Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.04.2006 MEXICO CITY, Apr 30 (IPS) - In video rental stores in Mexico, demand has been high these days for "A Day Without a Mexican", a movie that helped inspire the nationwide demonstrations and a boycott to be held May 1, International Labour Day, by immigrant groups in the United States.

28.04.2006 COPENHAGEN, Apr 28 (IPS) - Before anyone can clean up the earth and its atmosphere, an administrative clean-up might be necessary in the house of those tasked with the cleaning job, a leading environmentalist says.

28.04.2006 Mexicans have fought long and hard to bring democracy to their country. That's why the spectacle of the current presidential elections is particularly lamentable.

28.04.2006 Mebegokre Kayapó Indians have vowed to oppose the building of five dams along the Xingu River in Amazonia, which they fear will have a devastating impact on the environment and flood large parts of their land.

28.04.2006 Thirty-five countries from Canada to the tip of South America have chosen key diseases to focus on during this week's hemisphere-wide vaccination program.

28.04.2006 Despite South America's numerous geopolitical conflicts, the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela have decided to move forward with a gas pipeline that they hope will eventually include the rest of the continent.

27.04.2006 In Nicaragua, the US government continues to flex its muscles to achieve an electoral defeat of Daniel Ortega in the November presidential elections. Ortega, president during the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, is running for president for the fourth time since his first defeat in 1990.

27.04.2006 A new study has raised hopes of developing a vaccine against river blindness (onchocerciasis) — a major disease in west and central Africa as well as parts of Latin America.

27.04.2006 Children and adolescents in Colombia account for nearly half of those internally displaced by ongoing armed conflict. UNICEF claims it is nearly $2 million short of funding, greatly afflicting its humanitarian response to the crisis.

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25.04.2006 RECIFE, Brazil, Apr 25 (IPS) - Chile and France will begin in July to charge a special tax in airports which will go towards the purchase of medicines for poor countries afflicted by HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

25.04.2006 Todas as entidades que participaram durante os dias do II Fórum Social Brasileiro reuniram-se, na manhã de domingo, 23, na Plenária dos Movimentos Sociais, para apresentar suas propostas.

25.04.2006 A democratização da renda e da riqueza no campo no Brasil é uma exigência histórica não apenas para fazer frente à crescente desigualdade social, política e econômica no campo e na cidade como para destituir o poder das velhas e novas oligarquias rurais representadas tanto pelo latifúndio como pelo agronegócio burguês, e que impedem a redistribuição da riqueza e da renda rurais.

21.04.2006 A new Latin American initiative, the Network for the Disappeared, includes a website that aims to encourage the public to report cases of people trafficking.

20.04.2006 Brazil and Kenya will call for an international fund for research on "neglected diseases" at a World Health Organization meeting next month.

19.04.2006 As Brazil celebrates 'Indian Day' (19 April), Guarani Indians have warned that blood will flow if attempts are made to evict them from their land.

18.04.2006 Costa Rica, dubbed the "Switzerland of Central America" for its high living standards, is becoming less Swiss and more Central American every day, reports María Flórez-Estrada.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Costa Rica

17.04.2006 O ciclo eleitoral latino-americano, iniciado com as eleições de Evo Morales na Bolívia, de René Preval no Haiti e de Michele Bachelet no Chile, concluirá com a eleição argentina de abril de 2007.

17.04.2006 Haitian President-elect Rene Preval met Cuban President Fidel Castro late Thursday to discuss new ways for improving bilateral cooperation.

17.04.2006 Hina Jilani, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders, submitted on March 14 the preliminary report of her visit to Brazil which took place in December, 2005