The community of Tekojoja in Eastern Paraguay has once again found itself under attack, and the Popular Agrarian Movement (Movimiento Agrario y Popular, MAP), the peasant organization involved in the community, is publicly denouncing those responsible. […]
In July, 2004, the IMF and World Bank commemorated the 60th anniversary of their founding at Bretton Woods, NH to provide a financial framework of assistance for the postwar world after the expected defeat of […]
(IPS) – For anyone close to Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, it’s almost impossible to talk about him without mentioning his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was elected as his successor Sunday. Although they have […]
(IPS) – What was the going rate for a vote? "About 100,000 pesos (50 dollars)," says Víctor Raúl Mosquera, the ombudsman for the northwestern Colombian department (province) of Chocó. That was the price of votes […]
Source: Americas Program It is a well kept secret that Bechtel won a contract to privatize the water in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, just months after the massive citizen protests that threw Bechtel out of […]
"The coca gives us food. It takes care of our education and healthcare," Bolivian Cocalera Leonilda Zurita said. "I produce coca for my children, because if I die tomorrow, they will be able to continue to eat, thanks to this bit of coca."
(IPS) Este lunes 16.000 médicos y 300.000 campesinos cocaleros paralizaron sus actividades en todo Perú en reclamo de mejores condiciones laborales y el cumplimiento de compromisos suscritos por el gobierno de Alan García. En los […]
Far from the environmentally friendly company it claims to be, Swedish construction company Skanska’s cosmetic discourse on development and progress is racist and colonialist in practice.
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The American Security Council Foundation just released a "documentary" which paints Venezuela’s democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez as a maniacal dictator attempting to take over the Western Hemisphere. The documentary may be new, but the spin is a page out of Washington’s decades-old propaganda playbook. […]
Ten years after the signing of the Peace Accords, the search for victims claimed by the Internal Armed Conflict continues throughout the country. Many of those massacred and disappeared were simply piled and dumped in clandestine graves. […]
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