Source: TeleSUR English Introduction When the Cuban revolutionaries took power on January 1, 1959, the political leaders of the United States were initially ambivalent towards the Castro leadership but after the leadership nationalized foreign capital […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is […]
An indigenous Bolivian politician will fund her campaign for governor by selling both normal potatoes and traditional freeze-dried potatoes. Source: teleSUR One candidate running for governor of the Bolivian department of La Paz will fund her campaign in an unusual […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Critiques from both Chavistas and the opposition in Venezuela raise the question: How to evaluate a government committed to a gradual democratic road to far-reaching change in the context […]
Source: ASNA The congregation that oversees canonization for the Catholic Church declared on Friday that Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was killed “in odium fidei”, a necessary requirement for beatification as a martyr, said Avvenire, the […]
(IPS) – With Haiti’s Parliament having dissolved on Tuesday, civil society groups are worried that the Haitian president may move to unilaterally put in place a contentious revision to the country’s decades-old mining law. Starting […]
Source: Toward Freedom On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro simultaneously announced that the two countries would resume normal diplomatic relations, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ended in […]
Source: NISGUA NISGUA sat down with several members of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) to ask them how they feel about the genocide retrial and the events of January 5th, when lead Judge […]
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