The election climate in Paraguay grows tense with the possible defeat of the Red Party that has been in power for more than half a century. The U.S. ambassador’s interference in the electoral campaign and a yellow fever epidemic are keeping tensions high. […]
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), illegally targeted in the 1980’s by the largest FBI Internal Security investigation of the Reagan era, has in recent months again received threatening communications from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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(IPS) "The first red stains on Nicanor’s white shirt" reads the inscription on a memorial niche at the side of the road to Ypecuá, 230 kilometres from Asunción, where peasant farmers are fighting for their land and against the diseases caused by agrochemicals used on nearby soybean plantations.
Why would anybody camp by the side of a busy road? Why would anybody camp by the side of a busy road sheltered only by rough structures made from palm tree fronds in the punishing tropical heat and torrential downpours? And why would anyone do it for four long years?
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Abib Palma, an extension officer for the developmental organization Plenty Belize, guides school garden programs designed to educate young people about how to grow their own organic supplemental vegetables at home. “It’s easier to reach younger kids at school than going out to the farms and teaching older folks how to farm,” he says.
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An elderly woman and executive leader in the women’s division of the Six Federations tilted a gigantic vat of communal stew over, filling a long line of plastic containers for those at the blockade in La Paz’s Plaza Murillo. She predicts that Bolivia’s trajectory towards political change will be lengthy and arduous. "But," she said, "We have been struggling for years, and will not stop now."
(IPS) – Hugs and handshakes between the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela put an end to a week-long political and diplomatic crisis that threatened to escalate into a regional conflict. The Rio Group, […]
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