Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

31.07.2006 A pending U.S.-Peru trade deal is worrying some analysts, who believe that the agreement will have a severe detrimental impact on the livelihood and health of poor Peruvians.

31.07.2006 Bolivian bloggers are commenting on government officials' attempts to secure the extension of an agreement in which their country receives preferential trading with the U.S. in exchange for efforts to eradicate drugs and drug trafficking.

27.07.2006 In February 2006, the aluminum manufacturing company Alcoa proposed to build a large aluminum smelter in the Chatham/Cap-de-Ville area of the southwestern peninsula, prompting criticism from the local residents and environmentalists.

26.07.2006 Reversing the process of deforestation--a feat rarely accomplished--has been achieved by a Costa Rican environmentalist, whose inventive policy of economic incentives for maintaining forests has decreased illegal logging at a rapid rate.

25.07.2006 The Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit publisher of books and educational materials that help people take the lead in their own health care and organize to improve health conditions in their communities. The manual is simply written and heavily illustrated and contains a wealth of life-saving information on diagnosing and treating a broad range of health problems.

24.07.2006 from Climate Change blog:
The Amazon is now entering its second year of drought, making it ripe for 'mega-fires'.

21.07.2006 La Secretaría Operativa de la CLOC CONO SUR informa a todas las organizaciones de la CLOC - VIA CAMPESINA, a la opinión publica nacional e internacional y al mismo tiempo condena y repudia otra sangrienta represión ocurrida esta mañana (19 de julio) a partir de las 10:30

21.07.2006 Disarmament activists want to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Many world leaders seem to want to pursue their own weapons programs while halting others'. Sarah Barr takes a look at the nuclear landscape confronting all of us today.

21.07.2006 Coming from Washington DC, where discussions about gentrification always abound, I was surprised to find a similar discourse hundreds of miles south on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.

18.07.2006 Justice cannot be done to the United States' complicated relationship with our island neighbor, Cuba, in a short article. It can, however, point out some of the difficulties in the relationship that highlight a policy that doesn't work and is inhumane to both Cubans and Americans.

18.07.2006 from Water Conserve:
As if melting glaciers weren't enough, a proposed gold mine at Pascua Lama, a remote Chilean valley, will destroy regional water supplies and devastate local sustainable agricultural practices. You can voice your concerns to President Bachelet (scroll down page).

18.07.2006 Killings of women in Guatemala have risen for the fourth consecutive year as the government fails to effectively investigate and punish those responsible, according to a report published today.

14.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 13 (OneWorld) - A judge in Spain has issued arrest warrants for eight former Guatemalan officials, including a former president, Efrain Rios Montt for crimes committed during what is known by many as the Guatemalan Genocide.

13.07.2006 Les agents douaniers de la capitale ont procédé le mardi 11 juillet 2006, à une saisie d’une douzaine d’armes à feu de calibre 9 mm et d’environ 500 cartouches dans un container au bord de mer de Port-au-Prince, apprend l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.

12.07.2006 Vanuatu, Colombia and Costa Rica top a new global measure of progress, the "Happy Planet Index", with Central America emerging as the best region, thanks to relatively good life expectancy, high life satisfaction and above-average ecological impact. Self appointed world leaders score badly, with UK coming 108th in the list, the US 150th and Russia 172nd. Zimbabwe ranks as unhappiest country.
* Happiness is...a tiny island in the Pacific

12.07.2006 Hundreds of impoverished Peruvian women and children die unnecessarily each year due to discriminatory reproductive, maternal and infant health care, says Amnesty International.

11.07.2006 NEW YORK, Jul 11 (IPS) - Consider the following statistics: at the beginning of the 20th century, the world population was less than two billion, but at the dawn of the 21st century, there were more than six billion people on earth.

11.07.2006 A expropriação das terras dos camponeses e o abandono da produção têm sido algumas das principais realidades apresentadas durante o I Fórum Social Caribe, que foi realizado até este domingo, 09, na Martinica.

11.07.2006 Dr. Juan Manuel Canales has spent 25 years assisting poor peasant and indigenous communities in El Salvador and Chiapas, on the Mexico-Guatemala border, to demand their right to healthcare. He's been given this year's Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.

07.07.2006 A full vote count is a minimum requirement for restored faith in the system, but considering the irregularities that took place before and during Mexico's elections Sunday, the country's polarized citizenry is unlikely to quietly accept the results they've been handed, says regional expert Laura Carlsen.