Abib Palma, an extension officer for the developmental organization Plenty Belize, guides school garden programs designed to educate young people about how to grow their own organic supplemental vegetables at home. “It’s easier to reach younger kids at school than going out to the farms and teaching older folks how to farm,” he says.
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An elderly woman and executive leader in the women’s division of the Six Federations tilted a gigantic vat of communal stew over, filling a long line of plastic containers for those at the blockade in La Paz’s Plaza Murillo. She predicts that Bolivia’s trajectory towards political change will be lengthy and arduous. "But," she said, "We have been struggling for years, and will not stop now."
(IPS) – Hugs and handshakes between the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela put an end to a week-long political and diplomatic crisis that threatened to escalate into a regional conflict. The Rio Group, […]
"I will march against the members of the security forces who have betrayed the honour of the military and the police, and have betrayed their fatherland, by selling themselves out to paramilitaries and drug traffickers to serve their interests," said Colombian Senator Juan Manuel Galán in a speech given at the spot where his father was assassinated in 1989.
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"Some four million people in Colombia have been displaced, the majority of them by paramilitary groups. These groups, acting alone or in conjunction with members of the armed forces, have disappeared at least 15,000 compatriots and have buried them in more than 3,000 mass graves; they have murdered more than 1,700 indigenous people, 2,550 trade unionists, and close to 5,000 members of the Patriotic Union. " […]
Later this year, the Bush administration is set to have discussions with lawmakers on whether the US import tariff (US $0.54 per gallon) on ethanol should be allowed to expire or not. Designed to protect […]
To understand the current crisis in Northern South America, it is important to recognize what most books and classes on Colombia state from the outset: the geopolitical importance of Colombia to the interests of the United States in the region. In recent years, Colombia has been recognized as one of the last and most hard-line outposts of neoliberalism in Latin America. […]
On Saturday, March 1st Colombia’s Air Force carried out a bloody military operation against the FARC in Ecuador. This attack is the escalation of an on-going war in Colombia that has persisted for 40 years due to US military funding and training of Armed Forces in Colombia. […]
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