“There’s no doubt that with the growth of China, we’ve seen a re-commoditization of Latin America,” said Colombia’s Mining Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, an economist and former Director of the Latin America program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. In terms of economic development, Latin America did not take any advantage of the rising prices [...]
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A former agent for the Argentine navy known as “the Angel of Death” on Friday is claiming to be a victim of political persecution. Capt. Alfredo Astiz is being tried for taking part in the disappearance, torture and murder of two French nuns, a journalist and three founders of a human rights group that he [...]
Some 30% of the Argentine population would not want to live in a neighborhood with a high number of Jews, while 45% of the populace would not marry a person of Jewish origin, according to a survey released today. The study, which was carried out by the University of Buenos Aires and sponsored by the [...]
The battle that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is waging against cancer appears to be bearing political fruit, according to a new poll that shows his approval rating climbing to 58.9% among that nation’s voters in September. Local survey firm Datanalisis said this week that those figures represent a 10% climb from his popularity in July [...]
Brazilian Justice officials have announced the arrest of eight military police officers, including a lieutenant colonel, on suspicion of involvement in the recent assassination of a Rio de Janeiro judge known for her tough stance against organized crime. Judge Patricia Acioli was ambushed and gunned down by hooded men upon arriving at her home the [...]
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Peruvian National Police forces rescued almost three hundred women and girls from forced sexual exploitation this weekend in the jungle town of Puerto Maldonado and nearby locations, according to that nation’s Interior Ministry. Vice Minister for Internal Order Luis Otarola, who supervised the rescue, said that the liberated women included ten minors, one of whom [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused his opposition of using his cancer treatment to depict him as incapable of governing, in order to gain an advantage in next year’s presidential election. They are trying “to generate uncertainty in the country and take advantage of my illness from the political point of view,” he said [...]
Venezuelan chancellor Nicolás Maduro gave assurances this week that Venezuela has made effective progress against drug trafficking since breaking relations with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The DEA functioned in Venezuela as they function in many other countries: as a cartel. They protected the drug cartels”, he said. ”Once we left them behind, [...]
Two Peruvian soldiers were killed by Shining Path guerrillas during what was supposed to be a routine patrol in a remote coca-growing region. The ambush took place Wednesday near the town of San Martin de Pangoa, in the Apurimac and Ene River Valley (VRAE). One man stepped on a landmine during a counterinsurgency sweep, and a [...]
The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
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