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Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues

August 12, 2011 Upside Down World 0

The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. Here in Guatemala, the Colom administration poses as a populist movement that takes the side of the poor, but Colom and his now ex-wife Sandra Torres are enmbroiled in major electoral tension as Torres battles her disqualification from the electoral contest for President.

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Persecution of Paraguay Indians Exposed to UN

August 12, 2011 Upside Down World 0

UN officials have been warned of the imminent threat against the lives of Paraguay’s last remaining uncontacted tribe ahead of their meeting today that will assess the country’s racial discrimination record. In a report submitted […]

The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements

August 12, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Source: Americas Program Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up the Colombia, Panama, and South […]

Protests Demand Deeper Reforms of Unequal Education System in Chile

August 12, 2011 Upside Down World 0

(IPS) – The problems plaguing Chile’s education system are not unknown in the rest of Latin America, but are especially complex in this long, narrow country sandwiched between the Andes mountains and the Pacific ocean. […]

The Andean Connection: Tracking the Drug War’s Coca Leaves and Failed Policies

August 10, 2011 Upside Down World 0

How drug war-related violence in Mexico and Central America is connected to Andean coca leaves and the failed policies of Plan Colombia. […]

Ecuador : la construcción de un nuevo modelo de dominación

August 6, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Frente: Viento Sur La política ecuatoriana muestra claros signos de esquizofrenia. El gobierno emplea un lenguaje revolucionario, en todos los discursos apela a la “Revolución Ciudadana”, pero los hacedores de ese proceso, los que con […]

Correa defiende créditos de China

August 6, 2011 Upside Down World 0

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Big Bucks from China Drive Domestic Development in Ecuador

August 6, 2011 Upside Down World 0

(IPS) – Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as “good news,” because they are long-term, and all that is required in return is “oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the […]

Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Demand Demilitarization as Fighting Escalates

August 6, 2011 Upside Down World 0

The Nasa people have long struggled to keep their autonomy and unique way of life and governance. At the same time as having government indigenous representatives, they have a completely separate Nasa system of governing and democracy. For the native leaders, the attacks by the guerillas and positioning of state military in their territory is an attack on their autonomy.

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Ecuador: The Construction of a New Model of Domination

August 5, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Ecuadorian politics show clear signs of schizophrenia. The government employs a revolutionary rhetoric, appealing in all its pronouncements to the “Citizens’ Revolution,” but the executors of that very process are now accused of being “infantile” and of being “terrorists”.

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