Full Coverage: South America

20.02.2007 Cancellation of a Guyanese contract with a British water company - apparently for poor performance - underlines the point that privatisation is no solution to the global water crisis, a leading aid policy lobby group has warned.

12.02.2007 Every year on Valentine's Day, millions of Americans head to their local florist shop or supermarket to buy flowers for a friend, spouse, or family member. Few of us ever ask where all these flowers come from or who helped grow and pick them.
From: Monthly Review

11.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 10 (OneWorld) - Wary of the fast-deteriorating human rights conditions in Colombia, church leaders and aid groups in the United States are calling for the Bush administration to reconsider its current policy toward Bogota.

05.02.2007 Peruvian women, displaced by the country’s guerilla war, are succeeding amid the slums of Lima with the help of HandCrafting Justice and the markets it finds for their artisanal products.

01.02.2007 "This visit has been eye-opening," said U.S. Congressman Donald Payne upon his return from Colombia Monday. "I was moved by the stories I heard about the very real effects of the conflict on Colombia's people."