Thousands of Ecuadorians marched in Quito on Tuesday, some storming Congress, to demand that the widely unpopular legislative body vote to hold a referendum for a constitutional assembly to rewrite the country’s constitution. The situation […]
A Mexican Congressman announced last week that he would propose a constitutional amendment to guarantee the rights of transsexuals. The legislation would ensure they could legally change their name and gender. It would insert a […]
Almost two months after Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Mines rejected Ascendant Copper’s Environmental Impact Study for the controversial and locally unpopular Junin copper mine project, the company’s shares plummeted to a measly $0.47 per […]
Friends and advocates from the Paraguayan Union of Journalists (SPP) will mark the one year anniversary of Paraguayan radio journalist Enrique (Kike) Galeano’s disappearance with a protest in his home town of Yby Yaú. Galeano […]
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt announced last week that he would run for Congress in September. "I am certain and sure" of getting a seat in Congress, Rios Montt told a news conference. If […]
January 20th, violent clashes in the neighborhood of Alcorcón involving 50 people left three wounded by stabbing, one of seriously so. On the 21st, local Spanish youth organized a larger protest, involving as many as […]
The Honduran government reversed its decision to take over oil storage terminals in attempt to lessen oil prices for the Central American country’s impoverished population. The reversal, announced last Friday, followed a threat by U.S. […]
A poll realized by Zogby International and cosponsored by the University of Miami’s School of Communications shows that Latin American elites are increasingly optimistic about their economies, as well as unimpressed by Washington’s management of […]
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