ECUADOR: Mining in the spotlight

Like a river in flood, on March 22nd, thousands of protesters, led by CONAIE, Ecuador’s most powerful indigenous organization, descended on Quito from all over the country. They were protesting the opening up of the country to large-scale mining, the need for urgent land reform, and 17 other points that brought together a veritable rainbow [...]

Amnesty for 8 December Massacres

The Surinamese government has proposed Amnesty for the crimes committed against humanity between 1982-1987. The proposal was prompted by the statements made by the witness Ruben Rozendaal, one of  the so called Group of 16 that overthrew the Arron government in 1980. The call for amnesty is not the first attempt by the presidency to [...]

FARC terrorists kill Colombian soldiers, threaten US police advisors

A Colombian army captain and ten soldiers were killed in an ambush by narco-terrorists from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Saturday, according to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration intelligence analyst specializing on Latin America. FARC also threatened American law enforcement advisors assisting the Colombian forces. The terrorist ambush occurred near the Colombian-Venezuelan border [...]

Unveiling Canada’s Role in Chile’s Environmental and Political Conflicts

A new report reveals the Canadian mining industrial complex’s responsibility for social discord and environmentally-destructive policies in Chile’s Patagonia region. “Far away, on the southern cone of South America in Chilean Patagonia, exists one of the most beautiful, still-virgin territories on Earth. There, an intense struggle is taking place that most Canadians have never heard [...]

Combination Drug for TB Trial launched in Africa, Brazil

The TB Alliance has announced that it has launched a first-of-its-kind Phase II clinical trial to test a novel drug combination – in both patients who have TB, and those who have multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). This trial builds on the TB Alliance’s two-week New Combination 1 trial, or NC-001, initiated in 2010, which was the [...]

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