Archive for: January, 2010

Majority of Farc leaders are outside Colombia.

  The integration in the Americas should be the result of a positive interdependence among countries. Since the Declaration of Washington, the american states are in a process of growing interrelation. Nowadays, the Americas have a Democratic Charter to live up to, and the most important thing is our right to democratic self-determination and the [...]

Health: Unasur´s strategy to fight swine influenza.

  In spite of the critical situation in the region, due to the confrontation of Colombia with Venezuela and Ecuador, the integration of The Americas continue in aspects of positive interdependence that are very important, like Public Health and the struggle against the pandemic of swine influenza.  In that respect, in Quito , the Summit [...]

Country Facts : Brazil

Following more than three centuries under Portuguese rule, Brazil peacefully gained its independence in 1822, maintaining a monarchical system of government until the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the subsequent proclamation of a republic by the military in 1889. Brazilian coffee exporters politically dominated the country until populist leader Getulio VARGAS rose to power [...]

Can international aid reach the people of Haiti.

  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 [...]

Arms Race in The Americas.

  In recent weeks, much has been written in the media about the purchase of armaments and military technology by some South American countries like Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. On the subject of the arms race in our subcontinent, I would like to make a few comments, some of them are strictly personal opinions [...]

The assasination of Christian Poveda , the Maras gang , and the Merida Initiative.

  Last weekend, a french-spanish filmmaker whose documentary about the violent street gang of the Maras in El Salvador provoked controversy earlier this year has been found shot in the head. The body of Christian Poveda, 52, was discovered in a car in Tonacatepeque, a poor rural area 10 miles outside the capital San Salvador. [...]

Mexico´s Drug Cartels

By Colleen W. Cook – Analyst in Latin American Affairs According to the Mexican government there are seven drug cartels operating in Mexico. The Mexican government reports that the major cartels – Gulf, Sinaloa, and Juárez — are present in much of Mexico.  The Juárez cartel has been found in 21 Mexican states and its [...]

Bloggers of The Americas: columnists and contributors.

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 [...]

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