The Andes
US high court ruling threatens human rights suits
A legal tool US advocates have used against human rights abusers for three decades is now "close to a dead letter" thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
Tag: Paraguay
Southern Cone
Argentina: ex-dictator gets life in Operation Condor
A court in Argentina sentenced the country’s last military dictator Reynaldo Bignone to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his rule in 1982 and ’83.
Southern Cone
Argentina: provincial court blocks Monsanto facility
Monsanto encounters resistance in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where environmentalists and residents have at least temporarily blocked construction of a plant.
Palestine
Latin America protests attack on Gaza
The Mercosur trade bloc expressed “strongest condemnation of the violence unleashed between Israel and Palestine,” while Cuba and Venezuela issued stronger statements.