News Briefs
Advice for Obama from South America
Source: Yes Magazine The Institute for Policy Studies invited Latin American and Caribbean civil society leaders to share their recommendations for transforming the U.S. government’s relationship with the hemisphere. Fourteen diverse leaders from 11 countries […]
Bolivia: Plan 3000 – Resistance and Social Change at the Heart of Racism
Source: Americas Program In the middle of a racist city of white elites, the nucleus of the agro-export oligarchy, Plan 3000 is an immense and poor suburb of almost 300,000 inhabitants mostly of Aymara, Quechua, […]
Summit of the Americas: Behind the Smiles and Handshakes
Source: NACLA With all that happened at the Summit of the Americas, it was easy to miss a significant about-face by the Obama administration. No, it wasn’t the administration’s supposedly softer stance toward Cuba. Nor […]
Colombia: Paramilitary Chief Says He Helped Finance Uribe’s Campaign
(IPS) – Former Colombian paramilitary chief and drug lord Diego Murillo, alias "Don Berna", testified in a U.S. court that he helped finance President Álvaro Uribe’s first election campaign, in 2002. The president’s campaign chief […]