(IPS) – On the eve of a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos here on Thursday, the White House announced that a deal has been reached on key labour […]
Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization has launched an unprecedented legal attack against the government, accusing it of ‘ethnocide’ against uncontacted tribes. CONAIE, The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, announced it will target President Rafael Correa, […]
(IPS) – The Ecuadorean government declared U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges “persona non grata” and expelled her from the country in response to a cable released by the Wikileaks whistleblower web site. Former Ecuadorean foreign minister […]
Source: Rights Action – Endless Repression By Military-backed Regime – Eye-witness report from the streets of Tegucigalpa (Police truck spraying vaste quantities of teargas at peaceful protesters, March 30, 2011, Tegucigalpa. All photos, Karen Spring, […]
Despite those in power trying to keep him out, the return of Aristide to Haiti has rekindled hope among the poor. Source: Al Jazeera As twice ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family were […]
Source: Americas Program In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a student peace protester is gunned down by the Federal Police. Pictures of the intestines bursting from his ruptured gut make the rounds on the Internet, shocking even […]
(IPS) – Latin America is still divided over the military intervention in Libya. But the nations that were initially opposed to it are gradually hardening their stance as the objective of the Western powers taking […]
Source: Americas Program Monsanto has turned the drop in international corn reserves and the havoc wreaked on Mexican corn production by an unexpected cold snap into an argument for speeding up commercial planting of […]
(IPS) – “We have nowhere to plant our corn, we have nothing,” Jorge Chocoj told IPS while waiting with his wife and three children for the police to evict them from the land they farmed […]
A short note on my methodology http://bit.ly/e96cwY CHILEUS Ambassador to Chile advocated for ATSC standard for Digital TV transition http://bit.ly/epco61 #cablegate Chile is not major drug producer or trafficking route, so human trafficking becomes USG’s […]
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