NGOs and Academia
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 00:00
What right does the president, who already has his own Sunday programme, have to inflict his speeches on so many stations when one would suffice? Especially when he can impose a "cadena" whenever he likes and for as long as he likes. Used in thi
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 00:00
Medellin, el Uraba chocoano, Meta y Narino son las cuatro zonas mas azotadas por la nueva generacion del paramilitarismo en Colombia, segun un informe de la Human Rights Watch.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 00:00
Despite the substantial resources invested in this war, no independent evaluation of the antidrug policies implemented under Plan Colombia had been done until now.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez and his cronies must have been very happy with President Obama's first State of the Union address, which completely ignored the challenges to democracy in Latin America.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
The extradition of key paramilitary leaders to the U.S. was "a fatal blow to investigations into parapolitics" and was done in order hide the truth, according to Americas Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Jose Manuel Vivanco.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
Cuba's National Revolutionary Police (PNR) arrested Juan Carlos Reyes Ocana, journalist on the small news agency Holguin Press on 29 January then took him to a police barracks to face charges of "insult", "disobedience" and "illeg
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 00:00
Nancy Pelosi rewrote the "fast track" rules of the House with the express aim of shelving the trade accord with our best ally in the Americas, Colombia; last night, she choked when the president mentioned Colombia but recovered when she realized
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 00:00
To assess the pace of promised change in our part of the world-the Western Hemisphere-the Americas Program staff and our colleagues at the Center for International Policy (CIP) looked at four basic questions regarding progress (or lack thereof) in our are
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 00:00
Guatemala, long one of the hemisphere's darkest dens of impunity, has taken important steps in the right direction. Meanwhile, Honduran leaders have shown that, when it comes to justice, they are happy to flout internationally-accepted norms.