…vaccines, that are rather difficult to afford for a person who suddenly becomes unemployed. The number of donations to Demarchi’s refuge fell from 400 in 2014 to less than 300 last year. There has also been a change in the behavior of pet owners, who now only buy anti-flea treatments when these parasites appear, instead of routine preventive treatments. These changes within the consumers’ choices were noted by Daniela Bochi, who is in charge of t…

…cy, Mexico Evaluates, Network for CIDE Accountability and others. It was a complete fiasco. The scopes were so ridiculous and the farce so evident that both the PRI and PVEM were pilloried by the media and had to back down. Both PAN and PRD approached civil society organizations to request that they mediate an alliance between both. Hence, the PAN-PRD block was formed, aimed to exploit a PRI that struggles with corruption, yet seemingly seeks to e…

…rent account deficient in the periphery countries of the EU reached 8% of GDP and Greece exceeded 12%. These alarming signals were systematically ignored by the IMF. The Fund also didn’t acknowledge that the EU excludes any adjustment in exchange rates and accommodations in monetary politics. This moved the issue from banks to international financial markets. The IOE also pointed out that the rescue plan for the Greek economy broke the golden rule…

…wo nations. Both Ecuador and Paraguay hope to demonstrate as a result that they are equally capable of supporting one another, as well as complementing each other’s comparative advantage….

…Disputes (ICSID) forced the Venezuelan government to repay 1.2 million dollars to Rusoro as compensation for the “expropriation of its assets in the country.” In addition, the ruling also obliged the government to repay 1.3 million dollars to the Canadian company Crystallex. The first payment of 600 million to Rusoro in October will, unfortunately, not mark the end of legal hardships for Venezuela as the nation faces upwards of 20 more cases of c…

…meeting will be held within ten days to define more details in seeking a “comprehensive” agreement on tariffs in Arica. About 600 trucks transport export or import cargo from Bolivia every day in the Chilean terminal, according to ASP-b, which functions as a customs agent in Arica. This same institution reported last month that the Arica administration decided to apply an increase in its services without prior arrangement, as required by bilatera…

…led No More AFPs, which organized the march. Organizers of the protest said 600,000 participated in the capital, Santiago, alone. Local police however put the number at 80,000. President Michelle Bachelet has offered a plan to hike the pension contribution rate by five percentage points. That would cost about US$3.8 billion a year, with the state paying US$1.5 billion, the government said earlier this month. But the protesters said that they want…

Although it has been 22 years since the first environmental sanctions were put into place in Panama, many inhabitants, and environmentalists in particular, are dissatisfied with the execution of these Penal Codes. Bethzaida Carranza of La Prensa of Panama expressed concern for the lack of justice carried out by the Penal Codes, despite the subsections created solely for environmental justice. Albeit much effort has been placed on enforcing these…

…in December 2014. Mayorkas said that 2,884 have been approved and at least 600 of the applicants are already on US soil. U.S. officials will also start assessing asylum applications made by unmarried siblings, parents resident in Central America, and other close relatives of refugee children. Beginning in January 2017 the United States said that UNHCR will conduct initial interviews with applicants in the three Central American countries, but tha…

…n rights violations that occurred during the country’s civil war: more than 600 exhumations in clandestine cemeteries have revealed the identities of 2,000 victims, and over 17 million documents belonging to the defunct police have been declassified. The UNDP has also supported Guatemala in its development aimed at improving the criminal prosecution of rape during the civil war of 1960-1966. Sadly, these rape cases will not likely be taken to cour…