Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 19 (IPS) – Brazil expects its international standing to be bolstered by more cooperative relations with the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, as well as a shift in Washington’s position on the issue of climate change and with respect [...]

Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 13 (IPS) – A Spanish judge’s decision to investigate 14 Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador is a ”sign of hope against impunity,” according to lawyers and activists.
In his resolution, which was seen by IPS, [...]

Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Ángel Páez
LIMA, Jan 12 (IPS) – Peruvian prosecutors and police have busted a ring of active and retired Peruvian navy intelligence agents who moonlighted as telephone tapping experts allegedly engaged in spying.
The spies worked for a front company, Business Track (BTR), which ostensibly exists to provide anti-surveillance [...]

Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 5 (IPS) – Brazil is not immune to the current global financial crisis, but there are many indications that it will remain largely safe from the recession shaking the world’s rich countries and that economic growth will stay at reasonable levels if [...]

Global Politics Online Journal
Mario Osava
SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 8 (IPS) – Millions of Brazilians usher in the new year by wading into the sea, dressed in white, scattering flowers on the water as an offering to the Afro-Brazilian deity Iemanjá, in return for her blessings for the year to come. But few of [...]

Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY, Jan 7 (IPS) – Thousands of fishermen in Mexico have gone on strike over the last few days to protest the rise in the cost of diesel fuel which, they say, has reduced their profit margin to zero. But the industry’s problems, which have [...]