Year: 2010
Free Trade Undermining Rights in Peru
Peru is enthusiastically espousing free trade, and has signed six tariff-lowering agreements in the space of a year. But it has not matched them with the internal policies needed to reduce their impact on labour rights, the environment, and sensitive areas like agriculture, social organisations and experts say. […]
Chile’s Billionaire President Piñera Gets a Raise
Chile’s billion dollar man, Sebastian Piñera, has a US$30 billion dollar problem on his hands. That’s the estimated price tag of damage caused by last month’s monster 8.8-magnitude earthquake. Fortunately for Piñera, economic hard times and government cuts to fund reconstruction won’t effect his salary: this billionaire president just got a raise.
The Militarization of the Peruvian Countryside
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas On December 30, Peruvian Defense Minister Rafael Rey stated that the acquisition of military equipment to be used in the Apurimac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) against the armed […]
Brazil – The Homeless in Bahia: The Utopia of “Good Living”
Source: Americas Program Millions of Brazilians have serious housing problems. The Movimiento Sin Techo (Homeless Movement) seeks to organize them, and to occupy abandoned properties and land on the outskirts of the city to pressure […]
U.S. Tries to Divide Honduran Resistance
The National People’s Resistance Front (FNRP) denounced the open intervention of U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens in the internal affairs of Honduras and the maneuvers to divide the anti-coup movement. Carlos H. Reyes, union leader and […]
U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region
On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, and a casino. Palanquero is at the heart of a ten-year, renewable military agreement signed between the United States and Colombia on October 30, 2009, which gives Washington access to seven military bases in the country.
For Venezuela, There is No Going Back: A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke
As Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution enters a new decade of struggle and defiantly advances towards its goal of ’21st Century Socialism,’ serious challenges to the future of the process emerging from both inside and outside the country still abound. Australian-based journalists and long-time Venezuela solidarity activists Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke have been carefully following Venezuela’s ongoing political transformation for several years now, countering mainstream media spin and providing invaluable on-the-ground coverage and analysis about the process as it unfolds.
Bolivia Creates a New Opportunity for Climate Talks
Source: Guardian Unlimited Bolivia’s UN ambassador Pablo Solon-Romero during a press conference. Photograph: Paulo Filgueiras/UN Photo In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate conference, those who defended the widely condemned outcome tended to talk about […]
Bolivia’s New Political Space: An Interview With Ambassador Pablo Solón
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Pablo Solón is Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations. He has served as President Evo Morales’s top ambassador on trade and economic integration matters, the secretary pro tempore of […]