Source: Foreign Policy In Focus A new regional policy, coupled with the deplorable US border policy, is an attack on both child welfare and human rights When the crisis of unaccompanied minors migrating to the […]
Source: Latinamerican Press The Ecuadorian government has decided to confront the social organizations opposed to its political project by taking the organizations’ leaders to court to imprison them or restrain them with indefinite trials in […]
Source: The Conversation The native peoples of Loreto, in Peru’s Amazon basin, have just ended a month long occupation of 14 oil wells belonging to the Argentine company Pluspetrol. Negotiations are still underway between the […]
Source: Truthout In 2006, the Brazilian government announced the discovery of oil and gas reserves in extremely deep ocean waters, beneath a layer of salt 2,000 meters thick, which they called “pre-salt” petroleum. These reserves […]
Source: The Independent Costa Rica has achieved a clean energy milestone by using 100 per cent renewable energy for a record 75 days in a row. The feat was achieved thanks to heavy rainfall, which […]
Source: Al Jazeera BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — Few of the 20 young men from the Yucuma tribe had ever left their community in Colombia’s Amazon Forest when they boarded a boat on the Apaporis River last […]
(IPS) – Industrial soy production continues to expand in Argentina, pushing small farmers out of the countryside and replacing other crops and cattle. It presents a challenge in a country where 70 percent of the […]
Source: Americas Program The ruling party (PRI) and its allies, the National Action Party (PAN), the Partido Verde and New Alliance, were forced to back down in the Chamber of Deputies. The privatization offensive launched […]
Originally published on March 10, 2015 Source: The Nation Yesterday, Barack Obama sent a letter to Congress announcing that he was applying the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to Venezuela, declaring the “situation” there to […]
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research In a significant change in reporting at The New York Times, the newspaper yesterday became the first major news outlet in the English language media to report on […]
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