Fact-Finding Delegation Pledges to Hold Current Ambassador Glazer to Non-Interventionist Commitment for 2009 Contact: Burke Stansbury – 202 521 2510 ext. 205 or burke@cispes.org During a recent heated meeting at the US Embassy in El […]
Source: The Independent Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest. […]
The Union of Professional and Heavy Goods Vehicles Drivers, affiliated to the National Workers’ Federation (FENATRA), agreed to stop work on May 5 following the decision by the Mayor of Guatemala City to prohibit the […]
Press Contact: Aadika Singh<aadika@nacla.org>(646) 613 1440 x 206 NEW YORK The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) will honor renowned author Ariel Dorfman with the Latin America Peace and Justice Award and the […]
(IPS) If both Bolivian President Evo Morales and his vice president are voted out of office in a recall referendum that is to be held, they would be replaced — according to the constitution, and […]
Hector Antonio Ventura Source: ElSalvadorSolidarity.org On Friday May 2nd, Hector Antonio Ventura was assassinated in the community of Valle Verde, Suchitoto. Ventura was the youngest of the 14 political prisoners captured in Suchitoto on July […]
Source: Democracy Now! In military news, the Pentagon has announced the re-establishment of a US Navy fleet to oversee activity in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The Fourth Fleet has not been used […]
(IPS) – Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador warned of possible "contagion" in their countries by the autonomy movement in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz. "The central plan by […]
(Photo – Bolivia Indymedia) SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, May 2 (IPS) – Voters in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, which is in the vanguard of an "autonomy" movement involving six of the country’s nine regions, […]
Source: Alainet The third round of negotiations for an association agreement between the European Union and the Andean Community (CAN), which take place between April 21st and 25th in Quito, began with a discussion of […]
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