(IPS) – Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jesús León Santos, an indigenous […]
Santa Cruz and the other lowland departments of Bolivia plan to go ahead with a referendum to approve autonomy statutes, setting a new system of government for the department on May 4th, in spite of the National Electoral Court ruling forbidding the referendum and the disapproval of the international community. […]
Something peculiar happens in United States political and media circles when the discussion is about "free trade" with Colombia. Take for instance the topic of labor conditions. We have grown accustomed to serious and needed condemnations […]
Anger over rising prices has been building for many months in Haiti, with basic food stuffs increasingly out of reach for the poor. Tires were recently set ablaze in the streets and thrown together to form barricades that paralyzed traffic for days. […]
Ecuador’s constitutional assembly passed a mining mandate last week that cancelled a majority of the country’s mining concessions, suspended remaining projects, and imposed a moratorium on awarding new concessions while giving the government a six month deadline to re-write the country’s mining legislation. […]
Source: Democracy Now! “Bishop of Poor” Fernando Lugo Wins Paraguayan Election Ending 61 Years of Conservative Rule [Upside Down World Reporter Michael Fox was on Democracy Now! this morning about Lugo’s win in Paraguay. Video […]
Asuncion, Paraguay – Even before last night’s official results were announced, supporters of leftist presidential candidate Fernando Lugo were in the streets celebrating what many called a dream come true. […]
Click here to listen to this report by Michael Fox on Free Speech Radio News on the Fernando Lugo victory in Paraguay. FSRN: Yet another country has made a left-turn in Latin America: in an […]
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