Year: 2008
Ecuador’s Constitution Gives Rights to Nature
Jaguars, spectacled bears, brown-headed spider monkeys, and plate-billed mountain toucans may all just breathe a little easier next week if Ecuadorians approve a new constitution in a referendum on Sunday that would grant these threatened animals’ habitats with inalienable rights. […]
Peru: Interview with Political Prisoner Lori Berenson
Lori Berenson
American activist Lori Berenson was pulled off a bus in Peru in November of 1995, detained by anti-terrorist police, and tried for treason against the Peruvian state by a hooded military tribunal. A gun was held to her head as she received her sentence: life in prison. […]
Video: Bolivia’s President on His Country’s Crisis
Latin American leaders have gathered outside the UN general assembly for discussions on the ongoing political crisis in Bolivia. Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry spoke to Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, about the growing rebellion in […]
La UNASUR apaga su primer incendio en Bolivia: Brasil hace la diferencia
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Más allá de la retórica y las declaraciones, la intervención activa de Brasil para desescalar el conflicto boliviano, mostró el estilo de su diplomacia y los objetivos de una gran […]
Democracy Now Interview with Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo
Source: Democracy Now! [Fernando Lugo] Exclusive: Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo on US Relations in Latin America, the Iraq War, Liberation Theology and Being the “Bishop of the Poor” Real Audio Stream MP3 Download World leaders […]
Brazil: Militarised Election Campaign
(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 […]
Bad News From Haiti: U.S. Press Misses the Story
Anti-Occupation Protests
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. […]
An Open Letter to the U.S. State Department Regarding Recent Violence in Bolivia
Evo Morales
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. […]