(IPS) – The Peruvian capital, faced with rapidly rising cost of living, was the epicentre of protests calling for fulfilment of social and wage agreements signed by the government. Although only one violent incident occurred, […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis Advocating the fall of the government, the students waged violence that left one student dead, two police officers shot, dozens more wounded, and sections of the city sacked and destroyed. (Tamara Pearson) […]
Communities in the Northern Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua are hoping to attract national and international attention to their struggle against kidney disease among workers at the Ingenio San Antonio sugar cane company that owns and cultivates large stretches of land in the area. Workers are demanding medical care and compensation for the loss of their family members. […]
Fact-Finding Delegation Pledges to Hold Current Ambassador Glazer to Non-Interventionist Commitment for 2009 Contact: Burke Stansbury – 202 521 2510 ext. 205 or burke@cispes.org During a recent heated meeting at the US Embassy in El […]
Proposals to privatize Mexico’s state-owned oil industry have sparked a powerful movement in the streets, led by a leftist political leader who narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election. […]
The Federal Chambers of Tucumán in Argentina recently brought criminal charges of environmental contamination against Julián Rooney, Vice-President of Bajo La Alumbrera, Argentina’s largest mining operation. This is the first ruling in all of Latin America against a mining company for crimes against the environment. […]
The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street. Left out in front of the old train depot, the broken down cars are spraypainted and empty, lost beneath overgrown vegetation. At the far end of the train station stand a pair of futuristic tubes. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Traducción por: Eliot Brockner Es probable, que la integración política y económica de América del Sur sea todavía un sueño lejano después de que el 23 de mayo, en Brasilia, […]
Source: Americas Program It’s probable that the political and economic integration of South America will still be a distant dream after 11 presidents and one vice president representing the nations of South America signed the […]
Also see Undermining Bolivia: A Landscape of Washington Intervention by Benjamin Dangl Source: Granma International Bolivian President Evo Morales has expressed his support for the decision by coca growers in the Chapare region of Cochabamba to […]
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