Fact-Finding Delegation Pledges to Hold Current Ambassador Glazer to Non-Interventionist Commitment for 2009 Contact: Burke Stansbury – 202 521 2510 ext. 205 or burke@cispes.org During a recent heated meeting at the US Embassy in El […]
Proposals to privatize Mexico’s state-owned oil industry have sparked a powerful movement in the streets, led by a leftist political leader who narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election. […]
The Federal Chambers of Tucumán in Argentina recently brought criminal charges of environmental contamination against Julián Rooney, Vice-President of Bajo La Alumbrera, Argentina’s largest mining operation. This is the first ruling in all of Latin America against a mining company for crimes against the environment. […]
The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street. Left out in front of the old train depot, the broken down cars are spraypainted and empty, lost beneath overgrown vegetation. At the far end of the train station stand a pair of futuristic tubes. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Traducción por: Eliot Brockner Es probable, que la integración política y económica de América del Sur sea todavía un sueño lejano después de que el 23 de mayo, en Brasilia, […]
Source: Americas Program It’s probable that the political and economic integration of South America will still be a distant dream after 11 presidents and one vice president representing the nations of South America signed the […]
Also see Undermining Bolivia: A Landscape of Washington Intervention by Benjamin Dangl Source: Granma International Bolivian President Evo Morales has expressed his support for the decision by coca growers in the Chapare region of Cochabamba to […]
(IPS) – The governing party in Bolivia is reeling from its latest electoral defeat, and beginning to doubt the popularity of President Evo Morales, who is putting his office, the vice president’s and those of […]
Source: ZNet Celebrations are on, but dangerous times ahead Colombia’s most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the […]
Miles de jóvenes en los grandes centros urbanos del país realizan su primera experiencia laboral atendiendo y realizando llamadas telefónicos. Una vida Luego de viajar 40 minutos en los colectivos repletos de las mañanitas de […]
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