NEW YORK — Forty years after U.S. AID official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and executed by Uruguayan guerillas, nine declassified State Department documents prove that high-level officials in the Nixon Administration advocated the use of death threats against Uruguayan guerrillas, political dissidents, and their families. The Washington-based National Security Archive released the documents last Wednesday [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story – Fernando Lugo is feeling optimistic that he can serve his full term as president of Paraguay, after finishing his first session of treatment for cancer. Lugo said that his illness was both “controllable and reversable” at a speech on Saturday. He gave the speech upon his return from São [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — A year after the coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Latin American countries are beginning to recognize the new government in larger numbers. The Chilean government announced Friday that it would normalize diplomatic relations with Honduras, which were suspended following the coup last June. Mexico’s Ministry of [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — Argentina became the first Latin American nation on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage and grant the same legal rights, responsibilities and protections that marriage brings to heterosexuals. After protests throughout the country from supporters on both sides of the issue, the Argentine Senate approved the measure in a [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — Argentina’s Senate is set to decide on whether or not to legalize gay marriage, after thousands of people protested in the capital against the bill. The proposed bill has split the Senate and created a divide between the country’s Roman Catholic Church and the administration of President Cristina [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO – When Brazil’s highest court upheld a controversial amnesty law preventing trial and punishment for political crimes committed during the military dictatorship in April, it appeared that one of the country’s most polarizing political issues had been settled for good. But a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has put [...]
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Police are making strides toward controling Rio de Janeiro’s notorious drug violence, using new approaches that emphasize community policing, a panel of experts said Monday. The panel members spoke at an event launching the new issue of Americas Quarterly, a magazine focusing on Latin American and U.S. policy. This quarter’s issue [...]
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Today in Latin America Top Story — An agreement signed between Brazil, Turkey and Iran has cast an international spotlight on Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with several U.S. media outlets referring to him as a new major player on the world stage. The agreement Lula helped broker would require Iran to send [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — Turkish Minister of Foreign Relations Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that Turkey, Brazil and Iran had reached an agreement regarding a nuclear fuel swap between Iran and the West. The details of the agreement were not made public at the time of writing. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula [...]
Today in Latin America Top Story — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad agreed “in principle” to Brazil taking a role in helping to break the deadlock over a United Nations-backed nuclear fuel swap with the West. The U.N. plan, first proposed in 2009, would exchange Iran’s stock of lower-level enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods from [...]
