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Guatemala under Pressure to Investigate Shooting of Native Protesters
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 09 (IPS) - The deaths of eight indigenous demonstrators taking part in a protest against the Guatemalan government in the southwestern province of Totonicapán have provoked outrage within the country and abroad. The protesters accuse the army of shooting into the crowd.
Q&A: Global Economy, Meet One Billion Co-op Members
- Inter Press Service
QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Oct 09 (IPS) - The international rally to take the global cooperative movement to the next level is in full swing at the International Summit of Cooperatives here, which kicked off on Monday.
Bicycles Defend Their Place in Mexico City’s Concrete Jungle
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 09 (IPS) - Juan Longueiro, 56, uses the bicycles of the Ecobici system three times a day, to commute to and from work and to exercise along the Paseo de la Reforma, a central Mexico City avenue.
Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 09 (IPS) - The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020.
How the U.S. Quietly Lost the IED War in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 09 (IPS) - Although the surge of “insider attacks” on U.S.-NATO forces has dominated coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2012, an even more important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of the pivotal war of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the Taliban.
Israeli Academics Fight for Freedom
- Inter Press Service
BE’ER SHEVA, Israel, Oct 09 (IPS) - As the political science department at a major Israeli university has been threatened with closure in the 2013 school year, professors and students say the move reflects the politicisation of Israeli academia,and threatens basic freedoms.
Chávez Victory Brings Challenges for “21st Century Socialism”
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Oct 08 (IPS) - The landslide victory of Hugo Chávez, who was re-elected as president of Venezuela on Sunday, could translate into an acceleration of his socialist project or a toning down of his programme, which could help open up channels of understanding with the part of the country that has opposed him since he first came to power in 1999.
Q&A: "Indian Reality Is Infinitely Complex"
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 08 (IPS) - One morning, Tarun Tejpal awoke to learn that five hitmen had been arrested for having a contract to kill him. Suddenly, the life of the prominent Indian journalist and editor was turned upside down.
Guatemalans Turn to Mutual Aid to Overcome Poverty
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 08 (IPS) - "Our economic situation improved a great deal because we obtained more income for our families" as a result of setting up a social enterprise, Matilde García, who makes fashion jewellery in the municipality of Pastores, 60 km west of the capital of Guatemala, told IPS.
U.S.: Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Foreign Policy, Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 08 (IPS) - In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particular.
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