Fifty relatives of 22 people murdered by Colombian paramilitary groups have filed a suit against Chiquita Brands International for helping to finance the groups. The murders were committed between 1997 and 2004 in the north-west banana-growing […]
A Review of: "Toxic Outrage: Toxic Lead Smelting in La Oroya, Peru"Earthjustice, 2006 Since taking over smelting operations in La Oroya, Peru, in 1997, The Doe Run Company has been operating with a blatant disregard […]
Senator Hillary Clinton’s top advisor, Mark Penn, in addition to being involved with anti-union campaigns, also attempted to have Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defeated in his 2004 recall referendum. His firm at the time, Penn, […]
El Comercio reported last week on Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa’s recent speech against mining concessions in Ecuador. Correa described the way the previous administration issued them as a disaster, and said that his government will […]
Caracas, May 28, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— The case of the private Venezuelan television channel RCTV going off the air due to the non-renewal of its broadcast license this Sunday provoked large protests in Caracas both in […]
Lasojamata.org The MAP (Agrarian and Popular Movement), a Paraguayan campesino organization, is in a state of alert and requires international solidarity. A camp of landless youths from Pariri is being threatened with eviction, and there […]
San Salvador — Busloads of people surrounded the Salvador del Mundo monument in front of the Canadian Embassy in San Salvador today to protest the Canadian Government’s role Central American mining, and specifically in the […]
Press for Conversion, the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade’s (COAT) magazine, has now released a 50-page issue providing detailed studies of Canada’s role in the coup in Haiti. The magazine looks closely at both […]
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