Inter Press Service - Latin America and the Caribbean

Artículos

• A 1904 Massacre Could Help Save the Future of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

  10 de junio, por Mario Osava — Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, Regional Categories, Brazil, Indigenous Reserves, Massacres
  Children were thrown into the air and stabbed and cut with knives and machetes. The attackers first opened fire on the victims of the massacre before finishing them off with knives so that none of the 244 indigenous people of the village would survive. The 1904 massacre permanently marked the (...)

• The U.S. Assault on Mexico’s Food Sovereignty

  6 de junio, por Timothy A. Wise
  On June 2, the U.S. government escalated its conflict with Mexico over that country’s restrictions on genetically modified corn, initiating the formal dispute-resolution process under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It is only the latest in a decades-long U.S. assault on Mexico’s food (...)

• Close Inequalities to End AIDS & Prepare for Future Pandemics

  5 de junio, por Winnie Byanyima and Sir Michael Marmot — Africa, COVID-19, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Health, Inequity, Latin America & the Caribbean, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations, IPS UN Bureau
  The COVID-19 crisis has shone a light on the danger of pandemics; social crises have shone a light on the danger of inequalities. And the reality is that outbreaks become the pandemics they do because of inequality. The good news is that both can be overcome – if they are confronted as one. (...)

• Rocky Point Fishers Await Sanctuary To Ease Environmental Issues, Low Fish Catch

  2 de junio, por Zadie Neufville
  Long before the COVID-19 Pandemic, fishers at the Rocky Point fishing beach in Clarendon were forced to venture farther out to sea to make a living or find alternatives to make ends meet. This once-prime fishing village attracted fishers from up and down the coast. Men like Ephraim Walters, (...)

• US Ban on Smoking Undermined by Tobacco Industry

  1ro de junio, por Thalif Deen
  The US has some of the strictest laws against smoking in public, including a 1997 executive order which bans smoking in all government federal buildings. But still, the tobacco industry and its allies do not rest, says Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Washington-based Pan American Health (...)