Tag: Repression

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Social uprising in an ultra Kirchnerite province; UN and Amnesty warn about repression

  

  Formosa in the north of Argentina, next to Paraguay is one of the poorest provinces in the country and has been under the iron fist control and patronage of governor Gildo Insfran, who rules as a feudal lord, with virtual control of the three branches of the local government and excellent relations with the federal government in Buenos Aires where his deputies and senators support the ruling coalition in exchange for fat checks that ensure his perpetuity.

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• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  First trail in Chile over eye injuries to protestor by Carabineros firing buckshot

  

  A Chilean police officer appeared in court on Friday in the first instance of prosecutors bringing charges over eye injuries blamed on security forces during Chile's months of unrest.

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Tens half blind in Chile as riot police open fire with rubber bullets close range

  

  Running away as shots rang out, Carlos Vivanco turned to see where they were coming from. Then he felt his left eye closing and his face dripping with blood. The 18-year-old student had become one of the scores of people hit in the eyes, and in some cases blinded, by police rubber bullets in Chile's recent wave of anti-government protests.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  EU sanctions on Nicaragua for Ortega's human rights abuses and repression

  

  The European Union adopted a sanctions framework for Nicaragua on Monday over human rights abuses and repression in the Central American country under leftist President Daniel Ortega.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 21:40 UTC

  Anti-globalist protests and controversy over the use of lethal weapons: Argentine Minister of Security came out to clarify in the framework of the G20

  

  After the controversy generated by a resolution in which the Ministry of Security of Argentina allows the police to use lethal weapons against a person who flees in the framework of the summit of the Group of 20 in Buenos Aires, the minister Patricia Bullrich went to clarify that this disposition “has nothing to do with the mobilization” against the G20 crowded by social organizations this Friday.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Trump administration considering imposing sanctions on Cuban military for helping repression in Venezuela

  

  The Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on Cuban military and intelligence officials who it says are helping Venezuela ’s government crackdown on dissent. Such sanctions would be the first time Washington has targeted a bloc of foreign officials allied with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Violence in Nicaragua leaves the dialogue in suspense

  

  14 lives claimed the increase of violence in Nicaragua, which is about to break the the dialogue to resolve the crisis that left some 250 dead in almost three months of protests against President Daniel Ortega.