A group for Latin American DU members. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 26 May 2013 01:27:14 Sun, 26 May 2013 01:27:14 FARC-EP Reject new Colombian Minister Ultimatum

Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) ...

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Colombia's Interior Minister compared the proposals on rural development in the insurgency with a "gift list" and a "Christmas tree."

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After reading out the text, Laura Villa stated that the ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110818023 Sat, 25 May 2013 20:08:36 Beyond the caricature, the poor people’s president

Bart Jones | May. 23, 2013

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In December 1999, mudslides killed an estimated 15,000 people in Caracas and its environs. The archbishop of Caracas at the time, Antonio Ignacio Velasco, suggested from the altar it was a punishment from Go... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110818021 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:49:06 Top chefs say Latin America will become culinary superpower
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, May 25, 2013 17:00 EDT

The world’s top chefs say it’s only a matter of time before Latin America, home to Brazil’s black bean stew “feijoada,” Peru’s refreshing raw fish “ceviche” and Mexico’s street t... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110818013 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:20:31 May 22, 2013, 2:27 pm
House panel approves homeland bill, bars Brazilian immigrants
By Erik Wasson

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a 2014 Homeland Security funding bill with a bipartisan voice vote. The bill is expected on the House floor in June.

In a surprise deve... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110818010 Sat, 25 May 2013 18:16:09 Tighter border security means more migrants die while trying to enter US, according to Amnesty

Large number of unidentified bodies found in Arizona over past decade

Thu, May 23, 2013, 13:16
First published:Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:00

The remains of 45 suspected migrants from Mexico and beyo... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110818001 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:38:10 UN human rights office urges trial to be decided on merits after Guatemalan court overturns Ríos Montt conviction

24 May 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today said it was “concerned” about the legal rights of Guatemalans after a high court overturned the 80 year prison sentence agai... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817991 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:03:09 Chasing Islamic 'terrorists' in Paraguay

The search for the Islamic bogeyman terror organisation in South America is fruitless because none exist.

Last Modified: 25 May 2013 16:37
Belen Fernandez

In November 2012, a subcommittee of the US House Committee on Homeland Security produced ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817989 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:54:40 The Jig Is Up in Guatemala
By Patricia Davis
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Saturday, May 25, 2013

The May 10 genocide conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was groundbreaking—he was the first former head of state convicted of genocide by his country’s own courts.

The ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817986 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:39:18 Photos: Throughout Latin America, protests demand justice for Guatemala after genocide trial overturned

Xeni Jardin at 12:22 pm Sat, May 25, 2013

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Protesters in Guatemala and other Latin American countries gathered o... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817985 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:23:49 On April 29th, the Federal Public Minister in São Paulo presented charges against retired Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra for hiding the body of a 27-year-old medical school student, Hiohaki Torigoe, who had allegedly been imprisoned and tortured in the Doi-Codi facility in São Paulo in 1972.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817964 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:18:22 Despite the Economic Crisis, Brazil decided to give a monthly culture stipend of $25 to workers so they can go to movies, read books or visit museums. "In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy," the Minister of Culture, Marta Suplicy, said in an interview on national tele... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817956 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:34:35 AP Further Documents Evidence of Honduran Police Death Squads; U.S. State Department Hits Back

Written by Dan Beeton
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:40

A new [link:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=183675583|investigative feature] by award-winning Associated Press correspondent... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817954 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:25:15 Not Writing History
Written by Sara Kozameh
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:29

Ten days ago Guatemalan courts [link:http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/us-supported-former-ally-rios-montt-while-aware-of-atrocities-committed-by-the-dictatorship|convicted] former dictator General ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817952 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:13:01 U.S. Media Continues to Treat Capriles’ Complaints Seriously Despite Lack of Evidence

Written by Dan Beeton
Monday, 20 May 2013 16:53

As we have [link:http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/does-capriles-have-a-plausible-claim-or-is-he-venezuelas-sore-loser|noted] previousl... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817950 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:38 Former U.S. President Carter to mediate between # Chile and # Bolivia
May 22
Posted by cubanoypunto

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Google translation:

The former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) is committed to intercede "p... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817945 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:31:40 SATURDAY 25 MAY 2013

Bolivia Calls the DEA's Drug War a Total Failure

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24/05/13.- Bolivia's government today described the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) war on drugs in Latin America as a failure.

At a press... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817938 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:00:55 [div class="excerpt"]Rafael Correa: "There are millions of Chavezes"

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25/05/13.- "We know it was Commandante Hugo Chavez, who opened this change of times in our continent. When alone against the world in 1998 he democratically defe... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817935 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:25:35 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-24/ecuador-satellite-hits-soviet-era-space-junk/4711858

Ecuador's space agency EXA warned on Wednesday that a collision was likely between its Pegaso nanosatellite and the remains of an S14 rocket, launched by the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.

..... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817934 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:24:31 http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/24/4363960/google-no-longer-able-to-pay-developers-in-argentina-for-apps-pulling

Developers in Argentina have begun receiving letters from Google informing them that "Google Play will no longer be able to accept payments on behalf of developers registered in Argenti... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817931 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:18:08 http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130525/criminal-offenses-uncovered-from-mario-silvas-audio-recording

HIGH TREASON. To criminal lawyer Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, [Mario] Silva's talking to a member of Cuba's military intelligence admitting to previous talks with others on the possibilit... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817926 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:41:59 [div class="excerpt"]Protests against Monsanto in Costa Rica Today

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[i]Monsanto, get out of Costa Rica. GMO-free foods[/i]


San Jose, May 25 (Prensa Latina) Costa Ricans are demonstrating against the U.S. mu... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817925 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:36:55 Abandonment denounced in the Honduran educational system

Tegucigalpa, May 25 (Prensa Latina) The newspaper El Heraldo, reported today that the Honduran public education system is abandoned by the government of Porfirio Lobo, who has made ​​significant cuts in the sector.

Ariel Lope... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817922 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:18:37 http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/24/toilet-paper-shortage-is-because-venezuelans-are-eating-more-argues-the-government

A few hours after the Venezuelan congress voted a 79 million dollars credit for the import of 39 million rolls of toilet paper and other personal hygiene items, the government of... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817921 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:11:43 [div class="excerpt"]May 22, 2013 5:05 pm
Expelled from Nicaragua to Henrique Salas Feo

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The former governor of Carabobo, Henrique Fernando Salas, reported via his Twitter account @hfsalasromer, that he was preve... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817920 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:05:15 http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-create-workers-militia-165808807.html

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia to defend the country's "Bolivarian revolution" at a time when the government faces economic problems and political turmoil.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817918 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:50:08 Festive Left Friday Blogging: A most Ecuadorable inauguration
May 24, 2013 — Sabina Becker

It was inauguration day today in Ecuador for a very popular re-elected leader. And guess who was the guest of honor?

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Yup, Nicolás Maduro wa... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817909 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:38:58 Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new president.

Opposition deputies on Monday broad... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817903 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:49:20 Videla’s dirty war

It is imperative to remember the cynicism with which Argentina’s dictatorship dispatched its invisible victims

Julián Casanova 24 MAY 2013 - 12:56 CET

It all began on March 24, 1976 when the junta of commanders-in-chief headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla took power in ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817902 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:39:26 “The Supreme Court created my crime; it was written in advance”

Former High Court judge vows return to the magistrates’ bench when his suspension ends in 2021

Natalia Junquera Madrid 24 MAY 2013 - 19:57 CET

On May 1, 2021 Baltasar Garzón’s suspension from the bench for authorizing illegal... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817901 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:38:13 Poor Utilization of the Land Behind Food Shortages in Venezuela

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[i]A hacienda from the Western state of Lara that was being used for cattle grazing until recently when peasants occupied it a... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817888 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:10:32 Explaining Chavista Successes as well as the Danger Spots in Post-Chávez Venezuela

By Steve Ellner - Nacla, May 23rd 2013

[i]This article was originally published in the Spring 2013 issue of NACLA: Report on the Americas (Vol 46, No. 1)[/i]

Many accounts of recent Venezuelan developments im... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817886 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:04:11 The Judicial Coup Advances

By Luis Britto Garcia, May 24th 2013

1. Barack Obama thinks it’s within his authority to affirm that, “the people of Venezuela are able to determine their own destiny free from the kinds of practices that the entire hemisphere generally has moved away from” and thus ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817884 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:53:34 Weekend Edition April 26-28, 2013

Pain and Punishment

Doctors Who Torture

by Dr. CESAR CHELALA
Buenos Aires

Last July at the Libertad (Freedom) prison in Uruguay was unusual. Miguel Angel Estrella, an Argentine pianist (and now Argentina’s Ambassador to UNESCO), was giving a concert i... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817872 Fri, 24 May 2013 04:28:29 Dead sea lions found in Peru, poisoning suspected
Signs are that they may have been killed with rat poison
By AFP
Published Friday, May 24, 2013

Dead sea lions have been discovered on beaches in northern Peru amid suspicions they were poisoned by fishermen, activists and authorities said.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817869 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:48:10 Venezuela, Russia in joint oil venture
Friday, 24 May 2013 11:49
Posted by Parvez Jabri

BARCELONA: Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture Thursday to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt.

Russia will loan Venezuela $1.5 billion to f... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817868 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:42:54 Although the Venezuelan oil basket price has been above the USD 100 ceiling, Venezuela's debt has continued growing.

Based on information from the Finance Ministry, the government has focused on issuing bonds in the domestic market, thus increasing obligations by 97.5% in three years.

At the e... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817866 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:39:30 Will Justice Be Possible In Guatemala?

The historic genocide trial of Efraín Ríos Montt was a huge step. But his conviction has been overturned—and many others have blood on their hands, including current president Otto Pérez Molina.

Frank Smyth
May 23, 2013

A partial retrial for 86-y... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817855 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:09:14 Honduras should investigate attack on two journalists

New York, May 23, 2013--Honduran authorities must conduct a full and thorough investigation into Monday's attack on two journalists in the northern town of La Ceiba, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Ramón Maldonado, a host f... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817854 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:26:10 19,000 children missing in Colombia
posted by Julia Myska
May 23, 2013

Some 19,000 children are missing in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. More than 4,000 unidentified remains of children have been found in mass graves and are being identified.

The identification process of the 4,21... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817851 Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:55 It is a basic principle that when you have phoney exchange rates there is an incentive for those who control the issuing of currency to give it to their friends (or their own shell companies) and then sell it on the black market instead of, say, buying a price controlled product like TP and importin... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817838 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:38:19