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Chile: Most Mapuche Prisoners End Hunger Strike
On October 2, following intense negotiations with the Chilean government, 25 Mapuche prisoners being held in jails in the cities of Concepción, Angol, Temuco and Valdivia, ended a hunger strike that...
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Chile: All Mapuche Prisoners End Hunger Strike
A general hunger strike by Mapuche prisoners prosecuted under Chile's anti-terrorism law reached its final closure today. As Global Voices informed earlier, most prisoners ended their protest on...
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Chile: 33 Miners Rescued Successfully
Efforts to free 33 miners [es] trapped inside the San Jose copper and gold mine, near the northern city of Copiapó, concluded successfully on October 13. Chileans have not only used blogs and social...
View ArticleMexico: President Felipe Calderon´s Twitter Use
Pepe Flores [es], writer for ALT1040 [es], reflects on how President Felipe Calderon has used Twitter since he first joined. He points that the Presidency sees sees this medium as a way to inform...
View ArticleGuatemala: Presidential Divorce Allows First Lady to Run in Elections
In the blog CARPE DIEM [es], Luis Figueroa describes [es] how the approval of President Colom´s divorce by Guatemalan courts may actually be a “violation of a norm.” The granted divorce now allows his...
View ArticlePeru: World Internet Day Seminar in Lima
Juan Arellano, author of the blog Globalizado [es] and Global Voices Spanish Editor, shares his impressions about the World Internet Day Seminar [es], a 3-day event held in Lima, Peru. In detail, he...
View ArticleUruguay: Congress Upholds Amnesty Law for Military
The Latin America News Dispatch writes about the Uruguayan Congress' decision to uphold a 1986 amnesty law that “prevents the prosecution of military officials from the 1973-1985 dictatorship for...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Food Insecurity Rising in Rural Areas
The blog “Locavore del Mundo” [someone who eats locally grown foods around the world] discusses how rural Salvadorian families are struggling to secure food for themselves, not particularly because...
View ArticleChile: Should State TV Play Hidroaysen Ads?
Luis Cuello in El Quinto Poder, describes how [es] Television Nacional de Chile, the State's television channel, played the latest of ads by Hidroaisen campaign during the night news (prime time in...
View ArticleBolivia: New Ministry of Comunications Raises Doubts
Rodrigo Reque Mejía, owner of the blog Puro Papo [es], compares the Bolivian government's newly created Ministry of Communications with the fictitious Ministry of Truth in Geroge Orwell's 1984 novel....
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Chile: “Anti-Occupation” Law Sparks Controversy
On October 2, 2011, the Chilean Ministry of Interior (responsible for public order and security), drafted and sent to Congress a piece of legislation that would criminalize occupations of public or...
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Chile: Looming Anti-protest Law Sparks Concern
Chile's Minister of Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter has called on the Congress to approve a law that seeks harsher punishments for protesters, renewing a debate that started in the country a year ago. The...
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Chileans Protest in Support of Gaza
Despite the fact that Chile is located more than 8,000 miles away from the Palestinian Territories and Israel, many Chileans have not been oblivious to the continued exchange of makeshift rockets and...
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Chile: Firewood Prohibition Decree Freezes Temuco
Chanting slogans such as “Everybody or nobody,” “Wake Up Temuco!,”, “Minister, I'm cold”, among others, hundreds of residents of the west side of the city of Temuco took to the streets to protest a...
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Chile: Police Special Forces Evict Mapuche Community From Contested Lands
“Welcome to the Temucuicui Autonomous Community” Photo by Donmatas1 on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) In the early morning of Wednesday, October 9, riot police and members of the Group of Special Operations...
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