Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.08.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (IPS) - Marking the International Day of the Disappeared, United Nations officials joined international human rights groups Wednesday to draw attention to the plight of the thousands of people around the world who have been seized and imprisoned without recourse to their families or lawyers.

30.08.2006 The Hotel Residencia Guaiqueri is among 100,000 cooperatives formed in Venezuela in the last two years that are the centerpiece of President Hugo Chavez's new socialist model to create jobs and redistribute this oil-rich country's wealth.

30.08.2006 Extreme weather has always been a problem for people in Latin America and the Caribbean, but climate change is set to turn an already rough ride into an impossible one, says a new report from unique coalition of development and environment groups.

30.08.2006 In a preliminary ruling Monday, Mexico's electoral court rejected Andrés López Obrador's claims that presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud. The ruling left little doubt that Felipe Calderón would be confirmed as the winner on the court's September 6th deadline.

30.08.2006 from Guardian Unlimited:
Glaciers throughout much of the Andes are melting much faster than expected. What will happen to large cities like Lima, Peru, which ultimately depends on meltwater for its water supplies?

29.08.2006 KYOTO, Aug 29 (IPS) - While delegates to the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) keep highlighting the value of religion in resolving conflicts, the discussions at the 8th assembly, underway here, are decidedly political.

29.08.2006 Une personne a été tuée, des maisons endommagées, des plantations ravagées et des têtes de bétail emportées : c’est le bilan provisoire dressé ce lundi 28 août 2006 par les autorités après le passage du cyclone Ernesto sur la république d’Haïti

29.08.2006 El candidato izquierdista a la presidencia, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, llamó hoy a sus seguidores a 'un gran debate nacional' para decidir, el próximo 16 de septiembre, si encabeza un gobierno en la resistencia.

29.08.2006 Uma nova onda de agressões afetou profissionais da imprensa em Oaxaca.

29.08.2006 Paramilitaries and police in Oaxaca have begun a violent campaign to shut down all media operations that are in opposition to governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. The closures are a move to silence the people's movement that has taken over the state, observers say.

29.08.2006 Until last week, the road going south from the Kanthale junction was mostly deserted. Most vehicles whizzed past the junction towards Trincomalee, some 50 kilometres East of Kanthale town. But now numerous vehicles are making their way on the otherwise desolate road that links Kanthale to Muthur.

28.08.2006 SAN JOSE, Aug 28 (IPS) - Weary of the snail's pace ratification process of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which continues to dominate Costa Rica's political and social agenda, some companies are weighing the idea of moving to other Central American countries should Congress reject the treaty.

25.08.2006 The U.S. government's announcement that it will review the possibility of limiting, suspending, or withdrawing trade preferences under the General System of Preferences (GSP) to three Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—is political pressure...

17.08.2006 Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10.

17.08.2006 With Brazil's elections looming October 1st, international relations professor Arthur Ituassu is calling on candidates to facilitate a meaningful dialogue on social violence, education, and the corruption that plagues the country.

17.08.2006 More than 8,000 Mexicans have organized sit-ins for the 17th straight day in the nation's capital, vowing to stay until left-wing candidate Andrés Lopez Obrador is declared president. While a partial recount has narrowed his lead, Felipe Calderon still holds a razor slim edge in the current tally.

14.08.2006

14.08.2006 UNICEF has announced that it will work to ensure free, timely, and universal birth registration by 2015 for millions of children who remain "largely invisible" in Latin America and the Caribbean.

11.08.2006 Les députés ont qualifié ce 10 août d’ « inacceptable » et d’ « intolérable » la situation de violence et d’insécurité accrue à la capitale, qui a fait au moins 85 morts par balles en juillet dernier.

10.08.2006 Like now, they ask me to write about Cuba, the situtation there, what's going on. And I say to myself, maybe I could use this space so those who usually don't read such stuff, "the other stuff", that's being written about what's happening in Cuba, might read it.