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ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests

PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo

RIGHTS-PERU: No Justice for Indians in Amazon Massacre

BIODIVERSITY: The Amazon Is Not Eternal

BRAZIL: Development Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Reporters, Activists Demand State Protection

COLOMBIA: Magazine Closure Deals Major Blow to Investigative Reporting

COLOMBIA: Same Paramilitary Abuses; New Faces, New Names

COLOMBIA: Who Cares About the Victims of Forced Displacement?

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Soldiers Accused of Extrajudicial Killings Freed

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists

Accelerated Deforestation in Northeast

Forest Authority Powerless Against Fires

Movement of Toxic Waste Denounced

Festival to Promote Green Commerce

MEXICO: Music and Dance Classes Foster Tolerance, Self-Esteem
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Ten-year-old Jessica Algoneda leaps in the air, raising her arms and spinning around at her primary school in the Mexican capital, as if in honour of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and poetry.
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RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: 'Our Lives Are Cut Short at a Stroke'
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "This is a time of great tension because we know that at any moment, when we least expect it, our lives can be cut short at a stroke," Tito Gálvez, a leader in the Resistance Front for the Defence of Natural Resources and Rights of the Guatemalan Peoples (FRENA), told IPS.
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MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Mexican consumers are currently facing a combination of price rises, economic recession and lack of legal protection in the face of abuses committed by providers of goods and services.
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RIGHTS: Guatemala, El Salvador Ordered to Heed Rulings
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - Guatemala and El Salvador have a terrible record in terms of compliance with the recommendations and sentences handed down by the inter-American human rights bodies on cases involving appalling abuses like forced disappearance, torture and massacres committed during the armed conflicts in the two Central American countries.
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CHILE: Aftershocks Rock Inaugural Ceremony
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - While Chile's new rightwing President Sebastián Piñera, who announced that he would lead "a government of reconstruction," was being sworn in Thursday, the earthquake-ravaged country was shaken by major aftershocks.
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ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests
By Gonzalo Ortiz
QUITO - "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." The words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 1942 defeat of Germany's forces in Africa are an apt description of the situation between the government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).
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EDUCATION-URUGUAY: Gardens of Knowledge
By Silvana Silveira
MONTEVIDEO - "Nature is wise, and if we take the time to observe it, we can learn so much" is the underlying philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national Primary Education Board.
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LATIN AMERICA: Abortion - Still Illegal, Still Killing, Despite Growing Awareness
By Estrella Gutiérrez
CARACAS - Although most of the governments in Latin America today are described as progressive, abortion is only legal in one country, while in five countries it is banned under all circumstances, even when the mother's life is at risk.
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ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities
By Gonzalo Ortiz
QUITO - Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.
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PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
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RIGHTS-CUBA: Hunger Striker Refuses to Go into Exile
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The state news media in Cuba reported Monday on the case of dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days and refuses to go into exile in Spain.
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BRAZIL: Ambitious Development Plan to Cut Inequality
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil will be "radically less unequal" and less vulnerable to shocks from the outside when it celebrates 200 years of independence from Portugal, if the Strategic Affairs Secretariat's (SAE) plans for the next 12 years are put into practice, according to a high-ranking official.
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ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.
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RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: 'Our Lives Are Cut Short at a Stroke'

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By Hazel Henderson

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By Leonardo Padura

THE DECLINE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
By Ignacio Ramonet

TURKEY: DEEPENING DEMOCRACY OR NEW AUTHORITARIANISM?
By Ilter Turan

CHINA'S NEOCOLONIALISM
By Walden Bello

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