Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

29.09.2005 Activists from Botswana, Canada, Malaysia and Mexico have won this year's Right Livelihood Award - the "alternative Nobel Peace Prize".

27.09.2005

© North American Congress on Latin America

As talk of U.S. imperialism makes a mainstream comeback, the September/October issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas examines manifestations of “Empire” and related responses and strategies of “Dissent” that have emerged in Latin America, a region that many believe to be in the vanguard.

26.09.2005 Some 15,000 Guatemalans shut down the Inter-American Highway earlier this month, protesting the fact that they've been shut out of Congressional debate over water privatization. The Congress subsequently called off consideration of the new policies and pledged to involve all groups in the decision-making process.

23.09.2005 Resources to aid news reporting on disasters in the Caribbean have been revised. The “Disaster Information Kit for the Caribbean Media, 6th Edition”, provides background information on natural and man-made hazards to help reporters when covering disasters and hazards in the region.

22.09.2005 MEXICO CITY, Sep 21 (IPS) - Thousands of Latin American immigrants in the southeastern United States uprooted by Hurricane Katrina are now fleeing Hurricane Rita, while activists are demanding that the U.S. government provide them with special protection, because so many are hesitant to seek assistance out of fear of deportation.

21.09.2005 Anywhere from 75-200 Guantanamo Bay detainees have re-started a hunger strike over their continued detention and uncertain futures. Fifteen have been hospitalized, 13 are being fed through tubes, and the number of strikers is reportedly rising.

21.09.2005 The EU's plan to do away with preferential trade treatment for certain Caribbean products will devastate their economies. Instead of capitulating to the trade agenda of rich nations, the Caribbean should assert a more independent, regional deal with the Latin American left, says Steve Cupid Theodore.

16.09.2005 SANTIAGO, Sep 16 (IPS) - One of the few Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have already met or are well on their way to fulfilling refers to gender equality at all levels of education.

16.09.2005 Representatives from villages in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have traveled to New York this week to bear witness to the poverty and injustice that continues to mar their respective communities. ActionAid presents their testimony.

15.09.2005 The teachers and students of Peru have undertaken the initiative to mainstream gender equity in the teaching and learning process. In collaboration with Boston-based Concord Consortium and the Peruvian Ministry of Education's Huascarán Project, EDC conducted five core on-line and face-to-face trainings to support teachers in developing essential skills and a critical understanding about the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in fostering student-centered, project-based teaching and learning, with a focus on gender equity.

15.09.2005 Women are playing a major role in the revolutionary Argentine workers' initiative of taking over factories that have been abandoned by their owners, and in so doing, rescuing jobs and salaries that seemed to have been lost forever.

15.09.2005 The leniency with which Colombia plans to deal with paramilitaries has been widely condemned. Many are pointing to a new "Peace and Justice" law's weakness in securing peace or justice, but U.S. officials seem more concerned that it will fail to stop the drug trade, says NACLA's Sam Goffman.

15.09.2005 MONTEVIDEO, Sep 14 (IPS) - Fighting poverty requires, among other things, tools for measuring the phenomenon in all its complexity.

15.09.2005 Lutheran World Relief asks you to join communities, organizations, and churches supporting a new vision for peace in Colombia, in a day of reflection and advocacy Thursday.

14.09.2005 Although it is encouraging that Latin America is considering alternatives to fossil fuels, harnessing the continent's hydrologic potential is clearly a more sustainable option than nuclear power in environmental, social, and economic terms, says Americas Program.

13.09.2005 More than 500 people from around 35 different nations remain held without charge or fair trial at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Amnesty urges the US government to release all detainees, or grant them a full and fair trial.

09.09.2005 Off-duty police in Honduras and Guatemala have been killing suspected members of youth gangs, human rights groups report.

08.09.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Sep (IPS) - Three international rights organisations have joined forces to ensure that women's voices will be heard at the United Nations 2005 World Summit, scheduled to take place Sep. 14 to 16.

07.09.2005 Women's rights activists in Brazil say the Millennium Development Goals are narrower than the objectives adopted at international conferences in the 1990s.

07.09.2005 Are U.S. accusations that Hugo Chavez--who has twice been elected president in Venezuela by popular support--is 'undemocratic' linked to the fact that he is sitting on the biggest oil reserve outside the Middle East, while turning his back on America at the same time, asks Linda McQuaig.