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31.08.2004 Government hopes to involve civil society in a human rights plan to guarantee efficiency and compliance.

31.08.2004 Cuban scientists are saying that sugarcane is a raw material with as much potential as petroleum. And they are developing medications, preservatives, resins and plastics from this sweet crop.
From: Tierramérica

27.08.2004 The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet yesterday lost what could be the final round in his tortuous struggle to avoid prosecution for human rights abuses.

27.08.2004 Poverty and overpopulation are two of Mexico's biggest challenges. In Mexico, Population Media Center (PMC) is working with the Adolescent Orientation Center (CORA) of Mexico to produce a series of radio mini-serials mixed with talk shows in the five states of Mexico with the highest fertility rates. These programs have been developed by young people and are aimed at youth audiences.

23.08.2004 Despite a pro-Latin America discourse and agreements with other nations — Chile has cooperation, free-trade and double taxation treaties with most other countries in the region — it continues to exclude itself from the continent.

20.08.2004 The recent recall election in Venezuela has given us a disturbing preview of what may be in store for the United States in November: an election result held in doubt by many of the voters that took part in it. By Philip James.

20.08.2004 The interim government appears to be increasing its interaction with the illegal armed groups which helped overthrow the Lavalas Family government in February 2004, and, in some cases, has actively courted and engaged former leaders of the defunct Armed Forces of Haiti.

20.08.2004 The Brazilian government is considering giving private parties the right to limited forestry exploitation in the Amazon. The parliamentary debate on the issue promises to be a hot one. It is not a matter of privatization, but rather one of ''consolidating national sovereignty'' over the Brazilian Amazon, the Environment Ministry's head of forests and biodiversity told Tierramérica.
From: Tierramérica

19.08.2004 Military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean are an interlocking web that supports U.S. objectives for securing access to markets, controlling narcotics flow, and obtaining natural resources, especially oil.

18.08.2004 The Haitian interim government failed to ensure justice and to demonstrate its willingness to tackle impunity effectively, said Amnesty International as Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jackson Joanis have been acquitted of the 1993 murder of Antoine Izmery, a pro-democracy activist and business man. The trial has been hastily set up in a special session of the criminal court in Port-au-Prince and the verdict was reached within a day of the hearing.