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17.12.2004 Countries from the South continue to ratify/sign the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families. Gabon just signed bringing the total number of signatories to 15, with the present status of ratifications being 27. In Europe, however, both national governments as well as the European institutions remain reluctant...

14.12.2004 Whether the country had been in a pre-revolutionary state or not (few people now believe that to be the case) is immaterial. What is important is that there are many relevant lessons to be learned from what transpired in Argentina and what we can do in the future to advance further in the task of bringing about a better society.

13.12.2004 To be poor and indigenous and live in marginal sectors on city edges or in rural zones in the sierra and the altiplano is an almost certain recipe for hunger in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. In the Andean subregion, one of every five children suffers from chronic malnutrition (low height for age between 0-5 years), according to a study presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in Quito, Ecuador.

10.12.2004 We are members of the “ Via Campesina International Organization”, which represents over 160 millions of peasants and indigenous peoples. We are participating in the World Forum on Agrarian Reform. We emphasise the importance of this forum in order to create a great alliance to improve and strengthen the way to Agrarian Reform, understanding this as a process to erase poverty and hunger, guarantee Food Sovereignty and develop our potential.

06.12.2004 The FCSF has opened its doors to volunteers from all over the world that have similar views regarding the humanitarian aspirations and harmonious development with nature in the South American region on the northern coast of the Pacific Ocean in the Cape of San Francisco.

03.12.2004 They sent a water-privatizing multinational packing, and chased an ultra-neoliberal president all the way to Miami. Now they have come head-to-head with the ultimate goliath of globalization. The people of Bolivia — stalwarts on the front lines of anti-globalization — are trying to wrest control of the country's oil and gas reserves from the big boys of fossil fuel.

03.12.2004 The tourist haven of Cancun, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is being shaken by a turf war between two drug cartels.

03.12.2004 A Chilean court stripped the former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution in a third criminal case yesterday, this time for the 1974 assassination of a Chilean general and political foe. The Santiago appeals court has removed General Pinochet's automatic immunity twice before, but the 89-year-old has so far eluded trial on the ground of weak mental health.

02.12.2004 Campesino organizations and their supporters say unfulfilled obligations to workers are among the principle causes of land conflicts in Guatemala, especially in the coffee-growing region.

01.12.2004 Distinct historic traditions of social struggle have merged in Bolivia, initiating a “new revolutionary cycle” and stimulating hope for national transformation.