Planet Watch
Cochabamba summit calls for ecological tribunal
The climate summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, closed with a call for creation of an International Tribunal on Environmental and Climate Justice.
The Andes
Cochabamba: Evo agrees to meet with Table 18
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has agreed to meet representatives of the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, and hear their demands.
The Andes
Cochabamba: dissidents push limits of free speech
Defying an official ban, Aymara activists convened the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, on social conflicts related to climate change.
The Caribbean
Haiti: Clinton warns of violence like Mexico’s
Former US president Bill Clinton said that the international community needs to stay involved in Haiti if it wants to prevent violence from breaking out there.
The Caribbean
Haiti: government, UN evict more quake victims
The Haitian government and international agencies have intensified efforts to relocate Port-au-Prince residents left homeless by the January earthquake.
Central America
Honduras: OAS annual report cites rights violations
For the first time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has included Honduras among the countries that it “believed warranted special attention.”
Central America
Honduras: Lobo settles with Aguán campesinos
Honduran president Porfirio Lobo signed an agreement with the Aguán campesino movement, granting some 2,600 families about 11,000 hectares of land.
The Andes
Cochabamba: will climate conference recognize “Table 18”?
As the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth opens in Cochabamba, Aymara indigenous leaders are demanding an “eighteenth table” on Bolivia’s social conflicts.
The Andes
Bolivia: Santa Cruz authorities won’t seat indigenous lawmakers
The conservative opposition government in Bolivia’s lowland department of Santa Cruz is refusing to recognize the election of two indigenous lawmakers to the local assembly
The Andes
World War 4 Report to blog Bolivia climate confab
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg is in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to cover the alternative conference on climate change that President Evo Morales has called. The conference opens tomorrow, and we hope to be posting daily on-the-scene reports.
The Andes
Peru: campesinos block roads to protest mining operation
Residents of Islay, Peru, blocked the Panamerican Highway to protest a proposed copper project, which they charge places local water sources and agriculture at risk.
The Andes
Bolivia: remains of “disappeared” guerilla exhumed
Bolivia’s Justice Ministry announced that the remains of a presumed “disappeared” follower of Che Guevara’s guerilla movement were exhumed in the General Cemetary of La Paz.