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Landslides and mudslides caused by heavy El Niño rains destroyed an important road near Cochabamba in central Bolivia on Monday (January 4), causing a massive traffic jam. According to local media reports, delays extended trips by up to eight hours. Thousands of cars, trucks and buses have been stranded for up to 48 hours on the road that connects the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz in the South American country. Officials said repairs were […]
About one hundred students from the National University of San Marcos, Peru’s oldest university in Lima, occupied one of the entrances of the academic institution on Monday (December 4) calling for the ejection of the university’s rector from his post. The students are demanding the full resignation of Pedro Cotillo, who by law, is being forced to abandon his position immediately. Cotillo has been found to be in violation of Peru’s “New University Law,” which […]
Families continued to abandon their homes on Monday (December 28) in the southern cone of South America, which is seeing its worst flooding in decades and has already forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. In northern Argentina, some 20,000 people have had to evacuate in what local authorities have called the worst flooding in 50 years. Aerial views showed large swamped areas in the Argentine city of Concordia, in the Entre Rios province. This […]
A Venezuelan National Guard helicopter crashed on Monday (December 28) on the Colombian side of the border amid sporadic diplomatic tensions between the two South American neighbours. The Bell military helicopter, carrying two generals, crashed some 10 metres (32 feet) into the Colombian territory in Paraguachon, located on the northern region of the La Guajira Peninsula. They survived the crash and are receiving medical care. The crash comes after a row earlier in the year […]
Severe weather caused flooding across the Southern United States on Monday (December 28), leading to a road collapse in South Carolina and two barges to sink in Mississippi. Storms have battered large parts of the country, bringing with them floods and tornadoes that have killed more than 40 people during the holiday period. In South Carolina’s Anderson County the rain washed away a portion of a road on December 25, local media reports. The partial […]
With the Colombian peace process back on track, family members of 29 of the disappeared from the more than half-century long civil war received remains of their loved ones in central Colombian city of Villavicencio Thursday (December 17). The ceremony comes two days after representatives of the Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels signed an agreement on reparations for war victims and the establishment of special tribunals to try former combatants once the two sides […]
The parliamentary election of Venezuela went on smoothly on Sunday, with nearly 20 million Venezuelans voting for the parties they support at polling stations. Voters queued early at polling stations, which opened at 06:00 across the country and would remain open for 12 hours. In the election, the governing United Socialist Party (USP) will contend with the opposition and neutral parties for the 167 seats in the National Assembly. The government dispatched more than 160,000 […]
As part of his four-day tour of Africa, Prince Harry met with disadvantaged young children surfing on the beach in Durban on Tuesday (December 1). Prince Harry, who is on the tour to promote his charitable work in the region, had already met with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and visited various other charitable organizations on the trip to South Africa and Lesotho. On Tuesday, Prince Harry went to the beach and met with children learning to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (November 17) – Different countries united for a common goal, to aim for a better and brighter future for their country and their people. This is the reason why Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, more popularly known as APEC, was created – to facilitate the growing economy, trade and Investment in the Asia Pacific Region. The main objective of APEC is known as BOGOR goals, it aims to achieve free trade and open trade […]
Colombia’s Ministry of Communication is trying to create job opportunities for people living behind bars. The ministry starts a pilot program in different prisons across Colombia to teach female inmates computer skills. Thirty one years old Lucia Reano has been in prison for the last five years. She never finished high school and has three children to support when she is released from prison. Through the new pilot program named Teletrabajo, Lucia, who had never […]
Peruvian authorities capped off their sixth major drug burn of the year with the elimination of a haul of 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) mostly of cocaine Wednesday (October 14). The latest incineration included the 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) of drugs seized since September 11, according to media reports. The event took place with a public burning. Jorge Flores Goicochea, a vice minister at Peru’s Interior Ministry, announced the contents of the drug after testing. “Today, […]
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won unexpected support from chief rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday for her use of a private email server as U.S. secretary of state, helping to defuse an issue that has overshadowed her campaign. Echoing comments she has made before, Clinton said her decision to not use a government email address was a mistake, but she emphasized that she wanted to focus her energy on policy issues that were more important […]
