Ecuador

Ruling party won the first round of the election

Votes casted for Lenín Moreno of the ruling party were not enough to avoid a runoff and will face right wing opposition leader Guillermo Lasso for the presidency.

3/5/2017

Latin America / The Caribbean

In brief

Argentina, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

2/27/2017

Colombia

FARC demobilization process begins

Some 7,000 combatants are concentrated in 26 areas where they will lay aside their weapons and re-enter civilian life.

2/27/2017

Honduras

President seeks new term

The Supreme Court paved the way for the reelection of President Juan Orlando Hernández despite Constitutional ban.

2/27/2017

Ecuador

“A communication media cannot always be neutral or impartial”

Radio Sucumbíos, a popular and educational community radio station, has reached 25 years addressing different social problems in their transmissions.

2/19/2017

Peru

Biogas, clean energy transforming guinea pig manure

Project has been transforming guinea pig manure into biogas and organic fertilizer with improved properties for 23 years now.

2/12/2017

Peru

“Oil is not synonymous of development”

Amazonian indigenous communities affected by oil spills reached agreements with the government.

2/12/2017

South America

Italy sentences Operation Condor participants

Former leaders of military dictatorships received life sentences for the disappearance and death of Italian citizens.

2/6/2017

Cuba

The United States put an end to migratory benefits to Cubans

Former US President Barack Obama repealed the “wet foot/dry foot” policy that protected Cuban migrants.

2/6/2017

Latin America

In brief

Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama

2/6/2017

Ecuador

Shuar indigenous peoples in the eye of the storm

1/23/2017

Brazil

Prisons massacre was an announced tragedy

At least 89 deaths was the toll of the mutinies in prisons in the Brazilian Amazonia.

1/15/2017

Mexico

Violent protests erupt after gasoline price hike

Fuel prices will be adjusted to international prices and will be guided by the offer and demand.

1/15/2017

Guatemala

GUATEMALA: Foreign companies plagiarize Maya ancestral designs

Indigenous women fight for collective intellectual property rights over traditional Mayan textiles.

12/15/2016

Latin America

In brief

Bolivia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay

12/1/2016

Cuba

CUBA: Fidel, let History judge him

Different circumstances make it difficult to fulfill the legacy of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, who died on Nov. 25, at the age of 90.

12/1/2016

Brazil

BRAZIL: Constitutional reform will affect the right to education

Massive occupation of public schools and universities to protest the package of measures presented to Congress by Michel Temer’s government.

12/1/2016

Ecuador

Corruption scandals shake up election campaign

Governing party seeks to ensure impunity in case the results in the presidential elections in February do not go their way.

11/28/2016

Puerto Rico

New pro-statehood governor

Ricardo Rosselló, of the New Progressive Party, is in favor of the island becoming a US state.

11/16/2016

Argentina

The economic illusion of Macri

Almost one year from having taken office, various measurements agree that poverty has risen while industrial production has decreased leaving thousands unemployed.

11/16/2016