Full Coverage: South America

30.10.2006 Há exatamente quatro anos atrás comemorávamos – tantos de nós na Avenida Paulista, outros tantos pelo Brasil afora e para além daqui -, finalmente a vitória de Lula, a vitória do PT, a vitória da esquerda.

30.10.2006 After failing to win outright victory in the first round of voting, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected decisively Sunday, saying that after the elections "there are no adversaries; the adversary now is social injustice."

30.10.2006 Chile's president Michelle Bachelet has presented a comprehensive new initiative to promote national equality by ensuring access to early childhood education for all, providing subsidies to the poorest families, and more.
From: Chilean Government

28.10.2006 After 35 rounds of voting with no clear winner, the United States is calling on Venezuela to give up its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat.

25.10.2006 O apoio dos movimentos sociais à reeleição do presidente Luis Inácio Lula da Silva se intensificam no país faltando poucos dias para a votação do segundo turno, dia 29 de outubro. Na última quinta-feira, 19, milhares de militantes foram às ruas em várias capitais para lançar e distribuir o manifesto "Com Lula, para derrotar a direita nas ruas e nas urnas".

25.10.2006 O curso tem como público-alvo pessoas vivendo com HIV, organizações da sociedade civil e conselheiros municipais de saúde da região, porém está aberto a todos os interessados.
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25.10.2006 Desperate that he couldn’t find the resources for the Nukak to return to their land, the tribe's leader Mao-be has killed himself, reports a group that defends indigenous rights worldwide.

24.10.2006 There has been one issue, however, on which the Bush administration has worked diligently: a long and expensive effort to unseat democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

22.10.2006 An oil company exploring for oil in the Peruvian Amazon has announced that it will not enter the territory of an uncontacted Indian tribe, even though the land was inside its concession.

16.10.2006 We know that the US did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the US had to back down, when he was restored quickly and also had to back down in the face of a very angry reaction in Latin American. In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here.

16.10.2006 Brazil's final round of voting on October 29 will determine "if we will be a country, a society, a nation--democratic and sovereign--or be reduced to a stock market, a shopping mall surrounded by poverty on all sides," says Brazilian academic Emir Sader.

16.10.2006 "We know that the U.S. did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the U.S. had to back down when he was restored quickly....In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here." Noam Chomsky responds to an audience member's question at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently.

13.10.2006 Les élections présidentielles qui se tiendront au Venezuela, le 3 décembre prochain, seront précédées d’une intensification des attaques de la presse « indépendante » contre le président du Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, et contre la révolution vénézuélienne.

13.10.2006 Argentines are searching for a missing 77-year-old witness whose gripping testimony of torture helped convict a former police officer of crimes committed during Argentina's military dictatorship.

13.10.2006 Interview with lawyer Jaime Madariaga de la Barra.
In the mid-1990s, members of southern Chile’s Mapuche community began a process of recovering their ancestral lands by occupying lots — mainly owned by lumber companies — to convert them into farmlands.

06.10.2006 Despite the difficulties of the U.S. Congress to pass Free Trade Agreements (FTA) due to the November congressional elections, the Bush administration remains firm in its strategy to push them in Latin America.

05.10.2006 The campesinos of Putumayo, in southern Colombia, have endured what truly cannot be described just as numerous hardships.

05.10.2006 A última semana de campanha política tem pouco de bom a oferecer. No desespero de convencer os eleitores, vale tudo. O tiroteio se generaliza. Para se defender, todos passam a atacar, e já não se distingue a mentira da verdade, os fatos da fantasia

05.10.2006 Huli Zang is part of one of the 376 families that make up the Filhos de Sepé (Sons of Sepé) settlement, a 6,000-hectare (23-square mile) municipality in Viamao, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Porto Alegre, the capital of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. T

03.10.2006 As U.S. population passes the 300 million mark, the Amazon rainforest is in its second year of severe drought, which could have disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The Population Media Center outlines how these issues are related, and what it's doing to help solve the problem.