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WNU #1084: Brazilian Campesinos Demand Land, End to Violence
“There’s money to build hydroelectric facilities, railroads, waterways, steel plants, etc., but they say there aren’t resources for agrarian reform and family agriculture,” the campesino groups wrote, claiming that investment in small-scale agriculture is more beneficial to the economy than many large-scale projects
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1084, June 19, 2011
1. Brazil: Pará Campesinos Demand Land, End to Violence
2. Chile: “Historic” Student March Protests School Privatization
3. Mexico: Femicides Continue as "Drug War" Turns 40
4. Trade: US Congress Set to OK Colombia and Panama Trade Deals?
5. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti
ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Brazil: Pará Campesinos Demand Land, End to Violence
More than 5,000 agricultural workers blocked the Trans-Amazonian highway in the northern Brazilian state of Pará on June 15 and 16 to push demands for land, government aid and an end to violence against activists. They continued the action after one protester was run over and killed on June 15, but they agreed to open up the highway on June 16 as the result of an agreement for Presidency Minister Gilberto Carvalho and representatives of the Mining and Energy Ministry and the Agrarian Development Ministry to meet with them on June 20. [...]
Read the full Update at:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/wnu-1084-brazilian-campesinos-demand.html
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Issue #1084, June 19, 2011
1. Brazil: Pará Campesinos Demand Land, End to Violence
2. Chile: “Historic” Student March Protests School Privatization
3. Mexico: Femicides Continue as "Drug War" Turns 40
4. Trade: US Congress Set to OK Colombia and Panama Trade Deals?
5. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti
ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Brazil: Pará Campesinos Demand Land, End to Violence
More than 5,000 agricultural workers blocked the Trans-Amazonian highway in the northern Brazilian state of Pará on June 15 and 16 to push demands for land, government aid and an end to violence against activists. They continued the action after one protester was run over and killed on June 15, but they agreed to open up the highway on June 16 as the result of an agreement for Presidency Minister Gilberto Carvalho and representatives of the Mining and Energy Ministry and the Agrarian Development Ministry to meet with them on June 20. [...]
Read the full Update at:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/wnu-1084-brazilian-campesinos-demand.html
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