Chile: Thousands of students march again for quality education rto-msa/pa/jlv/dg, Univision (via AFP), Monday August 8 2011: Tens of thousands of people protested for the fifth time in less than two months in [the Chilean capital] Santiago to demand better public education, in a demonstration which this time was authorised by the government and which once again resulted in incidents with the police. The multitudinous march – 60,000 people according to the police, 100,000 according to the organisers – brought together students, teachers, parents and workers of other professions, such as those of the copper industry, and public servants in Santiago. Other cities like Valparaíso and Concepción joined the protest. Dressed in their uniforms, carrying placards which read “education is dying of hunger”, in fancy dress or dancing, the demonstrators walked several kilometres through the central Alameda Avenue and neighbouring streets to finish up in the central Almagro Square. “I'm ...

Historic sentence against ex-soldiers tears veil of impunity in Guatemala By Agencia Efe http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5gzRIR-duHwBogw8u4xImPg5ZNcMw?docId=1580945 Carlos Carías, Daniel Martínez, Reyes Collín y Manuel Pop, accused of the massacre in Dos Erres, Petén, in 1982, during the hearing held yesterday in the First High Risk Tribunal A. Guatemala, August 2 (Efe). The historic 6,060-year prison sentence passed today against four former soldiers for the killing of 201 peasants in 1982 has meant the tearing of the veil of impunity in Guatemala, said spokespeople for humanitarian organisations in this Central American country. “Today that wall of impunity has been broken and by good fortune we begin to savour the nectar of justice,” Aura Elena Farfán, of the Foundation of the Detained-Disappeared of Guatemala (Famdegua), told Efe , after learning of the sentence, passed unanimously, by the three judges who made up the High Risk Tribunal. Farfán, who act...

Shots at Vive TV office leave two injured Political official injured by bullet at TV studio El Universal, Venezuela, Monday August 1 2011 http://www.eluniversal.com/2011/08/01/disparos-a-sede-de-vive-tv-en-zulia-dejan-dos-heridos.shtml   Maracaibo: One political and another internal security official were left injured after two gunmen fired shots at the [regional] headquarters of the informative, cultural and educational television station Vive TV in the Zapara neighbourhood to the north of the capital of Zulia state [Maracaibo]. The incident occurred at 10am yesterday, Sunday, just before a press team who were on duty left the office to start their working day. The criminals departed in a white Cherokee 4x4 without number plates. One of the projectiles hit political official Gustavo Ceballos, who for days had been lending his support to the television station due to the robberies and thefts reported in the last few months. Investigating teams from the Regional Police, ...

10,000 doctors from 60 countries trained in Cuba lac/ydg, Havana, Thursday July 28 2011 (Prensa Latina) http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=310386&Itemid=1   The Latin American Scool of Medicine (ELAM) has trained some 10,000 health professionales from around 60 nations from the first graduation in 2005 to today, comfirmed the rector of that institution, Juan Carrizo (pictured). According to the doctor's declarations, issued by the National Information Agency, during the 2010-2011 course, more than 1,300 physicians from 48 nations graduated from the faculties of Medical Sciences in Cuba, including 20 young North Americans. ELAM is a university which trains Basic General Doctors, oriented towards primary health care as the basic aim of their professional training. They finish their studies with advanced scientific, humanist, ethical and philanthropical training and the capacity to work in their agreed setting, tending to the need...