(IPS) – Rio de Janeiro will be the most fiercely contested city in Brazil’s upcoming local elections, with an average of 25 candidates for every seat on its municipal councils, and dozens of poor neighbourhoods […]
Protests in Haiti over high food prices have dominated U.S. media coverage of the country in recent months. While these reports have drawn international attention to an urgent situation, they have often lacked proper context. Haiti’s problems did not suddenly arise, yet the media began paying attention to them only after the food protests erupted in April, especially after six people were killed and the prime minister, Jacques-Edouard Alexis, was forced out of office. […]
Since the democratic election of Evo Morales in December 2005, the U.S. government has sent millions of dollars in aid to departmental prefects and municipal governments in Bolivia. Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development spent $89 million of U.S. taxpayer money in the Andean country. At least some of these funds have ended up in the hands of opposition groups linked to recent anti-government violence. A group of Latin America experts have called on the U.S. government to publicly disclose USAID’s funding portfolio. […]
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Fuente: Programa de las Américas Entre diversos movimientos sociales latinomericanos se abre paso una nueva lectura sobre el papel que están jugando las iglesias pentecostales en las barriadas pobres de las periferias urbanas, y las […]
On a cold December night in 1984 in Putis, Peru more than 100 men, women, and children were forced to dig their own graves before being executed with automatic weapons and then buried in shallow earth. What is not known are the identities of the victims or who ordered the massacres or why. Almost 24 years later at least one of these questions has begun to be answered. […]
(IPS) – Opposition governors in Bolivia accepted President Evo Morales’s call for talks aimed at pulling the country out of the current crisis, in which at least 15 supporters of the leftwing government have been […]
Source: NACLA Report on the America In the northwestern sierra of Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, a cowboys and Indians saga of the twenty-first century is coming to a head. The conflict pits wealthy cattle ranchers (hacendados) […]
Fuente: ABI.bo La COB y el Conalcam acuerdan defender la unidad del país. (ABI) La Paz, 17 sep (ABI).- La Coordinadora Nacional para el Cambio (Conalcam) y la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) suscribieron la […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Versión original: Firsthand Account of Haiti’s Hurricane Suffering: A Call for HelpTraducción por: María Soledad Cervantes Ramírez Estimados Lectores: Presentamos a continuación una carta escrita por Paul Farmer, cofundador de […]
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