(IPS) – Fresh calls emerged Wednesday for Haiti to void its recent disputed presidential elections, following a new analysis from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) showing serious and unprecedented flaws in the […]
Fuente: Programa de las AmericasEn muchos sentidos, la primera década del siglo XXI es la contracara de la última del XX. La lista de cambios es tan larga como trascendente. Resta saber si se trata […]
In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century in South America. There have been numerous and significant changes. We still don’t know if it’s a glitch in time or a new beginning. In any case, the region will never be the same.
Source: PULSE “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” – George Orwell, 1984 In her effort to whitewash the history of Argentina’s dirty war, The Wall Street […]
(IPS) – While many are sceptical that the Chilean government will deliver on its promise of a shift in indigenous policy, the deadline is looming for the administration of Sebastián Piñera to live up to […]
In San Luis Acatlán, Guerrero, Mexico, La Policía Comunitaria, an autonomous police force and justice system, has become something of a legend in Mexico. The idea is simple: local people are elected to act as temporary police officers, and justice is administered by a council of community members, not the local state system. This form of community justice is both an experiment, and a centuries old practice.
Cochabamba, (La Llajta) December 30, 2010 Sirs;Evo Morales Ayma andAlvaro García LineraLa Paz.- We speak to you through this open letter although it probably won’t be read because you don’t hear of it or because […]
A Bus Massacre, A State of Siege in Alta Verapaz and the Parallel Drug State in Guatemala Guatemalan papers this morning printed the words of a father struggling with how to tell his remaining children […]
When Americans spend $100 on health care, is it possible that only $4 goes to keeping them well and $96 goes somewhere else? Single payer health care advocates compare American health care to that in Western Europe or Canada and come up with figures of 20–30% waste in the US.
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