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Octubre 2006
28.10.2006
Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left's most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)
Read moreTemas relacionados: [México] [Derechos Humanos] [Derechos Civiles] [Derechos Indígenas] Imagen: www.oem.com.mx
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28.10.2006
After 35 rounds of voting with no clear winner, the United States is calling on Venezuela to give up its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat.
Read moreOrganización: Caribbean360 Temas relacionados: [Venezuela] [Naciones Unidas] [Seguridad] [Geopolítica] Imagen: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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28.10.2006
We at the IRC strongly believe that this is a critical moment for immigration reform in the United States. For several years, we have watched with consternation as restrictionist forces have gained ground in communities, public policy, and political discourse.
Read moreOrganización: International Relations Center Temas relacionados: [Derechos Humanos] [Exclusión Social] [Migración] Imagen: Muro fronterizo Estados Unidos-México © Independent Media Center
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28.10.2006
Guy Delva has worked as a journalist for over 20 years in his native Haiti, for numerous radio stations, Le Nouvelliste newspaper, and as a correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency and the BBC World Service. He heads the Haitian Journalists’ Association and is a dedicated defender and promoter of journalists’ rights.
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Haití] [Derechos Civiles] [Libertad de Expresión] [Justicia y Crimen] |
28.10.2006
World Food Day, commemorated on October 16, has become more of an exercise in expiation of sins than a renewal of a serious commitment to end hunger.
Read moreOrganización: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Temas relacionados: [Desarrollo] [Cooperación Internacional] [Agricultura] Imagen: © Heifer International
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24.10.2006
There has been one issue, however, on which the Bush administration has worked diligently: a long and expensive effort to unseat democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Read moreTemas relacionados: [Venezuela] [Política] [Democracia] [Geopolítica] Imagen: © Golpe Venezuela
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21.10.2006
October 2 marked another anniversary of the 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco Square, a former prehispanic marketplace in Mexico City. Students and others were gunned down by soldiers and government agents
Read moreOrganización: International Relations Center Temas relacionados: [México] [Derechos Humanos] [Derechos Civiles] [Justicia y Crimen] |
21.10.2006
The application of Mayan law in indigenous communities in the northwestern department of Solola, has led to a heated debate on customary law — or usos y costumbres — meaning the institutions and practices of indigenous people, human rights and the official judicial system
Read moreOrganización: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press Temas relacionados: [Guatemala] [Derechos Indígenas] [Justicia y Crimen] [Leyes] Imagen: Mayans are the majority in Guatemala
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16.10.2006
We know that the US did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the US had to back down, when he was restored quickly and also had to back down in the face of a very angry reaction in Latin American. In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here.
Leer másTemas relacionados: [Venezuela] [Guerra y Paz] [Democracia] [Geopolítica] Imagen: Hugo Chávez y Fidel Castro © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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13.10.2006
Argentines are searching for a missing 77-year-old witness whose gripping testimony of torture helped convict a former police officer of crimes committed during Argentina's military dictatorship.
Read moreOrganización: International Relations Center Temas relacionados: [Argentina] [Derechos Humanos] [Derechos Civiles] [Justicia y Crimen] |
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