Bulletin 14 december 2010
Haiti: survivors sleep among the dead ♦ Aid arrives ♦ Poverty helped the tragedy ♦ Reconstruction support promised
Bulletin 13 December 2010
Haiti: Earthquake destroys capital and hundreds die ♦ Chile: candidates take part in last debate before elections ♦ Argentina: Investors may leave if crisis continues ♦ Uruguay fights climate change
Bulletin 12 December 2010
Chile: Run-off campaign speeds up ♦ Colombia: respect human rights and you will get help, says the USA ♦ Honduras: protests over amnesty for coup plotters ♦ Unemployment increased in 2009 says ILO ♦ Save the environment, do not
Bulletin 11 December 2010
Venezuela: devaluation causes chaos ♦ Colombia: right-wing para-military infiltration behind political assassinations ♦ Argentina: payment of public debt sparks off heated debate
BULLETIN 29 December 2009
Argentina: First gay wedding in Latin America ♦ Venezuela: Chávez accuses Colombia of linking him with rebels ♦ Chile to hand over report on “espionage” in Peru ♦ Bolivia ends the year without new investment ♦ Brazil
BULLETIN 23 December 2009
Mexico: Drug cartels on revenge attack for killing of leader ♦ Colombia: Guerrillas murder kidnapped governor ♦ Mexico: first gay wedding will not be annulled ♦ Peruvian President changes Economy Minister ♦ The British
BULLETIN 22 DECEMBER 2009
Tension between Colombia and Venezuela, again ♦ Cuba: US citizen arrested “for helping dissidents” ♦ Ecuador: Indigenous movement breaks with government ♦ Panama fails to sell its debt ♦ COP16: Mex
TOMAS SARACENO: ON ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Tomás Raraceno is in Copenhagen sharing is art and warning about climate change.
Ecuador’s cunning plan
A plan to save the rainforest in Ecuador is getting atention from the world.
Letter from Manaus
Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties