(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 […]
Source: venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan Consulate and the residency of a Cuban doctor were attacked with explosives in the opposition controlled state of Santa Cruz, in Bolivia, in the early hours of Monday October 22. At […]
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research For Immediate Release: October 24, 2007Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-293-5380 x104 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Argentine Senator Cristina Fernandez Kirchner seems to be headed for a solid first-round victory in […]
Monday, October 29, 5:00 PMMain Green near Salomon Hall Contact: JakeRHess@gmail.com On Monday, October 29 th, the Colombian Ambassador to the US, Carolina Barco Isakson, is speaking at Brown University. Members of the Brown community […]
PLACETAS, Cuba, Oct 19 (IPS) – Marisol Cabrera has become quite at ease as president of the municipal government of the Cuban town of Placetas. But nine years ago it was another story, and she […]
ASUNCION, Oct 22 (IPS) – Residents, environmentalists and local and national authorities in Paraguay are at odds over the pros and cons of a port complex being built by U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill on the […]
While US President George Bush continues to advocate for the Central American Free Trade Agreements commonly called "CAFTA" opponents to the free trade agreements are calling into question the results of the recent vote in […]
President Chavez met with the 2001 Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz to exchange ideas and views on Latin American economics, global markets, and other economic issues relating to the situation in Venezuela.Stiglitz, a former World […]
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