South America

By Fabiana Frayssinet A Nigerian diviner dances and sings next to a Brazilian priest of the Candomblé religion, brought to this South American country by African slaves, that is now being rescued from oblivion in school texts on national history…

During the panel on Government Policies, “A new humanism for the New Civilisation”, Tomas Hirsch, Chilean humanist, proposed that, even if governments are doing, and must continue to do, their part to eliminate inequalities, they can’t do it alone.  It’s…

David and Katharine Lowrie have a mission: running 5,000 miles in one year, from the southern tip of Chile to northern Colombia, to benefit the continent’s wildlife and wild places. The intrepid Lawries will finish running the Carretera Austral, Aysén’s…

By now everyone knows that President Chavez won the presidential election in Venezuela. In one sense, we can say that “the people” (el pueblo) have won on Oct 7. However, these words do not reflect the entire experience. The most…

The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, said today, September 25, 2012, in her intervention in the General Assembly of the UN, that the Brazilian government recognizes Palestine as a member State of the UN, and reiterated their support for the…

Twenty-seven journalists, technicians and other employees of state-owned TV Pública were denied entry to the TV station’s Asunción headquarters yesterday on the grounds that they “cannot continue” to work for the station. Some had heard talk on 31 August of…

The press, politicians and Paraguayan social organizations showed their disagreement regarding the proposal of investing 600 million USD in purchasing weapons for the armed forces. The proposal emerged from the command of military forces and was backed by the Defense…

1.4 Million Colombian children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years of age worked in 2011, “in order to have their own money or participate in family economic activity,” according to the director of the National Department of Statistics (Dane),…

It would only occur to Commander Jerez compare pushes and shouts at the soldiers to bullets, the death of our loved ones, the occupation of our homes, accusations and false positives against our communities. However it appears that not only the commander uses the strategy of lies and manipulation because to this instant all media have echoes these maligned declarations.

The arrival of Lt. Gen. Vicente Díaz de Villegas who claimed to have retired and to be traveling as an ordinary tourist to Venezuela naturally put Sebin, the country’s intelligence service, on alert. Villegas cited tourism as the purpose of the visit and journalism as his occupation in the entry form, and stopped at the Alba hotel,