NGOs and Academia
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 00:00
On September 26, coca growers attempting to settle illegally in the Isiboro-Secure Park and indigenous Yuracare inhabitants clashed in a violent conflict, leading to the gunshot death of at least one person and the injury of several others. The clash hig
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
El gobierno del presidente Uribe aprovecho la ventana de oportunidad que significo el cierre de la base de Manta, y acordo la utilizacion de siete bases en Colombia con colaboracion tecnica en inteligencia por parte de los Estados Unidos para asi asegurar
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
Honduras's de facto government should immediately rescind an emergency decree that severely restricts press freedoms, Human Rights Watch said
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
La Federacion Internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH), pidio al Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas que actue para evitar que se produzca un "bano de sangre" en Honduras tras la represion de la que son victimas los ciudadanos de ese pais po
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
Despues de la firma de los acuerdos de paz en 1992, que puso fin a una guerra civil de mas de una decada en El Salvador, el Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional gana las elecciones como partido y gobierna ahora el pais centroamericano enfren
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
Colombia in the mid-1990s was in deep trouble. The insurgent group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) appeared capable of defeating the Colombian military in pitched battles and, combined with the Army of National Liberation (ELN) and growing p
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 00:00
"Managing disarray: The search for a new consensus" provides an introduction to some of the key foreign policy issues facing the Latin American region. In the chapter, Shifter identifies various "profound and unexpected changes – in the
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 00:00
Veteran television journalist Diego de Jesus Rojas Velasquez was gunned down Tuesday outside the central Colombian city of Supia, according to interviews and press reports
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 00:00
A series of threats this month against Salomon Lerner, former president of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, must be fully and urgently investigated by Peruvian authorities, the International Center for Transitional Justice said today.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 00:00
The Obama administration's "decertification" of Bolivia's drug control efforts, announced last night, is unwarranted and risks unnecessarily complicating efforts underway to improve U.S.-Bolivian relations, according to the Washington Office on