Latin America - IPS Inter Press Service

Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:13 GMT

- Global Affairs

Union in Diversity

- Latin America

- Mideast &
Mediterranean

Iraq

Israel/Palestine

- North America

Subscribe

- Civil Society

- Globalisation

- Indigenous Peoples

- Economy & Trade

Reproductive Rights

Migration&Refugees

- Arts &
Entertainment

- ExPress Freedom

- Women in the News

- Readers' Opinions

Languages

Honduras Isolated

Letter from Brazil

BOLIVIA: Amazon Nuts at Exploitative Prices

PERU: Former Minister Should Answer for Massacre in the Amazon

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains

PERU: Three Days of Anti-Government Protests

PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Border Killings Heat Up Tension

COLOMBIA: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

COLOMBIA: U.S. Aid Must Leverage Reforms, Rights Groups Urge

COLOMBIA: US Should Open Its Files on Palace of Justice Massacre

COLOMBIA: Talking About Peace in the Middle of War

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage

Five-Star Garbage

One Tire Sold, Another Collected

Proven Eroding of Aquifers

'Green' Garbage Cans Get Government Attention

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead"
By Thelma Mejía*
TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."
MORE >>

RIGHTS-NICARAGUA: Mudslinging Match Between Gov't, Activists

By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has been accused before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of responsibility for a series of violent incidents, which in the view of some analysts and civil society organisations have harmed democracy in the country.
MORE >>

See picture details

LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for Making Poverty News
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
MORE >>

ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy.
MORE >>

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Border Killings Heat Up Tension
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The activities of Colombian armed groups across the border in western Venezuela are aggravating the diplomatic conflict between the two governments, which are ideological opposites, and some analysts have begun to wonder just how far the tension will escalate.
MORE >>

LATIN AMERICA: Former Leaders Hope to Shape Regional Agenda
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - After two years of work, 20 former presidents of Latin American countries have issued policy recommendations that they hope "will greatly improve the lives and social mobility of Latin America's poor, will produce a new dynamic for economic growth, and will strengthen Latin America's still-fragile democratic institutions".
MORE >>

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Military Abuses Brought to Inter-American Commission
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - A case of rights abuses allegedly committed by the Mexican armed forces is coming up for a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), where it joins a long list of accusations against the army in this Latin American country.
MORE >>

See picture details

GUATEMALA: (Barely) Surviving on Beans and Tortillas
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Juan Manuel Ardón's bones jut out and his hair is dull and thin: signs of severe malnutrition. He is so weak that he can hardly walk or talk, and the doctors say his weight and stature are those of a six-year-old, rather than 15-year-old, boy.
MORE >>

VENEZUELA: Homophobia Stalks the Streets - in Uniform
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venezuelan capital, Yonatan Matheus and Omar Marques noticed two Caracas police patrol vans carrying about 20 detainees, most of them very young.
MORE >>

See picture details

PERU: Cuzco Women Stand Up to Violence
By Milagros Salazar
CUZCO, Peru - For tourists and other visitors, Cuzco has a special fascination as the ancient capital of the Inca empire. But social scientists know it as one of the areas in the world with the highest rates of violence against women.
MORE >>

GUATEMALA: Controversy Dogs New Highway
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.
MORE >>

CHILE: Women in Arms
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The official version of Chilean history renders women’s political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, "Chilenas en armas" (Chilean Women in Arms).
MORE >>

LABOUR: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met last week in São Paulo, demonstrating that they are no longer pariahs in our throw-away society.
MORE >>

News Feeds RSS/XML

Make IPS News your homepage!

Free Email Newsletters

Colombia Hostage Emergency

Bolivia: Decision Time

Dictatorships Meet Justice, Decades On

Development Deadline

Special Report from Colombia - The Unusual Wealth of the Chocó

Sustainable Develpment

Cuban Revolution - Chapter 2?

NEPAL: Hopes High for Environmental Rights in New Constitution

RIGHTS-INDIA: Gov’t Urged to Rethink War on Maoists

PERU: Cuzco Women Stand Up to Violence

ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains

RIGHTS-CHILE: Stop Violence Against Indigenous Children - UNICEF

AFRICA: We Are the Government

DEVELOPMENT: "Africans Should Become Their Own Philanthropists"

Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Military Abuses Brought to Inter-American Commission

VENEZUELA: Homophobia Stalks the Streets - in Uniform

NO FINANCIAL REFORM IN SIGHT AS BANKS RESUME BUSINESS AS USUAL
By Roberto Savio

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, TOO BIG IS UGLY
By Hazel Henderson

CUBA: THE INVISIBLE FUTURE
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes

20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: A LOST OPPORTUNITY
By Ignacio Ramonet

20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: BEYOND THE FREE MARKET
By Eric Hobsbawm

HONDURAS: La tentación del pragmatismo

CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO: Las complejas matemáticas del G-20

PETRÓLEO: Esquiva estabilidad para los precios

ESTADOS UNIDOS: La guerra por la culata

HONDURAS: Micheletti forma su propio "gobierno de unidad"

JORNALISMO-AMÉRICA LATINA: Prêmio para os retratos "cinzas" da pobreza

DIREITOS HUMANOS-EUA: Crise habitacional na mira da ONU

MALÁRIA-ÁFRICA: Vacina cada vez mais próxima

ISRAEL-PALESTINA: Plano de Obama ainda com vida

MUDANÇA CLIMÁTICA: A hora da ação

Contact Us | About Us | Subscription | News in RSS | Email News | Mobile | Text Only

Copyright © 2009 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved.