06/01/2006 - IPS - "The Zapatistas have raised doubts in my mind, and now I don’t know what to believe, or what to do," says Hanna Molina, a Mexican student originally planning to vote in July for Andrés López Obrador, whose triumph would make Mexico part of the wave of leftist and centre-left governments in Latin America.
The indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), a respected force in the region’s leftist and anti-globalisation movements, argues that López Obrador does not (…)
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MEXICO - EZLN Takes Aim at Leftist Candidate (Diego Cevallos, IPS)
10 January 2006, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
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LATIN AMERICA - Remittances Rescue Millions from Poverty (Diego Cevallos, IPS)
20 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
MEXICO CITY, Nov 25 (IPS) - The money sent home by migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to 45 billion dollars last year, double the total from 10 years ago. Thanks to these remittances, an estimated 2.5 million people in the region have been able to escape poverty.
Although remittances do little to reduce poverty for the population at large, the impact is huge for those who directly receive the money from abroad. At least half of the people in households with ties to (…) -
MEXICO - Publicación de Informe sobre Feminicidio previsto para enero 2006: derechos humanos de las mujeres violados sistemáticamente (Guadalupe Vallejo Mora, Cimacnoticias)
16 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
12/06/2005 - Cimacnoticias- La diputada del PRD Marcela Lagarde recordó esta mañana que los derechos humanos deben ser vistos de manera integral, porque no son indivisibles y que, en el caso de las mujeres, se les ha negado su derecho a la vida en primera persona, toda vez que le es violentado de manera sistemática por el Estado al no garantizarle la seguridad necesaria.
Asimismo, anunció que será durante la primera quincena de enero cuando la Comisión Especial de Seguimiento a los (…) -
CHILE - Human Rights Conspicuously Absent in Presidential Race (María Cecilia Espinosa, IPS)
14 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
SANTIAGO, Dec 9 (IPS) - The absence of human rights issues in the campaign for Sunday’s presidential elections in Chile is an "alarming" sign of the candidates’ priorities, according to the executive director of the local chapter of Amnesty International, Sergio Laurenti.
The term of socialist President Ricardo Lagos, which ends Mar. 11, has been marked by a favourable environment for bringing to justice the perpetrators of crimes against humanity committed during the 1973-1990 (…) -
CARIBBEAN - Caribbean Embraces Cuba, Chastises U.S. (Peter Richards, IPS)
14 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
12/09/2005 (IPS) - The summit was the second in three years, and for Cuban President Fidel Castro, dressed in a business suit rather than his usual olive fatigues, it was the ideal opportunity to salute the Caribbean Community for its "unflinching" opposition to the decades-old United States trade embargo against the only Communist state in this hemisphere.
In a 13-minute speech to the joint Cuba-CARICOM Summit in Barbados Thursday, Castro praised the 33-year-old diplomatic ties between (…) -
CHILE - Winning Candidates Back on the Campaign Trail (Gustavo González, IPS)
14 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
SANTIAGO, Dec 12 (IPS) - Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera, the candidates who captured the most votes in Sunday’s presidential elections in Chile, immediately launched their campaigns for the Jan. 15 runoff, in which both will strive to capture votes from the centre, lower-income sectors, and women.
Bachelet, the candidate of the centre-left coalition that has governed Chile since the end of the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, won the first round of voting with 45.85 (…) -
COLOMBIA - Human Rights Day: Peace Initiatives Abound in Conflict-Torn Colombia, Despite Risks (Constanza Vieira, IPS)
14 December 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
BOGOTA, 12/09/2005 - (IPS) - A new book released in civil war-torn Colombia ahead of International Human Rights Day, celebrated Dec. 10, contains hundreds of pages of peace initiatives set forth since 1992 by a broad range of local and international civil society groups as well as the Red Cross, the Catholic Church and United Nations agencies.
"Humanitarian Demands by the Civilian Population" was published in Bogota as part of the "Humanitarian Accords and Commitments Now" campaign (…) -
PERU - Fujimori Family Secret Bank Accounts Uncovered (Ángel Páez, IPS)
8 December 2005, by Dial
Anti-corruption authorities in Peru have discovered numerous secret bank accounts holding up to 4.5 million dollars in the names of former Peruvian ambassador to Japan Víctor Aritomi and his wife Rosa Fujimori, former president Alberto Fujimori’s sister.
LIMA, Dec 2 (IPS) - "These are definite leads towards tracking down the ill-gotten money believed to be in the possession of Fujimori and his family," said Walter Hoflich, the financial intelligence expert heading up the investigation of (…) -
LATIN AMERICA - The Threat of Hope (Naomi Klein, ALAI)
30 November 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
25-11-07 - ALAI- When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas, strangers asking questions about you is never a good thing.
The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which leads a political movement that is autonomous from all those armed forces, held an emergency (…) -
AMERICAS - Bush versus Chavez, The Imperial President and the Bolivarian Democrat (Roger Burbach, ALAI)
30 November 2005, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
2005-11-07 - ALAI - Bush’s woes just keep piling up on him. The summit of hemispheric leaders he attended in Argentina was a total embarrassment, revealing the emperor has no clothes. Bush did manage to avoid shaking hands with his main adversary at the summit, Hugo Chavez. But the president of Venezuela stole the show, drawing 35,000 to hear him speak at a packed stadium. In Bush’s only comment on the massive demonstrations against his stay in Argentina, he lamely joked with the country’s (…)