Latin America

The main cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, so why are billions of dollars being invested to find and produce more oil, coal and natural gas?

Approximately 300 Cuban and 30 Venezuelan volunteer “brigadistas” have departed Ecuador, marking the end of the first phase of the “Manuela Espejo Mission,” conducting a complete study of disabilities in this country over the past year and a half.

Since arriving in Cape Town five years ago, Erina Manyene (not her real name) has eked out a meager living picking up shifts doing laundry and cleaning other people’s homes in the city’s leafy southern suburbs.

“The hurricane season officially ended on Nov. 30,” a local shopkeeper told this journalist reassuringly as she entered his store with her hair blown in every direction by the wind on a drizzly, cloudy day.

Some of the United States’ leading human rights organizations are concerned for the safety of human rights advocates in countries with repressive regimes, where disclosure by Wikileaks could put them in deadly harm.

As the dust settles following contract negotiations with foreign oil companies, Ecuador is looking at a new map for its petroleum industry and trying to determine what it will mean in economic terms for this OPEC-member nation.

The leaked reports sent by U.S. officials abroad to Washington reveal a treacherous playing field for the United States in the Middle East.

“If you can’t cope with the current hurricane and extreme rainfall now, then you won’t be able to cope with what is to come,” Leslie Walling.

Posters cover almost every conceivable surface, even tombs in graveyards. Trucks mounted with loud speakers blare campaign jingles. Candidates’ faces are everywhere. It’s elections “à la américaine”, complete with polls and whistle-stops.