Full Coverage: South America
March 2008
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03/25/2008
Ecuadorin sotilas- ja diplomaattipiireissä epäillään, että Yhdysvallat osallistui kolumbialaisten sissien tappamiseen Ecuadorin alueella maaliskuun alussa.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Ecuador] [United States] [Arms & Military] Image: -
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03/20/2008
Fair Trade flowers are the latest product in the United States to be certifiably produced under fair labor practices and rigorous environmental standards.
Read moreFrom: Co-op America Related: [United States] [Ecuador] Image: © Co-op America
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03/20/2008
An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as 'Neolithic', 'out-of-date' and 'filthy' is named as the most racist article in the mainstream media published in the last year. The award marks UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.
Read moreFrom: Survival International Italia Related: [Paraguay] Image: Stamp It Out campaign
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03/20/2008
Nimittelyä likaiseksi, vanhanaikaiseksi ja sivilisoitumattomaksi – tällaisia ilmauksia sisältää kansainvälisen Survival-järjestön valitsema vuoden rasistisin artikkeli. Juttu käsittelee Paraguayn intiaaneja, ja se julkaistiin viime syksynä paikallisessa La Nación -lehdessä. Maaliskuun 21. päivänä vietetään kansainvälistä rasismin vastaista päivää.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld UK Related: [Paraguay] [Indigenous Rights] [Media] Image: Survivalin Stamp it Out -kampanja.
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03/18/2008
Brasilian suurin kaupunki, 11 miljoonan asukkaan São Paulo, päätti poistaa ulkomainokset koko kaupungista. Mainostemppu on ainutlaatuinen koko maailmassa.
Read moreFrom: Voima Kustannus Oy Related: [Brazil] [Cities] [Trade] Image: http://www.fotosedm.hpg.ig.com.br/
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03/14/2008
Daniel Wilkinson wades past the Caracas-Washington 'mudslinging' and invokes Venezuela's past experience with representative democracy -- "a disaster" -- to interpret the coexistence of Chávez's "authoritarian tendencies," enormous popularity, and "Bolivarian" movement.
Read moreFrom: The Nation Magazine Related: [Venezuela] [United States] Image: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. © North American Congress on Latin America
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03/12/2008
Kaupunkien ja maaseudun suuret erot ovat isoin este vuosituhattavoitteiden täyttymiselle Kolumbiassa.
Read moreFrom: UnMundo América Latina Related: [Colombia] [MDGs] Image: © Radio Netherlands
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03/10/2008
More...Related: [Capacity Building] [International Cooperation] [Volunteering] [Environment] [Climate Change] [Conservation] [Pollution] [Renewable Energy] [Geopolitics] Image: Call of the Hummingbird
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03/09/2008
The Transnational Institute condemns the International Narcotics Control Board's call on countries to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea".
Read moreFrom: Transnational Institute Image: Bolivian weavers and coca leaf © R.Massey / United Nations Development Programme
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03/08/2008
BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Colombia] [Governance] [Conflict] [Conflict Resolution] [Arms & Military] [Peace] [Security] Image: Peace demonstrators in central Bogota. © Henry Mance
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03/07/2008
Farc-sissejä jahtaavan Kolumbian tehtyä hyökkäyksen Ecuadorin alueelle Ecuadorin presidentti Rafael Correa on kiertänyt latinalaista Amerikkaa pyytäen valtioita tuomitsemaan Kolumbian hyökkäyksen. Vastauksena Correan pyyntöön Nicaragua on nyt katkaissut diplomaatiset suhteet Kolumbiaan.
Read moreFrom: UnMundo América Latina Related: [Nicaragua] [Colombia] [Conflict] Image: Nicaraguan presidentti Daniel Ortega
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03/06/2008
As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Related: [Colombia] [Ecuador] [Venezuela] Image: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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03/06/2008
Sissiliike FARCin mukaan hallituksen joukkojen hyökkäys tuhosi mahdollisuudet panttivankien vapauttamiseen ja poliittisen ratkaisun löytämiseen Kolumbian konfliktiin. Hyökkäyksessä Ecuadorin puolelle kuoli FARCin kakkosjohtaja ja kuusitoista muuta sissiä.
Read moreFrom: UnMundo América Latina Related: [Colombia] [Conflict] Image: -
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03/05/2008
Latin American social movements are struggling to maintain their vitality as the regional rise of the New Left brings them face to face with presidents and government functionaries who once formed part of their struggles, writes Marcela Valente.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Image: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the Brazilian Workers’ Party. © Radio Netherlands
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03/05/2008
BOGOTA, Mar 5 (OneWorld) - People who earn their living by sorting through and reselling municipal waste have reasserted their role as garbage recyclers and productive members of the global economy at an unprecedented event here this week.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Colombia] [International Cooperation] [Labor] [Capacity Building] [Business] [Conservation] [Social Exclusion] Image: Silvio Ruiz of the Bogota Association of Recyclers. © Henry Mance
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03/04/2008
With the help of Kusikuy -- a fair trade business importing hand-knit sweaters, scarves, and other garments made by artisans in South America -- Brattleboro, Vermont became the second Fair Trade Town in America.
Read moreFrom: Co-op America Related: [Peru] [Bolivia] Image: Tamara Stenn, founder of Kusikuy, and two of the knitters in Peru. © Co-op America
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03/03/2008
Uuden tuulivoimayksikön myötä Galápagos-saarten tarvitsemasta energiasta puolet tuotetaan tuulella. Ecuadorin tavoitteena on tehdä Galápagos-saarista fossiilisista polttoaineista vapaa vuoteen 2015 mennessä.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Ecuador] [Renewable Energy] Image: © Peter Armstrong
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