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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.

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).

A glimpse of the Argentinian Federation of Agronomy Students´ work

From Cordoba, the Argentinian Federation of Agronomy Students (FAEA) is working with a wide range of social and political organizations, with the aim of changing the agribusiness paradigm in the framework of scientific knowledge related to agronomy.

Uruguay: Workers of GreenFrozen Evicted
After twenty days of occupation, a legal ruling forced the workers of the frozen food company Greenfrozen (formerly Calagua) to lift their protest measure. The company is based in Bella Union, Uruguay.
Greenfrozen Workers’ Union (SOG) legal advisors will appeal the ruling today. Bella Union’s judge, Luis Sobot, ordered the eviction of the factory in the next 48 hours in response to three amparo appeals filed before his court.

Uruguay: Representatives Vote Eight Hour Bill for Rural Workers

There is reason to celebrate. The National Rural Workers’ Union (Unatra) will mobilize today to celebrate their greatest victory, after the House of Representatives changed its mind and will pass the 8-hour bill for rural workers today.
The Senate agreed with the criticism made by different social actors to the bill written by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and included the requested amendments.

Colombian Army Killed Husband of Top Leader of Cauca Regional Indigenous Council

The car of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) was shot 17 times in Tororo rural area. Fortunately at the time the native leader Aida Quilcue was not inside the vehicle. She would always travel in that van. But her husband, Edwin Legarda, who was in the vehicle, was shot three times to death.

Cargill Port in Asuncion Poses Real Threat, environmentalists say

The health of 1.2 million residents of Asuncion is in serious risk as a result of the operations of transnational corporation Cargill, on the Paraguay river, nearly 500 meters from the main water source of Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios del Paraguay (ESSAP).

Land reclamation in northern Argentina

Alongside the national route 34, towards the north of the city of San Pedro in the province of Jujuy, a Guarani community took back land lost 150 years ago to the hands of the sugar estates of the region; land which they are now looking to cultivate.

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The Canadian transnational mining corporation Barrick Gold suspended its operations in North Mara gold mine, in Tanzania, after 400 people confronted the security staff and assaulted the place, causing damages worth 15 million dollars.

According to the mining corporation’s spokesperson in Tanzania, the incidents took place on Thursday, when the crowd entered in the open pit gold deposit Nyabirama.

According to the Tanzanian Daily News, there were shootings of civilians in response. Democracy Now reported one person was killed by a bullet.

Paraguayan Peasants Mobilize Against Landowners’ Strike

The demonstrations of the rural landowners, which are quite frequent in South America, do not reflect the interests of the “rural sector”.

This is the general term used by the business people of the sector, who are oblivious of the most urgent needs and the negative impacts of the rural area.

In Paraguay, for example, the peasant organizations are criticizing the “tracotrazo” (strike) called by the agriculture and livestock producers, which ends tonight in the country’s capital, Asuncion.