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Letter from Brazil

BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels

CLIMATE CHANGE: Indians Speak Out Against Carbon Markets

DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Activists Opposed to Rebuilding Amazon Highways

LATIN AMERICA: Reconciling Oil and the Environment

NICARAGUA: Asylum for Survivors of Attack on FARC Camp

COLOMBIA: Extradition of Paramilitary Chiefs - a Blow to Truth

COLOMBIA: Therapeutic Abortion - A Right in Name Only?

COLOMBIA: "Mark Him on the Ballot - The One Wearing Glasses"

RELIGION: Ethics - The Best Weapon Against Domestic Violence

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Top-Rated Agro-Science Has Achilles Heel

Food Price Inflation Threatens Children

Citizens Halt Dams in Capital

Native Plants to Clean Up Contaminated Soil

Funds to Preserve Environmental "Lungs"

Ávila National Park Has New Friends

Crocs in Danger

POLITICS-US: New Approach Awaited on Latin America, Cuba
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - More than 150 years after the United States promulgated the Monroe Doctrine, Washington should recognise that its dominance over the Americas has ended and that it must "engage Latin America on its own terms", according to a new report released here Wednesday by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the nation's most influential think tanks.
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LATIN AMERICA: European Corporations on Trial
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Twenty European corporations are being tried for human rights violations before an ethical tribunal at the Peoples’ Summit, organised for the third time by the Bi-Regional Network "Enlazando Alternativas" (Linking Alternatives) in Lima. The organisers announced that they hope to take some of these cases to ordinary courts of justice in Peru.
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NICARAGUA: Asylum for Survivors of Attack on FARC Camp
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - The Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega granted asylum to two young Colombian women who survived a Mar. 1 bombing raid by the armed forces of their country on a FARC guerrilla camp in Ecuador.
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LATIN AMERICA: Food Price Inflation Threatens Children
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - Child malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean will be aggravated by global food shortages, even though the region produces much more food than it consumes, say experts and officials.
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COLOMBIA: Extradition of Paramilitary Chiefs - a Blow to Truth
By Constanza Vieira*
BOGOTÁ - Fourteen former paramilitary chiefs were quietly extradited from Colombia to the United States before dawn on Tuesday on drug trafficking charges, in a move that drew criticism from human rights experts.
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POLITICS: 1968 and the Birth of Diversity
Analysis by Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The year 1968 has become a symbol, but not necessarily one that is easy to sum up. High-profile violent events involving multitudes of people marked it as revolutionary, but it is hard to define the nature of that revolution. Endless enigmas and controversies still surround it.
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ECONOMY: U.S. Woes, Anti-Immigrant Moves Hit Latin America
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - Economic woes and hostility against immigrants in the United States are having a financial impact thousands of miles away, in the communities to which migrant workers send their hard-earned savings.
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CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production
By Patricia Grogg
POZO REDONDO, Cuba - The application of agroecological techniques and the salvaging of traditional farming methods have revolutionised food production in rural areas along the southern edge of the Cuban capital.
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LATIN AMERICA: Big Debates Over Small and Medium Enterprises
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Microbusinesses and small and medium enterprises in Latin America remain a valid path for maintaining and improving economic growth and fighting poverty, while the spotlight in the region shines on summits, conflicts and major political problems such as integration or energy security.
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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Exhuming Memory
By Eric Lemus
CIUDAD BARRIOS, El Salvador - One of the men comes across a plastic thread and stops digging. He starts to carefully remove the dirt until unearthing a piece of material that he hands to an elderly woman, who is silently observing the exhumation of the remains of victims of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: Prized Wetland in Danger
By Patricia Grogg*
CIÉNAGA DE ZAPATA, Cuba - If the worst outcomes predicted for climate change in Cuba become reality, a large portion of the Ciénaga de Zapata, the largest and best preserved wetland in the islands of the Caribbean Sea, could disappear by the second half of this century.
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POLITICS-BOLIVIA: Morales Bets All or Nothing

By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - If both Bolivian President Evo Morales and his vice president are voted out of office in a recall referendum that is to be held, they would be replaced -- according to the constitution, and until new elections are held -- by conservative businessman and Senator Óscar Ortiz from the eastern province of Santa Cruz.
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PERU: All-Out War on Remnant of ‘Shining Path’ Guerrillas
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The armed forces have launched a major offensive against the most combative remaining column of Sendero Luminoso (the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas) which is operating in the jungle valleys of the Ene and Apurimac rivers in southeastern Peru, where most of the country’s coca leaf and cocaine is produced.
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POLITICS: 1968 and the Birth of Diversity

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By Zin Linn

EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE RISKS OF INACTION
By Yash Tandon* - IPS/South Centre

THE DEMOCRATIC ILLUSION
By Johan Galtung

EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
By Helene-Marie Gosselin

CURRENT CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS FLAWS IN MARKET ECONOMICS, AND GDP
By Hazel Henderson

MUJERES-ESPAÑA: Débil combate a agresores

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INFANCIA-EEUU: Reclutando soldados en el recreo

ESPAÑA: ETA mata y recibe unánime repulsa

AMBIENTE: Zaragoza, capital mundial da água

AMÉRICA LATINA: Empresas européias perante o Tribunal dos Povos

ENERGÍA-EUROPA: A dúvida nuclear

BRASIL: Álcool contaminado por etanol norte-americano

COMÉRCIO: Doha transita por zonas tórridas

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