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December 2006

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27.12.2006 The wave of governments that identify themselves as leftist in Latin America and which have risen to power in the last few years represent neither a regional movement nor a homogeneous phenomenon, reports Mario Osava.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
22.12.2006 Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections shows that the self-styled socialist has won over Venezuela's poor majority. But has he put the country on the slow road to autocracy? A pair of Latin America-based journalists get beyond the rhetoric to really examine Venezuela's politics and policies.
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From: North American Congress on Latin America
Related topics/regions: [Venezuela]
Energiakumppanuus toi aurinkosähkön maya-kyliin
22.12.2006 Vajaa vuosi sitten viisi pääasiassa maya-intiaanien asuttamaa kylää sai aurinkosähkön Guatemalan itäosassa. Hanke on yksi Suomen ja Keski-Amerikan energia- ja ympäristökumppanuusohjelman kohteista. Kumppanuusohjelma käynnistyi vuonna 2002 YK:n kestävän kehityksen huippukokouksessa. Ohjelmassa ovat mukana seitsemän Keski-Amerikan maata ja Suomi.
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From: global.finland
Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Development] [Energy] [International cooperation]
Image: Energiakumppanuus toi aurinkosähkön maya-kyliin
22.12.2006 The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South.
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Related topics/regions: [Africa] [South Asia] [Brazil] [China] [India] [South Africa] [Trade] [Globalisation]
21.12.2006 Movimientos feministas y de combate de la violencia contra la mujer en México esperan que con la aprobación, la semana pasada, por el Senado de la República, de la Ley General de Acceso a una Vida Libre de Violencia, haya más justicia y menos impunidad.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Mexico] [Human rights] [Gender] [Law]
21.12.2006 El Instituto Nacional Agrario de Honduras (INA), el cual cuenta con categoría de Secretaría (Ministerio) está siendo paulatinamente finiquitado por medio de la intervención del Proyecto de Administración de Tierras de Honduras (PATH), financiado por el Banco Mundial.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Honduras] [Globalisation] [Governance]
21.12.2006 Un sismo de 4.5 grados registrado aproximadamente a las 11:15 a.m. de este miércoles, provocó que varias viviendas se desplomaran por completo y que muchas otras quedaran agrietadas al punto de considerárseles inhabitables.
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From: Diario CoLatino
Related topics/regions: [El Salvador] [Shelter & housing] [Health]
Image: © Mapquest
Metsäpalojen torjuntaa Burkina Fasossa
21.12.2006 Johannesburgin kestävän kehityksen huippukokouksessa vuonna 2002 julkistettu Suomen ja seitsemän Keski-Amerikan maan energia- ja ympäristökumppanuus on löytänyt tehokkaat toimintatavat. Ohjelman kautta on annettu tähän mennessä rahoitusta 92 hankkeelle. Kehitysyhteistyö Burkina Fason kanssa päättyy, kertoo toinen uutinen.
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From: global.finland
Related topics/regions: [Central America] [Burkina Faso] [International cooperation]
Image: Metsäpalojen torjuntaa Burkina Fasossa
20.12.2006 Following the December 10 "megamarch" demanding the freeing of political prisoners and the departure of federal troops from the restive Mexican province of Oaxaca, groups supporting the protestors have declared Friday an international day of action.
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From: Independent Media Center
Related topics/regions: [Mexico]
19.12.2006 GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [South America] [Argentina] [Uruguay] [Labour] [Environment] [Environmental activism] [Pollution] [Rivers] [Health] [Civil society]
19.12.2006 RED POP, SciDev.Net, SOMEDICYT, CENAT, CIENTEC Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry for Science and Technology are holding the Science, communication and society workshop in San José, Costa Rica from 9 - 11 May 2007. The event will be held in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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From: SciDev.Net
Related topics/regions: [Costa Rica] [Communication] [ICT]
18.12.2006 Entre as muitas denúncias, figuram, inclusive, casos de tortura e de abuso sexual cometidos contra mulheres e mulheres militantes e simpatizantes da APPO.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Mexico] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Justice and crime]
Image: © ZNet
18.12.2006 A mídia hegemônica não se conforma com a surra levada na eleição presidencial e procura, a todo custo, impor o seu programa rejeitado nas urnas ao novo governo do presidente Lula. No que se refere à política externa, essa manobra é descarada.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [South America] [Politics] [Democracy] [Geopolitics]
18.12.2006 El abogado Orlando Castillo, del Servicio de Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ), de Paraguay, informó que las pastillas están siendo consideradas "mágicas" porque sirven para el dolor de cabeza, de huesos, para el corazón y para las embarazadas.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Paraguay] [Health] [Human rights] [Arms & military]
18.12.2006 Comunidades de cinco provincias afrontan la arremetida de transnacionales mineras, que, en su afán de apoderarse del cobre, oro, molibdeno y otros metales, han procedido a dividirlas e incluso a agredirlas a través de grupos armados privados
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Ecuador] [Environment] [Environmental activism] [Governance]
15.12.2006 Leaders of Andean governments who thought that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would deepen the process of Andean integration turned out to be dead wrong.
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From: International Relations Center
Related topics/regions: [South America] [Development] [Trade] [Globalisation]
Image: © Mikko Sauli
15.12.2006 Com esse programa, o governo cubano quer devolver a visão a dez milhões de latino-americanos pobres. Em apenas dois anos e cinco meses, já foram atendidos mais de meio milhão de pessoas de 28 países do Terceiro Mundo.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Cuba] [International cooperation] [Health]
15.12.2006 We salute this important historic moment which opens with the Summit of Cochabamba, which holds the challenge of deepening a process of regional integration which expresses the peoples’ interests.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Communication] [Civil society] [Globalisation]
15.12.2006 Creado en el 2001 por el presidente mexicano Vicente Fox como "un instrumento de cooperación que busca integrar a la región mesoamericana, coordinando acciones de los siete países de Centroamérica y los nueve estados que integran la región sur sureste de México", el Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) no ha logrado despegar del todo.
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From: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
Related topics/regions: [Development] [Trade] [Social exclusion]
Efraín Rios Montt
15.12.2006 En Guatemala hay una norma para casi cada asunto pero no hay justicia, porque si la hubiera se habría juzgado a los genocidas y violadores de derechos humanos aquí y no se pediría auxilio en las cortes españolas, subrayó la periodista Carolina Escobar Sarti.
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From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala
Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Human rights] [Justice and crime] [War and peace]
Image: Efraín Rios Montt © Radio Netherlands
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