Category: Andes
April 24, 2018 > Staff
Colombian wins Goldman environmental prize for facing mining interests
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA: Francia Márquez Mina, a 36-year-old Afro community leader from the western Cauca department, won the 2018 Goldman Prize yesterday for her creative defense of ancestral […] Read More >
April 18, 2018 > Staff
Two more people kidnapped by FARC dissidents on the Ecuador-Colombia border
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA ECUADOR-COLOMBIA: Yesterday, Ecuadorean authorities identified as Oscar Efrén Villacís Gómez, 24, and Katty Vanesa Velasco Pinargote, 20, the two persons who appear in a proof of […] Read More >
April 16, 2018 > Staff
Subdued Summit of the Americas focused on anti-corruption measures
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA The Summit of the Americas, where the heads of states of the Organization of American States, or OAS, come together every three years, was held […] Read More >
April 10, 2018 > Staff
Former FARC leader is arrested at request of U.S. authorities
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA COLOMBIA—Former FARC guerrilla leader Seuxis Hernández, best known by his alias Jesús Santrich, was arrested yesterday in his Bogotá home at the request of the U.S. […] Read More >
April 4, 2018 > Staff
U.S. jury found Bolivian ex-president responsible for killings
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA Yesterday afternoon, a U.S. jury found Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, the ex-president of Bolivia, and his then foreign minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, responsible for the […] Read More >
April 4, 2018 > Jacquelyn Kovarik
Goni and El Zorro fall and $10 Million is awarded to Indigenous Bolivian survivors in landmark human rights case
FORT LAUDERDALE, April 3, 2018—In an unexpected move, a federal jury found the ex-President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and his foreign minister, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, responsible for the […] Read More >
March 30, 2018 > Staff
Families outraged after deadly Venezuela jail fire
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA Families of the 68 people killed during a blaze this week in an overcrowded Venezuelan jail demanded information yesterday as to what led to the fire. […] Read More >
March 23, 2018 > Staff
Peruvian lawmakers debate whether to impeach president or accept resignation
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA Lawmakers in Peru began to debate yesterday whether to accept President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s resignation or to go ahead with his impeachment. Meanwhile, federal prosecutors requested […] Read More >
March 22, 2018 > Staff
Embattled Peruvian president steps down over vote-buying scandal
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned yesterday amid corruption accusations. On Tuesday, footage had been leaked by right-wing opposition party Popular Force allegedly showing Kuczynzki’s allies […] Read More >
March 21, 2018 > Isabel Caballero-Samper
The Colombian peace process threw the wrongfully convicted into a legal void
NEW YORK—The story of a man named Gilberto Torres Muñetón appeared in several Colombian newspapers recently. His is the first case of a convicted FARC member transferred from the ordinary […] Read More >