Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.04.2008 The indigenous Ayoreo peoples of Bolivia and Paraguay are increasingly forced out of the wilderness by ecological destruction only to confront a new brand of isolation from their ancestral way of life.

29.04.2008 In the wake of World Malaria Day, an anti-pesticide advocacy organization discusses the danger of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease and promotes malaria prevention alternatives.

28.04.2008 Hundreds of Chileans have announced their intention to leave the Catholic Church following the Vatican's involvement in a local constitutional ruling to ban free contraception.

28.04.2008 For people living in underprivileged areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, surplus medical supplies from the United States, including vaccines and hospital beds, are saving lives -- and reducing the waste in North American landfills.
From: Global Links

27.04.2008 An unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor, argues John Pilger.
From New Statesman

24.04.2008 This week's closed-door meeting of leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States is likely to produce changes that "will favor narrow corporate interests over the public good," write trade analysts Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha.

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

22.04.2008 WASHINGTON, D.C., April 22 (OneWorld) - Paraguayans are celebrating the Sunday win of presidential opposition candidate and progressive former bishop Fernando Lugo.

21.04.2008 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest may be increasing suggest high-resolution satellite images released by the Brazilian government.

21.04.2008 In 2006 a group of Bolivians who had escaped slave labor in the Argentine fashion industry founded their own clothing co-operative.

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

18.04.2008 ASUNCION, Apr 17 (IPS) - An indigenous woman has an excellent chance of winning a seat in Congress for the first time in the history of Paraguay, in Sunday's general elections.

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15.04.2008 A "megaproject" to integrate infrastructure across South America will likely lead to "poverty, displacement, exposure to diseases, cultural erosion, physical threats, and violent conflicts" for indigenous people in the region, writes Zachary Hurwitz.

14.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.

11.04.2008 The recent economic downturn in the United States is causing a dramatic decrease in remittances -- the amount of money migrant workers send home to support their families.

10.04.2008 ASUNCION, Apr 10 (IPS) - For the first time in Paraguayan history, a woman is running for president in the elections on Apr. 20, as the candidate of the Colorado Party, which has governed this country continuously for 61 years.

10.04.2008 "Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.

09.04.2008 CARACAS, Apr 8 (IPS) - Trawl fishing is on its way out in Venezuela, amid demonstrations by artisanal fisherfolk who support the new law as amended by President Hugo Chavez.

04.04.2008 The proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Colombia will have a number of negative repercussions for the South American nation, such as worsening rural poverty, fueling armed conflict and drug trafficking, and exacerbating climate change, says Yifat Susskind.