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Prague Without Spring
The European Union priorities with Czech Republic as President
Since January 1st, 2009, Czech Republic holds the presidency of the European Union (EU). This country joined the bloc almost five years ago, and it is generally considered as "Eurosceptic". The main lines of action of the EU point out a strong bet on economic liberalism and agressive energy and labour policies, to the detriment of the global south.
Constitutionalizing the Countryside
The "National Movement in Defense of Land" from Uruguay is aiming at modifying the National Constitution in order to avoid land foreignization.
The soy boom, which reached 650 thousand hectares this season -exceeding last year´s area planted with soy of 150 thousand hectares and the forested area for the cellulose industry, has encouraged the buying of lands in Uruguay by agribusiness companies.
El Salvador: Community Fights Private Waste Dump Construction
Salvadoran Supreme Court agrees to hear environmental damage claims after bribery and heavy police violence fail to fracture opposition to...
Human Rights Watch Responds to Criticism of Venezuela Report
In December, NACLA published an open letter signed by over 100 experts on Latin America that criticized Human Rights Watch's recent report on V
Operation Disrupt Democracy in El Salvador
International observers have denounced recent activities of the U.S.
La comunicación indígena en un mundo globalizado: Las estrategias del FIOB en sus luchas en México y EEUU
Los pueblos indígenas migrantes de comunidades aisladas en las montañas más remotas de Oaxaca han utilizado los medios de comunicación a su alcance para velar por la defensa de sus derechos humanos económicos y políticos.
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner tells it like it is
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner attends the opening session of a summit of leaders from Latin American and Caribbean nations, in the Costa do Sauipe resort December 16, 2008.
It Needs To End
Brazil: Genocide of Kaiowa Guarani people
Approximately a hundred indigenous Kaiowa Guarani people die every year in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, as a consequence of the “hunger” of agribusiness and monoculture plantations. This would have to be added to the lack of efficiency of the federal government when it comes to delimiting indigenous lands and the criminalization of their protests, stated Via Campesina in a recent communique.
Free Trade in Blood and Fire
Brussels keeps trying to set up a free trade agreement and ends a year of strong pressures.
The EU insists on setting up an FTA with Peru and Colombia in the framework of the Andean Community of Nations, in spite of Bolivia and Ecuador´s opposition.
Brussels doesn´t rest... or as a saying from the Soviet era goes “Brussels doesn´t believe in tears”. The European bloc has restarted its campaign to sign a Global Agreement of Free Trade Agreement with Peru and Colombia, despite the fact that these negotiations have resulted in a division in the Andean Community of Nations (CAN).
VENEZUELA: The Cost of the World’s Cheapest Gasoline
By Humberto Márquez
Inter Press Service
December 29, 2008
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