Latin America
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Report-back from Cochabamba: World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
7 May, 2010 — LeftStreamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHdwkYC View part 1 on Blip.tv website Part 1: with delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference: performance by Red Slam collective Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (transcript) Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network http://blip.tv/play/AYHd5wwC View part 2 on Blip.tv Continue reading
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Bolivia: Morales Asks Workers to Be Rational and Responsible for the Country by TeleSur
President Morales exhorted workers to rethink, because the latest wage increase of 5 percent is superior to what previous governments offered and, moreover, over the four years under his administration, the wages have risen 40 percent. He called on workers’ unions to compare this wage increase with the current inflation rate of 0.26 percent in… Continue reading
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New on NACLA Report on the Americas 6 May, 2010
Hollman Morris to Be Awarded Chavkin Journalism Prize by NACLA Investigative journalist Hollman Morris will receive the 2010 Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism in honor of his brave work exposing human rights abuses committed by paramilitaries and the Colombian state. https://nacla.org/node/6544 Oaxaca Caravan Attack: The Paramilitarization of Mexico by Kristin Bricker Continue reading
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Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost to Ecosocialism By Roger Rashi
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Honduras still looking for truth in 2009 coup
A truth commission has been established to investigate the situation surrounding Honduras’ 2009 coup, but observers are divided over whether or not it will have any effect on pacifying the country. The ghost of Honduras’s 2009 coup just won’t die Continue reading
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Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
Video: Panel Discussion From the 2010 Left Forum with Christy Thornton, Joseph Nevins, Suzanna Reiss, Mark Weisbrot Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 29 April, 2010: Arizonans React to New Immigration Law
On April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law what is being billed as the “broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations.” The law requires Arizona police to ask people for documentation based on a “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country “unlawfully,” it targets day laborers and their employers, and sets up… Continue reading
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Bolivia’s resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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Bolivia's resource dilemma
Historic summit closes in Bolivia, while government grapples with it’s global leadership on environmental issues. Bolivia’s social spending is largely due to destructive exploitation projects. A problem faced by many countries, Bolivia has an answer, it’s called climate debt. Continue reading
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Washington’s Invented Honduran Democracy
As a result of the alarming series of murders of journalists now occurring in Honduras, President Bernard J. Lunzer of The Newspaper Guild Communications Workers of America (representing thousands of working journalists in the U.S. and Canada) joins with Larry Birns, the director of the Washington-based Council in Hemispheric Affairs, in denouncing the slaughter of… Continue reading
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"World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: Live from Cochabamba"
20 April, 2010 — MRZine/Monthly Review For more information, visit cmpcc.org http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.936530 Continue reading
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Eduardo Galeano, "Message to the Mother Earth Summit: The Rights of Human Beings and the Rights of Nature Are Two Names of the Same Dignity"
From the times of the European Renaissance, nature has been turned into a commodity or an obstacle to human progress. And, to this day, this divorce between us and her has persisted, so much so that there still are people of good will who are moved by poor nature, so abused, so wounded, but are… Continue reading
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New on North American Congress on Latin America 22 April, 2010
Soon after the June coup in Honduras, the de facto government unleashed a vigorous PR campaign against ousted president Manuel Zelaya, accusing him of being involved in drug trafficking. This linking of Zelaya to drugs remained a prominent feature of the coup government’s propaganda during its seven-month reign, and offers an insight into the the… Continue reading
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Upcoming climate change summit could be decisive By Teo Ballve
An upcoming grassroots summit on climate change in Bolivia could mark a pivotal event in the fight against global warming. In response, Bolivia is hosting the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth from April 19-22 in the city of Cochabamba. Around 15,000 people from across the globe are expected… Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 15 April, 2010
North American Congress on Latin America A Short Talk With Fernando Henrique Cardoso by Samantha Eyler Reid Brazil’s former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso visited Cornell University on April 7 to give a lecture, talk to the press, and receive yet another academic award. The onetime Marxist sociologist, now the political leader of the centrist Brazilian Continue reading
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Video: Bolivia’s Ambassador on the People’s Climate Summit
Bolivian Ambassador to the U.N., Pablo Solon, invites individuals, governments and NGOs to Cochabamba, April 20 to 22, 2010, for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Continue reading
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US Blackmails Opponents of Copenhagen Accord by Withholding Climate Aid By Suzanne Goldenberg
The US State Department is denying climate change assistance to countries opposing the Copenhagen accord, it emerged today. The new policy, first reported by The Washington Post, suggests the Obama administration is ready to play hardball, using aid as well as diplomacy, to bring developing countries into conformity with its efforts to reach an international… Continue reading
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8 April, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Coca-Cola Sued for ‘Campaign of Violence’ in Guatemala by Lisa Skeen On February 25, José Armando Palacios and José Alberto Vicente Chávez, along with their families, filed a lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company in the New York State Supreme Court. The company is accused of Continue reading
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Video: U.S. covering up reality in Honduras
While State Department attempts to sell the world that the inauguration of a new president in Honduras has brought an end to the country’s crisis, the continuing assassinations of anti-coup activists and their children stands as sharp evidence to the contrary. Video includes interviews with Father Ismael “Melo” Moreno, director of Honduras’ Radio Progreso, and… Continue reading
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