Mexican activists have filed a war-crimes complaint against President Felipe Calderón at the International Criminal Court, claiming some 470 cases of human rights violations by the army or police in their war on that nation’s drug cartels. Attorney Netzai Sandoval said that Mexican drug lords have also committed crimes against humanity in the conflict, which has cost 35,000 [...]
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This week opponents of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez suffered from a one-two punch: a court decision handicapping the presidential aspirations of a major candidate, followed by a $2 million fine that threatens the closure of an anti-government TV channel. Both rulings by the Supreme Court and National Telecommunications Commission have outraged opposition leaders and human [...]
The Americas Post notes the latest news and information about the situation in Libya and the fact that Qaddafi´s Regime is coming to an end. Two countries were quite loquacious on Libya´s and Gaddafi´s destiny: the USA and Venezuela. In our region, only Hugo Chavez came immediately the the support of the fallen Arab colonel. Presumably the same [...]
During a lecture under the XXIX Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights which concluded on August 19th at the American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica, the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón said that governments foster instability among citizens when politicians elaborate security policies without consulting the people. Garzón called upon the american states to include [...]
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Bosnian Serb wartime criminal general Ratko Mladic ,69, was arrested in Serbia Thursday in the village of Lazarevo, near the northeastern town of Zrenjanin around 100 km (60 miles) from the capital Belgrade, in the early hours. Mladic, is accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and [...]
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The decision of the Security Council to impose UN sanctions on Libya was published on Friday (15) in the Official Gazette of Brazil with a decree oif the brazilian government including a ban on arms trade, the freezing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and persons connected with him, along with support for investigations into international [...]
Rome, Italy .- The struggle against transnational organized crime requires a global prosecutor, said the assistant prosecutor of Palermo, Antonio Ingroia. The italian prosecutor assured that the mafia is now global , has laundered its dirty money and has increased its presence in the legal economy. “In order to defeat an increasingly global mafia, the [...]
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