Year: 2009
Colombians Build Support for a Constitutional Referendum for Water
Colombia’s popular movement to reform the nation’s constitution by including explicit protection for the human right to water took a giant leap forward last week. […]
New Military Base in Colombia Would Spread Pentagon Reach Throughout Latin America
Source: Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) The Pentagon budget submitted to Congress on May 7 includes $46 million for development of a new U.S. military base in Palanquero, Colombia. The official justification states […]
Cochabamba: From War to Water Management
Source: Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) Through the water war of April, 2000, the poor of the city and countryside of Cochabamba succeeded in expelling the multinational corporation which tried to charge them […]
Uruguay: El Monarca Neighbors Build Their Own Town
(IPS) – Beat the odds: that was what the residents of El Monarca decided to do, in order to turn their informal settlement on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital into a real neighbourhood, with […]
Chile: Ex-Soldier Arrested for Víctor Jara Murder
Victor Jara
A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in the 1973 murder of internationally renowned Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only person prosecuted in the case was the commanding officer at the temporary prison camp where the songwriter was killed shortly after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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A Rainbow Flag Over Habana
This line is different from the many lines that are Cuban reality. There are hundreds of us, perhaps even a thousand, and we are dancing in a conga line down one of the most central streets in Havana. And we are not some random group of people; we are lesbians, gay men, transvestites, transsexuals and bisexuals, along with heterosexual friends and sometimes even families, all gathering for the International Day Against Homophobia. […]