, intelligence, and judicial systems into unified, supra-national […]
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President Hugo Chávez may have to deal with more popular protests in Venezuela in the coming year, amid a “poor economic performance” and an “energized opposition,” predicted a report released by the director of National Intelligence (DNI). Read Article
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The term “BACRIM” is not an invention of the press and analyst specializing in security issues, is a definition that the military authorities and police gave these new criminal groups in 2006, when it was formed under the responsibility of the Directorate of Security Police and National Police Rural an interagency coordinating office and information […]
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For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely watching developments in Mexico that relate to what we consider the three wars being waged there. Those three wars are the war between the various drug cartels, the war between the government and the cartels and the war being waged against citizens and businesses by criminals. In […]
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Representatives of the Awa indigenous people on Thursday reported five accidents with landmines on its guard in the southwest of the country that killed a member of their community. La muerte del awá fue al menos la segunda del año a causa del estallido de minas. Awa’s death was at least the second year due […]
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The government of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo reactivated at least four abandoned military forts in the region of the Chaco Boreal border with Bolivia, the newspaper El Nuevo Herald. The acting head of the Army, General Dario Caceres, announced yesterday at a press conference that “the programs will be implemented to improve infrastructure in order […]
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Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.” Read Article
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Brazilian mining giant Vale SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) said Thursday that protesters closed the Carajas railroad Wednesday for more than five hours and continue to hold six workers hostage. Read Article
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Authorities in Mexico are reportedly investigating the shooting death of a man who was recently praised as a hero for defending his home from three armed men in a home invasion last month. Read Article
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Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace to protest at the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon rainforest. Read Article
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On February 2, 2011, cartel, CJNG or Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion broadcast a video demanding that police commanders step down by February 10, 2011, who are involved with La Resistance and La Familia Michoacana. The video stated if they don’t resign, “The Hunt is On, according to blogdelnarco.com. However, there are known names police commanders […]
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Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations took place. Read Article
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The Colombian government on Tuesday reaffirmed its refusal to negotiate with the country’s Bacrim criminal gang and drug traffickers. High national security adviser Sergio Jaramillo said the country would not negotiate with those groups — mostly formed by demobilized paramilitary squad members in the previous administration. Read Article
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The messages are heard again in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios border. The armed group makes the invitations through the radio “Voice of the Resistance ‘, said Saturday the Ecuadorian newspaper’ The Universo ‘ “In a few weeks the station has penetrated guerrilla clearly in villages that are located along the border,” he says. Read […]
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IN May 1982 Spanish police probably altered the course of the Falklands War after stumbling on Argentinean plans to blow up British warships in Gibraltar harbour. A recently reissued documentary, directed by Jesus Mora, refutes Sunday Times claims that the French intelligence service alerted Britain to the plot. Read Article
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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The Mexican government condemned comments by a top U.S. Defense Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” — remarks the official later apologized for and retracted. Read Article
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Dock workers have ended a strike at Peru’s main port of Callao, a spokesman for ENAPU, the port operator, said Wednesday. Operations returned to normal early Wednesday, he said. Read Article
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Since 1948 Costa Rica has had no army, relying on international law for defense of its borders, to live in peace and democracy. However, the incursion of Nicaraguan troops on a piece of land claimed Costa Rica – the alleged border invasion – has become a challenge to its neutrality. Read Article
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Opponents of gold mining in Colombia and its accompanying mercury pollution say social mobilization against the practice is growing. Read Article
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Police on Easter Island have evicted a group of indigenous people who had been occupying the grounds of a luxury hotel since last year. The group of Rapa Nui say the land on which the hotel was built had been illegally taken from their ancestors generations ago. They have been protesting for months over what […]
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On 6 February hundreds of indigenous blocked the routes into the petrol-producing department of Arauca in north-east Colombia on the border with Venezuela. They were protesting the detention by the military of three of their leaders who are accused of links with the ELN. The protesters also called for the establishment of a permanent verification […]
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32% increase in the practice of kidnapping in Colombia during 2010, compared with the practice of crime nationwide during the preceding year. De 213 denuncias durante el 2009, se pasó a 282. Of 213 complaints in 2009, moved to 282. Common criminals were responsible for 57% of abductions in 2010, the FARC’s 23%, 12% ELN […]
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The Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, just ordered the suspension of military operations for 36 hours in an area south of the country to facilitate the operation of the release of the president’s Council of San Jose del Guaviare, Mark Baquero. Read Article
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Colombia’s defense minister proposes a strategy, including the creation of a Joint Task Force, aimed at destroying the infrastructure of criminal organizations throughout the country, El Espectador reports. Rodrigo Rivera presented the new strategy, known as “D6,” to President Juan Manuel Santos Monday. Read Article
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Border dispute with Nicaragua has Costa Rica rethinking its lack of army The International Court of Justice is expected to rule any day on a Costa Rica-Nicaragua border dispute. The case has caused the ‘Switzerland of Central America’ to reexamine its commitment to disarmament. Read Article
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Insurgents the Army battles in the future may be in Mexico, not the Middle East, Army Undersecretary Joseph W. Westphal said during a Monday lecture at the University of Utah. “This isn’t just about drugs and illegal immigrants. This is about the potential takeover of a government that’s right on our border,” Westphal said of […]
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Colombian troops found a cache of the FARC in the jungles of the southern department of Putumayo, bordering with Ecuador, which had nearly a ton of explosives, officials said. Read Article
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Twelve people were injured and the partial destruction of the door of the church and a lodge, is the result of clashes between inhabitants of the municipality of Candelaria, Atlántico, and units of the Police ESMAD group. Read Article
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A plant run by Heinz in the state of Carabobo, north central Venezuela, was shut down by workers, who demanded the signing of their collective bargaining agreement. Read Article
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The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons. Read Article
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Oil prices could more than double to $200 per barrel if the Suez Canal closes because of the crisis in Egypt, though there is no sign of that happening at the moment, Venezuela’s oil minister said on Friday. Read Article
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The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO) strenuously criticized the killing of union leaders, repression of demonstrations, restrictions on the right to strike, and detentions of union and business leaders in recent years in Venezuela, as mechanisms which impair the freedom of association. Read Article
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Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry protested to its Nicaraguan counterpart the “intentional alteration” mapping of Nicaragua, as published earlier this week by the Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER) that includes the Harbour Head or Isla Calero, the piece of land in dispute between the two countries, as part of its territory. Read Article
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Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. Read Article
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On February 6, and 7, this event will take place “Defensores del Agua and prosecution of the protest, Ancashino regional meeting will bring together farmers’ leaders from around the country. In the struggle for the defense of natural resources, especially water, and the collective rights of peoples, about a thousand leaders, authorities and indigenous leaders […]
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Costa Rican University students announced Tuesday their decision to participate in a protest against corruption organized by social and political organizations next Thursday outside the headquarters of the Supreme Court. Read Article
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Nicaragua has released a new map that includes as part of national territory in the Caribbean area of the Isla Calero or Harbour Head as it is known in Nicaragua, that Costa Rica considers its own the subject of a dispute between the two countries. Read Article
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