Source: Green Left Weekly On July 8, the government of Ecuador’s left-wing President Rafael Correa took over three television stations and nearly 200 private companies, prompting the resignation of the finance minister. The companies seized […]
Source: Christian Science Monitor President Alan García presides over one of the region’s fastest growth rates, but his approval rating sank to 26 percent this week because the poor say their lives aren’t any better. […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Daniel Ortega’s successful bid for Nicaragua’s presidency last year received enthusiastic support from one of his party’s long-time foes: indigenous groups from the Atlantic coast. An indigenous political party […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Hace apenas medio siglo los Bañados eran una ciénaga sobre la que el río Paraguay desbordaba sus aguas en épocas de lluvias. Eran, también el vertedero de basura de Asunción. […]
Source: La Jornada [This is an abridged version of a speech by Eduardo Galeano on July 3 in Montevideo, Uruguay, on being accorded the title of the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the […]
In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I’ll have two and half years left." But if he loses the vote, "I’ll have to go back to the Chapare" to farm coca again. Though the recall vote is likely to favor Morales, it’s unclear if it will resolve many of the divided nation’s conflicts. […]
Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Lucio, a 76-year old Spanish anarchist and retired bricklayer carried out bank robberies, forgeries and endless actions against capitalism. His actions helped to fund liberation movements in Europe, the US and Latin America. […]
"We are fighting so that our kids won’t ever have to know the pain of what we lived through and so that such violence is never repeated again." – Don Virgilio, El Jute, Chiquimula, Guatemala […]
The WTO negotiations have turned into a fight by developed countries to open markets in developing countries to favor their big companies.
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Many argue that El Salvador has come a long way towards trying to repair its disabled past by declaring itself mine-free in 1994, implementing the 2001 National Disability Rights law and ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007. And yet, El Salvador has only made nominal progress in implementing disability legislation and awareness. […]
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