Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Oct 30 (IPS) – The dismissal of 20 officers and seven noncommissioned officers for extrajudicial executions of civilians presented as battlefield casualties ”is a triumph for human rights organisations and for Colombian society [...]
CHILE: Achievements in AIDS Fight Marred by Irregularities
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Oct 23 (IPS) – Irregularities like delays in notifying 25 people that they were HIV-positive, which led to the deaths of at least two of them, have cast a shadow on Chile’s exemplary [...]
HONDURAS: President Clashes with Traditional Elites
October 23, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Thelma Mejía TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 23 (IPS) – Some sectors of Honduras’s social and leftist movement, labour unions and other popular organisations are caught up in a revolutionary reverie fruit of President Manuel Zelaya’s strong ties with [...]
ECONOMY-CUBA: ”Impossible to Escape Impact” of Crisis – Experts
October 22, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 22, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Oct 22 (IPS) – After three years of high growth, uncertainty is hovering over the Cuban economy once again, although experts are not yet ready to predict exactly what impact the current global [...]
Q&A: ”EU Should Place Greater Importance on Latin America”
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario de Queiroz interviews MARIO SOARES LISBON, Oct 23 (IPS) – Mario Soares, two times president and three times prime minister of Portugal, says he is sorry that the European Union has not yet understood the [...]