(IPS) – The campaign for next Sunday’s presidential elections in El Salvador wrapped up at midnight Wednesday, muddied by complaints of irregularities and fear mongering propaganda that could influence the outcome. Although opinion polls and […]
PLEASE CIRCULATEDear Friends,We need your help! In a clear act of censorship, the Ecuadorian government has closed Acción Ecológica (Environmental Action), the country’s leading environmental organization. We believe that this action is a retaliation against […]
In many ways, El Salvador is a symbol. In Spanish it means The Savior. Some people joke that if God sent the Savior (El Salvador) to judge the world, we are all in a lot […]
One of Colombia’s major magazines, Cambio, published a story quoting from the magic laptops that survived bombing in the Ecuadorian jungle and were retrieved after the Colombian government assassinated Raul Reyes just about a year […]
Rafael Roncagliolo Credit:Eric Lemus/IPS SAN SALVADOR, Mar 9 (IPS) – "I would not say that the media in Latin America contribute to fomenting civic culture, overall. They generally head in the opposite direction," says Rafael […]
A new law in Argentina not only decriminalizes homosexuality in the military, it also ends the death penalty (not implemented in Argentinean courts since 1934), and military trials, putting members of the army, navy and […]
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus A desire for change isn’t a sentiment unique to voters in the United States, and it’s not something that our country should fear when embraced by our Southern neighbors. El […]
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