Jaron van der Sloot, he of Natalie Holloway infamy, is the prime suspect in the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru. Yesterday Peruvian Criminal Police Chief Gen. César Guardia told reporters that they’ve launched an international manhunt for van der Sloot, now 22, in the Sunday slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. On Sunday […]
Alvaro Uribe has received a great deal of criticism over his last few years in office from anti-trade advocates in the US, human rights groups and some of Colombia’s neighbours, especially Mr. Chavez, but despite this he was one of the most popular freely elected leaders in any country worldwide in the last 20 years. […]
Mount Pacaya began erupting yesterday, spewing volcanic rock and debris over parts of the capital, Guatemala City, located just 20 miles to the north. So far, one death is attributed to the volcano, and three children are also missing. President Álvaro Colom has declared a state of emergency and ordered the evacuation of surrounding areas. […]
The year 2010 began with the West being comprised of untraditional economically weak states developing out of the US economic crisis that started in 2008. Since January, it has expanded into economically crippling other states as the Euro continues to plunge after a Trillion dollar bailout and Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy quickly try to […]
Jamaican police and military are hounding one of the most wanted drug dealers on earth, Christopher ‘Dudas’ Coke. After initially resisting call for his capture, three days ago Prime Minister Bruce Golding gave in to pressure from the United States, and ordered his capture for extradition on drug trafficking charges. He is widely known to […]
Sean Murphy of FPA’s Global Film Review blog has posted yet another intriguing post on a documentary called Inside Guantanamo (2009) in which the director interviews those who work with Guantanamo detainees, including former prisoners there and the legal counsel for many current detainees in Guantanamo. With no official legal status of detainee’s being yet […]
If you cherish the environment don’t go to the Galápagos, that’s the message of TIME’s most recent Postcard. In 2008, an estimated 175,000 people visited the islands 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a tenfold increase from 1980, and the permanent population has doubled to 30,000 since 2000. The human influx has brought invasive […]
OFAC authorizes more Cuban options (UPI) The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) did not authorize a single new service to do business with Cuba in 2009, but in 2010 has already expanded the list of authorized U.S. travel and remittance services allowed to do business with Cuba by 42, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. […]
Today and tomorrow the Spanish Presidency of the EU will be hosting the 2010 EU-Latin America Summit in Madrid. Since 1999, the Summit has sought to engage Europe and Latin America in increased cultural and trade ties and create a defined relationship between the two regions on a permanent basis. Latin American and European economic interests between […]
The last summer created a great shift in the discussion on security and the nuclear issue worldwide. Protesters in Iran took to the street after a perceived action by President Ahmadinejad in fixing the elections in Iran to maintain himself in power with the backing of Iran’s religious leaders. The popular protests in Iran’s major […]
Lately music appears to be the only successful avenue for achieving greater US-Cuba exchange, and likewise for expressing critique of the government on the island. Something about this medium allows for greater flexibility on both counts. Silvio Rodriguez, the Cuban folk singer that has been called “the voice of the Cuban revolution” for his songs […]
Carbon credits are bought and sold to offset carbon emissions. Over the past five years the carbon credit market has gone from zilch to $300 billion, in anticipation of government’s placing a tax on carbon emissions. The logic behind CCs is simple: those who surpass their state-mandated quota buy credits from parties whose emissions stay […]
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