9 November 2020 murder of journalist Israel Vasquez: 9 novembre 2020: Le journaliste mexicain Israel Vasquez, qui travaillait sur la découverte de restes humains dans l’État de Guanajuato au centre du Mexique, a été tué par balle, le troisième en moins d’un mois au Mexique, selon des ONG de défense de la presse CPJ et RSF
2016: 2 January 2016: Gisela Mota, mayor of the Mecican city of Temixco and member of the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution, was attacked at home by four gunmen and killed only one day after taking office -
9 January 2016: Fugitive drug lord El Chapo re-arrested,
returning to prison after escape attempt -
10 juillet 2016: Un règlement de compte entre bandes criminelles aurait fait 14 morts, dont 11 d'une même faille, enfants compris -
21 November 2016: Decapitated bodies and heads of nine men have been found dumped on a roadside in the Mexican state of Guerrero, prosecutors said, bringing the number of bodies found over the weekend in the state to 14 -
26 December 2016: Six decapitated heads were found on Christmas Day in Jiquilpan, a municipality near the state of Jalisco in a region that has been a battleground between competing drug gangs in recent years, as in the neighbouring state of Guerrero seven people, including two municipal police officers and a state police officer, were killed by gunmen
2017: 3 March 2017: 2017 has seen an unprecedented uptick in violence, with federal statistics showing nearly 2,000 people killed in the first month of 2017, more than in any January since officials began releasing crime data in the 1990s -
24 April 2017: At least 35 people reportedly killed over the weekend in Mexico, amid a widespread surge in drug gang violence that has driven murders to a level not seen since 2011 -
21 June 2017: Mexico's monthly homicide rate hit its highest level in 20 years, as government statistics showed that 2,186 murders were committed in May -
5 July 2017: A battle between rival drug cartel factions in Mexico’s northern Chihuahua state left at least 26 dead and injured, officials have confirmed, in the latest series of violent incidents that have sent the country’s murder rate soaring -
10 November 2017: Mexico drug cartel's grip on politicians and police revealed in Texas court files -
15 November 2107: Violence in Guerrero state has emptied entire villages, closed schools and forced bus companies off the road, and now workers walk off the job in the state’s overcrowded morgues, facing the stench of hundreds of decomposing bodies, as between eight and 10 bodies have been arriving daily -
14 December 2017: The number of women being murdered in Mexico has risen sharply over the last decade amid the country’s drug war, as of more than 50,000 killings of women since 1985, nearly a third took place in last six years, official report say -
20 December 2017: The bodies of six men have been left hanging from three different bridges near the Mexican tourist resort of Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula, according to local authorities, as drug gang violence is set to make 2017 Mexico’s deadliest year in modern history -
23 décembre 2017: L'année 2017 a été la plus violente des vingt dernières années au Mexique avec 23'101 homicides enregistrés à fin novembre, selon des chiffres officiels
Nicaragua -
Geography of Nicaragua -
Pre-Columbian Nicaragua -
Spanish conquest of Nicaragua since 1502 destroyed the civilization of the indigenous Niquirano, the Chorotegano, and the Chontal -
After the Mexican War of Independence 1810-1821 Nicaragua became an independent republic 1838 -
History of Nicaragua -
Demographics of Nicaragua
Agriculture in Nicaragua: Agriculture in Nicaragua - products are cotton, coffee, bananas, sugarcane, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, soya, and beans, beef, veal, pork, poultry and dairy products, shrimp, lobsters
19 June 2019 canal megaproject of Ortega/Wang Jing arrives to key date in its null existence: 19 June 2019: The canal megaproject of Daniel Ortega and Wang Jing arrives to a key date in its null existence, as six years after the canal concession, the peasant movement that rose up against Ortega, persists in its struggle despite jail and exile. The canal project framework, under the umbrella of Wang Jing’s HKND company, was established through 16 briefcase companies, registered in different tax havens, such as the Netherlands and the Cayman Islands. The purpose, supposedly, was to manage the financing of the megaproject. 'However, after six years, and given the obvious financial failure of it, which includes the collapse of Wang Jing’s personal fortune on the Chinese financial markets, it is worth asking' whether 'the Ortega-Murillos used this network of briefcase companies to launder money which was in the hands of their Caruna-Albanisa-BanCorp', according to lawyer Lopez Baltodano, also asking that if now that the Ortega-Murillo Bank has been sanctioned by the USA, and suddenly closed.
Panama -
Geography of Panama -
History of Panama -
Spanish colonization of the Americas -
Demographics of Panama
2016: April 2016 'Panama Papers', date of documents 1970s – 2016 -
3 April 2016: Findings of a yearlong investigation by the ICIJ of the 'Panama Papers' (also concerning the British Virgin Islands and other offshore havens), a giant leak of offshore financial records, expose global array of crime, corruption, offshore holdings of politicians and public officials from around the world including Putin, Assad associates, Argentina's president Macri, the family of China’s Xi Jinping, the king of Saudi Arabia, Qatar's Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Ukraine's Poroshenko, the familiy of Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, people in more than 200 countries and territories (Jackie Chan, Lionel Messi etc.), people and companies blacklisted because of evidence that they’d been involved in wrongdoing and war crimes, such as doing business with Mexican drug lords, terrorist organizations like Hezbollah or rogue nations like North Korea and Iran, the support of Assad's barrel bombs, and involving major banks including British banks, German banks, banks of Luxembourg, Switzerland's UBS, Credit Suisse and HSBC Private Bank -
List of people named in the Panama Papers -
4 April 2016: Global reactions to huge leak of offshore tax files
Social movements and protest in Panama:
Corruption in Panama:
Panama/North Korea relations:
Panama/Syria relations:
Hurricanes in Panama:
Paraguay - Geography of Paraguay -
History of Paraguay
Agriculture in Paraguay: Agriculture in Paraguay - products include cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables, beef, pork, eggs, milk, timber - export goods include soybeans, feed, cotton, meat, edible oils, wood, leather -
Coffee production in Paraguay
Aché people: Aché indigenous people in eastern Paraguay, from the earliest Jesuit accounts of the Aché in the 17th century until their peaceful outside contacts in the 20th century, the Aché were described as nomadic hunter-gatherers living in small bands and depending entirely on wild forest resources for subsistence, but suffered repeated abuses by rural Paraguayan colonists, ranchers, and big landowners from the conquest period until the latter half of the 20th century and largely under military dictator Alfredo Stroessner, as the Northern Aché, who had been the only inhabitants of nearly 20,000 square kilometers of rural Paraguay, were massacred, enslaved, and gathered onto reservations where no adequate medical treatment was provided
1992: The 'Archives of Terror', found on in December 1992 by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada and judge José Agustín Fernández in a police station in a suburb of Paraguay's capital Asunción, describing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay with cooperation of the CIA, known as 'Operation Condor'
1954-1989, 1992 'Archives of Terror': The 'Archives of Terror', found on in December 1992 by lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Martín Almada and judge José Agustín Fernández in a police station in a suburb of Paraguay's capital Asunción, describing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay with cooperation of the CIA, known as 'Operation Condor'
Floods in Paraguay:
Wildfires in Paraguay:
January-August 2019 Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay wildfires: 2019 Brazil wildfires, revealed by the National Institute for Space Research INPE, releasing the information that at least 75,336 wildfires occurred in the country from January to 25 August 2019, as neighboring countries of Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay have also reported wildfire activity -
23 août 2019: La Bolivie et le Paraguay sont, outre le Brésil, aussi confrontés à d'importants feux de forêt, et ils se sont engagés à combattre ensemble les flammes qui ont déjà causé à la flore et la faune des dommages «irréversibles», selon des défenseurs de l'environnement
Droughts in Paraguay:
Peru -
Geography of Peru -
Geology of Peru -
History of Peru -
Demographics of Peru
Economy of Peru:
Economy of Peru - main industries are petroleum extraction and refining, natural gas and natural gas liquefaction, mining and refining of minerals/jewels, steel, metal fabrication, machinery, electrical machinery, chemicals, furniture, cement, glass, textiles, clothing, fishing and fish processing, food processing, beer, soft drinks, rubber -
Economic history of Peru - traditional roots in natural resources such as mining, farming, fishing, and agriculture in precolonial times, during the reign of the Inca empire the economy was mainly agricultural, though it reached some animal husbandry and mining development -
List of companies of Peru -
Companies of Peru by industry
Mining and mineral industry in Peru: Mining in Peru, which has consistently been the country’s major foreign exchange generator since 1997, accounted for almost 61.8% of total export revenues of more than $23.8 billion in 2006 -
Mineral industry of Peru - in 2006 Peru occupied a leading position together with other nations in the production of arsenic trioxide, bismuth, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, rhenium, silver, tin, and zinc
Agriculture in Peru: Agriculture in Peru - products include asparagus, potatoes, maize, rice, and coffee -
Agricultural history of Peru - crops of squash, peanuts, and cotton were domesticated in Peru around 10,000, 8,500, and 6,000 years ago, respectively, and the ancient people of Peru built water-moving and preserving technologies like the aqueducts of Cumbe Mayo c. 1500 BCE -
Crops originating from Peru
Apurímac River: The Apurímac River, rising from glacial meltwater of the ridge of the Mismi, a 5,597-metre-high mountain in the Arequipa Province in the south-western mountain ranges of Peru, 10km from the village Caylloma, and less than 160km from the Pacific coast, flowing generally northwest past Cusco in narrow gorges with depths of up to 3,000m, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, its course interrupted by falls and rapids, as after 730km the Apurímac joins the Mantaro River and becomes the Ene River, then after joining the Perené River at 330m above sea level, it becomes the Tambo River; when it joins the Urubamba at 280m above sea level the river becomes the Ucayali, which is the main headstream of the Amazon
Financial services companies of Peru: Financial services companies of Peru -
Credicorp holding company in Lima since 1889 (1995 in its current form) is the largest financial company in Peru, providing commercial banking, insurance and investment banking services in Peru and internationally -
ProInversion, Private Investment Promotion Agency of Peru, involved in infrastructure projects such as for road and rail -
Pacific Credit Rating in Lima since 1993, operating through its subsidiaries in Bolivia (1998), Costa Rica (2005), Ecuador (2000), El Salvador (2002), Guatemala (2010), Panama (2001) and is currently expanding to other countries in Latin America
21st century agricultural history of Peru: 21st century agricultural history of Peru, as in 2018 - according to FAO - Peru is one of the 5 largest producers of avocado, blueberry, artichoke and asparagus, one of the 10 largest producers in the world of coffee and cocoa, one of the 15 largest producers in the world of potato and pineapple, and also has a considerable production of grape, sugarcane, rice, banana, maize and cassava, as its agriculture is considerably diversified, and as also in 2018 Peru produced 10.3 million tons of sugarcane, 5.1 million tons of potato, 3.5 million tons of rice, 2.2 million tons of banana, 1.5 million tons of maize, 1.2 million tons of cassava, 921 thousand tons of palm oil, 645 thousand tons of grape, 548 thousand tons of pineapple, 504 thousand tons of avocado, 481 thousand tons of tangerine, 502 thousand tons of orange, 369 thousand tons of coffee, 383 thousand tons of mango, 360 thousand tons of asparagus, 270 thousand tons of lemon, 252 thousand tons of tomato , 207 thousand tons of barley, 195 thousand tons of wheat, 188 thousand tons of olives, 187 thousand tons of carrots, 175 thousand tons of papaya, 175 thousand tons of pepper, 154 thousand tons of artichoke, 140 thousand tons of apple, 134 thousand tons of cocoa, in addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products
July 2015 telecommunications surveillance: 28 July: Peru’s government has ordered telecommunications companies to grant police access without a warrant to mobile phone users’ locations and other call data in real time and store that data for three years
Since 2006 Asociación Solac's 'Alto Perú' and 'Pueblos jóvenes' project: Since 2006 Asociación Solac's project, dealing with migrations movements from the Andean anterior, as migration and the inexorable demands of industry on Lima's peripheries have resulted in a situation whereby child labour is ubiquitous, standards of living and sanitation are abysmal, and the average family is forced to adopt a life suited to refugees, as the site of this project 'Alto Perú' is one of the poorest districts of the shanty town conglomerates collectively known as 'Los Conos' or 'Pueblos jóvenes' -
'Pueblos jóvenes', the term used for the shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru, as many of these towns have developed into districts of Lima such as Comas, Los Olivos District and Villa El Salvador, and as Lima's job market has largely been unable to keep up with this influx of people, forcing many to accept any housing available, and government has permitted these communities to continue largely because it realizes that, were they to eradicate them, the inhabitants would simply move elsewhere in the city's peripheral areas
Lima city and Lima Region: Lima Region,
Lima city, the capital and the largest city of Peru with a population of almost 10 million, located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central coastal part of the country,
and Lima Metropolitan Area, formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao -
El Callao is the chief seaport of Peru -
'Pueblos jóvenes', the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru, composed of poorly constructed shacks which generally lack running water, and other basic services, and similar to the favelas of Brazil and other Latin American cities -
Since 1535 history of Lima city, that began with its foundation by Francisco Pizarro on 18 January, as the city was established on the valley of the Rímac River in an area populated by the Ichma polity -
Lima culture
Arequipa department and region: Arequipa region and department in southwestern Peru, the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, bordered by the departments of Ica, Ayacucho, Apurímac and Cusco in the north, the Department of Puno in the east, the Department of Moquegua in the south, and the Pacific Ocean in the west, as its capital, also called Arequipa, is Peru's second-largest city
Arequipa city: Arequipa city, the capital of the province. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the 'legal capital of Peru'. It is the second most populated city in Peru, after Lima, with an urban population of 1,008,290 inhabitants in 2017. Its metropolitan area integrates twenty-one districts, including the foundational central area, which it is the seat of the city government. The city has a Nominal GDP of 9,445 million USD and a nominal GDP per capita of US$ 10,277, being the city with the second-highest economic activity in Peru with an important industrial activity, including manufactured products and textile production of wool of camelids. The town maintains close commercial links with Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil and with the cities connected by the South trainway, as well as with the port of Matarani.
Peruvian music, musical instruments and traditions: Peruvian music -
Music of Peru, today an amalgamation of sounds and styles drawing on Peru's Andean, Spanish, and African roots, as Andean influences can perhaps be best heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European influences can be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments, after pre-Columbian Andean music was played on drums and string instruments, like the European pipe and tabor tradition, and as Andean tritonic and pentatonic scales were elaborated during the colonial period into hexatonic, and in some cases, diatonic scales -
Peruvian musical instruments
Amazon river and basin: Amazon River in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru -
Amazon basin (Amazon River and its tributaries) covers an area of about 7,500,000 km2 or roughly 40% of the South American continent, and is located in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela
Wildfires in Peru:
Puerto Rico -
Geography of Puerto Rico -
History of Puerto Rico -
Demographics of Puerto Rico
Floods in Puerto Rico:
Trinidad and Tobago -
Geography of Trinidad and Tobago -
Indigenous peoples of the Americas -
History of Trinidad and Tobago -
Spanish colonization of the Americas -
British colonization of the Americas -
Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean -
Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
Economy of Trinidad and Tobago:
Economy of Trinidad and Tobago - main industries are petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, methanol, ammonia, urea, steel products, cement, cotton textiles, beverages, food processing - oil and gas account for about 40% of GDP and 80% of exports, but only 5% of employment -
List of companies of Trinidad and Tobago -
Companies of Trinidad and Tobago by industry
Trinidad and Tobago/Spain relations:
Uruguay -
Geography of Uruguay -
History of Uruguay -
Indigenous peoples in Uruguay, almost disappeared in the 1830s, as evidence exists that there was human presence some 10,000 years BCE, the Homo catalanensis culture -
Demographics of Uruguay
Río de la Plata and basin: Río de la Plata, the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers, that empties into the Atlantic Ocean -
Río de la Plata basin, the 3,170,000-square-kilometre hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata, including areas of southeastern Bolivia, southern and central Brazil, the entire country of Paraguay, most of Uruguay, and northern Argentina, making up about one fourth of the continent's surface
Since late 20th century from 'Uruguay Round' to WTO's 'Doha Round': Late 20th century 'Uruguay Round' of multilateral trade negotiations led to the creation of the 'World Trade Organization' WTO, continuing the 'Uruguay Round' with the 'Doha Round' 2001–present -
25 January 2007: Institutions in International Relations - Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade, by Judith L. Goldstein, Douglas Rivers, Michael Tomz, published online by Cambridge University Press, discussing the question 'when and how do international institutions promote cooperation, evaluating the effects of trade agreements on trade flows in the years since World War II, because few questions are as fundamental to international relations, also shown in the WTO -
12-15 June 2022 at WTO headquarters in Geneva twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference, in 2021 postponed due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant of covid-19
Río de la Plata and basin: Río de la Plata, the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers, that empties into the Atlantic Ocean -
Río de la Plata basin, the 3,170,000-square-kilometre hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata, including areas of southeastern Bolivia, southern and central Brazil, the entire country of Paraguay, most of Uruguay, and northern Argentina, making up about one fourth of the continent's surface
Storms in Uruguay:
Venezuela -
Geography of Venezuela -
History of Venezuela -
Indigenous peoples in Venezuela -
Spain's colonization of Venezuela 1522-1821 following Columbus' third voyage in 1498 -
Demographics of Venezuela
May 2017: 4 May 2017: After at least 36 people, including supporters and opponents of the government, have been killed in more than a month of unrest triggered by Maduro’s efforts to consolidate his rule and following the death of a 17-year-old boy during a crackdown against anti-government protestors, acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel joins protests against the violent repression, saying 'enough is enough' -
6 May 2017: A 20-year-old Venezuelan protester shot in the head amid continuation of demonstrations that brand President Maduro a dictator and demand elections -
12 mai 2017: Vêtus de noir et portant des fleurs et un immense drapeau du Venezuela, environ un millier d'opposants au président Maduro ont rendu hommage jeudi à la 38e victime des manifestations qui secouent le pays depuis six semaines -
20 May 2017: Venezuelans take to the streets, furious about shortages, rocketing inflation and human rights crackdowns, demanding President Maduro hold elections -
22 May 2017: A young demonstrator has died from a gunshot, raising to 48 the number of people killed in protests against Maduro, as Maduro personally denounced a brutal attack on another man he said had been taken for a government supporter, now treated in hospital for severe burns
Maracaibo: Maracaibo, the capital of the state of Zulia in northwestern Venezuela on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela, is the second-largest city with approximately 1,495,200 inhabitants (metropolitan area 2,108,404 inhabitants) in 2010 -
Zulia´s and Maracaibo's main income comes from oil extraction and refining, agriculture (coffee, rice, maize, cassava, cocoa, sugar cane), livestock production, and mining (clay, limestone, coal and sand -
Since 1976 Petróleos de Venezuela, the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company with headquarters in Caracas and Maracaibo
August 2017: 6 August 2017: The troubled country of Venezuela needs help from western governments whose sanctimonious stance is helping no one, as the reality of self-styled 'Bolivarian socialist revolution' is now a wasteful governance, economic decline, increasing poverty and a descent into dictatorship -
9 August 2017: In a joint declaration released after a meeting in Lima, 12 American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru collectively condemned the 'breakdown of democratic order' in Venezuela and said they would not recognize any action taken by its 'illegitimate' new constituent assembly
Internationale Organisationen, Institutionen etc. zur Intervention, Krisenverhinderung und Krisenbewältigung (aktualisierte Version hier aufzurufen)
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