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A Colombian paramilitary leader, supposedly demobilised, confessed in court that the armed ultra-right group killed, in February 2000, more than 60 farmers in the town of El Salado. The farmers had their throats slit and were hung from trees while the...
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The IADB is promoting and funding agrofuel monocultures across Latin America. This is being done under the bank’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, even though agrofuel monocultures are clearly unsustainable and make climate change...
During a recent heated meeting at the US Embassy in El Salvador, US ambassador Charles Glazer admitted to US intervention in the 2004 Salvadoran presidential elections.
According to the New York Times, children forced to sell their bodies in the US in order to survive are processed by the authorities as criminals.
In Venezuela, the number of children living in the street has gone down from 9,000 in 1998 (before Hugo...
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The North American actor, Danny Glover, who is going to make a movie about the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint Louverture, is coming up against problems with European and US producers. They have doubts that a movie whose hero is a person of African...
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If house work and child rearing is hard and important work, why shouldn’t people be paid for it? The National Assembly in Venezuela has approved the first discussion of the Law of Social Protection of House Wives.
The object of the law is the...
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Having basic housing is having not only the necessary comfort to live and work, but dignity. The Venezuelan government has constructed another 706 houses out of oil derivatives to replace what were previously slums.
The state owned company, Petrocasa,...
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Venezuela has won Miss Universe again. While my friend wrote on her blog today, “I don’t know if anyone as big as me deserves to be alive.”
In a right wing newspaper here, there is diagram of the winner of Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza. She is...
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The government of Rafael Correa took over 3 television stations and nearly 200 private companies including TC Television, TC Noticias, as well as insurance, construction, real estate and other businesses, all owned by the Isaias Group.
The take overs...
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The collapse of the glacial bridge of Patagonia, Perito Moreno is dominating news in Argentina and here in South America. The famous 60 meter high arc of ice broke on Wednesday in the middle of winter, a phenomenon experts link to climate...
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