The demonstrators dressed in brightly colored outfits sang their song of protest proudly, but it was really only symbolic. Shock troops moved in waving their batons, and beating with impunity. They rounded up the dissidents and carried them off to be disposed of. In real life a few decades ago, they would have been brought in to the basement or back room of Brazil’s Federal Police Department. […]
President Rafael Correa declared on Friday that Ecuador would not make a $30.6 million interest payment on $510 million in bonds due in 2012, calling the debt illegal. […]
Comerciantes aymaras en El Alto Crédito: Franz Chávez/IPS. EL ALTO, Bolivia, dic (IPS) – Silencioso, pujante y capaz de cruzar océanos, el comercio del pueblo indígena aymara ha burlado teorías y, en una combinación de […]
Sugar cane cutters in Colombia, most of them Afro-Colombian and indigenous, won a major victory with the end of a strike on December 4 which awarded them concessions including pay increases, 15 days of paid vacation per year, some job stability in the face of a mechanizing industry and Sundays off. […]
Social conflict has overtaken the center of the political stage, displacing President Alvaro Uribe, who merely repeats the script that brought him so much success in the war: the Indians, sugarcane workers, teachers, government workers, truckers, and anyone else who protests and mobilizes is being manipulated by the FARC guerrillas. […]
Piedad Córdoba Credit:Mario Osava/IPS BOGOTA, Dec 8 (IPS) – Wherever there are minorities or marginalised groups in Colombia, or the rights of women are violated, you will find Senator Piedad Córdoba. The senator, who forms […]
On 5 December 1982, a Guatemalan army "special forces" squad entered the village of Dos Erres, La Libertad, in the northern department of Petén. When they left three days later, more than 250 men, women […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas En los últimos meses se registran conflictos entre la potencia global emergente (Brasil) y varios pequeños países vecinos (sobre todo Ecuador y Paraguay), que llevaron al gobierno Lula de defender […]
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