http://amlat.oneworld.net/section/lat-en es_CR http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76177 Leaders of Andean governments who thought that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would deepen the process of Andean integration turned out to be dead wrong. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76175 We salute this important historic moment which opens with the Summit of Cochabamba, which holds the challenge of deepening a process of regional integration which expresses the peoples’ interests. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76174 Created in 2001 by Mexican President Vicente Fox as "an instrument of cooperation that aims to integrate the Mesoamerican region, coordinating actions of the seven Central American countries and nine states that make up the south-southeastern region of Mexico," Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) has never fully took off. http://amlat.oneworld.net/article/view/143916/1/1730 Militias formed by police, ex-police officers, firemen, prison workers, and military personnel have expelled drug traffickers from the west and northern areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76137 The state and city of Oaxaca in Mexico rose in protest in May against a governor seen as corrupt and repressive. The government later sent in troops to clear the city, but the struggles have broken out again. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76085 In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76063 On November 9th Roberto Requião, Governor of the state of Paraná, dealt a blow to agribusiness when he signed a decree to expropriate the experimental test site owned by the Swiss multinational corporation Syngenta, located in Santa Tereza do Oeste. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76062 While acknowledging that all of these irregularities occurred, the tribunal, astonishingly, did not consider them grounds to annul the election. The tribunal's decision is at the center of the country's current political crisis and democratic regression. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76060 Despite strong opposition from right-wing politicians and the Catholic Church, Argentines now have access to free surgical contraception. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76036 There are many battles being fought in the name of social justice...some more pitched than others. In general, however, these struggles do not result in victory thanks to a petition, a candlelight vigil, or a ballot pull. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75946 Rape and other transgressions, unfortunately, appear to be looked upon as just another weapon in the arsenal of some of Haiti’s politicians by which they can crush opposition to them and whatever designs they may have on power. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75945 This election season many voters are asking a critical question: What is the appropriate role for the United States in world affairs? By punishing those legislators who voted for war in Iraq, many citizens are rejecting the idea of the United States as a military overlord, asserting that a different set of values should guide our foreign policy. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75944 The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the “expropriation of lands” that “do not serve a just social-economic function.” http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75942 To build consensus behind his agenda, Ortega must persuade disillusioned leftists like Cuadra that he remains committed to ideals of social justice while showing conservatives in his country and the United States that he is no longer the belligerent Marxist of the past. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75923 In this young democracy, only 27 years old, the presidency has had a tumultuous history. In the last 15 years, only one elected president has finished out his term. In the last ten years, Ecuador has had eight presidents.