Results of the July 4 election in Mexico for state governors, mayors and legislators could be regarded as a tiny seismic shift looking ahead to the national presidential election of 2012. Elections were held in […]
Milagros Salazar interviews Uruguayan ecologist EDUARDO GUDYNAS (Tierramérica) – The Latin American economy based on exploitation of natural resources does not create social well-being and is unsustainable in the context of climate change, says Uruguayan […]
Source: ALAI It is 5:00 of the evening of June 30, 2010, groups of students, teachers and citizens asked for entry to the House of the Laws and they were struck and tortured by the […]
We caught up with Wilder Marcano, director of the network of Comunas in Caracas, on the morning of June 18, 2010. He talked with us just before addressing a crowd of a few hundred representatives […]
The Guatemala government has said that it will suspend Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán to make way for a full investigation of the health, environmental, and human rights impacts of the controversial mine […]
Once again the PRI pulls dirty tricks prior to the July 4 electionCatholic national and international communities express their outrage as once again the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Oaxaca has called attention to its […]
(IPS) – The de facto veto power that the military exercised with the toppling of president Manuel Zelaya exactly one year ago today effectively blocks any possible political or electoral reforms, experts say. That was […]
This Tuesday, June 29, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will hold a confirmation hearing for President Obama’s nomination of Mark Feierstein to head USAID programs in Latin America. Feierstein, of the firm Greenberg, Quinlan […]
Amnesty International has accused the Honduran authorities of failing to address serious human rights violations that followed the coup d’etat of 28 June 2009, when ex-President Manuel Zelaya was forced from power. Since new president […]
Source: CEPR When Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela met at the beginning of the month, it appeared that relations between the US and Bolivia were on the […]
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