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LATIN AMERICA: Elusive Right to Land Inflames Indigenous Protests

BRAZIL: Speculative Prices Block Land Reform

PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window

ENVIRONMENT: Crisis Could Ease Pressure, But Not for Long

ENVIRONMENT: Global Financial Crisis a Bad Sign for Andean Biodiversity

RIGHTS: Mercenaries At Large in Colombia

COLOMBIA: New Meaning in Life for Young Shantytown Dwellers

Q&A: Killing of Native Leader’s Husband "Was a Planned Operation"

COLOMBIA: "There Was No Checkpoint" Where Army Shooting Took Place

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Activists Celebrate Being Heard at UN

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Peruvian Coffee Growers Cultivate Education

Climate Change Forcing Penguins North?

Protests Against Rally Dakar

Unstoppable Logging in Monarch Butterfly Reserve

Fisherfolk Protect Marine Resources

Ranching Is the Leading Cause of Amazon Destruction

ECONOMY-BRAZIL: An Island in Stormy Waters
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil is not immune to the current global financial crisis, but there are many indications that it will remain largely safe from the recession shaking the world’s rich countries and that economic growth will stay at reasonable levels if the meltdown is neither deeper nor longer than expected.
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PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
By Milagros Salazar
CERRO DE PASCO, Peru - An immense open-pit mine located 4380 metres above sea level is swallowing up the centre of the city of Cerro de Pasco in Peru’s central highlands, while the damages, in the form of toxic waste, spread to nearby villages.
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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Impunity Defies Inter-American Court
By Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Salvadoran state to fully comply with its sentence in the case of the murder of businessman Mauricio García Prieto, and to put an end to threats and harassment of the victim’s parents by government agents.
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ARGENTINA: Ecoclubs Draw Youngsters into Environmental Leadership
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Ecoclubs, an international social movement of teenagers and young people who work with their communities to enhance quality of life through environmentally-related initiatives, while developing their own potential for leadership and action, were born in Argentina 16 years ago and have since expanded to 30 countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
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CUBA: Golden Anniversary in Tough Times
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary on Jan. 1 finds the country facing the challenge of sorting out the economy and improving living conditions, in the context of a complex international situation that may make reaching those goals particularly difficult.
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ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Forcing Penguins North?
By Adrianne Appel*
BOSTON - Warm ocean currents may have confused some 2,500 penguins from Argentina's Patagonia region that washed up -- dead and alive -- on Brazil's northern coast.
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RIGHTS-CHILE: False Disappearances Trigger Debate on Truth Commissions
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - A debate is on in Chile as to whether to reopen the truth commissions that documented the victims of the 1973-1990 dictatorship, after four cases of false disappearances were confirmed.
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CUBA-LATAM: From Isolation to Reinsertion
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Cuba’s reintegration into Latin America means that the government of Raúl Castro will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Revolution in a wholly different regional context than the one that prevailed in the 1960s, when this Caribbean island nation was marginalised by practically all of Latin America.
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PERU: Coffee Growers Cultivate Education
By Milza Hinostroza*
JUNÍN, Peru - "Without coffee there is no future," say coffee growers in the Selva Alta, in the central Peruvian region of Junín, where they are setting up schools near their farms so that their children don't abandon their studies.
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RIGHTS-PERU: Advocates of Military Impunity, Back on the Bench
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Members of the military and one police officer who sat on military tribunals and covered up for alleged human rights violators during the authoritarian regime of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) have been reappointed as military judges by Peruvian President Alan García.
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VENEZUELA: The Cost of the World’s Cheapest Gasoline
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The world’s most inexpensive gasoline is sold in Venezuela, through a longstanding subsidy programme that benefits car owners while depriving the oil industry of a large source of funds for reinvesting.
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AIDS-LATIN AMERICA: Neglect, Ageism Put Older People at Risk
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - AIDS prevention campaigns tend to target the young, who make up a large percentage of those infected with the disease. But experts in Latin America say that people in older age ranges with an increasingly active sex life are being neglected, and are at risk because of lack of information.
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PERU: Undocumented War Survivors to Regain Identity Cards
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - More than half a million Peruvians who lost their personal documents during the 1980-2000 civil war will no longer have to assume the often impossible task of proving their identities, thanks to a new law.
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PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Peoples Claim Their Right to Cold Temperatures

CLIMATE CHANGE: African Proposal Yet to Gain Foothold

PARAGUAY: Indigenous Minister - First Casualty of Lugo Cabinet

INDIA: New Leader Brings Hope for Peace in Kashmir

PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City

NEPAL: Army-Rebel Integration Hangs Fire

IRAN: ‘I Want to Present a Different View of the Women in My Country’

ARGENTINA: Ecoclubs Draw Youngsters into Environmental Leadership

THERE'S NO LAW THAT SAYS PEOPLE HAVE TO SUFFER
By Daisaku Ikeda

CUBA AT FIFTY
By Joaquin Roy

RECESSION EXPELS MIGRANT WORKERS WORLDWIDE
By Supachai Panitchpakdi

DIVERSITY IN CUBA
By Leonardo Padura

INDIA: PUSHING FOR CHANGE
By Syeda Hameed

TRABAJO-GRECIA: Exigir derechos y recibir ácido

ECONOMÍA-GHANA: Señales de alerta en camino de futuro presidente

NEPAL: Polémica por integración de rebeldes al ejército

INDIA-PAKISTÁN: Ultimátum diplomático

UNIÓN EUROPEA: Presidencia checa promete controversia

ENERGÍA-PORTUGAL: Começa a funcionar a megacentral solar

ÁFRICA DO SUL: Hortas comunitárias contra a fome

RACISMO-EUROPA: retoma preconceito contra ciganos

PALESTINA: Judeus dos EUA pedem fim dos bombardeios em Gaza

REPORTAGEM: Cafeicultores peruanos cultivam educação na selva

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