Year: 2007
La tierra prometida: Mapuches vs Benetton
Fuente: www.Lavaca.org A las cinco y media de la mañana del 14 de febrero, el pueblo mapuche recuperó Santa Rosa, un territorio del que fueron desalojados por la corporación Benetton. En 2004, el grupo italiano […]
Trinidad PM Tries to Relocate Unpopular Smelter
Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced that industrialization of his country will go "full pace ahead" and that one way or another he will find a home for a widely unpopular $1.5 billion smelter operation to […]
UN Uncovers Mercenary Recruitment in Peru
A UN working group recently investigated abuses by private security firms recruiting and training hundreds of Peruvians to work as mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mercenaries are currently the second largest military force in Iraq, […]
Ecuador will have Constitutional Assembly Referendum
Ecuadorean congress has passed the motion made by President Rafael Correa to hold a referendum to consider constitutional reform. If the referendum is passed, it will create a national assembly to rewrite the constitution. A […]
What Next for Haiti’s Cite Soleil?
On February 7 I looked over the balcony rail from the second floor of our clinic in Cite Soleil. Five UN (MINUSTAH) tanks were patrolling the streets directly below us and passing by slowly in […]