Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'South America'
Women Miners Blast Through Barriers in Chile
by Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Chile - Women are playing an increasingly important role in Chile’s mining industry, where little more than a decade ago they were not even allowed in the mines because of prejudice and superstitions that they would...
Historic Mapuche Land Conflict Flares Up
by Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Italy - A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the “supine ignorance” displayed by...
Indigenous Leaders Demand to Be Heard
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - The fight to save the environment from predatory multinationals is currently one of the greatest causes of social unrest in Latin America....
The Brasilia Consensus, a Model for Latin America
by Estrella Gutiérrez, IPS, Italy - Following the extreme neoliberalism of the Washington Consensus, which gave rise to a lost decade in social terms, Latin America is experimenting more successfully with a home-grown formula: the Brasilia Consensus, which combines the...
Urban Agriculture Sprouts in Brazil’s Favelas
by Fabíola Ortiz, IPS, Italy - Organic agriculture is a growing trend in big cities around the world, including Latin America, and now the favelas of Brazil are no exception....
Steps Toward a Lasting Peace
by Susan Abad, Latin American Press, Peru - After more than 50 years of conflict and several failed negotiation attempts between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, President Juan Manuel Santos initiated a new...
Peru Identifies Civil War Victims – at Snail’s Pace
by Milagros Salazar, IPS, Italy - Of the 69,000 people killed during the 1980-2000 armed conflict in Peru, at least 16,000 were buried in secret unmarked graves. So far, only 2,064 of these bodies have been recovered, and just 50...
Peru's Great Transformation
by Stephanie Boyd, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Ollanta Humala's crackdown on anti-mining protesters has alienated many of those who voted for him....
Indignado Generation Finds Happiness Abroad
by Aleksandra Lipczak, Polityka, Poland - Thousands of young people, often educated, are leaving Portugal and Spain. Europe doesn’t need them while Africa and South America receive them with open arms....
In Support of Food Justice
by Elsa Chanduví Jaña, Latin American Press, Peru - “The food basket — corn, wheat — are in the hands of powerful countries. The management of land, production, and food marketing systems is not right, there is food injustice”....
Twitter and Latin American Presidents: Does It Make Them Closer to Us?
by Laura Schneider, Global Voices, The Netherlands - Five years ago it was unimaginable to think that the president of a country could be so close that one could know what he/she thinks, what he/she does or doesn't do, basically...
Indigenous Resistance is the New 'Terrorism'
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In Ecuador, protesting for the rights of the Earth and trying to preserve natural resources may make you a "terrorist"....
Colombian LGBT Community Faces Widespread Intolerance
by Susan Abad, Latin America Press, Peru - “Not only does intolerance, lack of respect for freedom, to live and let live, persist in society, but the police, government officials and state bodies are the ones who stand in the...
Chile: HidroAysén Dam Project Dividing Communities
by Susana Segovia, Tierramérica, Italy - In the heart of the southern Patagonia region, in the valleys of the Ñadis River, 45 kilometers south of the town of Cochrane, live 14 families who will have to be relocated because the...
Are Women's Rights on Obama's Agenda in Latin America?
by Luisa Cabal and Lilian Sepúlveda, RH Reality Check, USA - For all of President Barack Obama’s pledges that he stands for universal human rights, the fundamental rights of women are likely to be left off the table when he...
Bolivia: New Pension Law Lowers Retirement Age, Raises Expectations
by Emily Achtenberg, Indypendent, USA - Bolivia’s new pension plan defies current neoliberal orthodoxy in important respects—for example, by lowering the pension retirement age when at least 47 countries (including France, Japan, and even Cuba), have moved to increase it....
Any U.S. Attempt to Dictate to Latin America Would Set Back Democracy Movement
by Marjorie Cohn, McClatchy-Tribune, USA - Washington is becoming increasingly concerned that Iran is expanding its influence in Latin America. The question is should the Obama administration act swiftly to oppose these developments?...
Chile’s Reopened Torture File Logs 5,000 New Cases
by Alison Silveira, Santiago Times, Chile - Five-thousand new cases of political-motivated torture during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship have been reported since former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s administration reopened the torture report earlier this year....
An Epidemic of Violence
by Alissa Trotz, Starbroek News, Guyana - One would expect that with more laws and visibility, rates of violence would start going down, but tragically the relationship seems to be in the opposite direction....
Fighting to Save Glaciers as They Retreat
by Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service, Italy - Argentina's glaciers, along with Chile's the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects. A law...
Black Bolivians’ Voice in Music
by Sara Shahriari, Indian Country Today, USA - Living in pockets alongside, and increasingly mixing with, the Aymara and Quechua Indians who make up the majority of the country’s 10.5 million people is a small, often overlooked population. They are...
A Cemetery Full of Questions
by Constanza Vieira, IPS, Italy - The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure....
Youth Vote Critical in Upcoming Suriname Election
by Nina Jura, NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands - The South-American country Suriname will elect a new parliament next Tuesday. The youth vote is hotly contested in this young nation....
Locals and Indigenous Groups Combat Big Real Estate in Greater Buenos Aires
by Francesca Fiorentini, Upside Down World, Canada - "The poor man has to disappear. There is no more countryside. It’s all private neighborhoods. All private neighborhoods."...
As Glaciers Melt, Bolivia Fights for the Good Life
by Jessica Camille Aguirre, Yes!, USA - Bolivia is watching its glaciers melt, early casualties of a changing climate. As communities struggle to adapt and the government tries to pioneer an alternative way forward, rural Bolivians believe the answer lies...
CHILE: First Woman President Scores Points on Gender Front
by Daniela Estrada, IPS/TerraViva, Italy - When Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first woman president in 2005, thousands of women celebrated the historic victory as their own personal triumph, proudly marching in the streets wearing mock presidential sashes. Today,...
URUGUAY: New President Aims for Leap in Development
by Diana Cariboni, IPS, Italy - "I've been crying (tears of joy) since yesterday. It's amazing to see how an ordinary person made it so far," said 44-year-old María del Rosario Corbo, referring to Uruguay's new President José "Pepe" Mujica,...
Evo Morales and his Coca Vision
by Ruxandra Guidi, Americas Quarterly, USA - The Coca-Cola Company must not be happy about this: a new soft drink is hoping to someday make its way into the American market, and what's worse, it basically has the same name,...
Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - Touted as "harvested forests," single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say....
Peru: IACHR Calls for Justice for Victims of Forced Sterilisation
by Angel Páez, IPS, Italy - The Peruvian government is once again being called on to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Voluntary Surgical Contraception (VSC) programme...
Unique Species of Galápagos Islands Threatened by Mosquitoes
by Caroline Davies, Guardian, UK - Unique species on the Galápagos Islands are under threat from mosquitoes introduced by tourist planes and boats, according to research published today....
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