News Briefs

Ottawa funds set to encourage oil investment Source: The Dominion LA CEIBA, HONDURAS—Oil extraction may be on the horizon in Honduras, and Canadian aid is helping set the stage. The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, […]

Washington is threatening to withhold development aid unless El Salvador adopts economic policies that Salvadorans just voted against. Source: This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. After a closely […]

(IPS) – The few tenths of a percentage between presidential candidates in the elections of Sunday Mar. 9 have been confirmed in the final vote tally, keeping the right in El Salvador in the opposition […]

John Kerry’s rhetoric is divorced from the reality on the ground, where life goes on – even at the barricades Source: The Guardian Images forge reality, granting a power to television and video and even […]

Source: NACLA On March 11, newly elected President Michelle Bachelet began her inaugural speech by acknowledged her debt to the social movements that propelled her center-left New Majority coalition to victory, on a radical platform […]

Source: The Americas Blog Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil, released a statement in support of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the death of Hugo […]

Source: Americas Program “The war on drugs in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala has become a war on women. Efforts to improve ‘security’ have only led to greater militarization, rampant corruption and abuse within police forces […]

Source: Americas Program Their work is not just to receive the new-born baby or give herbal baths to the new mothers.  Nahua community midwives in the Huasteca region of the state of Hidalgo play a […]

Source: The Americas Blog Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro made news this week by breaking off relations with Panama following Panama’s proposal for the Organization of American States (OAS) to take up the situation in Venezuela. […]