The program discusses the findings by independent investigators for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the Mexican government actively harassed their workers and thwarted the inquiry into the case of 43 missing university students.
Aunque los ricos también lloren, cuando los pobres creen que su propio sufrimiento es causado por los ricos, hay poco espacio para que los pobres sientan solidaridad con la injusticia de ser caricaturizado como un delincuente.
Al ser incapaces de respetar el derecho de la gente a escoger a los candidatos de sus coaliciones, los partidos de la Nueva Mayoría, con la venia de la Presidenta Bachelet, han socavado la credibilidad de su supuesto compromiso con un proceso constituyente que otorgue poder a las personas.
Latin American and Caribbean states have been astoundingly cheap in supporting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2013, Chile only contributed $80,000, and the same year Brazil and Venezuela gave nothing to the Commission.
I was one of the beneficiaries of President Obama’s DACA initiative. But the real beneficiary of the policy is not just me and others like me, but the U.S. and its future.
Impeachment processes are always messy political processes (remember Bill Clinton’s in 1998?). In the case of Brazil, by providing a constitutional exit for unpopular executives, impeachment may be what ultimately preserves Brazilian democracy.
Patricio Aylwin, Chile’s president from 1990 to 1994, passed away on April 19th. He will be remembered as a symbol of the country’s transition to democracy. Today’s political leaders, in Chile as well as the rest of Latin America, would do well to learn a few lessons from his political career.
In a short obit for Prince, rather than mentioning his impact on funk and pop, TeleSur focuses on how he opposed the Iraq war. The implication: Prince may have been a Bolivarian! But wasn’t it the Raspberry Beret that gave it away all along?
Politics in both Brazil and the Dominican Republic provides the discussion points this week. The program covers the political arguments Rousseff is making to retain her office. It also sketches the important issues, parties, and candidates involved in the presidential race in the Dominican Republic.
A recent Spanish report by DeJusticia details the modern challenges of the inter-American system of human rights: political consensus; countries refusing to pay their obligations; and countries cutting their contributions when they receive decisions they don’t like.
