"It was chaos; the women were crying, the men trembling and it seemed that we were returning to the past, when there were massacres. It was truly worse than a nightmare," said Marcos Hernández, the […]
El Salvadoran President Tony Saca gave a send off to 380 troops of the Seventh Cuscatlan Battalion as they shipped off for Iraq on August 12. The small country remains the only in Latin American […]
Cubans are using religious expression to express their desires for peace and stability in the wake of President Fidel Castro’s illness and the temporary transfer of power to his brother, Raúl Castro, reports Patricia Grogg […]
A new Immigration Law passed by the Council of Ministers in Portugal on August 10 could help legalize some of the over 500,000 foreign workers in the country. Symbolically, August 10th was also the date […]
Chilean miners began a strike over pay on Monday evening, August 7 at the Escondida mine near Antofagasta in northern Chile. The price of copper has risen due to demand from countries such as China […]
Honduran Bishop Luis Santos Villeda, with the help of civil society, is making progress in a nationwide effort to ban open-pit mining for minerals. Bishop Santos helped lead a protest on July 25, when hundreds […]
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved of a Free Trade Agreement with Peru 12-7 in a procedural vote last Friday. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the committee, expects a full vote by September. Senate […]
The Washington Post is upset with Andres Manuel López Obrador. Because Obrador is demanding a recount in an election with several irregularities (if not cases of fraud), the Post suggests he is Stalinist, anti-democratic and […]
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