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Latin America and the Caribbean
A growing dissent
May 2012
Amira Armenta

Latin America's desire to cast aside the ideological model imposed by the United States is not new but has been advocated for two decades.  The challenge now is to maintain this momentum in the face of efforts to silence the debate.

NO to the EU - Colombia/Peru Free Trade Agreement
April 2012
Alternative Regionalisms

Call on your MEP to oppose EU's proposed Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Peru and Central America because they will undermine human rights, increase unemployment and put corporate profits above human needs.

 

Six Steps towards a Drugs Policy that Promotes Peace and Respects Human Rights
April 2012
TNI
 Accion Andina, WOLA, CIDDH et al.

Six steps that the presidents of the Americas can take to start a humane drugs control policy, as outlined by Civil society organisations from Latin America and worldwide.

Latijns-Amerika wil af van oorlog tegen drugs
April 2012
IPS & Danilo Valladares

Nogal wat landen in Latijns-Amerika willen af van de oorlog tegen drugs. De oorlog, die vooral in Mexico en Centraal-Amerika een zware tol eist, heeft gefaald, zeggen ze. Ze zullen dit weekend op de Top van de Amerika's pleiten voor alternatieven.

Latin America debates alternatives to current drug policy
April 2012
Drugs and Democracy

Debate on alternatives to the war on drugs, which TNI has promoted for years, is finally received unprecedented attention as several Latin America presidents put it on the agenda of the highest level intergovernmental meeting in the hemisphere.

Drugs on Latin America summit's agenda
April 2012
Martin Jelsma

A critical rethink of the war on drugs features prominently on the agenda of the Cartagena summit. This provides opportunities to move forward but also faces several risks that could suffocate the remarkable yet incipient political opening of the drugs debate in Latin America.

Public Debt, Regional Integration and The South Bank
March 2012
Marcos Arruda

The EU debt crisis foretells a more serious global debt crisis, caused by unlimited growth and the ongoing financial casino. Latin America's emerging financial and regional architecture offers hope for a new type of integration based on solidarity. 

The War on Colombia’s Poor
January 2012
Ross Eventon

The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security
January 2012
Miguel Altieri

Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
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December 2011
Jun Borras
Jennifer Franco
 Cristobal Kay, Max Spoor

A critical re-assessment of a UN FAO study on land grabbing finds that a too-narrow definition has obscured evidence of land grabbing on a wider geographical scale than previously thought; this research includes new evidence of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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