Today in Latin America Top Story – FARC guerrillas in Colombia freed a soldier held hostage for more than 12 years, ending the mission of the soldier’s father who hiked across the country in 2007 with a chain around his neck to demand the release of his son. Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo was released Tuesday [...]
A week after tens of thousands of immigrants converged on Washington’s National Mall to call for immigration reform, the latest proposals percolating in state legislatures are not what they had in mind. Three proposals within the last week seek to toughen laws against immigrants and broaden local officers’ authority to arrest them. One even caught [...]
NEW YORK — The climate for U.S. investment in Cuba remains adverse and probably won’t improve much in the near future, a group of Cuba experts representing the private sector said at a panel on Tuesday. The meeting was organized by the New York-based Americas Society, which together with the Council of the Americas has [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story – The Mexican military arrested a leader of the border gang Barrio Azteca in connection with the death of three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez. A Mexican federal police spokesman declined to release the name of the gang leader, but local media reports suggest that [...]
NEW YORK — Aleida Gallangos is not easily deterred. Over five years ago, when she realized that the only way to find her long-lost brother in the United States was to comb through all the entries for “Juan Carlos Hernández” in a phone book, she made the calls. When her brother’s adoptive family thwarted Aleida’s [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — The Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC, in Spanish), a leftist guerrilla army, released hostage Josué Daniel Calvo on Sunday, raising hopes that more of the remaining hostages might be freed in the near future. Calvo, a soldier in the Colombian Army, was kidnapped in April of 2009, [...]
NEW YORK — Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake killed more 200,000 people, destroyed the national economy, and left more than a million homeless. For Haiti’s 10,000, mostly foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), figuring out how best to help in such circumstances is a daunting task. U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and former President Bill Clinton has a [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story – Mexican police arrested Wednesday José Antonio Medina, known as “The King of Heroin,” who allegedly brought an average of 440 pounds of heroin a month from Mexico to the United States hidden in secret compartments of vehicles. Medina, 36, also known as “Don Pepe,” is believed by U.S. authorities [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador for the Roman Catholic Church. This anniversary was remembered all over El Salvador as the passing of el Santo de America, as some call Romero. Congregations of Catholics and evangelicals filled [...]
To begin viewing this photo essay as a slideshow, click the first image. This photo essay is adapted from “Gold Fever: Artisanal and Industrial Mining Extraction in the Industrial Triangle,” which originally appeared on Feb. 28, 2010, at MiMundo.org. The images, by James Rodríguez, were produced with the support of Oxfam America. Captions by Roque [...]
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