Full Coverage: South America
December 2006
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12/22/2006
Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections shows that the self-styled socialist has won over Venezuela's poor majority. But has he put the country on the slow road to autocracy? A pair of Latin America-based journalists get beyond the rhetoric to really examine Venezuela's politics and policies.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Related: [Venezuela] |
12/22/2006
The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South.
Read moreRelated: [Africa] [South Asia] [Brazil] [China] [India] [South Africa] [Trade] [Globalization] |
12/19/2006
GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Argentina] [Uruguay] [Labor] [Environment] [Environmental Activism] [Pollution] [Rivers] [Health] [Civil Society] |
12/18/2006
A mídia hegemônica não se conforma com a surra levada na eleição presidencial e procura, a todo custo, impor o seu programa rejeitado nas urnas ao novo governo do presidente Lula. No que se refere à política externa, essa manobra é descarada.
Leia maisFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [Democracy] [Geopolitics] [Politics] |
12/18/2006
El abogado Orlando Castillo, del Servicio de Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ), de Paraguay, informó que las pastillas están siendo consideradas "mágicas" porque sirven para el dolor de cabeza, de huesos, para el corazón y para las embarazadas.
Read moreFrom: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina Related: [Paraguay] [Health] [Human Rights] [Arms & Military] |
12/18/2006
Comunidades de cinco provincias afrontan la arremetida de transnacionales mineras, que, en su afán de apoderarse del cobre, oro, molibdeno y otros metales, han procedido a dividirlas e incluso a agredirlas a través de grupos armados privados
Read moreFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [Ecuador] [Environment] [Environmental Activism] [Governance] |
12/15/2006
Leaders of Andean governments who thought that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would deepen the process of Andean integration turned out to be dead wrong.
Read moreFrom: International Relations Center Related: [Development] [Trade] [Globalization] Image: © Mikko Sauli
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12/15/2006
Durante las últimas semanas, las empresas mineras canadienses Ascendant Copper y Ecuacorrientes han cometido una serie de atropellos a los derechos humanos de las comunidades indígenas y campesinas de Morona Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe e Imbabura.
Read moreFrom: Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos (Ecuador) Related: [Ecuador] [Environment] [Civil Rights] [Indigenous Rights] Image: © Independent Media Center
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12/15/2006
Militias formed by police, ex-police officers, firemen, prison workers, and military personnel have expelled drug traffickers from the west and northern areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Read moreFrom: Brazil Justice Net Related: [Brazil] [Justice and Crime] [Conflict] [Security] Image: © Radio Netherlands / Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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12/15/2006
La larga y ejemplar lucha del pueblo de Gualeguaychú para impedir la contaminación de las pasteras sobre el Río Uruguay ha puesto de manifiesto, una vez más, la depredación de nuestro medio ambiente por parte de monopolios extranjeros y sus socios nativos.
Read moreFrom: Acción por la Biodiversidad Related: [Argentina] [Environment] [Biodiversity] Image: www.roadjunky.com
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12/13/2006
Evo Morales tuvo un espléndido principio con un discurso muy directo y militante en su investidura. Para quienes forman parte de la izquierda en América Latina y en otros lugares, la victoria de Morales merece dos aplausos, que serán tres si es capaz de realizar el programa que él mismo ha presentado.
Read moreFrom: AlterInfos Related: [Bolivia] [Indigenous Rights] [Politics] [Democracy] Image: © Americas Policy Program
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12/13/2006
SANTIAGO, Dec 12 (IPS) - In Chile, transgenic seeds may only be planted to produce crops for export. However, imported transgenic foods can be eaten here.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Chile] [Development] [Agriculture] [Food] [Genetics] |
12/12/2006
Profesionales de la ONG seguían de cerca casos como la violencia contra comunidad de Temucuicui y otros casos emblemáticos de violación a derechos humanos.
Read moreFrom: Diario de la Sociedad Civil de Chile Related: [Chile] [Human Rights] [Communication] [ICT] |
12/12/2006
"La morte di Pinochet non deve chiudere il capitolo più nero della storia cilena, contrassegnato da gravi violazioni dei diritti umani e dall'impunità. Il governo deve assicurare che tutti i responsabili delle violazioni dei diritti umani commesse sotto il regime di Pinochet siano portati di fronte alla giustizia. Deve inoltre annullare la legge d'amnistia emanata sotto il regime di Pinochet, che ha finora protetto i responsabili di violazioni dei diritti umani" - afferma un comunicato di Amnesty International. La morte dell'ex dittatore "costituisce un potente monito sulla necessità di una giustizia rapida e incisiva nei casi che riguardano violazioni dei diritti umani" - afferma Amnesty. In tutta l'America Latina, decine e decine di ex militari, responsabili di decine di migliaia di casi di “sparizioni”, uccisioni e torture continuano a vivere in esilio e a godere di un'impunità totale.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International (sezione italiana) Related: [Chile] [Human Rights] [Activism] Image: Augusto Pinochet ai tempi della dittatura © North American Congress on Latin America
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12/12/2006
One of the 20th century's most brutal dictators died on Human Rights Day Sunday. Roger Burbach, an American who fled Chile after the 1973 coup, recounts the United States' involvement in Pinochet's ascendance.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Related: [United States] [Chile] Image: Strongman Augusto Pinochet. © North American Congress on Latin America
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12/12/2006
En el Edificio Nacional, de la avenida Baralt, en Caracas, está puesto un mural en homenaje a Simón Bolívar y a Manuela Sáenz.
Read moreFrom: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina Related: [Venezuela] [Culture] [Knowledge] |
12/12/2006
El Poder Ejecutivo de Chile determinó hoy que no habrá un funeral de Estado como ex presidente para Augusto Pinochet, y sólo recibirá homenajes como ex comandante en jefe del Ejército, según informó el portavoz gubernamental Ricardo Lagos Weber.
Read moreFrom: Diario CoLatino Related: [Chile] [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] [War and Peace] Image: Augusto Pinochet © Radio Netherlands
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12/11/2006
La noticia, fue recibida a la hora del almuerzo. Pinochet ha muerto, el grupo de chilenos que se encuentra varado en La Paz, por haber perdido la conexión de su vuelo con Chile, es sorprendido con la información. Los rostros de estos chilenos se transforman, y afloran los sentimientos encontrados.
Read moreFrom: La Minga Informativa Related: [Chile] [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] [War and Peace] |
12/11/2006
In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.
Read moreFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [Chile] [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] [War and Peace] Image: Augusto Pinochet © Radio Netherlands
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12/11/2006
Más de 40 mil personas coparon el Estadio de Cochabamba para concluir con una gran fiesta latinoamericana de colores, danzas y discursos, la Cumbre Social por la Integración de los Pueblos en Bolivia.
Read moreFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [Politics] [Civil Society] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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