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Agosto 2005
10.08.2005
The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing. However, the U.S. embassy in Paraguay denies the base exists and describes the military activity as routine.
Read moreTemas relacionados: [Bolivia] [Paraguay] [Estados Unidos] [Armas & Ejército] |
09.08.2005
When the price of gold started to rise in recent years, investors turned their attention back to Central America, where long-identified mineral deposits can now be extracted with new technologies based on the leaching of gold using cyanide and the enforcement of regulations on the industry is notoriously lax. PDF Document.
Read moreOrganización: Christians for Peace in El Salvador Temas relacionados: [Centroamérica] [El Salvador] [Derechos Humanos] [Contaminación] Imagen: © Oxfam America
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09.08.2005
In Venezuela, like much of Latin America, the myth of mestizaje or mixed race has hidden deep racial and ethnic inequalities. According to the myth, if everyone is mestizo or of mixed race, then everyone is equal, and racism cannot possibly exist.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Venezuela] [Derechos Humanos] [Cultura] Imagen: Myth of mestizaje or mixed race has led to profound racial inequalities. © Paolo Moiola / Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
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08.08.2005
In 2004 the first International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004) came to an end. Its main merit was that it had centred the attention of the United Nations on the need for awareness of the problems encountered by indigenous peoples the world over. The time has now come to consider new perspectives and strengthen international cooperation in order to meet these peoples’ expectations.
Read moreOrganización: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector Temas relacionados: [Derechos Indígenas] [Cultura] |
08.08.2005
Violence against journalists in Mexico and the jailing of an American reporter who refused to divulge the identity of her source have prompted the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) to send missions to both countries to investigate press freedom violations.
Read moreTemas relacionados: [América Latina y el Caribe] [América del Norte] [Libertad de Expresión] Imagen: © MediaChannel
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06.08.2005
Migrant Latin labourers are the unseen force driving California's agriculture, but, writes Dan Glaister, there is growing alarm at the conditions under which they are forced to work.
Read moreOrganización: Guardian Unlimited Temas relacionados: [América Latina y el Caribe] [Estados Unidos] [Derechos Humanos] [Migración] [Trabajo] Imagen: Migrantes jornaleros. © Médicos sin Fronteras
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06.08.2005
Argentina has become a magnet in recent years for sports hunters, not only because of the relatively inexpensive access to a broad variety and quantity of animals, but also because of the lack of effective regulations to protect the hunted species.
Read moreOrganización: Inter Press Service, United Nations Development Programme Temas relacionados: [Argentina] [Conservación] [Animales] |
04.08.2005
Guatemala’s indigenous peoples are at risk of being denied their right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through the media. Immediate changes to Guatemala’s telecommunications law, now lagging in the legislature, are essential if the long-term survival of community radio is to be assured.
Read moreOrganización: Cultural Survival, Inc. Temas relacionados: [Guatemala] [Derechos Indígenas] [Medios] Imagen: Radio Misión operator Edwin Calindo Sam in Pachaj, Cantel, Guatemala © A. Portalewska / Cultural Survival, Inc.
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04.08.2005
South American societies are militarizing as a result of the regional superpower’s intervention, which is undoubtedly a crucial factor on the continent, but also as a consequence of the profound economic and political changes we have come to call neoliberalism. By Raúl Zibechi.
Read moreOrganización: Foreign Policy In Focus Temas relacionados: [Sudamérica] [Armas & Ejército] [Seguridad] Imagen: Soldiers in Colombia © Independent Media Center
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04.08.2005
Rural indigenous residents in Guatemala’s western highlands have discovered that the bicycle can get them from point A to point B in more ways than one. Bicitecnologia, as it is called in San Andres Iztapa, Chimaltenango, can pump their water, wash their clothes, sharpen their tools, and much more.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Guatemala] [Desarrollo] [Energía] [Energía Renovable] Imagen: The group designs machines, like this bicyclemill, with recycled bicycles © www.pedalpower.org / Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
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