Ximena Fuentes, the Chilean appointed Agent in the lawsuit filed against Bolivia at the U.N.’s highest court in The Hague, has admitted that the waters of the Silala were indeed canalized artificially from Bolivia into Chile, but she argued that it was done following the natural course of the river.
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–Researched and written by McCathern Painter As of 2015, the government of the Dominican Republic ruled to strip the citizenship of Haitian-Dominicans, leaving tens of thousands of people stateless and facing the future of possibly having to relocate to a country with which they do not identify, a language they may not speak, and a
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Every day, more than 20,000 Argentinians flood in from the city of Posadas to its neighbor, Encarnación, in Paraguay, from the Santa Cruz bridge.
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Beginning in mid-May, over a thousand migrants coming from Africa and Haiti have been stranded at the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border.
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Mercosur, the regional block of South America with members such as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, has had a meeting which officially decided to suspend Venezuela as a member state.
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Bolivia’s struggle to gain access to the sea has been a long fought battle. Chile and Peru, the nations that stand between Bolivia and the South Pacific Ocean, have historically been unenthusiastic in reaction to Bolivian pleas to gain maritime access.
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Bolivia’s government headquarters has been suffering from water rationing since November 8th due to a drought which has left several dams unable to supply more than 100 zones of the country.
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The issue of sanctions and international law is complex and given to misunderstandings. Some overestimate the effect of sanctions, claiming that they strengthen international regulations.
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The 8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for the Internationalization of Higher Education (LACHEC) was held from the 24-26th of November in Bogotá, Colombia. Its main objective: to strengthen the internationalization of higher education institutions.
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The Greater Caribbean is a region of growing importance in economic, touristic, environmental, and cultural terms. In addition, its geostrategic location gives it a privileged place in the global traffic of goods and capital investments. Still, the region faces challenges that must be overcome.
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