Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.11.2006 De toutes les villes d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince est le plus affecté par l’insalubrité puisque les immondices arrivent parfois à obstruer ses grandes artères, à embouteiller ses principales rues et à créer un environnement excessivement pollué et malsain pour ses 2 millions d’habitants.

30.11.2006 Executive Director of the World AIDS Campaign, Marcel van Soest speaks to UNAIDS about the history of the World AIDS Campaign, how people can become involved in this year’s events and why ‘accountability’ is such a crucial theme for World AIDS Day 2006.

29.11.2006 Farmers helping their brothers, so that they can help themselves to find solutions and not be dependent on the technician or on the bank. That is Campesino a Campesino.

28.11.2006 Au cours de l’été, le retrait momentané du président Fidel Castro de la vie politique active de son pays a relancé une fois de plus le débat sur l’avenir de la Révolution cubaine.

28.11.2006 À midi, la marche pacifique quittait l'université publique (Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca, IEEPO). Elle était appelée par l'Assemblée des peuples d'Oaxaca pour célébrer le 96e anniversaire de la Révolution mexicaine et avait comme objectif d'être un rendez-vous politico-culturel dans la ville.

28.11.2006 Dix ans après la fin de la guerre civile qui a ravagé le pays, le Guatemala n’est pas sorti de la violence. Il est vrai que les institutions elles-mêmes ont favorisé la culture d’impunité.

28.11.2006 Des élèves du Lycée Toussaint Louverture ont investi les rues de Port-au-Prince, ce 22 novembre 2006, pour exiger « la désoccupation du pays » par les militaires étrangers déployés dans le cadre de la Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (MINUSTAH).

28.11.2006 Lula foi reeleito presidente do Brasil com 58,29 milhões de votos. Dos 125 milhões de eleitores, numa população de 185 milhões de pessoas, 60,83% decidiram reconduzir à Presidência da República, por mais quatro anos, o líder sindical fundador do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

28.11.2006 O Selo Unicef é um reconhecimento aos municípios que obtiveram resultados positivos nos seus esforços de melhoria da qualidade de vida de crianças e adolescentes. A iniciativa é desenvolvida em parceria com os governo federal, estaduais, municipais e entidades da sociedade civil integrantes do pacto Um mundo para a criança e o adolescente do semi-árido brasileiro.

25.11.2006 SAN JOSE DE SECCE, Peru, Nov 24 (IPS) - Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.

24.11.2006 An interview with William I. Robinson professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches and writes on global capitalism, Latin America, social change, and democracy.

22.11.2006 Sem-terra organizam protestos e ocupações para exigir governo agilidade na reforma agrária e mudanças na política econômica.
Não se sabe se o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reeleito no dia 29 de outubro, irá cumprir as promessas de campanha no segundo mandato – como as de não reduzir direitos dos aposentados ou de priorizar os pobres.

22.11.2006 Access to treatment, care, and testing has greatly increased in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, where the HIV epidemic has been getting worse.

21.11.2006 The stage is already being set for the upcoming elections, as mainstream media in Venezuela constantly mention the possibility of fraud, and claims the elections are not transparent.

21.11.2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA

20.11.2006 Tuberculosis and chicken pox threaten the existence of Colombia's indigenous Nukak-Maku people, whose long term survival requires their return to home areas in the rainforest currently jeopardized by the country's drugs war.

19.11.2006 NAIROBI, Nov 18 (IPS) - International talks on climate change held at a conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, ended Friday without having established a solid timetable for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions after the Kyoto Protocol expires.

18.11.2006 MONTEVIDEO, Nov 18 (IPS) - Juan Maria Bordaberry, who staged the 1973 coup that ushered in a 12-year military dictatorship in Uruguay, is now in prison in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators who were living in exile in Argentina. His foreign minister, Juan Carlos Blanco, is also under arrest.

16.11.2006 Dominica is getting its first Intensive Care Unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital compliments of the Fidel Castro Administration. It comes at the same time that Cuba has provided scholarships to 85 Vincentians to pursue their BSc in nursing.

16.11.2006 El Salvador’s bloody 1980-1991 war left 2,393 disappeared, according to the country’s Truth Commission, established after the January 1992 Peace Accords between the Nationalist Republican Alliance government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).