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Colombian government and FARC will debate on victims of armed conflict

The dialogue table between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government tomorrow resume discussions on victims of the armed conflict as part of the peace talks in Havana, Cuba. The issues by the peace process include repairing the affected by...
Posted On 11 Aug 2014
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Figueroa and his team still enjoy the precautionary measures by the IACHR

The union leader Carlos Figueroa, who is complying with a sentence of six months for libeling President Rafael Correa, would still enjoy the precautionary measures in his favor after the ratification by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Last week, the...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Indigenous request visit of the UN to verify “violation of human rights”

Indigenous organizations complained to representatives of the United Nations (UN) in Ecuador the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) to recognize as jurisdiction of the common justice the trial and punishment of crimes against the life in which members of an indigenous...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Minister of the People’s Republic of Donetsk and pro-Russian leader resigns

The pro-Russian separatists leader and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk in Ukraine Alexander Borodai, resigned yesterday after the Ukrainian government forces announced their offensive on the rebel cities of Donetsk and Lugansk. Borodai...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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The fire between the Gaza Strip and Israel starts before the truce expires

Rockets launched from the Gaza Strip impacted yesterday, August 7, Israeli soil. This, less than four hours before the three days ceasefire expires, which was subscribed by Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas and, while Palestinian negotiators in El Cairo discussed an...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Argentina resorts to The Hague to sue the U.S. by speculative funds

The Government of Argentina presented yesterday at the International Court of Justice in The Hague a lawsuit against the United States for the collection of the relevant debt to hedge funds. Argentina argues that the U.S. has committed a “violation of its sovereign...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Santos calls to unity for the peace of Colombia

The President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, took office to exert his second term and yesterday, during his inaugural speech, he made ​​an appeal to the unity of his fellow countrymen regarding the construction of a new country in peace. “I firmly believe that Colombia...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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23 victims from MH17 flight have been identified by forensics

The forensic team led by Dutch researchers at Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in July, has reported this Friday that twenty-three victims have been identified so far. The spokesman from the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, Jean Fransman reported that families were...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Rafael Correa speaks to European Council on tariff preferences extension

After arriving to Bogotá and before attending the inauguration of the second term of the Colombian Juan Manuel Santos, President Rafael Correa spoke with the head of the European Council Herman van Rompuy, on tariff preferences between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) . The...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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Bonil apologizes with Agustín Delgado through a caricature

From his official Twitter account, the caricaturist of El Universo daily Xavier Bonilla, aka Bonil, offered the night of August 7 apologies to Assemblyman Agustín Delgado and his family for the cartoon published on Tuesday, August 5. “Tin Delgado: I read on Twitter that my...
Posted On 08 Aug 2014
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