Peru to Continue with Military Draft Despite Legal Challenges
Peru’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that plans for a military draft to begin Wednesday are going ahead unchanged, state news agency Andina reported. The Defensoria del Pueblo, Peru’s ombudsman, has come out against the draft and filed requests with the judiciary over the weekend to have it stopped. On Monday, politicians from the Fuerza Popu… Peruvian More...
Second student march in two weeks for Chile’s capital
Just one week after Chile’s traditional universities convened a nationwide protest, a coalition of private university students and labor groups is set to march in Santiago. More student groups will march in protest More...
‘We endured some pain yesterday, but we will get better,’ CFK says
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner targeted the Supreme Court after its recent ruling against the Council of Magistrates reform and warned that “Argentines will be able to democratically vote More...
Effects of Brazil Real Fall Against Dollar
By Maria Lopez Conde, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian real continued its downward spiral this week, closing at R$ 2.1734 on Monday, its lowest value since May 2009. As Brazilian More...
Economic Worries Stoke Brazil Protests
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – It was an apparently innocuous R$ 0.20 rise in the cost of a bus ticket in São Paulo that sparked mass protests that have since swept through More...
Pacific Alliance Third Biggest Source of Investment in Peru – Trade Group
Countries in the Pacific Alliance are the third largest source of foreign investment in Peru, after the European Union and North America, according to Lima’s Chamber of Commerce. The Pacific Alliance was formed More...
Communist Party sends proposals to Chilean presidential candidate
As the June 30 primary elections near, Michelle Bachelet’s campaign receives government policy proposals from the PC, which endorsed her candidacy earlier last month. In the midst of presidential More...
Supreme Court ruling ‘not serious,’ AnÃbal Fernández
The CFK administration will comply with the Supreme Court’s decision to declare the unconstitutionality of the Council of Magistrates’ reform but the government will not remain “quiet” More...
Rio Prepares to Host 2013 WYD in July
By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In just over a month, the city of Rio will receive an estimated two million Catholic youths, and Pope Francis himself, for the 2013 World Youth More...
Peru Left to Launch New Alliance with Eye on 2016 Presidential Election
Left-wing groups in Peru are planning to form a political alliance aimed at promoting their candidates during regional and municipal elections in the coming year, and buiding towards the presidential vote in 2016. More...
