Full Coverage: South America

19.12.2007 Gabriel Hetland explains that the recent referendum raises more questions than answers about Venezuelan public opinion and the future of President Hugo Chavez.

19.12.2007 Bolivian presidentti Evo Morales sai haluamansa, kun perustuslakia säätävä kokous hyväksyi uuden perustuslain. Neljä päätökseen pettynyttä Bolivian maakuntaa kuitenkin uhkaa julistautua autonomisiksi.

18.12.2007 Two years after Bolivia's first indigenous President, Evo Morales, set out to transform the nation, Benjamin Dangl examines public opinion as the nation's political parties feud over its future.

18.12.2007 Chilessä lokakuusta asti nälkälakossa olleet mapucheaktivistit ovat jo hengenvaarallisen heikkoina. Intiaaniaktivistit vaativat poliittisten vankien vapauttamista ja Chilen mapuchealueiden demilitarisointia.

17.12.2007 A free trade agreement launched last week between Peru and the U.S. "fails to deliver on its development potential and could further deepen poverty for Peru's poorest," writes an international humanitarian group.

13.12.2007 The development and adoption of biofuels should be done carefully and with exhaustive research onto its effects on food security and the environment, comments Science and Development Network director David Dickson.
From: SciDevNet

11.12.2007 Peruvian President Alan García is planning to introduce a new law that promotes foreign investment by diminishing rural indigenous communities' control over communally owned lands.

10.12.2007 César Navarro, political ally of Bolivian President Evo Morales, discusses the struggle to drive through change in the South American country.
From: New Statesman

06.12.2007 The governments of Ecuador and Peru recently approved three new major oil projects threatening biodiversity and isolated indigenous groups in the Upper Amazon Basin.
From: Environment News Service

04.12.2007 Venezuelan presidentti Hugo Chávez tunnusti tappionsa perustuslain uudistamisesta järjestetyssä kansanäänestyksessä, mutta sanoi uudistusohjelmansa olevan edelleen elossa. Presidentin valtaa kasvattava ja sosiaalisia uudistuksia sisältävä esitys hävisi äänestyksessä niukasti.

04.12.2007 Bolivian President Evo Morales' attempt at achieving comprehensive social reform is challenged by a militant opposition movement led by the wealthy in this highly divided and mostly poor country, comments scholar Roger Burbach.