As the US political juggernaut gears up for the primary battles that will define the 2008 Presidential election here, El Salvadorans are already fixing sights on their own 2009 race to replace President Antonio Saca.
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While free trade proponents cheered, opponents called foul in Costa Rica’s 51.5 percent vote Oct. 7 in favor of ratifying the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). […]
After tens of thousands of Salvadorans marched against water privatization on October 5th, pro-water activists demanded that the Legislative Assembly to approve a measure that would guarantee all Salvadorans the right to water access and ensure environmental controls over water usage. […]
Certain artists dealing with themes of race and racial identity sought to produce socially engaged art that is critical of the market fetishization of Afro-Cuban religion and culture, as well as the silencing of race issues within Cuban society.
Oil industry power over the Waorani people’s Amazon basin manifests itself in the rampant militarization of the region and the use of threats and violence. […]
Take action for extradition, as the family members of those killed in the 2003 massacres wish most for Goni and Berzain to be tried in Bolivia.
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On September 26, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed civil lawsuits against Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, former president of Bolivia, and his ex-minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín on behalf of ten families of victims of the Black October massacre in 2003. […]
Venezuelan activist and journalist, Susana Gonzales talks about the "good times" of the oil boom, the Bolivarian Revolution and the place of women in the revolution.
The Polo Democrático is a party that organizes all over Colombia, in barrios that no traditional politician visits, and among workers whose unions offer it their support. […]
On Oct. 7, Costa Ricans will vote whether or not to adopt DR-CAFTA, the controversial Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement signed in August 2004 and implemented in 2006 by El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras. […]
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