HAVANA, Dec 13 (IPS) – Cuban sexologist Mariela Castro shocked the world, and a good number of people in Cuba, this year when she announced a proposed legal reform in this socialist Caribbean island nation […]
In Honduras, campesinos are working with grassroots solidarity organizations to take the media into their own hands. Radio Realidad is one of a growing number of small FM stations that are popping up throughout Latin America to address communities’ needs for information. […]
The Price of Fire is "an excellent window into Bolivia’s social movements and political developments in the Morales era. In fact, I know of no other English-language book on Bolivia so fresh, so up to date."
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Brazil lags far behind her left-leaning neighbors in government initiatives that bring privatized national resources back into the public domain. In recent months, however, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and other groups have launched mass actions that demand similar moves toward national resource sovereignty. […]
Former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and 16 other military leaders in Argentina will be prosecuted on charges of conspiring to kidnap and kill political activists in a scheme known as Plan Condor, developed by Henry Kissinger and George Bush Sr., head of the CIA at the time. […]
Buy a DVD and support Grupo Alavío! Grupo Alavío would like to send a special holiday greeting and give a special fund raising appeal. Keep the group’s video production and website Ágora TV up and […]
The project is dead. And no amount of slick public relations campaign can bring it back. A complete stop-work order for their Junin mining project, their so-called "nest egg". A nest egg with 17 less […]
The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH), which is made up of eleven labor federations and three national commissions, has officially launched a website according to its General Secretary Paul Chery. Haiti, just south-east of Cuba […]
El 3 de diciembre varias organizaciones de la sociedad civil paraguaya conmemoraron el día mundial del no uso de agrotóxicos, haciendo una caravana que recorrió por la ciudad de Asunción y alrededores, para exigir a […]
On December 3rd, various Paraguayan civil society organizations commemorated the international day against agrochemicals. They paraded through the capital city of Asunción and its suburbs to demand that various authorities fulfill their duties of controlling and regulating agrochemicals.
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