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- Over 800 protesters have been detained and 90 police officers injured during violent student protests in Santiago, Chile. Chile's Interior Minister warned students that the protests were illegal and would be met with force, but thousands of young protestors marched anyway in both Santiado and Valparaiso. Despite Chile's rapid ...
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ELN guerrilla leaders pose in an area near the Venezuelan border, in a photo from a captured guerrilla computer revealed last week. |
Adam discusses challenges facing newly inaugurated President Ollanta Humala in Peru; Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's lawsuit against a newspaper; cuts in U.S. aid to Mexico and other ways that the U.S. Congress is affecting Latin America policy.
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In the News
- Ollanta Humala was inaugurated as President of Peru on July 28, the country's 190th anniversary of independence. In his remarks before Congress, the new president, who is already being tentatively hailed as the "Lula of the Andes," ...
Update July 26th: Late yesterday, President-Elect Humala named the final two cabinet members, and both are women. Patricia Salas will be education minister. The new culture minister will be celebrated afro-Peruvian musician Susana Baca (subject of this July 10 Los Angeles Times piece).
Naming a surprisingly moderate cabinet with a famous musician as culture minister recalls Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, whose first minister of culture in 2003...