Last week, images of a war between drug traffickers and dealers in Rio de Janeiro spread across the world. Clashes between gangs from the hills Morro São João and Morro dos Macacos on...

Students for a Free Tibet, Bangladesh (SFTBD), the Bangladesh chapter of the Students for a Free Tibet organization, in partnership with Drik Bangladesh,...

The signing of the “Guaymuras Dialogue Agreement of San Jose Tegucigalpa” has opened the door to solving the crisis, which started on June 28, 2009 with the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya. ...

Two former presidential candidates, two current Senators, and some businesspeople have been calling for an impeachment of President Fernando Lugo for his inability to provide security to the...

It has been a busy week in Nicaragua. On October 19, the Supreme Court overturned Article 147 of the National Constitution, which had prohibited continuous presidential reelection. It stated that...

Christian from Cobertura digital comments on Ecuador's most frequent Google searches in 2009 as service Zeitgeist opens results for the country for the first time.

Thirty-six years after his death, Chilean singer songwriter Víctor Jara had a proper funeral. A crowd of thousands of artists, public figures, fans and militants gathered on December 3 in Santiago to pay homage to the musician, theatre director and...

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Fariba Pajooh, an Iranian blogger and journalist, has been in prison for more than 100 days. According to Ghomar Asheghaneh, an Iran based blogger, her parents do not know what to do and her father is in a bad physical condition.

Hadi Ghaemi, a leading human rights activist, writes in Huffingtonpost: “Much of the international public and media consider mass protests in Iran to have ended, because images of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators no longer appear on TV screens…...