Tag: SOUTH AMERICA

‘Forced Disappearance is a Crime of Terror’: Ariel Dulitzky

October 10, 2017

Ariel Dulitzky, Argentine lawyer, University of Texas Law School Professor and former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in an exclusive interview to Americas Program on Operation Condor, its influence in current operations, and today’s wave of forced disappearances in the context of the war on drugs.

Entrevista con Ariel Dulitzky, abogado especialista en desapariciones forzadas

October 10, 2017

Ariel Dulitzky, abogado argentino, profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Texas y ex miembro del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Desapariciones Forzadas o Involuntarias de las Naciones Unidas, en entrevista exclusiva para el Programa de los Américas sobre cómo fue la Operación Cóndor, su influencia hasta hoy en día, las desapariciones actuales en México y su relación con las guerras de los narcos.

Terremoto político en Guatemala

October 4, 2017

La decadencia de la democracia, la corrupción y los procesos judiciales de políticos de altos rangos, tienen a Guatemala en declive y con partidos políticos carentes de una ideología definida.

El hundimiento de Michel Temer

July 25, 2017

El movimiento de derecha Vem Pra Rua (Viene a la calle) quiere que Temer salga de la oficina porque la Fiscalía Federal brasileña lo denunció por corrupción y piden que sea investigado y juzgado por la Suprema Corte Federal.

Temer’s Dilemma

July 24, 2017

Despite some encouraging signs in the economy, Brazil’s president Michel Temer faces an abysmal approval rating as the entire political class—and the president himself- continues to be embroiled in corruption scandals.

FARC Women Prepare for Civilian Life After the Plebiscite

March 17, 2017

Once out of the concentration zone, Marta dreams of opening a clinic in the rural areas of Colombia. Ledis, a political prisoner of the Gabriel Galbis Unit of the FARC who received a special permit to participate as a delegate in the X National Guerrilla Conference, shares her dreamOnce out of the concentration zone, Marta dreams of opening a clinic in the rural areas of Colombia. Ledis, a political prisoner of the Gabriel Galbis Unit of the FARC who received a special permit to participate as a delegate in the X National Guerrilla Conference, shares her dream.

Partners at Odds

February 25, 2017

The ambiguous relationship between the United States and Brazil is expected to open a new chapter with Donald Trump in the White House.

From Student Movement to Autonomous Education

November 1, 2016

The broad student movement that won Chile’s alamedas – with demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of young people and the occupation of dozens of secondary schools, demanding changes in the education system – has sedimented in the creation of some thirty self-managed education initiatives in working-class territories.