News and Views: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Cuba's 'first lady' dies aged 77 (BBC News)
- Latin America: Black Women on the Bottom Rung (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- The Color of Law On the Pope, Paternalism and Purifying the Savages (David A Love, The Black Commentator)
- A Castro Strives to Open Cuban Society's Opinions on Sex (Marc Lacey, The New York Times )
- Cuba's Cure (Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine)
- 'They keep on killing and killing': Murder of women and girls in Guatemala (Jo Tuckman, The Guardian)
- Adios, World Bank! (Nadia Martinez, TomPaine.com)
- Keeping academics out of Cuba (Wayne S. Smith, Baltimore Sun)
- House Passes Resolution to Address Femicide in Guatemala (Feminist Daily News Wire)
- Cuba Call-in Days: May 1 & 2 (PDF)
- HEALTH-MEXICO: Abortion No Longer a Crime in Capital (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements (Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Ortega Government Shows Some Response to Civil Society Demands (Witness for Peace, Nicaragua)
- Resisting Kirchner's Recipe (Sometimes): 'LGBTTTI' Organizing in Argentina (Alejandra Sardá, NACLA)
- Sandinistas Wage a New War - Against Hunger (José Adán Silva, Inter Press Service)
- Mexico City Lawmakers Begin Hearings on Abortion Bill (Feminist Wire)
- Welcome To The Other Latin America (Martha Burk, TomPaine.com)
- Salvador Option Surfaces Again (Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive)
- Bush in Latin America: A Dark Underbelly of Mass Graves and Electoral Fraud (Isabel Hilton, Guardian/UK)
- Colombia: Women Suffer Abuse Behind the Front Lines (Helda Martínez, Inter Press Service)
- The Ciudad Juarez Declaration and the New Wave of Border Activism (Kent Paterson, IRC Americas Program)
- Nicaraguan activists bid to block abortion bill (Reuters)
- Latin America's Pink Tide? (Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Pinochet, Never Convicted in Court, Dead at 91 (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service)
- Bush Loses Election in Ecuador (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive)
- Kids Pay Dearly for Lack of Clean Water (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- ARGENTINA: Women Have a New Tool against Discrimination (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America Failing to Adapt (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Nicaragua Eliminates Last Exception to Strict Anti-Abortion Law (James C. McKinley Jr., The New York Times)
- Ollie North Returns to Nicaragua (Greg Grandin, AlterNet)
- Republicans Plan Lame-Duck Peru Trade Vote (Sarah Anderson and Sara Grusky, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- The Return of Daniel Ortega (Mark Engler, The Nation)
- Washington's Role In Nicaragua Still a Scandal (Mark Weisbrot, ZNet)
- Guatemala: Two Months of CAFTA (Umberto Mazzei, IRC Americas Program)
- Targeting Nicaraguans' Stomachs (Ben Beachy, Common Dreams)
- Indigenous Border Summit Opposes Border Wall and Militarization (Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program)
- NYC Indymedia Journalist Killed in Oaxaca (NYC Indymedia)
- Nicaragua Passes Total Ban on Abortion (Marc Lacey, The New York Times)
- Abortion ban closer in Nicaragua (Will Grant, BBC News)
- Nicaragua eyes new abortion curbs (Will Grant, BBC News)
- PERU: Indigenous People, Ignored Even by the Statistics (Milagros Salazar, Inter Press Service)
- Painful legacy of Guatemala storm (Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News)
- Rep. Burton in Nicaragua: Speaking Loudly and Carrying the Same Big Stick (Brynne Keith-Jennings, Common Dreams)
- Latin America Declares Independence (Noam Chomsky, International Herald Tribune)
- GUATEMALA: Army Losing Fight Against Crime (Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service)
- Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America (Juan Antonio Montecino, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Mexico urges Bush to veto U.S. border fence bill (Greg Brosnan, Reuters)
- GUATEMALA: Exhuming the Past In a Painful Quest (N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post)
- Spanish Justice (Geoff Pingree & Lisa Abend, The Nation)
- A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud (Tom Hayden, truthdig)
- In Mexico, a Class War Looms (John Ross, The Nation)
- Chance for Legal Solution Narrows in Mexican Election (Laura Carlsen, IRC Americas Program)
- Haitian Rape Victims Risk Their Lives to Demand Their Rights (September 1st March, Haiti)
- Lancet Study: Murder, Rape, and Sexual Assault After Aristide Ouster (Democracy Now!)
- Juarez Killings Escalate As Investigation Stalls (Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Women's Media Center/AlterNet)
- U.S. Trade Sanctions Seek to Pressure Latin America (Ariela Ruiz Caro, IRC Americas Program)
- Fidel’s Health and Implications for U.S. Policy (Mavis Anderson, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Lesbianas y discriminación laboral en América Latina (22 de agosto, Mexico)
- ELECTIONS-MEXICO: Leftwing Protesters Prepared for the Long Haul (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Cuba's Agricultural Revolution an Example to the World (Andrew Buncombe, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Murders of Women in Guatemala Increasingly Frequent in 2006 (Amnesty International)
- The United States and Cuba—Strands of a Failed Policy (Mavis Anderson, IRC Americas Program )
- Fresh floods threaten already-hit Guatemala village (Reuters AlertNet)
- Resist this US backlash against Cuba (Ian Gibson, The Guardian)
- Abortion Adds to Colombia's Election Turmoil (Nicole Karsin, Women's eNews)
- Colombia's Deep Divide (Christian Parenti, The Nation)
- Globalization's Watchdogs (Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Cuba Working Group: Principles for a Sound Cuba Policy
- COLOMBIA: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US (Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Fears and Hopes Raised by Free Trade with US (Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service)
- Crackdown in Mexico: 200 Jailed, Women Claim Sexual Abuse by Police (Democracy Now!)
- Indigenous Movements: Between Neoliberalism and Leftist Governments (Raúl Zibechi, IRC Americas Program)
- Making Our Country Safe For Democracy in Haiti (Brian Concannon, ZNet)
- Haitians vote for new parliament (BBC News)
- Latin America's New Consensus (Greg Grandin, The Nation)
- Haiti, Cuba Expanding Cooperation (Prensa Latina)
- Abortion lessons from Latin America (Marianne Mollmann, LA Times Op-Ed)
- Femicide On the Rise in Latin America (Kent Paterson, IRC Americas Program)
- CAFTA's Corpse Revived (Mark Engler, The Nation)
- Haiti’s Elections: Right Result for the Wrong Reason (Brian Concannon, Jr., IRC Americas Program)
- Rains hamper Bolivia flood aid (Daniel Schweimler, BBC News)
- Family planning row in Guatemala (BBC News)
- Erasing the Lines: Trends in U.S. Military Programs with Latin America
- POLITICS-HAITI: U.S. Hopes for Smooth Elections (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemala Rejects CAFTA-DR Terms (Prensa Latina)
- BOLIVIA: Indigenous Leaders, Women Head New Cabinet (Franz Chávez, Inter Press Service)
- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Violence Against Women in the Dock (Patricia Grogg, Inter Press Service)
- New Year Sees Delay in CAFTA Implementation (Todd Tucker, Americas Program, IRC)
- Indigenous Leaders Celebrate Morales Victory (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- The Vicious Cycle of AIDS, Poverty, and Neoliberalism (Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas, IRC Americas Program)
- Timely Demise for Free Trade Area of the Americas (Laura Carlsen, IRC Americas Program)
- The Threat of Hope in Latin America (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- The Bush Effect: U.S. Military Involvement in Latin America Rises, Development and Humanitarian Aid Fall (Frida Berrigan and Jonathan Wingo, World Policy Institute)
- The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America's revolt (Naomi Klein, The Guardian)
- AMERICAS: Counter-Summit Celebrates Rollback of US Influence (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Gaping Wounds Left by Stan Drive Country Further into Poverty (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemalans wary of military aid; US and other regional countries agreed last week to form a relief force (Jill Replogle, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Latin Nations Rejecting US-Led Reforms (Mark Weisbrot, The Providence Journal)
- Anger at slow aid to Guatemala mudslide village (Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters)
- 1,400 Guatemalans Missing as Floods Kill 618 (Agence France Presse)
- The Price of Going to Market (Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, International Relations Center)
- Thousands of Latin American Immigrants Among Katrina's Victims (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Colombia Unearthing Plight of Its 'Disappeared' (Juan Forero, New York Times)
- PARAGUAY: U.S. Military Presence Stirs Speculation (Alejandro Sciscioli, Inter Press Service)
- Activists See CAFTA as Gift to Big Pharma (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Senate Approves Controversial CAFTA (Susan Milligan, Boston Globe)
- A Noose, Not a Bracelet (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- 'War on Terror' Has Latin American Indigenous People in Its Sights (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service)
- An Epidemic Failure (Geraldine Sealey, Salon.com)
- Cuba develops new cholera vaccine (Yahoo News)
- The Other Wars: United States Foreign Policy In The Western Hemisphere (Harry Targ, Portside)
- Massacre in Colombian Peace Community (School of the Americas Watch)
- Reports of Displaced Youth Abused and Exploited in Colombia's Cities Concern UN (UN News)
- Women’s Rights Eroding in Latin America (Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC))
- Villagers fight for access to water (Hugh Dellios, Chicago Tribune)
- Guatemala: Human Rights Activists under renewed attack in 2005 (Amnesty International)
- Killings of Haitian Street Kids Soar (Znet)