COLOMBIA: Uribe Agrees to Talks with Indigenous Protesters

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira* BOGOTA, Oct 23 (IPS) – ”The police did fire” on indigenous protesters, said Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who yielded to pressure to meet next Sunday with the leaders of a two-week-long demonstration by native [...]

INDIA: Tata Motors Move to Gujarat Less Than Secular

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) – Tata Motors’ decision to shift the production site of its ultra-cheap, iconic Nano car from communist-ruled West Bengal state to Gujarat — scene of the 2002 [...]