Authorities in El Salvador must take immediate action to protect journalists who fear for their lives after receiving a series of death threats, Amnesty International said today. From 30 April to 4 May, staff members […]
(Tierramérica) – Brazilian and international environmental organisations and peasant farmer movements are taking aim at the forestry industry once again, this time accusing transnational corporation Stora Enso of illegally profiting from the production of wood […]
COLOMBIAColombian cooperation w/US justice system “unprecedented anywhere else in the world” http://bit.ly/lnaslk #cablegate Cable on Betancourt rescue in Colombia. No mention of the Red Cross helicopter though… http://bit.ly/ieQr3Q #cablegate Uribe told USG in 2005 that […]
(IPS) – It wasn’t easy to get to the Bolivian city of Riberalta from Brazil. The adventurous journey included potholes on the Brazilian highway, a rickety boat that ferried us across the Mamoré – the […]
Source: Americas Program Editor’s note: all sources in the story with asterisks had their names changed to protect their identities. Georges Marie* is a proud and angry Haitian lawyer who lost her husband in the […]
(IPS) – Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people’s cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both? In the coming months, diplomats at the U.N. […]
(IPS) – The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly […]
Source: Free Speech Radio News As Argentine lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that would limit foreign ownership of farm land, the nation’s indigenous face forced displacement, extreme poverty and violent attacks as the […]
Source: Yes Magazine Indigenous and campesino (small-scale farmer) movements in the Andean nation of Bolivia are on the verge of pushing through one of the most radical environmental bills in global history. The “Mother Earth” […]
Source: Americas Program Mexico’s House of Deputies has brought the country to the cusp of a police state. The reform to the National Security Law now before the lower house would grant sweeping military powers […]
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