Human Rights
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
U.S. policing along the Mexican border discriminates against Hispanics and Native Americans and contributes to the deaths of illegal immigrants, according to a study by the human rights group Amnesty International USA.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
Fear of deportation stops many immigrants who are victims of crimes or trafficking from reporting to authorities what happened.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
Segun anuncio Mauro Andino, presidente de la Mesa de Comunicacion, a partir de las 17:30 se desarrollaria su reunion con el presidente Rafael Correa.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Just before Monday's Mass was to begin in Santiago's main square, the man wearing a dark T-shirt and cap yelled "Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship!" near journalists covering the ceremony.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
A government spokesman says President Otto Perez Molina will meet with the protesters Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Gen. Raul Salazar says police tried to repel the protesters, many of them fishermen, in the northern coastal town of Sechura on Tuesday with tear gas but were forced to use firearms. He hasn't released details on how the 24-year-old victim died.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Ecuador's government says floods and mudslides have caused at least 10 deaths so far this year and forced about 4,700 people to flee their homes.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
A Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White held its customary weekly protest without incident Sunday on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
But when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday, hundreds of Cuban-Americans will be on hand in Santiago de Cuba when he celebrates Mass.
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 00:00
A judge in Connecticut will soon decide whether to allow or dismiss a civil suit against Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico's president from 1994 to 2000, accusing him of responsibility for the Acteal Massacre.