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...Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) characterized the groups behind the protests as "oligarchic sectors who use the people of Santa Cruz with the intention of creating further national divisions...
...Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos even committed something of a gaffe by offering an open welcome to the "bounty hunters of the world" to deliver terrorists for rewards...
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...The protests ultimately led to the annulment of the contract...
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...The Federation of Neighborhood Associations (FEJUVE), which organized the strike, says the water company charged rates that put water and sewer service out of reach for a majority of El Alto residents...
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...The Federation of Neighborhood Associations (FEJUVE), which organized the strike, says the water company charged rates that put water and sewer service out of reach for a majority of El Alto residents...
...California Democrat Barbara Boxer criticized Rice, saying, "You praise Uribe for democracy even though we were told at this conference that he's trying to pass a law that would forbid sitting governors and sitting senators from running against him, and you condemn the head of Venezuela, Chavez, after having the [Bush] Administration--not you personally-briefly praise a coup...
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...The government tried to convince El Alto residents to halt their strike by decreeing a series of economic measures to encourage investment in El Alto...
...Maremoto, which can be translated as "seaquake," dominated Latin American news pages and broadcasts after the catastrophe hit...
...In 0 Globo, columnist Elio Gaspari invoked the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess lemanja in his December 29 column on the tragedy Every New Year, Brazilians bathe or send offerings often white roses into the ocean to ask favors of lemanja...
...The company had also failed to expand water service to the outlying areas of the municipality, residents complain...
...Evidence soon began to surface that individuals posing as secret police had actually abducted Granda two days earlier in a Caracas cafe and delivered him to the Colombian police at the border...
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...Meanwhile, nationwide protests continued against another govern- ment decree that instituted price increases of 10% for gasoline and 23% for diesel...
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...0 -Weekly News Update on the Americas and NACLA REGION: Latin America Responds to Tsunami LIKE ALL HUMANITY, LATIN AMERICANS grasped for words to describe the calamity that raced across the Indian Ocean on December 26...
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...The water and sewer system of El Alto was privatized to Aguas del Illimani in July 1997 when the World Bank made water privatization a condition of a loan to the Bolivian government...
...Rather than take a bystander role, they sought to lead relief efforts...
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...BOLIVIA: Privatized Water Company Defeated ON JANUARY 10, MEMBERS OF MORE than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an open-ended peaceful civic strike to press a series of demands, including the cancellation of the city's water and sanitation contract with the private consor- tium Aguas del Illimani...
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...Condoleezza Rice also disparaged Chavez as "a negative force in the region" during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 19...
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...Over the New Year, further investigations into the incident revealed that five members of the Venezuelan National Guard had been paid off to collaborate with the Colombians and illegally participate in the capture...
...BOLIVIA: Privatized Water Company Defeated ON JANUARY 10, MEMBERS OF MORE than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an open-ended peaceful civic strike to press a series of demands, including the cancellation of the city's water and sanitation contract with the private consortium Aguas del Illimani...
...FEJUVE called the strike for January 10 after five months of protests and negotiations failed to win a solution to El Alto's water crisis...
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...In the outlying neighborhoods of Ballivian and Alto Lima, which lack water and sewer hookups, residents seized several Aguas del Illimani facilities, including a water tank...
...A huge protest march was held in Caracas on January 21 against the Colombian government's actions...
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...they have to go," he said...
...Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) characterized the groups behind the protests as "oligarchic sectors who use the people of Santa Cruz with the intention of creating further national divisions...
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...Electropaz is next," activists warned, referring to the electricity company for El Alto and La Paz, operated by the Spanish transnational Iberdrola...
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...Over the New Year, further investigations into the incident revealed that five members of the Venezuelan National Guard had been paid off to collaborate with the Colombians and illegally participate in the capture...
...The Aguas del Illimani consortium is owned jointly by the French water giant Suez (formerly Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux) and a set of minority shareholders that includes the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank...
...After each neighborhood association had a chance to discuss the document with its members, FEJUVE called an end to the strike, but warned that its members 42MARCH APRIL 2005 IN BRIEF would remain on alert to make sure the company did not remove any equipment from its facilities and would continue pressing other demands...
...Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos even committed something of a gaffe by offering an open welcome to the "bounty hunters of the world" to deliver terrorists for rewards...
...Gaspari's was not the only voice in Latin America hoping that the maremoto might contribute to a new climate of unity to replace a post-9/1 1 era marked by polarization, warfare and unilateralism...
...At its conclusion, Chavez threatened to "freeze" all commercial relations with Colombia, declaring, "I am not going to have an open relationship with a government that is not capable of recognizing such a grave mistake...
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...After several days of coverage, a reader in Chile even complained in a letter to El Mercurio that too many headline writers had privileged the word tsunami over maremoto: "We should preserve our language" even when disaster strikes, he wrote...
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...Media often noted the tragedy's "biblical dimensions," as Rio de Janeiro's 0 Globo put it, and sought meaning in the disaster as if it carried a divine message...
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...The Colombians reacted incredulously, openly admitting they paid the bounty but denying that they violated their neighbor's sovereignty...
...In a press release, the Brazilian government prided itself on being "among the first countries to deliver aid...
...President Uribe said that Venezuela had forfeited its sovereignty by harboring Granda...
...Aguas del Illimani has not complied...
...The fund is endowed by the family of the late investigative reporter, Samuel Chavkin, in honor of his commitment to socially conscious journalism...
...involvement in Granda's arrest in December...
...44 In a January 2 op-ed in Buenos Aires daily La NaciOn headlined "The Sea Lashes Out," author Enrique Valiente Noailles evoked the "monstrous" action of the ocean on a day in which "apocalypse showed its face...
...It concludes with some short, - medium, and long-term strategies for addressing and potentially overcoming some of the obstacles that the contemporary anti-sweatshop movement currently faces...
...U.S...
...Accusing the Colombians of a flagrant violation of sovereignty, President Hugo Chavez pulled his ambassador from Bogota, cancelled bilateral accords and demanded an unreserved apology from Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, marking the lowest point in the two countries' relations in recent memory...
...If that happens, even though 2004 ended terribly, 2005 could begin in the best manner possible...
...Many of the globe's natural disasters in the future will be traceable to the superabundance of fossil fuel emissions in the atmosphere, he says...
...We are in Cuernavaca, Mexico, "The City of Eternal Spring...
...Now they want to talk about expansion of the service, but they don't say anything about non-fulfillment of the contract terms or of irregularities in the bidding for the concession...
...The latest population census showed that 52% of 41 THE SAMUEL CHAVKIN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FUND APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED The Samuel Chavkin Investigative Journalism Fund, administered by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), supports and promotes independent critical research and analysis by encouraging and disseminating original, rigorous journalistic reporting on the Americas...
...With lemanja's help," he writes, "the United Nations will be able to transform this Asian tragedy into a resurrection of its flag...
...The word tsunami is used in Spanish and Portuguese, but in both languages there was a term much closer at hand for the event: maremoto...
...The fund is endowed by the family of the late investigative reporter, Samuel Chavkin, in honor of his commitment to socially conscious journalism...
...A water and sewer hookup for a single household exceeded S445, while many Bolivians earn about S2.50 a day...
...The 'Bolivianization' of the rates is a promise from November of last year," complained FEJUVE president Abel Mamani Marca...
...On the morning of January 12, as El Alto remained paralyzed, the government gave FEJUVE an unsigned decree, prompting the neighborhood associations to convene another assembly FEJUVE rejected the new decree, saying it needed to make clear that Aguas del Illimani would leave Bolivia "immediately" Later that night the government added the language demanded by FEJUVE...
...Families are welcome...
...An&sw Herod, Professor, G.ography end International Affairs, University of Osorgla Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobilized for better wages and working conditions over the past ten years...
...FEJUVE called the strike for January 10 after five months of protests and negotiations failed to win a solution to El Alto's water crisis...
...Amid the intransigence of the Civic Committee, even President Mesa's would-be opposition groups rallied to his support...
...On the morning of January 12, as El Alto remained paralyzed, the government gave FEJUVE an unsigned decree, prompting the neighborhood associations to convene another assembly...
...Tel: +52 (777) 311 8956 & 317 5151 Fax: +52 (777) 317 5151 & 316 3546 cls@cuernavacalanguageschool.com www.cuemavacalanguageschool.comIOLLOW YOUR OWN PATH A MIJLTI-OISCSPUNARV PRO6RAM COMBININ6 ACADEMIC RU5OR iim SERVICe 1ARNIN& AND CULTURAL...
...The water and sewer system of El Alto was privatized to Aguas del Illimani in July 1997 when the World Bank made water privatiza- tion a condition of a loan to the Bolivian government...
...The article goes on to trace the NorthSouth divide in ecological terms...
...Two to four grants in the range of S2000 - S3500 will normally be awarded each year...
...After road blockades, a civic strike and an eight-day hunger strike called by the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, the government convinced the Civic Committee to begin a dialogue mediated by the Catholic Church...
...Routledge Ta4oc&Frnnth Group 1-800-634-7064 GLOBALIZATION AND CROSS-BORDER LABOR SOLIDARITY IN THE AMERICAS THE ANTI-SWEATSHOP MOVEMENT THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL - lIb: 0-415-94956-4 Pb: 0-415-94957-2 IN BRIEF NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS El Alto residents lack basic water and sewer services...
...In O Globo, columnist Elio Gaspari invoked the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess lemanja in his December 29 column on the tragedy...
...Accusing the Colombians of a flagrant violation of sovereignty, President Hugo Chavez pulled his ambassador from Bogota, cancelled bilateral accords and demanded an unreserved apology from Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, marking the lowest point in the two countries' relations in recent memory The controversy began when Colombian authorities announced that Rodrigo Granda, the international spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), had been appre- hended in the border town of Cucuta on December 15...
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