News Briefs

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Source: The Guardian Unlimited, Comment Is Free A coup d’etat is taking place right now, Friday afternoon, in Paraguay. That is how it has been described by a number of neighboring governments. And the Union […]

Source: Washington Post AP – A mutiny by rank-and-file Bolivian police demanding higher wages spread across the nation on Friday, with an estimated 4,000 officers occupying barracks. Protesters sacked and set fire to furniture and […]

Source: Al Jazeera Bill framed to legalise production and sale of drug, whose consumption is already legal in the South American country. Uruguay is set to introduce legislation allowing the state to sell and distribute […]

Source: The Guardian Julian Assange has dramatically sought political asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, days after the supreme court rejected the last of his appeals against extradition to Sweden to face sex crime […]

(IPS) – Today, in the 21st century, there are still tens of thousands of Brazilians subjected to slave-like working conditions. Last year alone, 2,501 workers were freed from this situation by Ministry of Labour inspectors. […]

Source: NACLA The presidential candidate of Venezuela’s coalition of opposition parties, Henrique Capriles, hosted a rally on June 10 to formally initiate his campaign against President Hugo Chávez. “Hundreds of thousands” of Venezuelans—according to Reuters, […]

On June 13, assassins on a motorcycle shot multiple times at Yolanda Oqueli Veliz, a community leader from the municipalities of San José el Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, just out side of Guatemala City. […]

Source: NACLA On June 1, the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) issued a much-anticipated ruling in the case brought by Canadian transnational Pacific Rim against the government of El […]

Source: Al Jazeera Tear gas and water cannon used against demonstrators denouncing documentary honouring the late military dictator. Hundreds of protesters have clashed with police in the streets of the Chilean capital to protest a […]