While USAID has done some excellent work in developing Bolivia’s roads and other worthy projects, it clearly also promotes some lesser-known political agendas. One of the more novel of these, according to the documents, is to "counter attacks on the USG (including USAID) from senior levels of the GOB (Government of Bolivia)." This is hardly the work of a development agency. […]
Recently declassified documents obtained by investigators Jeremy Bigwood and Eva Golinger reveal that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has invested more than $97 million in “decentralization” and “regional autonomy” projects and opposition political parties in
In the bloody War of the Pacific in 1879, Chile took away Bolivia’s only access to the sea. Over a century later, demands from Bolivia for the recuperation of this land are louder than ever. The most recently proposed solution to this diplomatic crisis seems to be straight out of a science fiction novel: the construction of 150 kilometer tunnel from Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean. […]
The release of a posthumous video by recently murdered lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg has unleashed the worst political crisis in the current administration. Rosenberg states in the video: “If you are watching this, it is because I was murdered by President Alvaro Colom.” […]
This is Part Four of a Series of Interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled "What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left."
Carlos Alarcón is a public high school history teacher, community activist, and board member of ANDES 21 de Junio. His work spans three decades of turmoil and uprising in El Salvador – specifically in Santa Ana, the second most populous department in the country, which borders Honduras and Guatemala.
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(IPS) – Una vigilia frente al Congreso legislativo de Brasil, impulsada por artistas y organizaciones no gubernamentales, busca impedir la votación de un proyecto de ley que podría causar "un desastre ambiental" mayor en la […]
Source: NACLA How can we understand the prospects for U.S.-Cuba relations with the election of a Democratic president to the White House and a change in leadership in Cuba? What domestic constraints and opportunities does […]
(IPS) Representatives of School of the Americas Watch visited El Salvador to ask the incoming government of the leftwing FMLN, which will take office in June, to stop sending military officers to the U.S. army […]
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