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BRAZIL: Water Abounds in Amazon, But Sanitation Is Scarce

BRAZIL: Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon

Slack Oversight of Peru's Amazon Rainforest

BRAZIL: Electricity Trumps Biodiversity for Xingú River

PERU: 'Don't Minimise' Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill

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Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People

Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water

New Technique for Reducing Dumps

University Forest Expropriated

Indigenous Groups Denounce Logging in Protected Areas

COLOMBIA
US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a new administration takes over in Bogotá, some groups are hoping for change in the human rights record of Colombia - and that the U.S. will use its clout in the country to ensure that change occurs.
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PERU
Quechua Congresswoman Fights Discrimination in Education
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Hilaria Supa has broken down many barriers in her life. Now she has overcome another one, in an unprecedented achievement: this Quechua indigenous woman who never went to school is today chair of the congressional education committee in Peru.
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Mexico Massacre Galvanises Migrant Rights Activists
By Emilio Godoy *
MEXICO CITY - Activists in Latin America have been galvanised by atrocities like the recent massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border to step up their efforts on behalf of migrant rights.
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VENEZUELA
Hunger Striker Dies in Land Dispute
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Franklin Brito, who held several long hunger strikes since 2004 to defend ownership of his farm, became the first Venezuelan to fast to the death.
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MINING-CHILE
Make Good on Concern for Worker Safety, Say Unions
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - While efforts get underway to try to rescue the 33 miners who are trapped 700 metres underground in a mine in northern Chile, trade unions are calling on the country's political leaders to tackle the underlying problems of worker safety.
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SOUTH AMERICA
Argentine Beef Overtaken by Mercosur Partners
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - South America's Mercosur trade bloc is becoming established as the top world producer of beef, with 40 percent of the international market. But while in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay production and exports are growing, Argentina, the home of the legendary "asado" barbecue, is falling behind.
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SPAIN
Puppet Marathon for Building School in Bolivia
By Tito Drago
MADRID - The 17th Titirilandia (Puppetland) Festival will conclude with a marathon puppet show, to be held Sunday Aug. 29 in Spain's capital city in aid of a school in the remote Bolivian mining province of Potosí.
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CHILE
Coal Plants Under Fire
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Controversial plans to build the Barrancones thermoelectric plant near a protected area in the northern Chilean region of Coquimbo were cancelled Friday, but not before reviving the debate on other projects for polluting coal-fired power stations.
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LATIN AMERICA
Wanted: Non-Punitive Approach to Drug Policy
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Experts from 13 Latin American countries called for a shift in counter-drug policies from a punitive to a public health-based approach for users, in order to reduce drug-related violence, on the argument that the current "war on drugs" has been lost in the region.
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GUATEMALA
New Challenges for Anti-Corruption Commission
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - New challenges and a long list of shocking cases involving hidden power structures are faced by the new head of the United Nations-mandated International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
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MEXICO
Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin their families.
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VENEZUELA
Opposition Hopes to Make a Comeback

By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The campaign for Venezuela's Sept. 26 legislative elections is officially on, and the opposition, which boycotted the last vote five years ago, is back in the running, hoping to win enough seats to act as a counterweight to President Hugo Chávez.
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CORRUPTION-PERU
Gov't Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption.
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NICARAGUA
Major Blow to Illiteracy Among Native Groups
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - For 46 years, Nicanor García didn't know that his first name was seven letters long and that the first letter was also the start of the names of his country, Nicaragua, and his father, Norberto. He found out just eight months ago, when he finally learned how to read and write.
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CHILE
Forestry Industry Sows Poverty, Study Says
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The poverty rate in the districts of southern Chile where the logging industry is the main economic activity is nearly twice the national average, a new study shows.
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By Jose Mujica*

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