Category: Latin America: Week in Review
May 21, 2012 > Staff
The Latin America News Dispatch Takes A Vacation
The Latin America News Dispatch will take a short break from publishing our daily newsletter, Today in Latin America. Congratulations to our graduating student contributors. We’ll be back in June! […] Read More >
May 18, 2012 > Staff
Honduras: Conflicting Accounts Of Fatal DEA Operation
Top Story — As protesters on the Miskito Coast of Honduras riot in the streets, U.S. officials are saying that agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration did not fire their weapons during […] Read More >
May 17, 2012 > Staff
Kidnapped Honduran Radio Journalist Found Murdered
Top Story — Honduran police have arrested a suspect in the murder of kidnapped RHN radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro, whose body was discovered in Tegucigalpa late Tuesday. Villatoro, a prominent Honduran journalist and […] Read More >
May 16, 2012 > Staff
Bombing In Bogotá Kills Two, Injures Dozens More
Top Story — A driver and a police bodyguard for former Colombian Interior Minister Fernando Londoño were killed after a bomb went off in Bogotá on Tuesday, injuring dozens of other people. […] Read More >
May 15, 2012 > Staff
Judge Rejects Declassification Of CIA Volume On Bay of Pigs
Top Story — A U.S. federal judge rejected an effort by the National Security Archive to declassify the CIA’s fifth and final volume on the history of the U.S. Bay of Pigs […] Read More >
May 14, 2012 > Staff
Colombia: FARC Plans To Release French Journalist
Top Story — Red Cross officials said Sunday that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas have agreed to release French journalist Romeo Langlois, who was captured by the […] Read More >
May 11, 2012 > Staff
Chilean Congress Approves “Zamudio Law” Against Discrimination
Top Story — Chile’s Congress passed a long-delayed anti-discrimination law on Wednesday night in a vote of 25-3, seven years after the law was initially introduced and more than two months […] Read More >
May 10, 2012 > Staff
Honduras: Second Journalist Kidnapped in One Week
Top Story — Honduran radio journalist Angel Alfredo Villatoro was kidnapped Wednesday just a few days after authorities discovered the body of another journalist, Erick Martínez, on the side of a […] Read More >
May 9, 2012 > Staff
Puerto Rico Governor: Students Should Speak Fluent English by 2022
Top Story — Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño has proposed an ambitious plan to make Puerto Ricans bilingual in English and Spanish by the year 2022, an effort that he hopes will […] Read More >
May 8, 2012 > Staff
Colombia May Regulate Prostitution Following Scandal
Top Story — Colombian politicians have proposed a new bill that would regulate prostitution in Colombia, reacting to the scandal that erupted in Cartagena last month when members of the U.S. Secret Service […] Read More >