Latin Correspondent
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 07:07
The Ecuadorean capital Quito, currently bracing itself for a potential geothermal eruption from the nearby Cotopaxi volcano, has only just started recovering a social eruption on an even bigger scale. Growing discontent among various groups came to a head last Thursday when a ‘national strike’, led by indigenous organizations, descended into violent clashes with security forces, lasting late into Saturday.
Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 06:42
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, tops the list with 171 murders reported for every 100,000 inhabitants in 2014. This is the fourth year running that the Honduran city has remained in first place.
Friday, July 31, 2015 - 05:29
A Mexican university presented a study to its Senate last week indicating that their own country, along with Colombia, had some of the highest rates of criminal impunity in the world.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:39
In recent weeks Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, has experienced one of the more turbulent periods of his administration as a series of protests against him, led by opposition groups, have rocked the Andean nation.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 06:49
Seventeen bodies have been exhumed from a 30-year-old shallow grave in Ayacucho, the latest of several such graves to be unearthed by authorities in recent years. “We are investigating if the Shining Path or the army itself was the cause of death,” said Prosecutor Honorio Casallo Díaz.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 07:15
Brazil, one of Latin America’s leading energy sector players, is caught in the midst of what may be the country’s largest corruption scandal to date. At the center of the maelstrom is Petrobras, the international oil and gas company, famed for one of the biggest shale shares in history at US$70 billion in 2010.
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 07:03
Panama is nearing official indictments against former President Ricardo Martinelli on a series of historic allegations of corruption that would surpass the kleptocracy of the Central American country’s infamous military dictatorship.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 06:37
Guatemala’s congress has suspended a session to choose a new vice president after President Otto Pérez Molina made an 11th-hour change to his shortlist of three nominees.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:26
All eyes turned to Colombia’s southwestern province of Cauca in the wake of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack that left 11 soldiers dead on April 15. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos accused the FARC of violating its unilateral ceasefire and promptly re-ordered aerial bombings and military offensives on FARC camps, while the FARC maintained that the attack was an act of legitimate self-defense.
Monday, February 23, 2015 - 05:18
Two activists who had campaigned for justice and searched for the victims of forced disappearances were brutally murdered in Mexico’s troubled south this month.