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30.03.2006 Roadblocks on the international bridges connecting Argentina and Uruguay, carried out by the Argentine environmental movement to protest the construction of two large cellulose factories, demonstrates the social limitations of the neoliberal model and is jeopardizing the regional alliance between two governments that possess, fundamentally, the same political and ideological orientations.

28.03.2006 The full US Senate is due to debate a controversial immigration reform bill that would toughen laws dealing with illegal immigrants.

16.03.2006 That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response to a sarcastic comment about an anti-war meeting of the 2006 World Social Forum taking place in an Air Force base.

15.03.2006 We are representatives of organizations of peasants, family farmers, indigenous peoples, landless peoples, artisanal fisherfolk, rural workers, migrants, pastoralists, forest communities, rural women, rural youth, and defenders of human rights, rural development, the environment, and others. We come from the whole world, to participate in the "Land, Territory and Dignity," to defend our land, our territory, and our dignity.

13.03.2006 Amid growing internal and international pressure, including that from Brazil — which heads the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country — authorities resolved to override electoral law and regard blank ballot papers as invalid, rather than valid, votes. The move was an effort to end several days of uncertainty and to calm fears of political violence that a second round could have heralded. As a result, percentages were altered and Préval secured 51.5 percent of the valid votes cast.

07.03.2006 For years, we at Brazil Justice Net (Sejup) have been following the case of the massacre at Carandiru. We are most unhappy to report that yet another injustice has been committed concerning the case.

06.03.2006 Speaking on the sixtieth anniversary of his admission to the University of Havana, Cuba's president responded to the imperialists' "transition plans and military action plans" by challenging his compatriots to develop their own plans for the revolution's future.

02.03.2006 As the 2006 presidential electoral cycle gets underway in Latin America, the U.S. government has stepped up its political intervention in the region under the rubric of “promoting democracy.”