Archive for March 10th, 2008
Colombia and Venezuela Make Nice
6:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|Ecuador|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
10 Mar 2008
After a week of rising tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Yesterday Venezuela announced that it was reestablishing diplomatic relations with Colombia. This followed a Friday meeting between the parties in the Dominican Republic where the presidents of Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia signed a declaration to end a crisis sparked by the attack, when Colombian troops killed a rebel leader and 21 others inside Ecuadoran territory.
“The Venezuelan government will send to Bogota, immediately, diplomatic personnel charged with representing the republic before the government of Colombia,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement posted online Sunday. “In the same manner, the Venezuelan government has communicated to the Colombia authorities their disposition to receive in Caracas, in a short time, the diplomatic personnel of the sister republic.”
The three presidents even shook hands. Awww.
Via / CNN
United Nations Tells Us What We Already Know : US Doesn’t Protect the Rights of Immigrants
8:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
10 Mar 2008
On Friday, the United Nations issued a report saying that the U.S. fails to protect the rights of immigrants, specifically citing the high rates of detention and the lack of access to legal counsel. In the international body’s first scrutiny of US treatment of its 37.5 million noncitizen migrants, UN investigator Jorge Bustamante on Friday took particular aim at what he criticized as the “overuse” of detention for immigrants.
Noting that the annual detainee population has tripled in nine years to 230,000, he called on the United States to eliminate mandatory detention for certain migrants and instead expand the use of alternatives, such as electronic ankle bracelets.
Bustamante also urged that migrants be given the right to legal counsel, more impartial hearings, and improved holding facilities, particularly for women and children.
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