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09/29/2006 Federal forces will only exacerbate the situation in Oaxaca, where a teacher's strike has led to weeks of civil unrest, according to an international human rights organization.
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From: Global Exchange
Related: [Mexico]
Mina Marlin, Guatemala.
09/29/2006 For trans-national mining conglomerates, like GlamisGold, it’s a business that pays: The worldwide demand for silver and gold is as keen as seldom before. In search of new gold veins they expand to Central America.
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From: Centro de Comunicación Voces Nuestras
Related: [Environment] [Environmental Activism] [Civil Society]
Image: Mina Marlin, Guatemala.
09/29/2006 On September 16, over one million people raised their hands in a vote to recognize center-left leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the “legitimate president” of Mexico... This act of civil resistance ushered in a new stage in an electoral conflict that has developed into an all-out battle for the country's future.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related: [Mexico] [Politics] [Activism]
09/29/2006 Agrobio México es una "asociación civil" cuyos miembros son las trasnacionales Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont, Bayer y Dow. Son las mismas que controlan los cultivos transgénicos en el mundo. Solamente Monsanto controla 88 por ciento.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related: [Mexico] [Agriculture] [Food] [Environment]
09/29/2006 Líderes y lideresas de organizaciones de derechos humanos recordaron que durante el conflicto armado interno el estado impulsó políticas de exterminio, lo que afectó a una gran cantidad de guatemaltecos y guatemaltecas.
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From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala
Related: [Guatemala] [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] [War and Peace]
09/29/2006 Movimientos sociales reaccionan frente a la aprobación por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa de la Ley Especial Contra Actos de Terrorismo.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related: [El Salvador] [Human Rights] [Civil Rights] [Law]
Image: © Mapquest
09/27/2006 Los políticos-empresarios guanacastecos intentan nuevamente apropiarse y privatizar las escasas playas públicas que quedan. Ahora está en la mira de uno de esos políticos la Playa Cabuyal.
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From: Federación Costarricense para la Conservación del Ambiente
Related: [Costa Rica] [Environment] [Biodiversity] [Activism]
09/27/2006 Miles de personas se manifestarán este jueves veintiocho de septiembre, para repudiar las amenazas de muerte contra el obispo de la Diócesis de Copan, Monseñor Luis Alfonso Santos, sacerdotes y demás miembros de la Alianza Cívica por la Democracia.
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From: Comunicación Comunitaria
Related: [Honduras] [Environment] [Civil Rights] [Justice and Crime]
09/27/2006 "Jaguars, mexican gray wolves, peninsular bighorn sheep, and other endangered species need to cross their borderland habitat often, and this wall will crush their ability to survive," a conservation group has warned.
From: Center for Biological Diversity
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Related: [United States] [Mexico]
Yhdysvaltojen ja Meksikon raja
09/27/2006 Jaguaarien, Meksikon harmaasusien, niemimaan isosarvilampaiden ja muiden sukupuuttoon kuolemassa olevien lajien täytyy voida ylittää Yhdysvaltojen ja Meksikon välinen raja-alue riittävän usein. ”Rajalle suunniteltu yli 1 100 kilometriä pitkä aita tuhoaa niiden selviytymismahdollisuudet”, varoittaa luonnonsuojeluryhmä.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [United States] [Mexico] [Environment] [Animals] [Conservation]
Image: Yhdysvaltojen ja Meksikon raja © The Nation Magazine
09/27/2006 Cada vez hay más costarricenses que no sólo consideran que el Tratado de Libre Comercio con Estados Unidos (TLC) no beneficia tanto a Costa Rica como si a la nación norteamericana, sino que estiman que este acuerdo comercial acabaría con los agricultores, encarecería las medicinas y significaría la privatización certera de instituciones como el ICE, el INS y la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social.
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From: Semanario Universidad
Related: [Costa Rica] [Trade] [Freedom of Expression] [Media]
09/26/2006 Un Estado de Prevención decretado este lunes, por el Presidente Óscar Berger, en Fraijanes, Guatemala, permitió a la autoridad retomar el control de la Granja Penal Pavón, que se encontraba “bajo el poder de la mafia”, se conoció aquí.
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From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala
Related: [Guatemala] [Governance] [Justice and Crime]
Heriberto Rodríguez (www.uanm.mx)
09/26/2006 Los abusos por parte de los diversos cuerpos policíacos, así como por parte de las bandas, persisten en agravio de los indocumentados centroamericanos a su paso por territorio mexicano
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From: Diario CoLatino
Related: [Laos] [Migration] [Social Exclusion] [Human Rights]
Image: Heriberto Rodríguez (www.uanm.mx)
Magda Soledad Salvador Helsingissä
09/22/2006 Meksikon alkuperäiskansoihin kuuluvat wixarikat ovat ajaneet oikeuksiensa toteutumista suomalaisjärjestöjen tuella kohta kymmenen vuotta. Aikaan on saatu paljon enemmän kuin alkuperäiskansojen oikeuksissa Suomessa. Toisin kuin meillä, Meksikossa alkuperäiskansojen oikeudet on muun muassa taattu perustuslaissa.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Mexico] [Human Rights] [Indigenous Rights]
Image: Magda Soledad Salvador Helsingissä
Nora Newball (right), a YATAMA candidate, and Bridgette Budeir of the FSLN party.
09/22/2006 Two former warring rivals have set aside their differences to work through the political system to promote a common vision of peace and development.
From: Minority Rights Group International
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Related: [Nicaragua]
Image: Nora Newball (right), a YATAMA candidate, and Bridgette Budeir of the FSLN party. © Minority Rights Group International
www.notiarandas.com
09/21/2006 Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as he was driving to his school in the rural Mixteca region. Police took him to Oaxaca de Juarez, the state capital, where he was held for days on false charges.
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Related: [Mexico] [Civil Rights] [Conflict]
Image: www.notiarandas.com
09/21/2006 Edy Mc Naub, representante del grupo étnico misquito denunció hoy en Honduras: “Los gobiernos de Honduras no han querido focalizar para los grupos más vulnerables de la sociedad nacional, la inversión de los recursos de la Estrategia de Reducción de la Pobreza”
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From: Comunicación Comunitaria
Related: [Honduras] [Development] [Social Exclusion] [Governance]
09/20/2006 Papaya Music se complace en comunicar el lanzamiento de su más reciente material, Calypso Limón Legends. Con este disco, Papaya Music continua su labor de rescate y reinvención de la música centroamericana, ahora con el disco mejor producido que se ha hecho hasta ahora sobre el calypso limonense.
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From: Papaya Music de Centroamérica
Related: [Costa Rica] [Culture] [Knowledge]
Mayans are the majority in Guatemala
09/20/2006 Muchas comunidades viven en un contexto de confrontación y convulsión, que para muchos jóvenes es indiferente, sin embargo, sin embargo en medio de esas dificultades mucho luchan para realizar sus sueños y desarrollarse como profesionales, indicó Amanda Calderón, psicóloga del Área de Salud de Baja Verapaz.
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From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala
Related: [Guatemala] [Youth] [Indigenous Rights]
Image: Mayans are the majority in Guatemala
Pandilleros salvadoreños, con patriotismo en el pecho.
09/20/2006 El paquete de reformas propuestas para modificar la Ley Penal Juvenil que se discute en pleno legislativo, fueron rechazadas esta mañana por los operadores de justicia del sistema juvenil, ya que consideran que violan los tratados internacionales establecidos por la ONU.
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From: Diario CoLatino
Related: [El Salvador] [Social Exclusion] [Youth] [Human Rights]
Image: Pandilleros salvadoreños, con patriotismo en el pecho. © Luis Galdámez / Raíces
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