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Painkillers and pens used to placate Peru’s Indians as gas giants move in
Half of the Nahua died after their land was first opened up by Shell for oil exploration in the 1980s. -
Wikileaks Cables of Interest on Latin America, 2/27 to 3/6, 2011
US weapons and training essential to the war in Colombia (and more!) -
Amazon Drought Accelerating Climate Change
Researchers calculate that millions of trees died in 2010, which means the Amazon is soaking up much less CO2 from the atmosphere, and those dead trees will now release all the carbon they've accumulated over 300 or more years. -
The Decade that Transformed a Continent
In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century in South America. -
Peru protesters try to stop Southern Copper mine
Hundreds of protesters opposed to a mine of Southern Copper smashed windows at a training center and set a bus on fire on Monday, witnesses said in the latest conflict over natural resources in Peru. -
The school of Latin America’s dictators
Since so many alumni are notorious human rights abusers, the US military should close its deadly School of Americas -
Mining Firms Alarmed at Election of Leftist Governor in Peru
"This is devastating news. Santos is known for his anti-mining stance," Hans Flury, president of the National Mining, Oil and Energy Society (SNMPE), the industry’s powerful private business association, told IPS. -
Coup University: SOUTHCOM and FIU Team Up on Counterinsurgency
As it has done with great success throughout the past century, the U.S. military continues to find ways to use the academy and anthropological concepts to whitewash its imperialist actions in the service of U.S. corporate profits. -
Constant War in Latin America
The United States of America Presents... -
GOAL FOR LATIN AMERICA: Mario Vargas Llosa Scores a Nobel
The Swedish Academy said it was honoring the 74-year-old novelist, journalist and essayist "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
