(IPS) – After a months-long legal battle, two gay men in Argentina became the first homosexuals to marry in Latin America, in a wedding that took place in the southernmost province, Tierra del Fuego, the […]
(IPS)-Indigenous people, who make up more than 60 percent of the population in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country, are taking their first steps towards self-government under their own cultural traditions that date back to pre-colonial […]
Demand an investigation and an end to the murders! Ramiro Rivera Gómez, vice-president of CAC (Comité Ambiental de Cabañas/ the Environmental Committee of Cabañas) and a local leader in the community struggle against the environmentally-destructive […]
A Brazilian Indian has been murdered in the latest in a string of killings related to the theft of his tribe’s land.The man, Osmair Martins Ximenes, is a Guarani Indian from southern Brazil. Two other […]
(IPS) – Chicha, a traditional homemade brew produced all the way from Mexico to Chile since the days of the Inca, has largely been a rural drink over the centuries. But it is enjoying a […]
Source: NACLA Who is Rody Alvarado Peña? For much of the 1980s and early 1990s, she was one of Guatemala’s thousands of battered women, suffering daily violent abuse at the hands of her husband. […]
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