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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

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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RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: The Best-Kept Secrets - the Military's
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Human rights groups are worried that the declassification of military archives dating from Guatemala's 1960-1996 civil war, which left more than 200,000 victims, by a special commission will not go far enough in terms of clarifying the atrocities.
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BIODIVERSITY: The Amazon Is Not Eternal
By Stephen Leahy*
PARIS - The Amazon jungle "is very close to a tipping point," and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist.
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PERU: Mining Co's Making a Mint, Tax Free
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Experts and activists in Peru complain that while mining corporations are cashing in on soaring metals prices, they continue to enjoy exemption from royalties and corporate taxes, if they reinvest their profits.
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ARGENTINA: Torture Priest Still Celebrating Mass - Behind Bars
By Sebastián Lacunza
BUENOS AIRES - More than two years after he was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina, former police chaplain Christian von Wernich has not been penalised by the Catholic Church.
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NICARAGUA: Can Army Protect Plundered Forest Reserves?
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - The Nicaraguan state has embarked on an iron-fisted policy, including the use of military force, to clamp down on those responsible for environmental depredation, after repeated denunciations by organisations and government officials that the country's two largest biosphere reserves are being plundered.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
By Mario Osava* IPS/TerraViva
SALVADOR, Brazil - One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living "on the brink of survival", while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
By Denise Ribeiro*
SALVADOR DA BAHIA, Brazil - "Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world" is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
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CUBA: Zeolite, Mineral of a Thousand Uses
By Patricia Grogg*
HAVANA - Cuba, which has major reserves of zeolite, aims to boost exploitation of the mineral, whose properties and uses in products and technologies contribute to protecting the environment.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: "Machista" but Valued by Feminists Nonetheless
By Mario Osava *
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - The World Social Forum (WSF) "changed our lives," although it continues to be "machista," with men significantly outnumbering women in its organisation and almost all discussion panels, commented Nalu Farias, coordinator in Brazil of the World March of Women.
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COLOMBIA: Who Cares About the Victims of Forced Displacement?
By Helda Martínez
BOGOTÁ - "Why is the government, which is so generous towards the richest sectors of the economy, so stingy towards the displaced?" asked activist Marco Romero at the presentation of a new report on the dire situation faced by the millions of Colombians who have been forced out of their rural homes by the country's nearly half-century old armed conflict.
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Q&A: "Being Poor and White Is Not the Same as Being Poor and Black" in Cuba
Patricia Grogg interviews University of Havana researcher ESTEBAN MORALES
HAVANA - The elimination of racism remains unfinished business in Cuba today. "We have to admit that the problem exists, determine its impact on the social model that we defend, and tackle it in depth," says Esteban Morales, an Afro-Cuban economist, political scientist and author of numerous articles and essays on the subject.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Another Kind of Economics Is Possible
By Mario Osava
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Democratising economics as well as politics is essential for ending irrationality and discrimination as part of the struggle for social and environmental justice, said participants at one of the panels of the seminar assessing the World Social Forum's (WSF) first 10 years.
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DESENVOLVIMENTO: Outro conceito é possível

DIALOGUES: As duas faces da agricultura

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