Source: venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, October 15, 2007 – The Presidents of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador met in northern Colombia on Friday to inaugurate a new transnational gas pipeline. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela also invited Colombian […]
Source: Americas Program The Chilean Supreme Court’s extradition to Peru of ex-president and dictator Alberto Fujimori could contribute to the consolidation of Peru’s fragile democracy and may even reduce the culture of fear. "In this […]
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 16 (IPS) – Hunger continues to be a problem in South America, barely contained by the safety nets created by government programmes and networks of civil society groups, as deep-rooted inequality nourishes the […]
Source: SOA Watch We are very excited to announce that President Evo Morales announced Tuesday that Bolivia will gradually withdraw its military from training programs at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly […]
Protest US intervention and dirty campaign in Costa Rican CAFTA Referendum Take action from October 15-20 to demand that the Referendum results NOT be certified by the OAS On October 7 a historic referendum took […]
Due to the grave crisis in which Colombian People find themselves in under the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez, a 3-day National Popular and Agrarian Mobilization will begin throughout Columbia on October 10. Organized by […]
Local Colombian officials have accused two US soldiers, Michael J. Cohen and César Ruiz, of sexually assaulting a 12 year-old girl on Saturday August 25, 2007. The soldiers are stationed at the Tolemaida Airbase near […]
(IPS) – When the town of Pintadas dared elect a mayor from the leftist Workers Party (PT) in 1996, the retaliation was immediate: the conservative government of the state of Bahia closed the only bank […]
(IPS) – Far from being uninhabited places where nature holds sway, the vast majority of Latin America’s protected areas are places where people live, so a balance has to be found between conservation goals and […]
Source: www.rightsaction.org Goldcorp Inc., a Canadian-US Gold Mining Company, Seeks Imprisonment of Mam-Mayan Farmers Negatively Impacted by Goldcorp’s Open Pit Gold Mine in San Marcos, Guatemala "THE GOLDCORP 7-22": USING THE LEGAL SYSTEM AS A […]
Copyright 2003-2018 Upside Down World