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ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples

CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil to Recover Leadership Role with CO2 Limits

BRAZIL: Deforestation Down 45 Percent

BOLIVIA: Amazon Nuts at Exploitative Prices

PERU: Former Minister Should Answer for Massacre in the Amazon

Q&A: "If You Find Yourself in a Minefield, Shout for Help"

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Less Torture, More Impunity

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Border Killings Heat Up Tension

COLOMBIA: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

COLOMBIA: U.S. Aid Must Leverage Reforms, Rights Groups Urge

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes

Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples

Call to Reactivate Zeolite Mining

Castor Oil Used in Metallurgy

Potential for Biogas in the South

RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
By Daniela Estrada
TEMUCO, Chile - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
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BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
By Stephen Leahy*
MÉRIDA, Mexico - Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
By Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
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NICARAGUA: Despite Efforts, Corruption Still a Problem
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - Two national surveys and the latest report on perceptions of corruption by Transparency International support the view that a culture of graft continues to undermine the foundations of Nicaraguan society, in spite of efforts to fight the problem in the last few years.
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Q&A: Impact of Crisis in Latin America Less Severe than in the Past
Darío Montero interviews MARTÍN HOPENHAYN, ECLAC's social development director
GUATEMALA CITY - Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to weather the impact of the global recession, although poverty has risen slightly for the first time since 2002.
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CUBA: Dissidents' Plight Unchanged Under Raul, Charges HRW
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While Cuban President Raul Castro has implemented some economic and administrative reforms, his three-year-old government has continued to isolate and persecute political dissidents, according to a major new report released here Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Q&A: "If You Find Yourself in a Minefield, Shout for Help"
Constanza Vieira interviews ANDRÉS, a teenager in a war zone
CALOTO, Colombia - Putting on a white t-shirt or wearing olive-green pants can be life-or-death decisions in the conflict zone in the steep Andes mountains in western Colombia where 14-year-old Andrés lives and attends eighth grade.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil to Recover Leadership Role with CO2 Limits
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet's climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological issues as a new factor on the global political agenda.
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ENVIRONMENT: Save Half the Planet, or Lose It All
By Stephen Leahy
MÉRIDA, Mexico - At least half the planet must be protected if humanity is to survive the next century, declared conservationists at the conclusion of 9th World Wilderness Congress on Friday, Nov. 13.
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CUBA: Fewer Storks Visiting Shiny Maternity Clinics
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Women in Cuba cite a variety of reasons to explain their decision to have only one child, ranging from the housing shortage to the rising cost of living and the many work responsibilities they have to shoulder. But many say that if things were different they would have a bigger family.
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LATIN AMERICA: Community-Based Social Innovation Wins Prizes
By Darío Montero
GUATEMALA CITY - Community control of public funds will no longer be just an effective local idea, put into practice by social activists and community leaders in a town in southern Brazil. Now that it has won first prize in ECLAC's fifth Social Innovation Contest, it is likely to spread throughout Latin America.
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NEOLIBERALISM: A SURVIVOR BY DEFAULT
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By Maurice Strong

BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
By Andrew MacMillan

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Conflicto se agudiza velozmente

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MUJERES-ASIA PACÍFICO: Mortalidad materna es "lo más triste"

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ZÂMBIA: Dependendo de um rio que dá medo

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ÁFRICA DO SUL: Imprescindível apoio interno da sociedade civil

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