News in English
Mayo 2004
28.05.2004
The MSTS’ actions have brought the housing issue to the center stage in Salvador, and the parties are anxious to please with municipal elections coming up at the end of the year. Violent evictions by police, common in the early stages of the movement, have been replaced with a policy of negotiation.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Brasil] [Desarrollo] [Vivienda & Refugio] Imagen: © Radio Netherlands / Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
|
28.05.2004
Nearly half of the poor people in Costa Rica are children under the age of 18. They form part of the 18.5% of the population living in conditions of poverty, which corresponds to 375,133 children. This is a considerable amount if one takes into account that the total population of the Central American country is less than 4 million inhabitants.
Read moreOrganización: Casa Alianza Temas relacionados: [Costa Rica] [Juventud] [Niños] [Pobreza] Imagen: . © James Hawkins / Oxfam Great Britain
|
27.05.2004
Hundreds of people have been killed by mudslides and flash foods in the border region around Malpasse, Fond Verettes, Thiotte and Grand Gosier. In Fond Verettes around 160 people died as a flash flood scoured a section of town half a mile long and 1,000 feet wide. At least 540 houses were destroyed or buried, and another 1,500 were damaged, according to a UN official.
Read moreOrganización: Haiti Support Group Temas relacionados: [República Dominicana] [Haití] [Emergencias] [Ambiente] Imagen: © La Jornada
|
26.05.2004
Not even the birds in Venezuela are indifferent to the country's controversial president, Hugo Chávez. In the modest brick home of Cármen Aquiles, which clings to the hills on the western edge of Carácas's sprawling slums, one of her brilliant green-plumed parrots spontaneously breaks into its owner's favourite chant: " Ooh aah, Chávez no se va! " (Chávez isn't going).
Read moreOrganización: Guardian Unlimited Temas relacionados: [Venezuela] [Política] Imagen: Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
|
25.05.2004
Since the early days of World War II, the U.S. Navy had used Puerto Rico’s offshore island municipality of Vieques as target practice. A year after US Navy’s exit, Vieques tourism is booming.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Puerto Rico] [Desarrollo] [Turismo] [Armas & Ejército] Imagen: Isabel Segunda downtown, capital of Vieques Island. © Noticias Aliadas / Latimamerica Press
|
22.05.2004
Bolivia signed an impunity agreement with the USA in May 2003. Last Wednesday, the Senate approved this agreement, which would commit the government of Bolivia not to surrender US nationals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes to the new International Criminal Court (ICC).
Read moreOrganización: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Temas relacionados: [Bolivia] [Estados Unidos] [Política] |
21.05.2004
The deaths of at least 103 young gang members in a prison fire Monday in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula was predictable, and could happen again because of extreme prison overcrowding and the system's contempt for inmates, warn observers.
Read moreOrganización: Casa Alianza Temas relacionados: [Honduras] [Derechos Humanos] [Juventud] [Niños] |
20.05.2004
It seems obvious that ARENA’s neoliberal policies and authoritarian inclinations have proven inadequate in addressing the deeper roots of violence and crime—namely, psychosocial trauma, social exclusion and impunity. In the meantime, tragically, violence continues to claim the lives of thousands of Salvadoran citizens.
Read moreOrganización: North American Congress on Latin America Temas relacionados: [El Salvador] [Derechos Humanos] [Conflicto] Imagen: © Radio Netherlands / Radio Netherlands
|
18.05.2004
The United States is using a quasi-governmental organization created during the Reagan years and funded largely by Congress to pump about a million dollars a year into groups opposed to Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, according to officials in Venezuela and a Venezuelan-American attorney.
Read moreOrganización: Foreign Policy In Focus Temas relacionados: [Estados Unidos] [Venezuela] [Política] |
17.05.2004
''British Troops invade Puebla! Seize Caves in Sierra del Norte to Steal Our Uranium! National Sovereignty In Danger!'' Mexican airwaves crackled with indignation as the media thundered the details of the sudden outbreak of hostilities between London and Mexico City.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [México] [Reino Unido] [Política] |
Browse the archives by month:
| … |
2003
|
2004
|
2005
|
… |
Versión para imprimir
Arriba
