Lima - Despite earlier promises to the contrary, the fifth European Union-Latin America-Caribbean (EU-LAC) summit Friday in Lima failed to deliver much more than gestures and was yet another sum of good intentions with little practical content. Peopl...
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In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela - voters rejected the "Washington Consensus" economic policies after more...
A Venezuelan indigenous community belonging to the Yukpa ethnic group, which is demanding legal title to its ancestral lands, was attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were...
Venezuela is boosting sales of subsidized gasoline to neighboring Colombia in a bid to slow cross-border smuggling of cheap Venezuelan fuel. Venezuela's Oil Ministry says it plans to send Colombia's Norte de Santander state at...
Colombia's decades-long conflict, U.S.-backed anti-drugs measures and resource-hungry multinational companies are pushing the country's indigenous peoples towards extinction. War alone uproots 20,000 Indians from their...