Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took the world by surprise last week when he asked the Colombian government to stop calling the FARC and ELN terrorists. Chavez then appealed to the international community to formally recognize the belligerent status of the two insurgent groups. […]
(Tierramérica) – Nearly two years after winning environmental approval from the Chilean government, the controversial Pascua Lama gold mining project of the transnational Barrick Gold Corporation remains without a launch date. The gold deposit, in […]
El pasado 14 de diciembre 2007 se dio a conocer a través de los medios de comunicación el fallo de la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC) guatemalteca, en el cual se decretó como nula la decisión […]
Source: Programa de las Américas Las periferias urbanas de los países del tercer mundo se han convertido en escenarios de guerra, donde los Estados intentan mantener un orden asentado en el establecimiento de una suerte […]
Hundreds of representatives of Venezuela’s grassroots social movements met in the Southern Caracas barrio of El Valle this weekend, to hash out plans for the formation of the Revolutionary Grassroots Front of the South–a new united movement through which they hope to combat the growing bureaucracy within the Chavez government, and to push their own grassroots agenda.
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Un compromiso muy grande y un reto por reconstruir una nueva CONAIE Santo Domingo de los Tsa¨chilas, 13 de enero de 2008 En breve entrevista para ECUACHASKI, Marlon Santi, nuevo presidente de la CONAIE, luego […]
January 14-18 marks the second international solidarity week of action to demand that terrorist charges against Salvadoran protestors be dropped. On July 2, 2007 fourteen people were arrested in Suchitoto, El Salvador for taking part […]
Source: Common Dreams FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 16, 20081:10 PM CONTACT: Institute for Policy StudiesSarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies: 202 234 9382 x 227, saraha@igc.org 863 Citizen Groups Call on World Bank President to Respect […]
(IPS) – At least 76 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil in 2007, 58 percent more than in 2006. The killings increased the most in the west-central state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where the […]
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