Tag Archive: Latin America

Cuba’s truths

February 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

A interesting editorial from Cuba's national newspaper, Granma, rebuts the latest claims of human rights abuses put forth by the US and some countries of the EU

Get lost, Petrobras! (Or do I mean Brazil?)

November 19, 2011 1:26 am Leave your thoughts

David Hill reports that a Brazilian company plans to drill for oil within a section of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest causing massive ecological destruction and disruption to the lives of the Indigenous people living there.

The Hunt for FARC Commander Alfonso Cano

January 29, 2011 2:41 pm Leave your thoughts

The Colombian military has had numerous successes targeting high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in recent years. Its two greatest successes were the killing of secretariat members Raúl Reyes in 2008 and Jorge Briceño, alias "Mono Jojoy," last year. By Garry Leech