Month: December 2006
Roger Noriega’s Vision of the Americas
Roger Noriega, the former assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs known for his meddling in the internal affairs of many Latin American and Caribbean nations, now issues proclamations about U.S.-Latin America policy from […]
Ten Years of Peace in Guatemala?
Friday marks the ten year anniversary of the signing of Guatemala’s Peace Accords, which ended the country’s 36-year civil war. The war, one of Latin America’s bloodiest, left some 200,000 mostly indigenous people dead and tens […]
Trinidad Rejects Controversial Smelter
The Trinidad government rejected U.S. based ALCOA’s attempt to build a projected $1.5 billion aluminum smelter in the southwestern part of the country. The government decided to "immediately discontinue all plans to establish an industrial […]
NGO’s Respond to Ascendant Copper
MiningWatch Canada and the Ecuadorian organisation DECOIN (Ecological Defence and Conservation of Intag – Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica del Intag) today released documentation showing that Ascendant Copper’s news release dated December 19, 2006, contains inaccuracies […]
UN Probes Attacks Against Ascendant Copper Critic
The United Nations’ Human Rights body is investigating allegations that supporters of Canada’s Ascendant Copper framed local critic Carlos Zorrilla. Zorrilla, a member of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN), a local environmental NGO, […]
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Ecuador/Colombia Relations Strained Over Coca Fumigations
The Ecuadorian government recalled its ambassador to Colombia over the resumption of aerial coca fumigation along the countries’ shared border. The two countries reached an agreement last December to suspend spraying because of the Ecuadorian […]