(IPS) – El nuevo colapso del centro financiero mundial es recibido en Colombia con temor por los efectos sobre la economía local, aunque algunos consideran que no será muy fuerte por estar más "sana" que […]
"If 85% of Bolivia is owned by 15% of the country, that means that 85% of us are sharing the 15% that’s left," Eleodoro explains to me, his words hissing through the gaps left by his missing teeth. Eleodoro is a campesino I’ve just met, and in many ways, his analysis sums up the current reality of Bolivia. […]
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As newly elected Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo moves to make good on campaign promises, the proposals of Paraguayan farming movements themselves point the way to sustainable change. […]
(IPS) – Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and islands in the eastern Caribbean are receiving more and more oil from Venezuela, while major refineries are planned in South America — at Pernambuco in northeastern […]
The Latin American Water Tribunal held its 5th public hearing with the slogan: ‘Hydraulic justice for indigenous lands and territories’. In the first weeks of September, the juryu of the non-state tribunal met in Antigua, Guatemala, to discuss and analyze ten cases in which water issues adversely affected indigenous peoples in Mexico and Central America. […]
Source: The Washington Note Paraguay President Fernando Lugo, while attending both the United Nations General Assembly meetings and the Clinton Global Initiative, shared with friends over dinner some of the other meetings he had been […]
Quito, Ecuador—According to exit polls, between 63-70% of Ecuadorians voted to approve a new constitution on Sunday, scoring a major victory for President Rafael Correa. Correa hailed the results, saying that “today Ecuador has decided on a new country.” […]
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