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IGNIA gets another $13.6M for Latin American investmentIGNIA, a venture firm targeting companies that help Latin America’s poor, has raised another $13.6 million. That brings the total amount for its first fund to $34.2 million. Cofounder and managing partner Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui told me in June that his goal is to take microfinance (i.e, t... |
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Fellini's Rome haunt falls into Mafia handsRome - Rome's Cafe de Paris, a symbol of the Dolce Vita as immortalized by filmmaker Federico Fellini, has been bought by a Calabrian mafia crime family, a newspaper reported Wednesday, citing a police report. The Alvaro-Palamra clan of the 'Ndranghe... ... |
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Cocaine production rising again as new generation of traffickers emergesHacienda Napoles was once the playground of the world's most notorious druglord, a bacchanalian expression of criminal wealth and power, but today it stands as a monument to his extinction. Pablo Escobar used this 1,500 hectare (3,700 acre) ranch in central Colombia in the 1980s to host wild part... |
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Uribe tells military: Probe abuse reportsColombian President Alvaro Uribe told military and police officials Monday to speed up any investigations into alleged human rights abuses -- a directive that follows allegations the military engineered executions of innocent civilians. ... |
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Al Giordano: U.S. Secretary of State: A Cautionary TaleEleven years ago, on December 22, 1997, paramilitary troops in earshot of a federal military base massacred 45 unarmed civilians -- mostly women and children -- as they prayed in a Church in the Mexican town of Acteal. The gunmen -- every major human rights and media organization now agrees -- sl... |
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Uribe promises help for savings scheme victimsColombian President Alvaro Uribe has vowed to give financial help to the poorest people who lost their savings in pyramid investment schemes. ... |
