The current feminicide crusade in Guatemala takes root in the unjust bloodbath of a culture that views women as objects in which to install fear, terror and extreme submission. Guatemala’s recent history involves a good deal of indigenous blood; frustration and bitterness over these past injustices lives on in succeeding generations. Armed groups, especially those in rival gangs, release their anger through the one aspect that unequivocally connects the generations and is far from...
Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias once again has turned his back on an existing relationship and the obligations that went with it. He has done this in favor of a new one that is more self-serving to the nation as well as possibly his own self-interests. This pattern conforms to the spirit of opportunism, which has motivated so much of his public life. This time it is in regard to Costa Rica’s increasingly torrid...
Paraguay’s poor were graced with the electoral victory of a former Catholic bishop, Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, in the April 20th presidential election. On August 15, Lugo was inaugurated as president of Paraguay which commenced the country’s first left-leaning presidency in over 70 years. Fellow leftist Latin American leaders applauded his triumph over the conservative Colorado Party’s 61-year hold on the nation and anticipate a new reformist Paraguay arising from the Lugo presidency. His...
Published by Le Grand Soir By Jean-Guy Allard Pièce essentielle du mécanisme de la CIA pour attaquer les gouvernements progressistes latino-américains, l’International Republican Institute que préside John McCain depuis plus de 15 ans, est l’arme secrète de la droite la plus récalcitrante des États-Unis pour atteindre ses objectifs par le biais de gigantesques opérations de tromperie et de manipulation. Inspirée par Ronald Reagan qui réclamait en 1982 la création d’un think tank qui mènerait...
Published by United Press International By Carmen Gentile MIAMI, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Venezuela will supply Paraguay “with all the oil it needs,” said President Hugo Chavez, who welcomed the election of another leftist leader in Latin America. While officials with the Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA refused to give explicit details of the agreement, Chavez assured new Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop whose political leanings are in line with the leftist...
