On a tour of Colombia and Peru, Defense Secretary Robert Gates voiced support for the US-Colombia FTA and hailed Bogotá as a human rights example for the region that Lima should emulate.
Ecuadoran police fired tear gas at indigenous protesters gathered outside the National Assembly building in Quito to oppose a water resources bill that they say favors mining companies and agribusiness.
While May Day marchers in Ecuador generally supported the government—and those in Colombia opposed it—Venezuela saw separate marches by supporters and opponents of Hugo Chávez.
This year’s May Day mobilization in Bolivia comes amid mounting social conflicts, with protesters on the left and the right launching road blocks, hunger strikes and other direct actions.
Evo Morales has sparked international protests with his comments at the Cochabamba climate summit that eating hormone-laden chicken turns men gay.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has agreed to meet representatives of the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, and hear their demands.
Defying an official ban, Aymara activists convened the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, on social conflicts related to climate change.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
