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. […]
In spite of being plagued by scandals in several areas of Latin America recently, the Swedish construction company Skanska shows no tendency toward discontinuing its shady operations.
On September 23rd, union organizer Marco Tulio Portela Ramirez was gunned down outside his home as he prepared to go to work at the Bandegua banana plantation, a subsidiary of Del Monte Fresh Produce. […]
With little time left before the Argentine Presidential elections, there is no debate, no euphoria in the streets, and the voters still do not know the opposition candidates. […]
Although Argentine First Lady Cristina Fernández is a well-heeled lawyer with an impressive track record as a politician, the front-runner for Sunday’s presidential elections is not favoured by her peers. Instead, her main support comes from lower income sectors, analysts say.
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These are prosperous times for Canadian mining and oil companies extracting resources from Colombia. […]
When we arrived in Ciudad del Este, we were petrified. After all, we were in the Paraguayan city known in the American press as a “Jungle Hub for World’s Outlaws.”
Bolivia’s Constitutional Assembly has struggled to complete its mandate, to rewrite the nation’s constitution and ‘refound’ Bolivia. […]
Aymara Sociologist and Historian Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, discusses Bolivian Anarchism, the health benefits of the Coca plant and the Cocaleros fight for sovereignty.
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