Source: Democratic Left "The democratic left of Europe and North America must do the same, nationally and internationally. It is not just that its Fordist program of the past half-century no longer works and that […]
Source: dollars&sense Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but—what security? whose prosperity? Which is closer to your vision of North America? Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, […]
BOGOTÁ-Little more than a week after the Canadian government announced the completion of free trade talks with Colombia, that country’s national daily, El Tiempo, reports that the Águilas Negras (Black Eagles), a violent right-wing paramilitary organization, has sent threatening emails to the Canadian Embassy in Bogotá. […]
It was not hard to find the remains of the victims, some of whose bones were actually exposed to the elements. But it took 24 years for the people of the highlands village of Putis in southern Peru to get a response to their insistent requests for exhumation and identification of the remains.
24/10/2007 La población local limpia la basura que las compañías dejan. A pesar de convertirse en una plaga por los escándalos en América Latina, la compañía sueca Skanska ha mostrado recientemente su tendencia a no […]
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Latin American Working Group (LAWG) have sent a letter to the governor of the Mexican state of Guerrero expressing serious concern about reports of human rights […]
(IPS) – No one has been brought to justice for the murders of two young indigenous reporters in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in April, a case that has mobilised social activists and drawn […]
At the end of June, thirty-five years will have passed since the small, oft-forgotten South American country of Uruguay entered a dark period of political repression, military dictatorship, and state terror.
After three years of bureaucratic suspension and six months of hearings, five ex-civil patrollers were sentenced to 780 years in prison by the Sentencing Tribunal in the highland county of Salamá on May 28.
Source: Venezuela Analysis Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called on the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Alfonso Cano, to liberate all of the insurgent group’s hostages and advance toward a peaceful […]
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