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El Salvador: US Government’s Role in Human Rights Abuses and Political Intervention

October 13, 2008 CISPES 0

A new report takes a close look at the US role in human rights abuses in El Salvador, the potential for fraud and intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran elections, and provides evidence that the the existence of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) — a police training institution in San Salvador that is funded and administered by the US — has coincided with "an increase in repression, including arrest and torture of citizens involved in peaceful protests."

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Political and Social Crisis in Paraguay

October 9, 2008 Reto Sonderegger 0

In his inaugural speech this past August, Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo clearly positioned himself on the side of the socially weak and excluded. However, there is a high risk of rapid, far-reaching social change failing, not just because of the united rejection by the traditional oligarchy, which is made up of large land owners, the mafia and smugglers, but also as because of the lack of an organized social basis for such changes.

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Bolivia: Back to the Trenches

October 9, 2008 Franz Chávez 0

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Community, Indigenous and Worker Alternatives to Transnational Mining

October 8, 2008 Jennifer Moore 0

Four dozen labour, indigenous, peasant farmer, small and medium scale mining, and environmental organizations recently met in Bogotá at the Andean Forum in Response to Large Scale Mining to discuss the experiences struggling against the powerful transnational mining industry. […]

Latin America: The War on Democracy – Documentary Online

October 8, 2008 John Pilger 0

Chavez & Pilger Meet

The War on Democracy is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

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Refugees in Ecuador: Plan Colombia and the Asylum Lottery

October 6, 2008 Stuart Schussler 0

This is the first part in a three-part series on asylum in Ecuador. The series deals with Ecuador’s response to the refugee crisis created by the ongoing conflict in Colombia, the daily challenges of surviving as a refugee in Ecuador, and how refugees are organizing themselves to demand their human rights. […]

Video: The Bolivia Crisis for Beginners

October 1, 2008 Kathryn Ledebur, the Andean Information Network 0

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Bolivia in Dialogue: Between Hope and Civil War

October 1, 2008 Clifton Ross 0

"If 85% of Bolivia is owned by 15% of the country, that means that 85% of us are sharing the 15% that’s left," Eleodoro explains to me, his words hissing through the gaps left by his missing teeth. Eleodoro is a campesino I’ve just met, and in many ways, his analysis sums up the current reality of Bolivia. […]

Latin America Censored: Upside Down World Editors Receive 2007-2008 Project Censored Awards

October 1, 2008 Upside Down World, Project Censored 0

Upside Down World editors Benjamin Dangl and Jason Wallach received 2007-2008 Project Censored Awards for their coverage of Washington‘s interventions in Latin America and the fight against water privatization in El Salvador. Each year Project Censored selects the top 25 most important censored news stories chosen out of hundreds of articles. […]

Cooperation as Rebellion: Creating Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay

October 1, 2008 April Howard 0

Removing Soy

As newly elected Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo moves to make good on campaign promises, the proposals of Paraguayan farming movements themselves point the way to sustainable change. […]