Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

31.10.2006 MEXICO CITY, Oct 30 (IPS) - The Mexican government justified on Monday the violent storming by federal police of social protests in the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca, saying it had restored peace and order. But the evidence tells a different story.

30.10.2006 Há exatamente quatro anos atrás comemorávamos – tantos de nós na Avenida Paulista, outros tantos pelo Brasil afora e para além daqui -, finalmente a vitória de Lula, a vitória do PT, a vitória da esquerda.

30.10.2006 After failing to win outright victory in the first round of voting, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected decisively Sunday, saying that after the elections "there are no adversaries; the adversary now is social injustice."

30.10.2006 Chile's president Michelle Bachelet has presented a comprehensive new initiative to promote national equality by ensuring access to early childhood education for all, providing subsidies to the poorest families, and more.
From: Chilean Government

30.10.2006 Brad Will was shot in the torso Friday while documenting a paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca. The Independent Media Center remembered Will as "part of this movement of independent journalists who go where the corporate media do not or stay long after they are gone."

28.10.2006 Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left's most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)

28.10.2006 After 35 rounds of voting with no clear winner, the United States is calling on Venezuela to give up its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat.

28.10.2006 Guy Delva has worked as a journalist for over 20 years in his native Haiti, for numerous radio stations, Le Nouvelliste newspaper, and as a correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency and the BBC World Service. He heads the Haitian Journalists’ Association and is a dedicated defender and promoter of journalists’ rights.

25.10.2006 O apoio dos movimentos sociais à reeleição do presidente Luis Inácio Lula da Silva se intensificam no país faltando poucos dias para a votação do segundo turno, dia 29 de outubro. Na última quinta-feira, 19, milhares de militantes foram às ruas em várias capitais para lançar e distribuir o manifesto "Com Lula, para derrotar a direita nas ruas e nas urnas".

25.10.2006 O curso tem como público-alvo pessoas vivendo com HIV, organizações da sociedade civil e conselheiros municipais de saúde da região, porém está aberto a todos os interessados.
Informações por meio do tel.: (0XX13) 3466-4007 (Hipupiara) ou 9723-9499 (Beto Volpe).

25.10.2006 Le Premier Ministre Jacques Édouard Alexis a condamné, ce mardi 24 octobre 2006, les récents propos en République Dominicaine d’une cadre des Nations Unies, Johanna Mendelson, qualifiant Haïti d’État en faillite.

25.10.2006 Desperate that he couldn’t find the resources for the Nukak to return to their land, the tribe's leader Mao-be has killed himself, reports a group that defends indigenous rights worldwide.

24.10.2006 There has been one issue, however, on which the Bush administration has worked diligently: a long and expensive effort to unseat democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

22.10.2006 An oil company exploring for oil in the Peruvian Amazon has announced that it will not enter the territory of an uncontacted Indian tribe, even though the land was inside its concession.

21.10.2006 October 2 marked another anniversary of the 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco Square, a former prehispanic marketplace in Mexico City. Students and others were gunned down by soldiers and government agents

21.10.2006 The application of Mayan law in indigenous communities in the northwestern department of Solola, has led to a heated debate on customary law — or usos y costumbres — meaning the institutions and practices of indigenous people, human rights and the official judicial system

17.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 17 (IPS) - The United Nations is responding positively to a call from peace activists and human rights organisations for a new international treaty to monitor the world's growing 1.1-trillion-dollar global arms trade.

16.10.2006 We know that the US did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the US had to back down, when he was restored quickly and also had to back down in the face of a very angry reaction in Latin American. In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here.

16.10.2006 Brazil's final round of voting on October 29 will determine "if we will be a country, a society, a nation--democratic and sovereign--or be reduced to a stock market, a shopping mall surrounded by poverty on all sides," says Brazilian academic Emir Sader.

16.10.2006 "We know that the U.S. did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the U.S. had to back down when he was restored quickly....In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here." Noam Chomsky responds to an audience member's question at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently.