Neoliberal free trade policies have been a big part of the reason that economic crises are taking place all over the world and have led to ever widening gaps between the rich and the poor. Colombia has the second largest gap between the rich and the poor in South America and the eighth largest worldwide, according to the World Bank’s World Development Institute. The FTA will make matters worse.
Just when the situation was supposed to improve based on the Cartagena Accords and when the presidents of Honduras and Colombia had declared that the promise to respect human rights is being kept, the bloody acts of recent days have revealed a regression, in particular because the campesino movement has been criminalized through allegations of ties with guerrilla forces trained and financed by foreign governments.
A recent national strike in Chile called for deep changes to the country’s constitution that would allow reforms to education, healthcare, labor laws and the economy.
The conviction of seven high-ranking former officials in Bolivia for their role in dozens of deaths during anti-government protests in 2003 is an important step for justice, Amnesty International said today. Bolivia’s Supreme Court in […]
(IPS) – Raimundo Francisco Belmiro dos Santos, a defender of the Amazon jungle, has requested urgent protection from the authorities in Brazil after reporting that a number of hired gunmen are looking for him, because […]
(IPS) – Los nueve militares acusados del asesinato de seis sacerdotes católicos y dos de sus colaboradoras, en 1989 en El Salvador, serán procesados en ausencia por tribunales españoles, luego de que la Corte Suprema […]
The life experiences of Bolivian mining activist Domitila Barrios de Chungara traverse some of the most important and tumultuous events in 20th century Bolivian history. […]
Campesinos Killed, August 20th and 21st, Following on Massacre of 11 People, August 14th and 15th As Canada Signs “Free Trade” Agreement with the repressive Honduran regime As the US names a Biofuel Specialist as […]
(IPS) – Eighty thousand tiny houses dot the countryside near this coastal city, located just west of the epicentre of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that killed some 200,000 and displaced over one million. These […]
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