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Brazil: New Offensive Against Drug Patents
The Brazilian government announced Tuesday that it would break the patents on several medications to prevent the financial collapse of its widely praised public health programme that provides antiretroviral drugs free of charge to people living with HIV/AIDS.
12/1/04
- Inter Press Service
Latin America Resigned to Four More Years of Bush
The hopes of millions of people in Latin America that George W. Bush would not be re-elected as president of the United States have fallen flat. But governments in the region that quietly or openly shared that desire are now trying to make the best of things.
11/4/04
- Inter Press Service
Latin America Leans Further to the Left
The left made more inroads into Latin America in four elections this weekend as crisis-weary voters tired of decades of U.S-backed market reforms warmed to pragmatic platforms of economic growth with better distribution of wealth.
11/2/04
- Reuters
Central America: The High Cost of Corruption
Corruption is one of the main obstacles to development in Central America, according to experts commenting on the recent series of scandals involving top-ranking officials in the region.
10/27/04
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Militarizing Latin America
Less than 15 years after the end of the Cold War, the United States government is increasingly militarizing its relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new report released here this week.
10/6/04
- OneWorld US
Latin America Has Had Enough of Bush
"No More Bush": it has become a slogan echoed with increasing frequency throughout Latin America. Today, this sentiment has come to be shared by the majority of the region's politicians, intellectuals, and even heads of state.
9/16/04
- Inter Press Service
OAS: Americas fail to protect human rights effectively
Governments must take urgent and concrete steps to stop human rights violations in the Americas, said Amnesty International on the eve of the meeting of the Organization of American States, due to take place in Quito from 6 to 8 June, 2004.
6/4/04
- Amnesty International
Relief Teams Scramble as Caribbean Flood Toll Grows
Rescue workers rushed beans and rice, drinking water, chlorine tablets and first-aid kits on Thursday to a remote Haitian town submerged by floods that killed an estimated 2,000 people on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
5/28/04
- Reuters
Court Strips Chile's Pinochet of Immunity
A court stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution Friday, paving the way for the trial of the former Chilean dictator on human rights charges.
5/28/04
- Associated Press
Colombia: Bad Place for 'Best Profession'
How many Colombian journalists live in exile? How many have been forced to leave their hometowns but continue to live in the country, though in far-flung regions? How many of those who fled were able to continue working at what Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez says is ”the best profession in the world”?
5/2/04
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Government Panel Seeks Steps for Cuba Regime Change
A government commission is recommending to President Bush a series of measures to cut U.S. dollar flows to Cuba as part of a broader policy to hasten the end of the country's communist system, an administration official said Sunday night.
5/2/04
- Associated Press
Inequality impedes development in Latin America and Caribbean - Diouf
Social inequalities are impeding development in the Latin America and Caribbean region, FAO Director-General Dr Jacques Diouf warned today in a speech delivered to representatives and senior government officials attending the 28th FAO Regional Conference.
4/28/04
- UN FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization)
U.N.: Latin American Democracy in Trouble
Latin American democracies are in trouble and losing the support of their citizens because of inequality and extreme poverty, the United Nations said Wednesday in a sweeping report on the region's political health.
4/21/04
- Associated Press
Aristide Supporters Denounce Haiti 'Occupation'
Thousands of furious supporters of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide poured out of Haiti's slums and into the streets on Friday, marching on the U.S. Embassy to denounce the "occupation" of their homeland and demand Aristide's return.
3/5/04
- Reuters
Haiti: Did U.S. Push or Pull Aristide from Power?
As rebel leader Guy Philippe declared himself Haiti's ”military chief” Tuesday, speculation continued to fly over the U.S. role in deposed president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's flight from power Sunday.
3/4/04
- Inter Press Service
Oxfam warns of humanitarian crisis in Haiti
Haiti could face humanitarian crisis if secure circumstances are not created in which humanitarian aid can be delivered, warned international agency Oxfam today.
3/4/04
- Oxfam
U.S.: Democrats Slam Bush Administration over Aristide Ouster
The Bush administration's role in facilitating the ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide came under sharp and sustained attack by Democrats in Congress Wednesday, while leaders of the of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) called for an independent investigation into the circumstances that led to his exile aboard a U.S.-chartered jet Sunday.
3/4/04
- OneWorld US
Growing Controversy over Haiti's Rebels and Refugees
Amid growing controversy over Washington's role in persuading Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide to go into exile, human rights groups are strongly criticizing the Bush administration for returning hundreds of fleeing Haitians back to the capital over the weekend.
3/4/04
- Inter Press Service
The overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a coup made in the USA
The violent overthrow and forced exile of Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has ripped aside the democratic pretensions of Washington and the other major powers to expose the brutal and predatory character of resurgent imperialism.
3/1/04
- World Socialist Web Site
Courtroom Drama: Peasants Sue Major U.S. Oil Firm
A landmark class-action lawsuit by 30,000 Ecuadoran peasants and Indians against ChevronTexaco, which bounced around U.S. federal courts for nearly a decade, finally got underway this week in a small courthouse in a remote area of Ecuador.
10/26/03
- OneWorld
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