Tag Archives: Latin America
FARC concentrating troops while Colombia military moving into rebel territory: UN
Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group is concentrating its approximately 6,600 fighters in coordination with the United Nations while waiting for a resumption of a stranded peace process, according to the UN mission chief.
Colombia rejects peace deal with FARC rebels in referendum
In a historic vote, Colombia’s electorate on Sunday rejected a recently signed peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels, stopping in its tracks a peace process that had already begun.
| Kerry: US Will Not Take FARC off Terror List or Release Guerrilla Leader
The fate of Ricardo Palmera, an imprisoned leader of Colombia’s FARC rebels known as Simon Trinidad, is not on the table as part of a peace agreement between the group and the Colombian government, U.S. Secretary of State JohnKerry said on Monday.
External financial fragility in Latin America and its implications
by Daniel Munevar
To talk about external financial fragilities in Latin America is to evoke the memories of the 80’s debt crisis. The stigma that remains to this day identifies high levels of external public debt as the main source of financial instability for the region. However, things have changed in a dramatic fashion over the last 3 decades.
| ‘Temer out!’ Pro-Rousseff protests rage across Brazil denouncing impeachment
