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BIODIVERSITY: The Amazon Is Not Eternal

BRAZIL: Development Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists

ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples

CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil to Recover Leadership Role with CO2 Limits

BRAZIL: Deforestation Down 45 Percent

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

US-LATAM: More Continuity Than Change

COLOMBIA: Farm Subsidy Scandal Exposes Corrupt Policies

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

The Amazon Is Not Eternal

Planting the Future Forest

Solar Field in the Desert

Protests Against Landfill

More Trees in Havana

New Photovoltaic Technology

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ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays
By Emilio Godoy
CHAPANTONGO, Mexico - It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
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CHILE: Stop Treating Community Broadcasters as Criminals, Say Activists
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - Criminal law should not be used against freedom of expression, nor to silence community radio stations in Chile, say activists and journalists in response to closures of community radio outlets in this South American country.
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COSTA RICA: Chinchilla to Join Club of Women Presidents
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - Laura Chinchilla of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) will be the first female president of Costa Rica and the ninth in the history of Latin America.
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MUSIC-BRAZIL: 'Enchanted' Guitars for Social Change
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Perfectly in tune, in spite of the off-key world of Terra Encantada ("Enchanted Land"), a shanty town in this Brazilian city, the guitars of Daniel Sant'Anna's orchestra strike up the "Ode to Joy", played by children and teenagers who are looking for a way forward in their lives.
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PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
By Milagros Salazar
PAUCARÁ, Peru - Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.
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MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
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CUBA: Women Knitting for Change
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - A neighbour started calling Andrea del Sol "Perseverance," and the name stuck. Since 1998, she and a small group of women from Alamar, on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, have been throwing their combined energies behind a common purpose: "changing things."
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MEXICO: Street Stalls, Web Visible Face of Neo-Nazism
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Street stalls in the centre of the Mexican capital openly display books and publications that are sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, indicating that there is public demand for such items.
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COLOMBIA: Same Paramilitary Abuses; New Faces, New Names
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTÁ - A leading international rights group urged the Colombian government to take action against what it called the "successors" to the far-right paramilitary militias, which continue attacking civilians and human rights defenders.
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COSTA RICA: Luxury Homeowners Evade Solidarity Tax
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - The first attempt to collect a new tax on luxury homes in Costa Rica has ended in failure, in spite of the fact that it is a solidarity tax entirely devoted to building social housing for slum-dwellers.
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MEXICO: Women - Casualties in Army's Counternarcotics War
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Human rights organisations in Mexico and the United States sounded the alarm about abuses against women by the Mexican armed forces in the context of the government's all-out offensive against drug trafficking in the border state of Chihuahua.
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CHILE: Activists Fear Setbacks Under Rightwing Government
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - Trade unions and non-governmental organisations in Chile are worried that rightwing billionaire Sebastián Piñera's election as president will mean setbacks in terms of social policy and respect for labour and social rights.
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PERU-CHINA: Social Responsibility Missing in Growing Trade Ties
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - China has become Peru's second largest trade partner, with interests basically in mining and oil. However, it is viewed with caution by this Andean nation, because the Asian giant has a reputation for flouting environmental standards and labour rights.
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