Full Coverage: South America

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 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?

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.

10.08.2006 Acabo de ter o privilégio de participar num desses acontecimentos. Teve lugar entre 15 e 17 de Julho na cidade de Cusco, Peru, antiga capital do Império Inca, o umbigo do mundo, como lhe chamavam os Incas, a 3500 metros de altitude na Cordilheira dos Andes. Tratou-se do congresso fundacional da Coordenadora Andina das Organizações Indígenas do Peru, Equador, Bolívia, Chile, Colômbia e Argentina.

07.08.2006 A Associação de Líderes de Aldeas Indígenas de Suriname, Stichting Sanomara Esa, a Associação de Autoridades dos Saramaka e o Programa Forest Peoples apresentaram quatro relatórios conjuntos para o Comitê de Eliminação da Discriminação Racial nas Nações Unidas (Comitê CERD).

04.08.2006 The Pentagon seems to have understood the risks posed to the continuity of United States dominance by social movements in Latin America. The option of militarizing societies serves two aims : it guarantees control of natural resources and protects governments so as to block social movements' progress.

01.08.2006 It's still early days, but the economy--which many detractors said would be his downfall--has been strong over the first six months of Evo Morales' presidency, with production and exports up and poverty down.