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| Bulletin 8 February 2010 Costa Rica elects first woman president ♦ Venezuela: Chávez expropriates landmark buildings ♦ Argentina: former President has emergency heart operation ♦ Brazil: interest rates set to go up ♦ Colombia: forest fires threaten natural reserve |
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| Communities battle to save Amazon forest Amazon communities have seized barges of hard wood to protest over illegal logging. Americas Report has the story |
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Javier Farje, from LAB, tells us the real stories in text and audio of COP15.
Analysis
| US interference in Haiti The US has a long history of political meddling in Haiti and many other Latin American countries. Mark Weisbrot reports. |
| Ecuador's President Faces Off With Indigenous and Social Movements Rafael Correa is in trouble with those who put him in power. Roger Burbach explains the reasons |
| Fujimori Faces Justice Alberto Fujimori lost his appeal. Jo-Marie Burt and Coletta Youngers argue that it is time he pays for his crimes. |
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Letter from Manaus Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties lining the igarapés, or inlets. Moored on the river was the Cidade Flutuante, a floating shantytown of bars and stores. It was a town where y [ ... ]
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