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Country / Region
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Tittle
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Resume
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Date
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See
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Uruguay |
Taxes for landowners |
The restoration of a tax to agricultural producers announces President-elect Tabaré Vázquez. |
2/5/2015 |
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Panama |
Wetland regains protected area status |
Government approves law banning any activity that affects the water flow of mangroves. |
2/5/2015 |
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El Salvador |
Multimillion dollar plan to curb violence |
An initiative is targeted towards crime prevention and will be implemented in the most violent towns. |
2/5/2015 |
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Guatemala |
Former police chief sentenced for assault on Spanish embassy |
Thirty seven people died burnt in the Spanish embassy in 1981 on the orders of dictator Romeo Lucas García and senior police officers. |
1/29/2015 |
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Latin America |
In brief |
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador. |
1/29/2015 |
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Mexico |
Sexual torture is an institutionalized practice |
Government troops subject women to sexual torture to admit crimes they have not committed or to punish social activism. |
1/16/2015 |
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Haiti |
Parliament is dissolved and President governs by decree |
Five years after the earthquake that devastated the country, weak public institutions persist and thousands of people remain in refugee camps. |
1/16/2015 |
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Cuba |
Restoration of diplomatic ties with the United States continues |
The decision of both countries to normalize relations will have important economic and political effects. |
1/16/2015 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
COP20: Another failure? |
At the last minute the Lima Call for Climate Action managed to pass. The agreement leaves large gaps, huge uncertainties and lacks commitments. |
12/21/2014 |
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Peru |
“Cultivation” of lakes |
Recognition for the practice of growing and harvesting rainwater. |
12/21/2014 |
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Latin America |
For just and equal sustainability |
Women face climate change with demands and proposals. |
12/21/2014 |
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Mexico |
A darkened sun: The debacle of the PRD |
Members of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, the former left, are responsible for the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa students. |
12/19/2014 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
In Brief |
Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay |
12/19/2014 |
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Colombia |
Indigenous at high risk of extermination |
In less than two years more than 40 indigenous people have been killed by armed groups. |
12/19/2014 |
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Chile |
Strengthening the trade union movement |
Union workshop promotes worker organization to defend their rights. |
12/5/2014 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
A hot climate summit |
COP20 delegates must approve draft of new agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
12/3/2014 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
In Brief |
Latin America and the Caribbean, Argentina, Dominican Republic’s, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Honduras |
12/1/2014 |
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Latin America |
Extractivism is not inevitable: we must find alternatives |
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11/26/2014 |
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Latin America |
Women’s struggle for their bodies and territories |
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11/26/2014 |
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Latin America |
Regaining the right to health: preliminary lessons from a work in progress |
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11/26/2014 |
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