Source: venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called on Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to the indigenous people of Latin America for his comments on the evangelization of the region. During an official visit to Brazil […]
www.soaw.org Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced Wednesday that Costa Rica will cease to send police to train at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the U.S. Army School of the […]
Enraged train commuters rioted in a major rail station in Buenos Aires on May 16. Delays in railway services sparked violent riots in Buenos Aires, when commuters set fire to parts of a train station […]
Hundreds on university students in Concepción rallied in the city’s center Tuesday to protest the police shooting of forestry worker Rodrigo Cisternas. The students, some of whom looted small stores, are demanding the resignation of […]
Amnesty International published a report this week exposing Brazil’s public security crisis. "Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have reached a tragic impasse. Criminal gangs … have rushed to fill the vacuum left by the […]
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced last week that he will increase military and security forces around oil facilities and allow the use of force to remove protestors. "We will not allow any more invasions of […]
Tierramérica reports that grassroots organizations in the department of Olancho, Honduras, are fighting both for the enforcement of a partial ban decreed to stop illegal logging, as well as justice punishment of the assassins of two […]
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