Source: Venezuela Analysis On Tuesday, U.S. presidential candidate John McCain told supporters at a Cuban independence day celebration in Miami that, if he becomes president, he “will work to impede Venezuela and Bolivia from following […]
An independent report published last month condemns the business practices of Canada’s Goldcorp Inc. and exposes the Canadian mining industry’s often socially and environmentally destructive practices throughout the hemisphere. […]
(IPS) – Five workers and three pensioners from the Mexican state oil company PEMEX disappeared one year ago. A lawmaker suspects that they were detained by the army, but there are also signs that point […]
The situation for trade unionists in Guatemala is getting worse by the day. Sergio Miguel García, a member of the National Health Workers’ Union of Guatemala (SNTSG) and organizing and minutes secretary of the “Vector-Borne […]
El domingo, 4 de Mayo del 2008, en el departamento boliviano de Santa Cruz, tuvo lugar un Referéndum sobre una serie de Estatutos para Autonomía Departamental que, en caso de ser aprobados, aumentarían el poder […]
Land occupations are not unusual in the poorest suburbs surrounding Buenos Aires, but what sets this "Tierra y Libertad" occupation apart is its vision for another kind of community. All decisions are taken by popular assembly and the mechanisms of party politics have been consciously excluded. […]
Last Thursday, May 15, the International Police Agency (Interpol) released their long-awaited report on the laptops and computer materials the Colombian Army said it captured after the March 1 bombing and raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador. […]
Source: Americas Program Even a year ago, few people would have predicted that a global food crisis would make headlines as one of the major concerns for the future of the world. Yes, critics of […]
Source: Americas Program On April 8, President Felipe Calderon dropped a political bomb on the Mexican political scene. The Senate received an executive initiative that would fundamentally change the structure and operations of the oil […]
Brazil made an impression on the free software world during the past five years of President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva’s administration by promoting a policy of migration to open source software for the government and state-owned industry. […]
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