Full Coverage: South America

20.03.2008 Fair Trade flowers are the latest product in the United States to be certifiably produced under fair labor practices and rigorous environmental standards.

20.03.2008 An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as 'Neolithic', 'out-of-date' and 'filthy' is named as the most racist article in the mainstream media published in the last year. The award marks UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.

19.03.2008

14.03.2008 Daniel Wilkinson wades past the Caracas-Washington 'mudslinging' and invokes Venezuela's past experience with representative democracy -- "a disaster" -- to interpret the coexistence of Chávez's "authoritarian tendencies," enormous popularity, and "Bolivarian" movement.

10.03.2008

09.03.2008 The Transnational Institute condemns the International Narcotics Control Board's call on countries to "abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea".

07.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.

06.03.2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.

05.03.2008 Latin American social movements are struggling to maintain their vitality as the regional rise of the New Left brings them face to face with presidents and government functionaries who once formed part of their struggles, writes Marcela Valente.

05.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 5 (OneWorld) - People who earn their living by sorting through and reselling municipal waste have reasserted their role as garbage recyclers and productive members of the global economy at an unprecedented event here this week.

04.03.2008 With the help of Kusikuy -- a fair trade business importing hand-knit sweaters, scarves, and other garments made by artisans in South America -- Brattleboro, Vermont became the second Fair Trade Town in America.