Full Coverage: South America

22.11.2005 A coalition of NGOs has created a platform aimed at replacing the old model of what it means for a corporation to be socially responsible with a new business culture based on universal ethical values.

18.11.2005 With restless populations searching for better government and fairer societies, the political elites and the status quo in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador could be challenged during the 2005-2006 election season.

17.11.2005 The proliferation of cybercafés in Bolivia's largest cities, offering Internet access at relatively modest rates, contrasts sharply with the slow advance of this technology in rural areas, which depends on sporadic initiatives headed up by the private sector or civil society.

12.11.2005 SANTIAGO, Nov 11 (IPS) - Environmentalists and the police clashed violently Friday in the centre of the Chilean capital when activists presented the government with a petition containing 18,000 signatures to protest a planned mining project on the Argentine border which could destroy three glaciers in the Andes mountains.

09.11.2005 Brazil and Mozambique are an ocean apart, but they share a common language and they face many of the same challenges, as young activists discovered at a recent exchange designed to improve advocacy strategies on sexual and reproductive rights.

09.11.2005 Alberto Fujimori, Peru's ex-president who has been living in exile in Japan since 2000, will face an extradition trial in the coming days after returning to South America to allegedly plan a return to Peru. Fujimori faces 21 charges in his home country--including authorizing a death squad--but has nonetheless expressed a desire to re-enter the political arena.

08.11.2005 The Nasa people in Colombia demonstrate that a different path is possible: non-violence in a country enduring civil war, alternative institutions where the government is mistrusted, and resistence to the international paradigm of free trade.

03.11.2005 After a year and a half of fighting against clearcutting for soy plantations, Argentinean celebrities--including soccer star Diego Maradona--and Greenpeace convinced the government to re-establish the Pizarro Reserve, protecting wildlife and the livlihoods of the indigenous Wichi people.

02.11.2005 A Brazilian fair trade fruit purchaser and a Ugandan company that manufactures educational games and toys are among those chosen to receive $5,000 Changemakers awards for the best market-based strategies to benefit low-income communities.

02.11.2005 LIMA, Nov 2 (IPS) - "Pirana", a former Peruvian army sergeant who fought the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoist guerrillas in the jungles of Peru in the 1990s, decided at the last minute not to travel to Iraq with around 200 former members of the military and police recruited by the U.S.-based private security firm Triple Canopy.