WASHINGTON – The Mexican Senate should reject legislation that would enshrine the role of the Mexican armed forces in law enforcement activities, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. On November 30, 2017, Mexico’s Chamber […]
SANTIAGO – Activists from different organizations marched to demonstrate against violence against women this Friday at 7:00 p.m. in Plaza Italia to then tour the Alameda de Santiago and finish the tour near Los Héroes. […]
DHAKA – The prestigious Gusi Peace Award will be accorded to Asif A. Chowdhury, a leading businessman and CEO of Chowdhury Group in the Philippines capital Manila on Tuesday. Asif Chowdhury who is also the […]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Congressional Mental Health and Drug Commission is considering a national mental health bill that proposes to improve mental health services for all in Mexico but would seriously jeopardize the rights of […]
SANTIAGO – More than a hundred people demonstrated on Monday night in Santiago de Chile to demand justice for the death of Santiago Maldonado, whose body was found on the Chubut River last week. The […]
MEXICO CITY – In the last 10 years, the violent death of a girl, youngster or adult woman occurred in Mexico every four hours, shows the data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography […]
BUENOS AIRES – The body recovered from a river bed in southern Argentina is that of a missing activist who disappeared two months ago during a police operation, his brother confirmed on Friday. Santiago Maldonado, […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean judge has sentenced 35 former agents of General Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police for the kidnapping, detention and forced disappearance of a pregnant woman in 1976. Reinalda del Carmen Pereira Plaza […]
SANTIAGO – A retired officer of the Chilean Air Force committed suicide Tuesday morning when he was to be arrested by PDI personnel for a crime during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Carlos Alberto […]
Isabel Cocker/The Santiago Times Staff NEW YORK – The Chilean government was informed on Monday that it had been chosen by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to be a part of the 2018-2020 U.N. […]
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