Full Coverage: South America

30.03.2006 Over 20,000 people from all over the world have joined the international campaign to ensure that the case against former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori - currently detained in Chile - is resolved promptly, it was announced at a public meeting today.

29.03.2006 Le CAPMA, Collectif pour l'Autonomie du peuple Mapuche (capmamtl@riseup.net), veut informer qu'actuellement 13 prisonnierEs politiques MAPUCHE sont incarcérées en permanence dans différentes prisons du Chili, accuséEs injustement par différentes lois, principalement par la loi anti-terroriste (18.314), une loi au service de l’oppression et de répression de l'État chilien.

29.03.2006 Roadblocks on the international bridges connecting Argentina and Uruguay, carried out by the Argentine environmental movement to protest the construction of two large cellulose factories, demonstrates the social limitations of the neoliberal model and is jeopardizing the regional alliance between two governments that possess, fundamentally, the same political and ideological orientations.

28.03.2006 O movimento internacional de camponeses A Via Campesina comemora a decisão tomada hoje, 24 março, pelo grupo de trabalho da Convenção em Biodiversidade na COP-8 (8ª Conferência das Partes da Convenção de Diversidade Biológica), em Curitiba, Brasil, que manteve e fortaleceu a moratória de fato para a tecnologia Terminator.

25.03.2006 WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - Two days after the coup d'etat that brought a brutal military junta to power in Argentina, then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered his subordinates to "encourage" the new regime by providing financial support, according to a previously classified transcript released here by the independent National Security Archive (NSA).

24.03.2006 The governor of Brazil's Parana state vows to keep his state GM-free, in defiance of the federal government’s positive stance towards GM farming.

24.03.2006 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered US support for Argentina's military regime immediately after its coup, newly-declassified documents from the National Security Archive show.

23.03.2006 A land-grabber who has destroyed swathes of Amazon forest and a Swiss multinational illegally growing genetically engineered crops near a protected nature reserve - both targeted by Greenpeace - now face action by the Brazilian government for environmental crimes.

22.03.2006 Indigenous farmers in Peru - birthplace of the potato - have pleaded with agribusiness Syngenta International to abandon its patent on "terminator" technology which they say could endanger more than 3,000 potato varieties in the region and undermine efforts to reduce poverty.

16.03.2006 That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response to a sarcastic comment about an anti-war meeting of the 2006 World Social Forum taking place in an Air Force base.

15.03.2006 CARACAS, Mar 14 (OneWorld) - The war against coca--the plant used to make cocaine--has become a defining issue for U.S. policy in South America, yet many Americans know little about the plant their country is fighting.

13.03.2006 No mundo inteiro as mulheres sofrem ainda sob o efeito do sistema patriarcal. Este não apenas as marginalizou senão criou também um tipo de sociedade e de cultura no qual elas ou são subalternizadas ou feitas invisíveis.

09.03.2006 Brazil will contribute $20 million over 20 years to the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced today.

08.03.2006 Venezuela's national IT institute CNTI expects to migrate 100% of its community IT centers (Infocenters) to open source software platforms before year-end, CNTI president Jorge Berrizbeitia told BNamericas.

07.03.2006 The Brazilian president is in the UK on a state visit. So take the opportunity to tell him to end the destruction in the Amazon rainforest, says Greenpeace.

07.03.2006 For years, we at Brazil Justice Net (Sejup) have been following the case of the massacre at Carandiru. We are most unhappy to report that yet another injustice has been committed concerning the case.

07.03.2006 On the eve of a crisis trade summit in London, Brazil's President Lula da Silva was urged today to resist wealthy nations' pressure to agree a trade deal that would threaten the livelihoods of millions of the world's poorest people.

06.03.2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 6 (IPS) - The second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD), taking place this week in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, will be dusting off long-buried issues. The first edition took place 27 years ago in Rome.

06.03.2006 A divulgação da medíocre evolução do PIB, porém, deve causar novos estragos na imagem do governo e a dar novo fôlego à direita revanchista. Na prática, a economia cresceu menos da metade dos 4,9% de 2004 e ficou bem abaixo das médias estimadas para a América Latina, de 4,3% - superando apenas o Haiti, a Jamaica e a Guiana.

02.03.2006 The efficacy of affirmative action is under scrutiny in Brazil as the country's Congress considers a new quota system that would reserve a large portion of university spots for Afro-Brazilian and indigenous students.