South America

Articles from Telesur, newsagency of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela

Sun, 2018-07-08 00:24 — admin

Nicaragua: Legitimacy and human rights - opinion by Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal

Defeated opposition leaders hoped to impose their coup, failed because they lacked popular support and now have to accept what the Sandinista government is prepared to agree. …

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Hugo Chavez: a true, passionate Latin American leader

Tue, 2013-03-12 13:30 — nimby

Hugo Chavez:A true and passionate Latin American leader.

Latin America was always material for big movies and great stories of literature of South America. It's always been the cradle for big revolutionary leaders such as Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Salvadore Allende, Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra. Always unsuccessful but their work rarely finishes because The United States of America always interferes. Chavez was inspired by all these leaders. (11 March, 2013 Two Venezuelan diplomats were deported from USA).

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Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigatable lake, is suffering from pollution

Wed, 2009-04-22 00:42 — nimby

Lake Titicaca, which straddles the border between Bolivia and Peru, and which was venerated by the ancient Incas who ruled throughout South America from the 13th to the mid-16th centuries, is threatened by overfishing, the introduction of exotic species, pollution from 30,000 small illegal mines near its shores and the dumping of raw untreated sewage.

See also: Peru, Bolivia to clean Lake Titicaca of 22 Nov 08, 30,000 illegal mines pollute Lake Titicaca of 22 Sep 08, Bolivia's Lake Titicaca strangled of 3 Aug 07.

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Seven Wonders of Nature Campaign

Harold Pinter has died

Sun, 2008-12-28 21:20 — Sheila Newman

Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005. Here are some exerpts from his searing denunciation of United States realpolitik in his Nobel Prize speech. Really worth reading...