A new ITUC study on core labour standards in El Salvador reports that many of the 67,000 mostly women workers employed in the country’s 15 export processing zones suffer from appalling treatment ranging from verbal […]
(IPS) – Laura Chinchilla of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) will be the first female president of Costa Rica and the ninth in the history of Latin America. Chinchilla, who won a landslide victory […]
Government must Protect Civilians, Prosecute Groups’ Members and Accomplices Colombia needs to respond effectively to the violent groups committing human rights abuses that have emerged around the country in the aftermath of the flawed demobilization […]
Source: Postcards from the Revolution As is custom at the beginning of each year, the different US agencies publish their famous annual reports on topics ranging from human rights, trafficking in persons, terrorism, threats, drug-trafficking, […]
Indigenous Group Links Attack to Resistance to US Mining Company Source: The Media Co-op An Indigenous group in Northern Colombia that suffered a bomb attack on Sunday is claiming that the bombing is linked to […]
Source: New American Media Drone aircraft are increasingly engaged in counterdrug missions over South American jungles and Mexican cities. The drones represent the latest high-tech escalation of Latin America’s anti-drug efforts. Unlike the U.S. military’s […]
(IPS) – Environmental activists in El Salvador allege that managers of a gold mine owned by a Canadian corporation are implicated in the murders of three anti-mining activists. The killings took place between June and […]
(IPS) – Evo Morales began his second term as president of Bolivia by swearing in a cabinet made up of an equal number of women and men – unprecedented in this South American nation with […]
(IPS) Porfirio Lobo, who was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, urged the people of his country and the international community to “forget the past” and move ahead towards reconciliation.Shortly after Lobo’s inauguration, Manuel […]
Amnesty International on Tuesday urged the new Honduran President to order a full investigation into abuses committed by the security forces following June’s coup d’état, bring those responsible to justice and provide reparations to the […]
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