A group for Latin American DU members. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:37 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:37 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 Israel’s Hand in Guatemala’s Genocide
May 23, 2013

Exclusive: The Guatemalan genocide of the 1980s does not just implicate President Ronald Reagan and his senior aides but the Israeli government which secretly supplied helicopters, guns and computers that were used to hunt down and exterminate I... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817832 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:19:18 Former Colombian prosecution officials extradited to the US
posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
May 23, 2013

Two fired Colombian prosecution officials on Wednesday have been extradited to the United States for selling classified information to drug traffickers, local media reported Wednesday.
... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817831 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:19 No, this is not from "The Onion"

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1438571&Itemid=1... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817825 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:03:26 I wonder why Cuba...

http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/23/venezuela-talk-show-host-who-revealed-infighting-among-chavistas-takes-leave-of-absence-in-cuba

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817824 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:48 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-latam-summit-venezuela-economy-idUSBRE94M0QD20130523

Venezuela is slipping into high inflation and economic stagnation this year due to a shortage of hard currency and a decade-long weakening of domestic industry, the head of the country's main busines... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817823 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:20 http://news.yahoo.com/ex-ford-execs-charged-argentine-torture-cases-192149822.html

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817817 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:02:05 Long, 3 parts, almost 4.5 hours. Worth it.
[div class="excerpt"]
[b]The Power Principle[/b]

A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today.

This docume... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817816 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:58 “A savage capitalism has taught the logic of profit at any cost, of giving in order to get, of exploitation without thinking of people... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing,” the pope said.

Francis greeted the men and women coming to the 'Gift of Maria' food kitchen, located... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817808 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:52:43 New Paraguay leaders promise more free milk
May 22, 5:41 PM EDT

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutr... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817807 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:44:57 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43tqQhOTCgQ

Venezuela to Expand Its El Sistema Music Program

By Tamara Pearson

http://venezuelanalysis.com/files/imagecache/block_node_images/images/2013/05/maduro-abreu.jpg
[i]Jose Abreu (left) and President Nicolas Maduro (VTV)[/i]

Merida, May 22nd 2013 ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817805 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:54 The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five[1] (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González) are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign governme... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817802 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:06 [div class="excerpt"]


[div class="excerpt"]Summary
[i]The case of the Cuban Five is one which reflects abysmally on the U.S. juridical system. The Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Luis Medina, Antonio Guerrero, Ruben Campa and Rene Gonzalez, were members of the Cuban Intelligence Service sent to penet... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817801 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:41:53 Ecuador smashes India-to-US migrant smuggling ring
Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:00
Posted by Abdul Ahad

QUITO: A ring that smuggled immigrants from India and Sri Lanka into the United States through Ecuador has been broken up with the arrest of six people, Ecuadoran authorities said Thursday.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817799 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:17:51 Stephen Harper Foreign-Aid-Through-Mining Plan Gets Test Drive In Peru
CP | By Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press Posted: 05/22/2013 4:00 am EDT | Updated: 05/22/2013 1:11 pm EDT

LIMA, Peru - The Senate expenses scandal is turning Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to South America i... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817797 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:53 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-nelson/only-in-argentina-is-foot_b_3300308.html?utm_hp_ref=latin-america

Jorge Lanata is a noted investigative journalist in Buenos Aires and he's been a thorn in the side of the corrupt Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as long as she has been, well, corrupt.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817796 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:16 Honduran victims of US drug war still await justice

Some Hondurans pay the ultimate price for a DEA that operates with impunity in the region.

Last Modified: 20 May 2013 18:16

http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/images/2013/5/16//201351681342639734_20.jpg

[font size=1]On May 11, 2012, t... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817795 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:28:20 Xiomara Zelaya Leads in Honduras Presidential Polling
Posted: 05/21/2013 6:06 pm

The fourth set of presidential polls in Honduras is out, and for the fourth time Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is in the lead by a comfortable margin. In January, a CID-Gallup poll had Mrs. Zelaya ahead with 25 percent... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817794 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:22:02 ugh

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/despite-risks-brazil-courts-the-millisecond-investor/

t a time when the mere phrase “high-frequency trading” makes some investors queasy, Brazil’s stock exchange is putting out the digital welcome mat.

In recent years, the BM&F Bovespa stock exchan... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817791 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:49 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/peru-economy-poverty-idUSL2N0DP2UX20130508



LIMA May 8 (Reuters) - Peru's poverty rate fell 2 percentage points to 25.8 percent last year as President Ollanta Humala inches toward his goal of halving the number of poor by 2016 in one of Latin America'... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817789 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:11:25 Colombian police generals aided paramilitaries: ‘Mi Sangre’
posted by Olle Ohlsen Pettersson
May 22, 2013

A leading Colombian neo-paramilitary currently imprisoned in Argentina says the Colombian police actively supported the rise of illegal paramilitary groups.

“I can say that in Colombi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817787 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:09:50 http://news.yahoo.com/even-toilet-paper-scarce-venezuelan-president-warms-business-142332407.html;_ylt=A2KJ2Ub9_5xRzl8A8jfQtDMD

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan supermarket puts a stack of toilet paper on its shop floor, and desperate consumers snatch it up within five minutes. A woman's voice ov... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817775 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:37:48 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/world/americas/venezuelan-banker-and-miami-brokerage-workers-are-accused-of-fraud.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=global-home

In the scheme’s most audacious maneuver, authorities said, the brokerage firm twice bought a large quantity of bonds from the bank and sold t... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817761 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:07

GRANADA, Nicaragua -- In this quaint colonial town, vigilant residents who keep close tabs on their neighbors know the enigmatic woman asDoña Anita, a sometime hairdresser with a mean temper.

They describe her as a night owl prone to cursing, buying Coca-Cola by the case and watching dirty mo... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817759 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:19 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/venezuela-julio-borges-fight-chavismo-politics.html

I met recently with several Chavistas connected with the government who condemned their allies’ denial of the opposition’s right to speak. One prominent Chavista who asked not to be identifi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817753 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:48:49 Let's see how long it takes the government from the time of the vote to do the paperwork, order the TP, get it shipped, and the distributed. 39 million rolls for 29 million people. Let's see how long it lasts.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22621833

Lawmakers voted to approve a $79m cr... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817752 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:46:25 New accords with Venezuela 'worth €800m' - minister
by TPN/ Lusa, in General · 22-05-2013 08:35:00

A set of business accords just signed with Venezuela should be worth €800 million, Portugal's foreign minister, Paulo Portas, said on Tuesday, after a meeting in Caracas of a top-level bilateral co... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817749 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:50:42 May 21, 2013
Colombia ex-president: Drug use should not be a criminal matter
posted by Julia Myska

Colombia’s ex-president Cesar Gaviria on Tuesday said drug abuse should be considered a health issue rather than a criminal matter.

Gaviria’s statements on radio station RCN came in the li... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817747 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:26:52 Bolivia's culture minister calls it actor-activist Sean Penn's "worst performance" ever. He isn't talking about a movie.

Minister Pablo Groux is slamming Penn's proposal to a U.S. congressional subcommittee Monday that Bolivia be cut out of the Dakar motor sport rally unless it frees a U.S. citiz... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817743 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:21:53 Brazil commission says abusers could be tried

The Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 2:26 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 2:26 p.m.

A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under the nation's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817731 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:53:00 Bolivian Miners Accept Gov't Proposal and Abandon Strike

La Paz, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Miners of Huanuni, the largest Bolivian tin reserves, accepted today the proposal to reform the government pension system and stopped demonstrations in the capital, after 15 days of strike.
The Bolivia's Mi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817720 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:32 Correa Insists on LatAm Unity Against Transnational Thievery

Quito, May 21 (Prensa Latina) ...

During a meeting with journalists in Guayaquil, Correa described the consequences of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) as institutionalized theft, used by transnational companies to demand mul... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817717 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:56:14 CARACAS (Reuters) - ------

Opposition leaders on Monday played an hourlong, expletive-laced diatribe in which a man identified as powerful state TV commentator Mario Silva lambastes party heavyweight Diosdado Cabello.

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Silva, whose close links to the late Chavez have led many to... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817712 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:29 We know Colombia, Uruguay are on Board with this, let's hope some other LA countries decide to be as well

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/18/drugspolicy-drugs-trade


After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817711 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:14:35 Long excellent piece, I wish I could have excerpted more. Worth visiting the link:

http://rt.com/op-edge/democracia-argentina-cristina-kirchner-566/




But what has become a prime source of national concern is massive government corruption in which money stolen by Kirchnerites runs anywher... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817704 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:38:33 http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/20/brazil-trapped-by-argentina-and-venezuela-economic-mismanagements

Under the heading of “Brazil and the neighbours’ crises, just next door” columnist Sergio Leo exposed the growing concern and disenchantment in the cabinet of President Rousseff with the economic... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817702 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:33:43 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/18/us-venezuela-opposition-idUSBRE94H01Y20130518



CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela on Friday released an opposition activist who had been jailed on accusations of inciting violence in the wake of President Nicolas Maduro's narrow election victory in April.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817699 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:39 Colombia this month became one of the first in Latin America to declare indigenous sacred land to be of “national and cultural interest,” according to lobby group Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) who helped with the process.

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According to Ventura, the land on Colombia’s east coast whic... http://www.democraticunderground.com/110817696 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:53:44