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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...

Video Interview: Edward Herman on Latin America & the US

Longtime activist and author Edward S. Herman was interviewed in Philadelphia on December 26, 2008. In this interview, Herman discusses...

United for Change in El Salvador: Video on 2009 Elections

Recent polls in El Salvador show that the leftist FMLN party is 14 points ahead over the right-wing presidential candidate...

Venezuela's ALBA in the face of the Global Economic Crisis

In response to the G20 Summit in Washington D.C. last month, Chavez established an equivalent, the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative of...

Haiti and the Danger of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

As an emerging lobby advocates for the institutionalization of a controversial doctrine of humanitarian imperialism, and a...

Canadian Company Threatens El Salvador with Free Trade Lawsuit Over Mining Project

A Canadian mining company intends to sue El Salvador's government for several hundred million dollars if it is not granted...

Finding Common Ground in Crisis: Social Movements in South America and the US

People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements....

Argentina: 50,000 March against Hunger

They were from trade unions, social movements, organizations of relatives of the “disappeared,” student groups, political groups, social workers and...

A Revolution Without Borders: Reappraising Bolivia’s Crisis

Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to...

Events Commemorate 40th Anniversary of Brazil’s ‘Coup Within the Coup D'etat’

The demonstrators dressed in brightly colored outfits sang their song of protest proudly, but it was really only symbolic. Shock...

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