Ecuador has established two new military bases along the border with Colombia. They are designed to provided more security for Ecuadorian residents and to monitor guerrilla activity. Read Article
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Costa Rica calls Nicaragua’s apparent removal of its troops from the Isla Calero a “ploy” mean to “fool and confuse” the judges of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ministerio de Seguridad Pública announced Monday afternoon that no troops were seen in the disputed territory in four flyovers of the area between […]
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Regional Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of San Lorenzo (CORPI) regional president of Loreto , Yvan Vásquez Valera, and representatives has given various State institutions an ultimatum within 48 hours to install in the province’s Datem Marañón (San Lorenzo) a work table to discuss the Law of Forestry and Wildlife or a new social conflict will […]
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After a command of fifteen trucks with armed men shooting caused panic businesses and people, the army took over the patrolling of the municipality of China, located about 100 kilometers from Monterrey. An account of the damage indicates that approximately forty properties between businesses and vehicles were damaged by bullets, including the San Felipe de […]
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Amid strong opposition claims of what they considered meager results of the security strategy and the growth of organized crime and violence, the federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said that the number of executions Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, has declined from the last two months of 2010. Read Article
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A pay strike at key Argentine grains ports that is disrupting exports from one of the world’s biggest food suppliers could worsen if it is not resolved soon, a union leader said on Monday.
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EI condemns the brutal murder of Colombian teacher trade unionist, Manuel Esteban Tejada, on 10 January. His assassination brings the death toll to 27 teacher unionists who have been killed in Colombia in the past year. Manuel Esteban Tejada was affiliated to the Colombian teachers’ union, FECODE branch of Córdoba, ADEMACOR. He was a teacher […]
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015 TAGS: EMIN, PGOV, SNAR, ASEC, EINV, ENRG, PE SUBJECT: MAJAZ ANTI-MINING VIOLENCE ON ECUADOR BORDER REF: A. LIMA 1432 B. 04 LIMA 5874 Classified By: Ambassador J. Curtis Struble. Reason: 1.4 (b,d) 1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent protests against British firm Majaz,s exploration for copper near the Ecuador border have resulted in […]
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Workers in one of Argentina’s major ports near the city of Rosario have staged a strike, paralyzing the South American country main point of soy and grain exports. Labor unions of truck drivers, stevedores and other port workers walked out on the indefinite strike early on Wednesday to protest low wages. Read Article
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U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a U.S. missionary in Mexico, even as mission groups in Texas are re-evaluating the risks of working in the country. Fifty-nine-year-old Nancy Davis had ministered in Mexico for 40 years. Her husband said they were about 70 miles south of the border when gunmen in a […]
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Deputy Minister of Environment, Carlos Castaño, told RCN Radio that the Government expects to close by 2013, some 3 000 illegal mines currently in the country. “We identified these mines are illegal in 18 regions where this illegal activity, financed by illegal armed groups are also responsible for its operation and performance,” said Castano Uribe. […]
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More than 3000 individuals have arrived in Anorí, fearful of possible retaliation by the FARC for the fumigation of illicit crops and the installation of three Army bases in the northeastern population of Antioquia. Read Article
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A group of Paraguayan and Argentine truckers today blocked a border crossing between the two countries, which caused traffic jams up to three miles and millions in losses, according to the National Police. According to the official report, workers prevent the passage of cargo vehicles and passengers in protest against customs measures. Read Article
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The Popular National Resistance Front (FNEP) in Honduras prepares protest demonstrations for this Thursday on the first anniversary of the government of Porfirio Lobo. Lobo took power on January 27 of 2010 after elections in November that were qualified as illegal by popular sectors because they were called under a coup government. Read Article
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As mounting tensions continue to smolder on the Korean Peninsula, another border dispute has been heating up in Central America, pitting Nicaragua against Costa Rica. Though it lacks the geopolitical gravitas and explosive nature of the conflict between North and South Korea, the standoff over a small area along the San Juan River has been […]
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When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief. The National Security Doctrine of unilateral attacks, the invasion of Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and the abandonment of multilateral forums had opened up a new phase of U.S. aggression. Despite the […]
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I was recently in my bed in rural Colombia when an explosion rocked my house. I decided to get out of bed. Heavy combat immediately ensued on the hill immediately adjacent to the village I live in, including shots from rifles, AK-47s, M-60s and occasional grenades. The combat on the “Hill of the Cross” between […]
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“We are a peaceful people. We don’t like war. We don’t want police and military on our land,” said Erity Teave, an indigenous activist from the Chilean-administered Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. With tears welling up in her eyes, but still trying to manage a graceful smile, she asked: “Do you think the U.N. […]
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All 17 ministers of Bolivian President Evo Morales’s Cabinet have stepped down in an expected move that comes as the president completes the first year of his second term. Morales has seen his popularity numbers fall from 70 percent a year ago to 36 percent this week – in part due to his now-abandoned attempt […]
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Argentine farmers said on Sunday they will lift a week-long strike that halted grain markets in the commodity powerhouse, but they vowed to resume protesting the government’s export curbs that affect their incomes. Mario Llambias, head of the Rural Confederation of Argentina, said the trade strike will be lifted as agreed, but farmers will keep […]
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As if he didn’t have enough to worry about already, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom has been scrambling to contain the diplomatic fallout from a US embassy cable published on Sunday by WikiLeaks. The cable, dating from Summer 2008, describes outgoing US Ambassador to Guatemala James Derham’s final meeting with the Central American leader and his […]
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Hundreds of police and security forces in Peru have clashed with a squatter community to force them out of a privately owned land lot near the capital of Lima. Police resorted to force on Wednesday to make squatters leave a private property, claiming their residence in the place had been illegal. Read Article
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With three new actions that occurred between Sunday night and yesterday morning, came to 38 the number of farms invaded or demarcated camps with the wing of the Landless Movement (MST), led by Jose Rainha Junior, in western Sao Paulo State . The group of seven invasions count Queen says in the Pontal, in the […]
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Talks between government officials and local leaders on Monday failed to end protests over an increase in natural gas prices in the south of Chile. Chile’s Mining and Energy Minister Laurence Golborne travelled to the regional capital of Punta Arenas to offer a limit on the price increase to 3 percent, an improvement from the […]
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Venezuela’s battle against land inequality and the exploitation of small agricultural producers has increased in intensity recently as the Chavez government steps up measures to redistribute fallow lands in the area known as South of Lake Maracaibo. Last week, one of the offices of the government agency in charge of carrying out Venezuela’s land redistribution […]
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Threats from local authorities and security forces, which tried to take over its management, forced a local radio station in Honduras temporarily to stop broadcasting on 14 January. The station, Radio Faluma Bimetu – Radio Coco Dulce in Spanish – belongs to the Honduran community of African origin (Garifuna) of Triunfo de la Cruz. A […]
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Workers at the Coca-Cola in the Venezuelan city of Valencia were reported on strike to formally reject the pay offer the company, which warned of a “risk of shortages of water, juices, soft drinks, tea and other beverages national level.” Read Article
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Ex-president Alejandro Toledo, a front-runner in Peru’s presidential race, said Jan. 13 that the mining sector must “give back” a portion of rising profits to poor rural areas. In a speech outlining his policy proposals, Toledo called for “co-responsibility” between private companies and the state for social development: “Just as we respect the rules of […]
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Residents of the community of Nueva Italia, located in Nueva Providencia, Colón, staged a demonstration yesterday, Monday, closing off all four lanes of the heavily-transited Panama-Colón highway. Read Article
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Strikes against Chile’s proposed 16.8 percent slashing of natural gas to the Magallenes region left thousands of tourists stranded, officials said. Protesters’ roadblocks set up since Wednesday prevented visitors to Torres Del Paine Park from leaving the region’s capital of Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales. Read Article
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The mayor of the small central Mexico town of Temoac was shot to death Monday, and the body of a northern mayor was found riddled with bullets Friday. Oaxaca state prosecutor Manuel de Jesus Lopez said on Thursday that Luis Jimenez Mata, who only took up his post in Santiago Amoltepec at the start of […]
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On Thursday, Nicaragua after a brilliant proposal by its ambassador in The Hauge, Carlos Arguello, in the Isal Calero conflict, finally pulled out its secret weapon to refute Costa Rica’s claims of an invasion: a 1971 map The map is being questioned by Costa Rica. The hearings ended on Thursday and it is expected weeks […]
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Wide scale protests that began just before midnight on Tuesday have shut down much of the Magallanes Region in southern Chile, cutting off exits from the regional capital of Punta Arenas and freezing most traffic within the city. Read Article
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ELTIEMPO.COM learned that troops from the military unit during an operation against the seventh head of the Farc, they found the child, who was carrying a rifle who said that for several months had been recruited by the subversive organization. Read Article
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Protests over gas price increases of 17 percent are intensifying in far southern Chile. Already, two women protesters have been killed and a baby was among those injured when a truck smashed into a barricade and knocked them into a bonfire. About 21 people have been arrested. Read Article
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The Nicaraguan ambassador in Holland, Carlos José Argüello, said and argued that the border set established than a century between the two countries has been changing naturally in the area near the mouth of the river San Juan and the so-called laguna Portillos, also known as Head Harbor. And for this reason Nicaragua asked the […]
While many are sceptical that the Chilean government will deliver on its promise of a shift in indigenous policy, the deadline is looming for the administration of Sebastián Piñera to live up to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recommendations with respect to imprisoned members of the Mapuche community. Read Article
Costa Rica is attempting to create an armed conflict with neighboring Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Army spokesman Juan Morales said citing counterintelligence information. Relations between the two countries became tense in November when the Nicaraguan military began widening the waterway in the San Juan River Delta and began establishing a military camp on the disputed Calero Island, […]
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No matter that farmers in South Lake Maracaibo rejected the steps taken by the National Lands Institute (Inti). Venezuela’s Vice President Elías Jaua held a press conference in the city of El Vigía, Andean Mérida state, in which he announced: “we will evict paramilitaries and slaveholders from these lands.” Reference was made to the takeover […]
A two-week old labor dispute at Argentina’s largest energy company, YPF, could start to cause fuel shortages in the coming days as refineries run out of crude oil supplies, two energy firms said on Tuesday. Read Article
Hundreds of doctors and other health-care workers here in Mexico’s murder capital went on a 24-hour strike Monday to demand more security in light of the murders of three colleagues and the kidnappings of 11 others this year. Just two of the more than 20 main clinics and hospitals in Ciudad Juarez, just across the […]
Nicaragua’s Army Commander in Chief, General Julio Cesar Aviles Castillo, denounced on Sunday that Nicaragua is victim of a of an international conspiracy by several countries aimed at protecting expansionist interests at the expense of Nicaraguan territory. Read Full Story
Costa Rica With Its Own Book Of Truths Over The Nicaragua Dispute Not wanting to be outdone by Nicaragua, the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Foreign Ministry) has published its own paper entitled “La verdad sobre la incursión, ocupación, uso y daños del territorio costarricense por parte de Nicaragua.” Read Full Story