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Colombia's civil conflict is posing a growing threat to the survival of some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups, the UN has warned....

This December, Venezuelans will once again head to the polls to decide the fate of their country. The question remains: will the opposition make a commitment to democracy this time out?...

As the largest aspartame manufacturer in Europe, Holland Sweetener, reports it will cease production, even more breaking news on more problems caused by this excitoneurotoxic carcinogen drug....

The Long Haul's Sunday café night will feature a presentation on Venezuelan workers by Berlin-based journalist and videographer Dario Azzellini. The evening will begin, as is the Long Haul custom, with dinner at about 7:30 pm. The program will begin around 8....

"Once upon a time, there was a little orphan girl ('huerfana') who had to walk over many mountains each day to fetch water ('itzu') because the water was very far away" Esperanza Garcia, a Purepecha Indian grandmother in the tiny Michoacan mountain town of Santa Cruz Tanaco tells the story that her mother told her. "One day, the huerfana made friends with a humming bird ("Tzintzun") and he led her to a secret spring right here in the forest. The women were so happy be...

The Brazilian government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, having seemingly survived a series of corruption scandals that appeared on the verge of bringing it down last year, was wracked once again this week by the resignation of its finance minister, Antônio Palocci Filho, amid a scandal involving bribes, payoffs and prostitutes....

Guatemala's Efrain Rios Montt earned the nickname "the General" after taking power in a 1982 coup d'etat. His sixteen-month rule is considered one of Guatemala's bloodiest periods since the Spanish conquest. Under the General's command, entire villages were massacred in a bloody counterinsurgency campaign, and some 150,000 mostly indigenous Guatemalans were killed. Despite his gruesome history, Rios Montt remained a powerful political figure and in 2003 ran as a presidential candida...

James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution....

Mexico City, March 17, 2006: The fourth World Water Forum began yesterday in this Latin American city with a strong and resounding critique coming from national and international civil society. Amid an intense controversy over the issues to be discussed at the official event organized by the World Water Council (a private group) and the Mexican federal government, more than 15,000 people – members of nongovernmental organizations and political collectives, activists and students – marched aga...