August 1, 2012 > Staff
Cuba Investigates Spaniard In Crash That Killed Dissidents
Top Story — Cuban authorities may charge Spaniard Angel Carromero with vehicular manslaughter because he was driving the car that crashed into a tree and killed dissident leader Oswaldo Payá and fellow […] Read More >
July 31, 2012 > Staff
Brazil And Ecuador To Help Rebuild Haitian Army
Top Story — The governments of Brazil and Ecuador have agreed to help Haiti set up a new army to replace the U.N. peacekeepers who have patrolled the island since […] Read More >
July 30, 2012 > Staff
Bolivian Government Asks Indigenous Groups To Approve Highway
Top Story — Bolivian government representatives traveled to Oromomo in the Amazon basin lowlands on Sunday, kicking off a campaign to convince sixty-nine indigenous communities in Bolivia to approve a […] Read More >
July 27, 2012 > Staff
Cuba Ready To Talk With US, Says Raul Castro
Top Story — At a speech celebrating Cuba’s Revolution Day on Thursday, Cuban President Raúl Castro said he was willing to sit down for a discussion with the U.S. government over relations between […] Read More >
July 26, 2012 > Staff
Cuba: Detentions At Dissident’s Funeral Criticized
Top Story — Amnesty International and the U.S. Government criticized the Cuban government after it briefly detained some 40 people who attended the funeral of dissident Oswaldo Payá on Tuesday. Cuban dissident and hunger-striker […] Read More >
July 24, 2012 > Staff
Peru: Court Reduces Grupo Colina Death Squad Sentences
Top Story — After Peru’s Supreme Court reduced the sentences of members of the Grupo Colina death squad, critics on Monday raised the possibility that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori […] Read More >
July 23, 2012 > Staff
Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Paya Killed In Car Crash
Top Story — Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, the leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, was killed in a car crash on Sunday in eastern Granma province along with another dissident. The […] Read More >
July 20, 2012 > Staff
Colombia: Nasa Indians To Try Alleged Guerrillas
Top Story — Fed up with violence in their community, members of the Nasa tribe in Colombia said that they were putting four suspected FARC guerrillas on trial for attacking […] Read More >
July 19, 2012 > Staff
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Money Laundering Influenced Election
Top Story — Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday accused Enrique Peña Nieto, the apparent victor in Mexico’s July 1 presidential elections, of laundering money to finance […] Read More >
July 18, 2012 > Staff
Chile: Ex-Colonels Charged For Torturing Michelle Bachelet’s Father
Top Story — Two retired Chilean colonels were charged Tuesday with torturing to death the father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, General Alberto Bachelet. General Bachelet, loyal to then-President Salvador Allende, was […] Read More >