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International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Honduras on 6th-8th August From 6th-8th August, the […]

Source: La Jornada, Translation by Tamara Pearson for Venezuela Analysis Some days ago a meeting was held in Caracas to debate the relationships between movements and states, and how autonomy and popular power can build […]

(IPS) – Douglas Cuc, a 32-year-old clown, entered the courtroom with the same smile on his face as when he told jokes for coins on the buses in the town of San Miguel Petapa, near […]

Source: The New Internationalist Uruguay has become the first country in the world to take the bold step to create a legal national market for marijuana. After 13 hours of passionate debate the country’s Broad […]

Upside Down World mourns the death of Benjamin Kohl, a long time writer on Bolivia. Source: Philly.com AS A TEMPLE University professor, Ben Kohl had this quaint idea that his students should think. Not just […]

(IPS) – The debate over the reform of Argentina’s seed law has pitted transnational corporations that make transgenic seeds against social and rural organisations and academics opposed to the expansion of monoculture in defence of […]

Source: NACLA Celebrating 2012’s best examples of broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Awards attracted the likes of D.L. Hughley, Amy Poehler and Bryant Gumbel to the Waldorf-Astoria’s four-story grand ballroom in New York this […]

Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Nicolas Maduro has completed his first 100 days since being sworn in as president on April 18, a period marked by his new street government initiative, Latin American solidarity, and debate over spiked […]

Lack of financing for a 10-year eradication plan means that cholera will likely be endemic to Haiti for years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts […]