Women Only Carriage on Subte
The Buenos Aires Committee on Public Works and Services has introduced a bill to install a women only carriage on the Subte. The bill will create a carriage on the H line of the Subte that allows women and children under 12 to travel separately to “prevent situations of hasassment,” said legislator, Gerardo Ingaramo.
Piñera Takes Power as New Aftershocks Hit Chile
A severe aftershock from last month’s earthquake shook Chile yesterday, as the new president, Sebastián Piñera, was inaugurated. The epicentre of the quake, which reached 6.9 on the Richter scale, was in central Chile in the region of O’Higgins, but strong tremors were also felt in Valparaíso, where the inauguration ceremony took place.
| ‘Torture Weapons’ on the Buenos Aires Streets |
18 February 2010 Pain has long been the power structure’s compliance method of choice, whether it was the heretic’s fork or the rack of Europe, or the dogs and electric cattle prods of the Jim Crow South. More recently, police forces around the world have turned to the taser gun: a weapon which delivers 50,000 volt electric shocks to enforce compliance or retaliate or punish handcuffed suspects who are talking back, refusing to follow police instructions or attempting to escape. |
| Costa Rica: A Model for Latin America? |
March 10 2010 On 8th February, Laura Chinchilla won the Costa Rican election and became the first woman to do so in the country’s history. Chinchilla, who served as vice-president under the previous administration, beat her male opponents in an overwhelming victory. Many have commented that her election is another signal of the progressive nature of Costa Rica, a couhas developed a formula for success and that other, much larger Latin American countries, should take note. |
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Buenos Aires city major Mauricio Macri ratified legislation allowing the new Metropolitan Police, who hit the streets of the capital earlier this week, to carry taser guns. After pointing out that citizens insecurities are rising, Macri also said that the “cutting-edge technology used for dissuasion” will be carried in specific neighbourhoods, mainly the 12th District.
Haiti was recently hit by an earthquake measuring 7.3 and killing an estimated 200,000 people. But as Rachel Hall discovers, the island testifies to a chequered past, advanced by triumphs and obstructed by tribulations. Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America, the first post-colonial black-led nation in the world and the only country to lead a successful slave rebellion. Yet in its corruption-riddled 200 years of existence Haiti has also suffered 32 coups. This is the beleaguered history to which the Caribbean island testifies, in which the path to progress has been consistently blocked by instability of both government and society.
On Monday 11th January, Mexican newspaper, El Universal, reported that 69 people had died in drug-related violence in the previous 24-hour period. This figure marked the highest daily death toll yet in Mexico’s drug war, bringing 2010’s total number of victims to 283. Of the 69 Mexicans killed, more than a third died in Ciudad Juárez, which borders the Texan city of El Paso.
14th of March 2010
