Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

27.12.2006 The wave of governments that identify themselves as leftist in Latin America and which have risen to power in the last few years represent neither a regional movement nor a homogeneous phenomenon, reports Mario Osava.

22.12.2006 Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections shows that the self-styled socialist has won over Venezuela's poor majority. But has he put the country on the slow road to autocracy? A pair of Latin America-based journalists get beyond the rhetoric to really examine Venezuela's politics and policies.

22.12.2006 The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South.

20.12.2006 Following the December 10 "megamarch" demanding the freeing of political prisoners and the departure of federal troops from the restive Mexican province of Oaxaca, groups supporting the protestors have declared Friday an international day of action.

19.12.2006 GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.

19.12.2006 RED POP, SciDev.Net, SOMEDICYT, CENAT, CIENTEC Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry for Science and Technology are holding the Science, communication and society workshop in San José, Costa Rica from 9 - 11 May 2007. The event will be held in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

18.12.2006 Entre as muitas denúncias, figuram, inclusive, casos de tortura e de abuso sexual cometidos contra mulheres e mulheres militantes e simpatizantes da APPO.

18.12.2006 A mídia hegemônica não se conforma com a surra levada na eleição presidencial e procura, a todo custo, impor o seu programa rejeitado nas urnas ao novo governo do presidente Lula. No que se refere à política externa, essa manobra é descarada.

15.12.2006 Leaders of Andean governments who thought that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would deepen the process of Andean integration turned out to be dead wrong.

15.12.2006 Com esse programa, o governo cubano quer devolver a visão a dez milhões de latino-americanos pobres. Em apenas dois anos e cinco meses, já foram atendidos mais de meio milhão de pessoas de 28 países do Terceiro Mundo.

15.12.2006 We salute this important historic moment which opens with the Summit of Cochabamba, which holds the challenge of deepening a process of regional integration which expresses the peoples’ interests.

15.12.2006 Militias formed by police, ex-police officers, firemen, prison workers, and military personnel have expelled drug traffickers from the west and northern areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

15.12.2006 Scientists at a conference in Brazil have announced dramatic new progress on vaccines that could help protect Latin American children against a disease that kills two children every hour.

13.12.2006 The state and city of Oaxaca in Mexico rose in protest in May against a governor seen as corrupt and repressive. The government later sent in troops to clear the city, but the struggles have broken out again.

13.12.2006 SANTIAGO, Dec 12 (IPS) - In Chile, transgenic seeds may only be planted to produce crops for export. However, imported transgenic foods can be eaten here.

12.12.2006 Je vous envoie cette lettre ainsi qu’au peuple du Costa Rica et aux parlementaires de votre pays. Je le fais en tant que frère latino-américain qui aime et comprend très bien ce cher peuple du Costa Rica comme si c’était le mien

12.12.2006 One of the 20th century's most brutal dictators died on Human Rights Day Sunday. Roger Burbach, an American who fled Chile after the 1973 coup, recounts the United States' involvement in Pinochet's ascendance.

11.12.2006 In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.

08.12.2006 On November 9th Roberto Requião, Governor of the state of Paraná, dealt a blow to agribusiness when he signed a decree to expropriate the experimental test site owned by the Swiss multinational corporation Syngenta, located in Santa Tereza do Oeste.

08.12.2006 While acknowledging that all of these irregularities occurred, the tribunal, astonishingly, did not consider them grounds to annul the election. The tribunal's decision is at the center of the country's current political crisis and democratic regression.