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For Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, it’s both the best and worst of times.

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Identity politics in an Obama America? It's time for a change.

On 1-12 December 2008, the Polish city of Poznan will host crucial United Nations climate talks. The UN reported this week that greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries continue to rise, exposing their lack of ambition to seriously address the climate threat.

Venezuelans are ready to head to the polls in what will be the first test for President Hugo Chávez and his allies since a government-sponsored constitutional reform project was defeated by referendu

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Over
10,000 indigenous people from hundreds of Ecuador’s Northern Sierra
(highlands) communities gathered to present the native movement’s
proposed Water Law. Protesters chanted,...

Interview With Petrona Villasboa, Mother of Silvino Talavera

The situation has not changed much in Itapúa department, Paraguay, in spite of the national and international repercussion of the case of Silvino Talavera, a boy who died five years ago due to the impacts of agrotoxics used in Roundup Ready Soy.

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Five Members of Formosa Peasant Movement Still In Prison

Rodrigo González, member of the Formosa Peasant Movement (Mocafor) was arrested on Monday in Ingeniero Juárez, Formosa Province, Argentina. Sebastián Alonso, blamed by peasant families for the burning of one of their houses, and representative of businessman Jorge Bellsola Ferrer saw González and warned the provincial authorities.

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After more than 15 years since the end of El Salvador's civil war, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is poised to accomplish what its guerrilla predecessors never did: Take

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Este año Florida ejemplificó la combinación de movilización de base, y cambios demográficos, socioeconómicos y políticos que hicieron posible la elección del "candidato del cambio" y el primer presidente afro-americano en la historia de EEUU.

In Ecuador, thousands of indigenous, campesinos, Afro-descendants and environmentalists took to the streets on Monday, protesting the pending mining law...