Source: NACLA On March 19, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos upheld the ouster of Bogotá’s embattled leftist mayor Gustavo Petro, concluding—at least for the moment—a three-month legal and political battle that began when Inspector General […]
Source: América Latina en Movimiento (ALAI) With the signing of the Foundation Charter of UNASUR (the Union of South American Nations), the twelve countries that make it up took a step of historic dimensions. This […]
Source: Prensa Libre I remain so outraged by the case of the University of Valle students who died mysteriously near the El Estor nickel mine that I stopped bringing up several issues that deserve attention, […]
The megadiverse Peruvian Amazon is a globally important arena when it comes to promoting sustainable logging. Despite efforts to achieve sustainability, including a modern Forestry Law and an important Forestry Annex in the US–Peru Trade […]
Source: The Americas Blog Despite the fact that the New York Times had to run a correction on February 26 for claiming that Globovisión in Venezuela was “[t]he only television station that regularly broadcast voices […]
Source: NACLA On April 3, three journalists from the Associated Press (AP) published the first in a series of well-investigated stories about a heretofore unknown U.S. government-funded project in Cuba. They described how an opaque […]
Brazilian police have closed down a notorious security firm accused of killing at least two Guarani leaders, and brutally attacking hundreds more. Gaspem was described as a “private militia” by public prosecutors who had called […]
(IPS) – Three years after Colombia agreed to U.S. demands to better protect labour rights and activists, a “Labour Plan of Action” (LPA) drawn up by the two nations is showing mixed results at best, […]
Source: El Periódico Judge Iris Yassmín Barrios, presiding judge of the High Risk Crimes Court A, refers to the decision handed down against her last week by the Ethics Tribunal of the Guatemalan Bar Association […]
Amid highest murder rate for women in the country, specialized judges confront gender-based violence. Source: Latinamerica Press On Mar. 15, 2013, around 9:30 a.m., 18-year-old law student Estéfani Julissa Estrada Neill, from the highland department […]
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