Dealing with Killers and Kidnappers: The High Cost of Free Trade
President Bush is using his final days in office to push through a free trade agreement with Colombia that would reward one of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abusers. […]
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Peru: Praying for Justice
In Northern Peru, residents of Tambogrande are praying once and for all that a newly reopened lawsuit against anti-mining activists be shelved. […]
James Bond Takes on the Corporate Water Privateers
The new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, makes a number of plays on the assumption that the resource in question is oil – but oil is so twentieth century. By the time Bond has crash-landed his plane in a sink-hole in the high, barren desert of Bolivia, we make the discovery that this vital resource is – surprise! – water.
El Camino de nuestra Palabra: Colombia Caminará La Minga!
La Minga VIVE, QUE VIVA LA MINGA!. Por una Colombia de los pueblos sin dueños, todo el saber, todo el dolor, toda la experiencia, todas las palabras, todas las abuelas y los recuerdos. Vamos a […]
Ecuador buscará no pagar la deuda externa ilegítima, corrupta e ilegal
Fuente: Programa de las AméricasEl Presidente del Ecuador, Rafael Correa, anunció el 20 de noviembre que su gobierno "buscará no pagar la deuda ilegítima, la deuda corrupta y la deuda ilegal", al tiempo de exigir […]
The Walk of Our Word: Colombia Will Walk the Minga!
Translation of the Final Working Document from the Social and Community Minga in Colombia The Minga LIVES, may the MINGA LIVE! We call for a Colombia of the people without owners; all the wisdom, all […]
CIA Coverup Followed Another Spy Flight Mystery in Colombia
Source: CQ Politics Revelations that the CIA misled Congress and the Justice Department about the 2001 downing of a Peruvian plane carrying American missionaries could shake loose still-secret details about another crash in the area […]
Paraguay: Mixed Results for Lugo’s First 100 Days
(IPS) – Amid social demands, political conflicts and uncertainty over Paraguay’s economic future, President Fernando Lugo has completed the first 100 days of his term, during which positive achievements have been made in the fields […]
What Next for the Popular and Indigenous Minga in Colombia?
There was a bit of nostalgia running through the voice of Aida Quilqué. "The Minga has constructed community in Bogotá," she said as indigenous leaders wrapped up six weeks of mobilization and pledged to continue their resistance campaign in their territories.
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