This Latin American country needs foreign labour but thousands of workers are facing low salaries, a lack of job security, difficulties in having their qualifications recognised and barriers to obtaining employment appropriate to their training. Orlando Oramas Uruguay practises an open door policy to immigration in the context […]
Latin America
Bolivia: Growing pressure due to drug trafficking cases
Delays to investigations into shipments of wood with cocaine seized in Chile and other recent cases are feeding uncertainty in the forestry sector and reviving question marks over the Bolivian government’s institutional response to drug trafficking. Business is demanding that the investigations are accelerated. Jorge Petinaud Members […]
Colombia resurrects the ghosts of its violence
Warnings over new security structures made up of reservists, growing tensions during the presidential transition and a climate of greater political confrontation are reviving fears of regression in human rights and democratic guarantees. Ivette Fernández In the New Granadian nation, victim for over six decades of internecine wars, […]
Four decades of remembering and searching for justice
The testimony of the mother of one of the victims of the Case of the Burned relives the brutal attack against two young people during a protest against the Chilean dictatorship and recalls the impact of one of the most painful episodes in the country’s recent history. Carmen Esquivel […]
Under suspicion and controversy: urban security blocks
The initiative to fight urban crime in Colombia is causing concern over possible abuses of power, violations of human rights, infiltration by criminal organisations and the possibility it ends up being used against social protest. Germán Ayala Osorio* The incoming government’s announcement that it will tackle growing insecurity […]
















