Oscar Marchall Martos, Correspondent (South America) BUENOS AIRES — According to the Argentinian media, the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is recovering well and remaining on her strict resting time at the presidential residence in Olivos. Before this, Kirchner had no contact with anyone due to strict aseptic care that doctors commanded. But yesterday she met her closest officials, the Legal and Technical Secretary Carlos Zannini, and the General Secretary of Presidency, Oscar Parrilli. On […]
Lais Fulgencio, Editor (South America) Two of the 30 Greenpeace activists, Brazilian biologist Ana Paula Maciel and a British cameraman, were formally charged on September 2 this week for piracy, according to Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Kreindlin. The two activists were detained in Russia for organising a protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic and are the only two accused of piracy by the Russian authorities for now. If convicted, they face up to 15 […]
Laís Fulgencio, Editor (South America) BRASILIA — The G3, created in 2003 by Brazil, India and South Africa as a forum for direct dialogue between nations with common interests, announced on Wednesday, September 25, a joint statement condemning the actions of espionage of the United States on Brazil and supporting the Brazilian proposal for a new “global governance of the Internet” to ensure data security. For the governments of India and South Africa, access […]
Javier Jorquera, Correspondent (South America) BOGOTÁ — The agrarian strike that took place 15 days ago has become increasingly complex. The government is not willing to meet to an open table dialogue and the police repression leave increasingly wounded. However, last Monday the problem worsened a bit more, as 16 ministers resigned protocol to the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, as confirmed by the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Aurelio […]
Lais Fulgencio, Correspondent (South America) BRASILIA — The Brazilian government has appointed a new Foreign Minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo. He was chosen by President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, after the resignation of former Minister Antonio Patriota. Patriota’s exit from the ministry is related to the the arrival of Bolivian Senator, Roger Pinto Molina, who had been convicted by Bolivian government for many offences. He was in exile for more than a year in the Brazilian […]
Lais Fulgencio, Correspondent (South America) LONDON — ”I still cannot process everything that happened,” said Michael David Miranda dos Santos, 28, who was detained at the airport in London on Sunday. He travelled to Berlin on August 10 to meet Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker who works with journalist Glenn Greenwald on CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s case. Greenwald’s partner, Miranda, took some data for Poitras, who has been working with Glenn since the beginning of Snowden’s […]
Javier Jorquera, Correspondent (North America) BOGOTA – The situation that exists in Colombia in recent days is rather tense. From Monday, a national strike was set by the agricultural producers to reject agricultural policies and neoliberal free market dictated by the government. The strike covers various Latin American regions, affecting areas such as Arauca (center-east), Boyacá (center) and Putumayo, Cauca and Nariño (south-west), where protesters have cut about 30 roads. However, there have been […]
Ilinca Nastasia, Correspondent (South America) SANTIAGO – This week , 20 Andean condors were intoxicated with pesticides. Authorities were alerted to the incident by locals after the birds were seen exhibiting erratic flight patterns at low altitudes. Two of them died after crashing into power lines. The ones which had managed to land reportedly presented foam around their beaks and other symptoms indicative of poisoning. This hypothesis seemed to be confirmed when two foxes and a […]
Javier Jorquera, Correspondent (South America) MERIDA – Last Monday the chancellors of the countries forming the MERCOSUR, the economic community of South America, had a meeting with the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, in order to express their discontentment with the United States of America over the issue of spying. The claim continued with the with nations like Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela voicing their outrage over not being allowed to fulfill their duty of […]
Lais Fulgêncio Correspondent (South America) BRASILIA — Last June, the world learned about the largest monitoring program in mass communications of all times, sponsored by the National Security Agency, the NSA, of the United States government. The revelations were made by a former consultant Edward Snowden, who during his work for the NSA copied thousands of classified documents which were initially leaked to the British newspaper, The Guardian. Last month, the Brazilian newspaper, O Globo, revealed […]
