Category: Andes
November 15, 2018 > Leo Schwartz
Communities in diaspora are using language to resist assimilation
NEW YORK — Three days a week, the sounds of Haitian Creole fill the fourth floor of the King Juan Carlos I Center in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park. The source […] Read More >
November 1, 2018 > Staff
Keiko Fujimori Was Ordered Back to Jail
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA PERU : Right-wing opposition leader and presumed presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori was sent back to jail yesterday to complete a 36-month preventative sentence for obstruction of […] Read More >
October 10, 2018 > Jacquelyn Kovarik
How Can the UN Better Include Indigenous Peoples in Its Development Goals?: There’s An App For That
NEW YORK — “These are the people who can either choose to support us, or choose to destroy our lives and our lands with their international development projects?” This was […] Read More >
August 27, 2018 > Staff
Colombia’s anti-corruption referendum fails to pass quorum despite 99% support
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: An anti-corruption referendum held yesterday barely failed to meet the minimum number of votes required, although each of the seven proposals had more than 99% […] Read More >
August 24, 2018 > Staff
All nine judges of Ecuador’s highest court were dismissed in what former president called “a true coup”
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR: The transitory Citizens Participation and Social Control Council dismissed all nine justices of the nation’s highest court on the argument that there had been a […] Read More >
August 23, 2018 > Staff
OAS calls Venezuela a “dictatorship” and asks other countries ignore extradition requests related to explosives attack
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States issued yesterday a press release urging its member countries to “ignore extradition requests from the […] Read More >
August 21, 2018 > Staff
New Venezuelan currency tied to oil price and with five fewer zeroes began circulating yesterday
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: The new currency with five lopped zeroes announced weeks ago by President Nicolás Maduro began circulating yesterday after a bank “blackout” the night before […] Read More >
August 20, 2018 > Staff
Venezuelan migrants attacked in Brazil and stopped from reaching Ecuador
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA-BRAZIL-ECUADOR-PERU: The residents of a Brazilian border town with Venezuela, in the northern state of Roraima, attacked squatter camps of Venezuelan migrants over the weekend. […] Read More >
August 15, 2018 > Staff
Colombian intelligence agency ex-deputy chief is convicted of 1999 murder of popular comedian Jaime Garzón
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: The former deputy chief of the state intelligence agency was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday for the murder in 1999 of popular comedian, […] Read More >
August 13, 2018 > Staff
Jailed Venezuelan lawmaker still hasn’t had contact with lawyers but appears in “confession” video
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: Arrested lawmaker Juan Requesens has still not be allowed to talk to a lawyer or see his family since he was taken into custody without […] Read More >