While four non-permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council were declared for General Assembly election winners Belgium, Indonesia, Italy and South Africa, the seat destined for a member of the Group of Latin American […]
The recently created Honduran anti-delinquency task force Operación Trueno [Operation Thunder] proved critics fears on October 12, when a member of the force shot and killed an innocent citizen Henry Esaú García Fuentes, 25 years […]
The Governor of Alto Paraguay, Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta has admitted to hearing that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it that […]
(Editor’s note: Article updated, corrected on 10-13-06) On October 2, the Paraguayan government announced its decision to revoke U.S. immunity as soon as their current contract expires in December 2006. The US military has carried out […]
Between 25,000 and 40,000 workers in Brazil are employed in situations analogous to slavery according to the ILO, the International Labor Organization. According to their report, titled ”Slave Labor in Brasil in the 21st century,” the practice is […]
Nearly 2000 Mayan Indians occupied land in a mining concesion owned by a Canadian mining company. TheQ’eqchi Indians are demanding that the land be returned to them for subsistence farming. The country’s 1996 Peace […]
An agreement to build a $1.5 billion smelter in Soutwestern Trinidad by U.S. based ALCOA Inc. has caused continuous protests and left tens of thousands of residents worried about the environmental and social destruction it […]
Support for former vice-president León Roldós fell this month in Ecuador, according to a poll by Informe Confidencial. The first round of presidential elections will take place on October 15, 2006. If no candidate recieves […]
A recent survey indicates that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is in the lead in the upcoming Brazilian elections. The interviews with 3,816 Brazilian adults, conducted by Datafolha / Folha de Sao Paulo on […]
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