The Party of the Movement Toward Socialism (P-MAS), has become a force to be reckoned with on the political stage of Paraguay. P-MAS is one of Latin America’s newest Socialist parties — it’s barely two years old, and the average age of its members is 25 — but it has already hit the radar screen of those following the political processes of Latin America. […]
(IPS) – Major discrepancies emerged among the rightwing authorities and landowning and business interests opposed to Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales in a 10-hour meeting held to coordinate a strategy aimed at the economic suffocation […]
Since 1998, the government of President Hugo Chavez has embarked on wide ranging projects to redistribute Venezuelan resources and services. A focus on educating Venezuelans to form state supported cooperatives has created over 227,000 new cooperatives since 1999. A look at pre-Chavez coops and the growth of coops over the last eight years in Venezuela shows the challenge of managing this exploding sector which now accounts for 14% of the country’s GDP. […]
In tandem with the rising tide of violence in Cauca, a department in Colombia’s southwest, the Colombian government is using the media to attack solidarity activists in Colombia and Canada through dangerous allegations. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Versión original: Would There Be Change in Obama’s Americas Policy?Traducción por: María Dolores Bolívar El gran debate en torno a cuánto—o qué tan poco—Barack Obama cambiaría nuestra desastrosa política exterior […]
Fuente: Alainet.org Con la muerte de seis periodistas desde mayo al mes de agosto aumenta a 21 la cifra de informadores asesinados en Latinoamérica pues en el primer cuatrimestre del 2008 vigente las víctimas fueron […]
Casimira Rodríguez spent decades organizing her fellow domestic workers into a union, which she founded in 1985. When Bolivian Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia, he tapped Rodríguez to become the nation’s Justice Minister, a post she held for year. She spoke with Nancy Romer about her experience in government, the opposition to the government, the president’s relationship with social movements, and even offered advice to U.S. workers. […]
Colombia has been known for having one of the most stable democracies of the subcontinent which, while it has not undergone the dictatorships that other countries have suffered, is not very ‘inclusive’. There has been […]
Source: Prensa Latina The Bolivian government ratified Tuesday that the forthcoming popular referendum over the new constitution will be held in December, as referred by presidential decree. The Executive also considered illegal the decision of […]
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