La Unión de Gremios de Producción (UGP) estrechamente ligada al Grupo Zuccolillo, dueño del diario ABC Color y socio principal de Cargill, venía preparando un acto de protesta nacional contra el gobierno de Fernando Lugo […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited, Comment Is Free A coup d’etat is taking place right now, Friday afternoon, in Paraguay. That is how it has been described by a number of neighboring governments. And the Union […]
Source: Washington Post AP – A mutiny by rank-and-file Bolivian police demanding higher wages spread across the nation on Friday, with an estimated 4,000 officers occupying barracks. Protesters sacked and set fire to furniture and […]
The death of 18 people, among them 11 campesinos, occurred last Friday when police cleared, without prior dialogue, an estate occupied by landless campesinos in the northeast of Paraguay. “What happened was a slaughter of our comrades. Many lies are being told to discredit the campesinos, who are struggling to obtain their own land to work, who are fighting for the rights given to them by land reform,“ declared Damasio Quiroga, general secretary of the Paraguayan Campesino Movement.
Over five hundred Indigenous Peoples from Brazil and throughout the world gathered at Kari-Oca II, an encampment seated at the foot of a mountain near Rio Centro, to sign a declaration demanding respect for Indigenous Peoples’ role in maintaining a stable world environment, and condemning the dominant economic approach toward ecology, development, human rights and the rights of Mother Earth.
Source: Al Jazeera Bill framed to legalise production and sale of drug, whose consumption is already legal in the South American country. Uruguay is set to introduce legislation allowing the state to sell and distribute […]
Source: The Guardian Julian Assange has dramatically sought political asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, days after the supreme court rejected the last of his appeals against extradition to Sweden to face sex crime […]
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