Category: Regions
June 13, 2012 > Mari Hayman
“We Of The Saya”: An Interview With Filmmaker Sisa Bueno
Six years ago, New York filmmaker Sisa Bueno was a volunteer in Bolivia whose attention was captured by the struggle of Afro-Bolivians to be counted as an ethnic group in […] Read More >
June 13, 2012 > Juan Pedro Catepillan Tecay
Hundreds Protest Pro-Pinochet Film In Chile
SANTIAGO, CHILE — Chilean human rights organizations staged a rally on Sunday to protest an event held in honor of deceased former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The screening of a […] Read More >
June 13, 2012 > Staff
Falkland Islanders To Vote On Sovereignty
Top Story — The Falklands Legislative Assembly announced Tuesday that voters on the Falkland Islands will hold a referendum to decide whether the approximately 3,000 inhabitants of the remote islands […] Read More >
June 12, 2012 > Staff
More Drugs Passing Through Puerto Rico, Officials Say
Top Story — Puerto Rican officials reported that 70 percent of the 1,136 murders on the island last year could be attributed to drug violence, prompting Puerto Rican governor Luis […] Read More >
June 11, 2012 > Staff
Chilean Protesters Clash At Pro-Pinochet Documentary Screening
Top Story — Chilean police on Sunday used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a crowd of protesters gathered outside a screening of “Pinochet”, a documentary sympathetic to the […] 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 > Juan Pedro Catepillan Tecay
Chile Commemorates International Day Against Homophobia
SANTIAGO, CHILE — Thousands of attendees enlivened the twelfth consecutive celebration of “Diverse Chile: Cultural Demonstration for Diversity and Against Discrimination” in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas on Saturday, May 12. […] 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 > Mari Hayman
Brazil’s Truth Commission Set To Begin Its Work
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will preside over an official ceremony Wednesday to launch Brazil’s Truth Commission. The seven-member commission will convene for two years to investigate human rights abuses committed in Brazil […] 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 >