By Staff, MercoPress. Mercosur signed a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday Dec 20, 2011: this is the first between the Palestinian territories and a block of nations outside the Arab world.
Continue reading →By Wilner Jean Louis, AHP | Staff, Xinhua. “We have proposed to the Latin American Defense Council that during 2012, we will begin to withdraw our troops in gradual, proportional and coordinated ways.” – Chilean Defense Minister Andres Allamand. The plan is to finish this withdrawal by 2016: hardly the reverse of their swift arrival. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, MercoPress. Brazil signed into law a Truth Commission to investigate the human rights crimes during two military interventions between 1946 and 1988, but this Commission falls under a 1979 Amnesty Bill that protects torturers and guerrillas from prosecution.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (text) | Marcelo Sayao (photos). The attack on Brazil’s Rocinha slum illustrates a peacetime merger of military with police to make war on their country’s poor. If your country has contributed troops to UN (de)stabilization missions, sit up and take notice.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.
Continue reading →Editorial Comment Nobel Peace Prize laureates Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel and Irish Betty Williams, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, and Brazilian theologians Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto are among those who wrote a letter that calls for the withdrawal of the … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otavio Rodrigues Paes Leme. This article was first published in Aug 2011 when newly sworn Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim said he wanted to conclude Brazil’s participation in the notorious United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →David Cole, The Nation. Judge Baltasar Garzón has reliably insisted on accountability for human rights violations, invoking the principle of “universal jurisdiction” for especially egregious crimes. He faces several politically motivated criminal prosecutions for his decisions.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →By Marcela Valente, IPS. Buenos Aires – Textile cooperatives founded by former slave labourers from Argentina and Thailand will jointly launch a new brand of clothing in June to raise awareness about exploitation and promote decent jobs in the garment industry.
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