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Letter from Brazil

BRAZIL: Livelihoods Vs. Environment - Afro-Descendants Caught in the Middle

ENVIRONMENT: Indians Close Ranks Against Dams in the Amazon

SOUTH AMERICA: How to Atone for Beef's Sins

ENERGY: Green Standards Proposed for Biofuel Production

BRAZIL: Landowning-Military Front Against Indigenous Policy

COLOMBIA: Torture as a ‘Side Effect’ of Forced Disappearance, Killings

COLOMBIA: Hostage Rescue, According to Captured Guerrilla Leader

COLOMBIA: Did the Army 'Steal' FARC's Hostage Release?

COLOMBIA: Questions Surround Foreign Role in Hostage Rescue

COLOMBIA: The General Ingrid Hugged

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Internet Can Be a Dangerous Pharmacy

"Reproductive Rights Can Overcome the Conservative Wave"

Detox Bacteria Discovered

Free Refrigerator Replacement

Kids Sign Charter Against Global Warming

Climate Threatens Food Production

POLITICS-BOLIVIA: It’s All about the Gas Revenues
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - Revenues from Bolivia’s sales of natural gas, which have ballooned in the last few years, are now at the centre of the tense political polarisation threatening to tear the country apart and are a main motivation in the opposition’s attempt to undermine the leftwing government of Evo Morales.
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MEXICO: Putting a Price Tag on Destruction of Mangroves
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The destruction of the rich mangroves along the coasts of northwestern Mexico has had a heavy impact on fisheries in that area, according to a new study that attempts to put a price tag on these fragile ecosystems.
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BRAZIL: Livelihoods Vs. Environment - Afro-Descendants Caught in the Middle
By Mario Osava
REGISTRO, Brazil - "They won’t let us plant our crops," says Leonila Costa Pontes, referring to the laws that require an environmental permit for her to cultivate her small plot of land.
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MEXICO: Prostitution Rings Flourish at all Levels
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - "Diamond VIP" class prostitutes, who are mainly from Eastern Europe, Argentina, Brazil or Cuba, can charge as much as 2,000 dollars in Mexico, while sex workers from southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras earn a mere 15 dollars. The price indicates which mafia is handling the women.
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COLOMBIA: Torture as a ‘Side Effect’ of Forced Disappearance, Killings
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - The body of trade unionist Guillermo Rivera, who was missing since April, was finally found after 84 days of desperate searching by his family and friends.
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MIGRATION-BOLIVIA: European Dream Becomes a Nightmare
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - His deportation order from Spain in his pocket, Juan Mercado walks the streets of Madrid for the last time as he waits to board a plane to return to the western Bolivian city of Oruro, with little in the way of savings, but "with dignity," he says clearly and firmly.
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HEALTH-MEXICO: Internet Can Be a Dangerous Pharmacy
By Diego Cevallos*
MEXICO CITY - Mexico is drafting measures to regulate the sales of pharmaceuticals over the Internet: reforms have been announced for laws dating back to the 1980s, when the world wide web did not yet exist, and new monitoring systems are in the works to track the who, how and what of online sales.
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POLITICS-ARGENTINA: Cristina At A Crossroads
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Following a major parliamentary defeat, the Argentine government is pondering whether to accept the reversal and negotiate with farmers’ associations, or to pursue its export tax policy that these organisations have rejected. Experts say this would put government institutional stability at risk.
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Q&A: "Reproductive Rights Can Overcome the Conservative Wave"
Interview with Carmen Barroso, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation*
RIO DE JANEIRO - This year marks four decades of international recognition of people's right to decide how many children they want to have and when, and for that reason there is a great deal to celebrate, says Brazilian expert Carmen Barroso, of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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RIGHTS-PERU: Aprista Party Members Under Investigation for ’80s Crimes
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian justice system is to prosecute members of the governing American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA, or Aprista Party) for creating the Rodrigo Franco Commandos (CRF), a paramilitary unit alleged to have murdered five people during the first administration of current President Alan García (1985- 1990).
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AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Rival Rallies Disagree On More Than Taxes
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Two major rallies took place in the Argentine capital, one for supporters of the government’s decision to increase the export tax on oilseeds, and the other for those in favour of farming associations, which have been opposing the tax measure for four months.
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COLOMBIA: Hostage Rescue, According to Captured Guerrilla Leader
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - "Occupation: Guerrilla. Address: Colombian mountains. Distinguishing marks: Combat scars." That is how Gerardo Aguilar, alias "César" and Alexander Farfán, "Enrique Gafas," answered questions on forms for their extradition to the United States.
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OIL-CARIBBEAN: Petrocaribe Building ‘Anti-Crisis, Anti-Hunger Shield’
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Seventeen countries in Central America and the Caribbean are to make down payments of only 40 percent on Venezuelan oil, while cooperating to expand their food supply, and calling on the North to take measures to curb speculation on futures markets, which is resulting in surging crude prices.
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ESPANHA: A ETA à beira do abismo

PALESTINA: Bloqueios levam ao desmoronamento

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