This week the Mexican Zetas drug cartel sent a clear message to websites that report on the drug war, in a note with two mutilated corpses hung from an overpass near the U.S. border. Officials at the state prosecutor’s office said a sign warning bloggers to stay quiet was found next to the disemboweled bodies [...]
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Vatican- ”The Catholic Church, despite deformed image with which you want to represent, is the only ”institution that clearly has decided to conduct the battle against the sexual abuse of minors starting from the inside, ” Osservatore Romano writes today. “We must give credit to Benedict XVI – emphasizes the Vatican newspaper – because he have given [...]
LIMA., 14th June - Two weeks ago a tragic event happened in Peru.. Many people were killed, at least 50, as a consequence of a confrontation between the police and indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon jungle region in the area known as the Curva del Diablo, or the Bagua. There, some 5,000 peruvian natives blocked [...]
by Richard E. Feinberg ABSTRACT (This working paper was published in 2003, please read note of the Publisher) With remarkable success, Latin Americans have sought to impose their free trade policy agenda on a very reluctant and internally fractious United States. They have an ally in President George W. Bush, whose senior appointments notably [...]
International journalists, diplomats, NGO representatives and spokesmen of the Haitian government agreed that the situation in Haiti is chaotic after the earthquake that devastated Port au Prince, whose deaths exceed 50,000 sources, according to the Panamerican Health Organization. A man looks for a body among hundreds of earthquake victims at the morgue in [...]
MALENA MARCHAN (CHILE/ECUADOR/USA) Journalist, graduated with honors from the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. Currently heads COTOPAXI COMMUNICATIONS, an independent production and media services company based in Miami. Also writes for EL NUEVO HERALD and is a producer for MARIA ELVIRA LIVE, a news and analysis television program broadcast all over the United States. In [...]