Tag Archives: Latin America
A former chief of the navy in Guinea-Bissau in western Africa appeared in a New York City courtroom on Friday to face charges regarding cocaine trafficking, according to a drug enforcement official, Ronald Kubisty. Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na … read more »
Posted in Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, New York City, United States
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Csmonitor Catholics praised the selection of Pope Francis, saying that his roots in the Southern Hemisphere could mean more attention to issues of poverty and underdevelopment. Nairobi, Kenya Catholics in Africa have greeted the election of the first Latin American … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
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Tagged Catholic, Catholic Church, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jorge Bergoglio, Latin America, Nairobi, Pope, Southern Hemisphere
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By Salim Lamrani – Opera Mundi President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013 of cancer at age 58, marked forever the history of Venezuela and Latin America. 1. Never in the history of Latin America, has a political … read more »
Venezuelan soldiers brace against protective fences as supporters wait in line to pay last respects to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez outside the Military Academy in Carlatimesacas. (Leo Ramirez / AFP / March 7, 2013) latimes The news of … read more »
By RIA Novosti The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez from cancer may have been part of a plot by the United States to infect its enemies in Latin America with the disease, the leader of Russia’s Communist party, Gennady … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Chavez, Dilma Rousseff, Fernando Lugo, Fidel Castro, Gennady Zyuganov, George W. Bush, Hugo Chávez, hugo chavez biografia, hugo chavez biography, hugo chavez cancer, hugo chavez dictator, hugo chavez health, hugo chavez noticias, hugo chavez quotes, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, United States
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By Girma Feyisa, opinion Urbanisation and its incessant expansion have become both curses and blessings in many developing countries of the world, not least our fair nation. They are curses because they attract influx of the people from the rural … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Dire Dawa, Economic growth, Human rights, Latin America, Rural area, Saudi Arabia, Urban planning, Urbanization
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(AP) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s taciturn, ironfisted ruler, passed away after 21 years of increasingly autocratic rule, leaving the country and its global allies at an interesting and rare crossroads: Will the country continue along its current path of political … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Barack Obama, Eastern European Group, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, George W. Bush, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council, United States
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By Adrian Salbuchi This Sunday’s elections will pit incumbent President Hugo Chávez Frías against neoliberal pro-US opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Opinion polls vary widely both ways, proof it will be a head-to-head race. This election is not only of … read more »
The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing – $150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police. A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for more than six years had hoped the drugs would buy him a life of luxury in … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Baba Suwe, Brazil, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Latin America, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria, Sao Paulo, United States
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Nil NIKANDROV It was clear a priori that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s decision to nationalize 51% of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF) in which Spain’s flagship oil producer Repsol owned a majority stake would trigger an avalanche of condemnations in the … read more »
Farooque Chowdhury Growing solidarity and resistance by Latin American nations to the continuing hyper-hostility of the US towards Cuba demonstrates a new assertiveness in relationships and a shift in political power. Defiance in Latin America and a dynamics of decline … read more »
Nil NIKANDROV A conference of the Open Government Partnership will convene in Brazil on April 17-18, with representatives of 52 countries planning to attend. The event is supposed to demonstrate that the partnership which has the reputation of a US … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Nil NIKANDROV
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Tagged Brazil, Latin America, Mexico, Open Government Partnership, Organization of American States, United States, US State Department, Washington
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Nil NIKANDROV Militarization of the US foreign policy on global scale is an obvious fact. It concerns Latin America as much as it concerns other parts of the world. The US State Department does not show its usual “departmental” jealousy … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Nil NIKANDROV
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Argentina, Chaco, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Latin America, Paraguay, Southcom, United States, Washington
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Peace amidst war for resource control Beverly Bell, Other Worlds The fight for resource control has led to the eruption and escalation of all manner of conflict and violence in the Niger Delta. It’s all about power and control in … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Peak oil, United States
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Nil NIKANDROV Over the past years, it has been happening with frightening regularity that U.S. diplomats and CIA agents were caught pulling off operations involving illicit weapons supply in Latin America. The inescapable impression is that the U.S. Department of … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Balkan, Bolivia, Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Evo Morales, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, United States, Washington, Wikileaks
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It’s not only money and military power that count in this world. Popular mobilisation can transform societies from below and it can strengthen states against private and imperial interests. There’s a new buoyancy in certain circles following Jacob Zuma’s announcement … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Beijing, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, India, Jacob Zuma, Latin America, South Africa, Steve Biko, World Bank
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The Latin American TV channel TeleSur (The New Television Station of the South) was launched in July of 2005. It became the first project of television broadcasting suggested by President Hugo Chavez. It took TeleSur nearly two years to have … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Caracas, Chavez, Hugo Chávez, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Operation Balboa, TeleSur, United States, Venezuela
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lobal brewer SABMiller reported a 3 percent rise in beer volumes in the last three months of 2011, matching forecasts, led by the emerging markets of Africa and Latin America which helped offset falls in North America and Europe. The … read more »
Posted in Business, Economy
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Tagged Anheuser-Busch, Grolsch Brewery, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, London, Miller Lite, Peroni Brewery, SABMiller
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Thousands of mourners, including political and military officials, have been paying final respects to Guinea-Bissau’s late president Malam Bacai Sanha. Mr. Sanha died in a Paris hospital on January 9 at the age of 64 after suffering from a prolonged, … read more »
Posted in Featured 1, Spotlight
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Tagged Bissau, Fortaleza, Guinea-Bissau, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Paris, Raimundo Pereira
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Thousands of mourners, including political and military officials, have been paying final respects to Guinea-Bissau’s late president Malam Bacai Sanha ahead of Sunday’s funeral. Public viewing began Saturday at the National Assembly Hall in the capital, Bissau. Flags have been … read more »
Posted in Guinea-Bissau, News, West Africa
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Tagged Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Monday, Paris, Sanha
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In a series of his public speeches Hugo Chaves called an “epidemic” of cancer among Latin American presidents a strange and alarming phenomenon. This hard to cure desease was identified in case of Chavez himself, Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo, Dilma … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Chavez, CIA, Dilma Rousseff, Hugo Chávez, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, United States, Washington
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Over 18 months period four progressive leaders of Latin America and their fellow citizens were shocked by the diagnosis delivered by their physicians – cancer. Fernando Lugo, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Hugo Chavez, and recently Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Chavez, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Fernando Lugo, Hugo Chávez, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, United States
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Police in India say they have arrested six foreign nationals suspected of defrauding hundreds of people using text message and email scams. Scam victims were duped after being told they had won a lottery. Authorities seized 14 laptops, seven memory … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Computer crime, E-mail spam, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, India, Information Technology Act, Internet and Mobile Association of India, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Latin America
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November 15, 2011 by benim
Algiers – Algerian authorities have arrested nine people, including eight Air Algerie stewards, as part of an operation against an international drug trafficking ring, newspapers reported Tuesday. The El-Watan daily said the police investigation was launched when a steward from … read more »
Another person has been caught at one of the region’s airports after having swallowed dozens of heroin pellets in a drug-smuggling attempt, according to court records. A 61-year-old Nigerian woman was arrested after she flew into Washington Dulles International Airport … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Addis Ababa, alexandria, Ethiopia, Illegal drug trade, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Latin America, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Washington Dulles International Airport, West Africa
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Bamako – Mali has charged a Malian, a Spaniard and a Frenchman with “international trafficking in cocaine” in connection with its investigation into a drug-loaded plane that landed in its desert north in 2009. “In the framework of the inquiry … read more »
Posted in Mali, News, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Amadou Toumani Touré, Arab League, Boeing 727, breaking news, East Africa, Illegal drug trade, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Latin America, Mali, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa
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November 8, 2010 by benim
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Struggling to rebuild in the grips of a cholera epidemic, quake-hit Haiti suffered further misery at the weekend as Hurricane Tomas claimed at least 20 lives, officials said Monday. The storm, which had already killed 14 people as … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Americas, Artibonite River, Caribbean, Cholera, Disaster Accident, disasters-news, Environment, geography, Haiti, hurricane, Hurricane Tomas, IndepthAfrica, Latin America, Port-au-Prince, republics, South Asia, tropical cyclone, Weather, World Health Organization
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