Full Coverage: South America

29.09.2006 This year's Right Livelihood Awards demonstrate how individual courage, even in the face of powerful interests and repression, can bring about remarkable changes. Meet the winners.
From: Right Livelihood Awards

29.09.2006 from Red Pepper:
Perversely, an agreement designed to ameliorate climate change now adds to the burden local people face in the form of the new carbon market.

28.09.2006 Ce qui se passe actuellement en Bolivie est sans précédent dans l’histoire moderne : un gouvernement indigène a pris le pouvoir et tente - avec une certaine dose de succès jusqu’à maintenant - de mettre en place des politiques s’inspirant d’anciennes pratiques et valeurs indigènes.

28.09.2006 Many of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement are beginning to build a better world for their families, but seemingly around each corner lies a new problem to overcome--most stemming from the omnipresence of multinational corporations.

27.09.2006 Here in Brazil, the country is on the eve of the first round of elections at the state and national level. It is the fifth time since the end of the military dictatorship that Brazilians will vote for a president, state governors and representatives. The social movements struggled hard for this right to vote­has it made a difference for the Brazilian people?

27.09.2006 The campesinos of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST, for the Portuguese initials) dreamed for years of reclaiming their land, believing that it would solve all their problems... However, the reality would prove much more difficult, for surprises they had never imagined lay ahead.

21.09.2006 Interview with Father Antonio Bonanomi, a 72-year-old Italian Catholic missionary, who has lived in Colombia since 1979, and is a harsh critic of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.

21.09.2006 COMBAYO, Sep 20 (IPS) - The conflict that brought operations at Yanacocha, Latin America's largest gold mine, to a halt just a month after President Alan Garcia took office in Peru was merely the latest illustration of the tensions between mining companies and local communities in the northern province of Cajamarca.

20.09.2006 Que mundo é esse em que a juventude, eterna e inseparável cúmplice da vida, resolve escolher a morte em tenra idade? Que planeta construímos para as novas gerações se os jovens não querem mais viver e escolhem a morte quando têm toda uma vida pela frente?

16.09.2006 Argentina's spectacular December 2001 financial crisis and default have received much attention and media coverage, with many interpretations being offered for its causes and consequences.

15.09.2006 In the near future thousand welders and fitters will travel from Finland and other European countries to Uruguay to work at the construction site of Botnia’s pulp mill. The supply of Uruguayan labour needed for the high quality welding and fitting work demanded by a pulp process, is far too small, Marko Janhonen, the project’s communication and PR vice president, argues.

15.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 14 (OneWorld) - Diseases in Latin American prisons are so abundant that they are leaking out and threatening the health of the general population, said a host of international health experts and government officials meeting in Lima this week.

14.09.2006 Organizações da sociedade civil organizada no Estado do Ceará e cidadãos individualmente assinam um Manifesto de Repúdio ao Racismo. Este foi construído a partir da articulação de cerca de 30 organizações sociais anti-racistas, sejam dos movimentos negros ou não

14.09.2006 The Prime Minister of India and the Presidents of Brazil and South Africa underscored the importance of working together towards a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society and renewed their support for the results of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva and Tunis, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

06.09.2006 The results of Bolivia's elections sealed the right wing's defeat as a powerful political force while demonstrating just how well established the Movement toward Socialism (MAS, for the Spanish initials) has become.

06.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 5 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration has announced it may revoke trade preferences from three large South American countries in a move some experts believe is designed to pressure them to consent to free trade agreements with the United States.