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March 2008

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25.03.2008 Ecuadorin sotilas- ja diplomaattipiireissä epäillään, että Yhdysvallat osallistui kolumbialaisten sissien tappamiseen Ecuadorin alueella maaliskuun alussa.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related topics/regions: [Ecuador] [United States] [Arms & military]
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20.03.2008 Fair Trade flowers are the latest product in the United States to be certifiably produced under fair labor practices and rigorous environmental standards.
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From: Co-op America
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Ecuador]
Image: © Co-op America
Stamp It Out campaign
20.03.2008 An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as 'Neolithic', 'out-of-date' and 'filthy' is named as the most racist article in the mainstream media published in the last year. The award marks UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.
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From: Survival International Italia
Related topics/regions: [Paraguay]
Image: Stamp It Out campaign
Survivalin Stamp it Out -kampanja.
20.03.2008 Nimittelyä likaiseksi, vanhanaikaiseksi ja sivilisoitumattomaksi – tällaisia ilmauksia sisältää kansainvälisen Survival-järjestön valitsema vuoden rasistisin artikkeli. Juttu käsittelee Paraguayn intiaaneja, ja se julkaistiin viime syksynä paikallisessa La Nación -lehdessä. Maaliskuun 21. päivänä vietetään kansainvälistä rasismin vastaista päivää.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Paraguay] [Indigenous rights] [Media]
Image: Survivalin Stamp it Out -kampanja.
19.03.2008
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Related topics/regions: [Business]
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18.03.2008 Brasilian suurin kaupunki, 11 miljoonan asukkaan São Paulo, päätti poistaa ulkomainokset koko kaupungista. Mainostemppu on ainutlaatuinen koko maailmassa.
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From: Voima Kustannus Oy
Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Cities] [Trade]
Image: http://www.fotosedm.hpg.ig.com.br/
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
14.03.2008 Daniel Wilkinson wades past the Caracas-Washington 'mudslinging' and invokes Venezuela's past experience with representative democracy -- "a disaster" -- to interpret the coexistence of Chávez's "authoritarian tendencies," enormous popularity, and "Bolivarian" movement.
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From: The Nation Magazine
Related topics/regions: [Venezuela] [United States]
Image: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. © North American Congress on Latin America
12.03.2008 Kaupunkien ja maaseudun suuret erot ovat isoin este vuosituhattavoitteiden täyttymiselle Kolumbiassa.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [MDGs]
Bolivian weavers and coca leaf
09.03.2008 The Transnational Institute condemns the International Narcotics Control Board's call on countries to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea".
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From: Transnational Institute
Image: Bolivian weavers and coca leaf © R.Massey / United Nations Development Programme
Peace demonstrators in central Bogota.
08.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Governance] [Arms & military] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] [Security]
Image: Peace demonstrators in central Bogota. © Henry Mance
Nicaraguan presidentti Daniel Ortega
07.03.2008 Farc-sissejä jahtaavan Kolumbian tehtyä hyökkäyksen Ecuadorin alueelle Ecuadorin presidentti Rafael Correa on kiertänyt latinalaista Amerikkaa pyytäen valtioita tuomitsemaan Kolumbian hyökkäyksen. Vastauksena Correan pyyntöön Nicaragua on nyt katkaissut diplomaatiset suhteet Kolumbiaan.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Nicaragua] [Colombia] [Conflict]
Image: Nicaraguan presidentti Daniel Ortega
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.
06.03.2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.
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From: North American Congress on Latin America
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Ecuador] [Venezuela]
Image: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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06.03.2008 Sissiliike FARCin mukaan hallituksen joukkojen hyökkäys tuhosi mahdollisuudet panttivankien vapauttamiseen ja poliittisen ratkaisun löytämiseen Kolumbian konfliktiin. Hyökkäyksessä Ecuadorin puolelle kuoli FARCin kakkosjohtaja ja kuusitoista muuta sissiä.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Conflict]
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the Brazilian Workers’ Party.
05.03.2008 Latin American social movements are struggling to maintain their vitality as the regional rise of the New Left brings them face to face with presidents and government functionaries who once formed part of their struggles, writes Marcela Valente.
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From: North American Congress on Latin America
Image: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the Brazilian Workers’ Party. © Radio Netherlands
Silvio Ruiz of the Bogota Association of Recyclers.
05.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 5 (OneWorld) - People who earn their living by sorting through and reselling municipal waste have reasserted their role as garbage recyclers and productive members of the global economy at an unprecedented event here this week.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Capacity building] [International cooperation] [Labour] [Business] [Conservation] [Social exclusion]
Image: Silvio Ruiz of the Bogota Association of Recyclers. © Henry Mance
Tamara Stenn, founder of Kusikuy, and two of the knitters in Peru.
04.03.2008 With the help of Kusikuy -- a fair trade business importing hand-knit sweaters, scarves, and other garments made by artisans in South America -- Brattleboro, Vermont became the second Fair Trade Town in America.
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From: Co-op America
Related topics/regions: [Peru] [Bolivia]
Image: Tamara Stenn, founder of Kusikuy, and two of the knitters in Peru. © Co-op America
03.03.2008 Uuden tuulivoimayksikön myötä Galápagos-saarten tarvitsemasta energiasta puolet tuotetaan tuulella. Ecuadorin tavoitteena on tehdä Galápagos-saarista fossiilisista polttoaineista vapaa vuoteen 2015 mennessä.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Ecuador] [Renewable energy]
Image: © Peter Armstrong

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