Today, I received a Facebook message from a member of Young Democrats of America, reporting on her participation, and the "information" she received, at NetRoots Nation, an onstensibly "progressive," "liberal,"...
created by francislholland | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 308 views | 0 recommendations | 8 comments
In Central America's Guatemala women are being 'punished' for their gender every day. Women are raped, tortured, mutilated and brutallly killed on a daily basis, as their perpetrators enjoy widespread impunity....
created by Arbol | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 494 views | 6 recommendations | 1 comment
Wash and wear. It seems to be the practice with words by transnational news agencies covering the situation in Honduras. In a today report from Tegucigalpa, the news agency Reuters calls Micheletti...
opinion by JAMP | 17 wks ago 114 views | 6 recommendations | 4 comments
Once again this criminal is determined to do whatever it takes to regain power in a country where most people don't want him! His latest statement "there are other forms of action and we are arranging for my...
President Barack Obama is "deeply concerned" over unrest in Honduras, the democratic republic in Central America. "Using an ambivalent speech, US President Barack Obama said he was “deeply concerned”...
Updated V: Roberto Micheletti took oath as the new Head of State of Honduras amid international and regional condemnation of the coup this morning that ousted President Manuel Zelaya and forced him...
UTILA EASTWIND JUNE 1st 2009
On June 2nd the Organization of American States will be meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras with Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez ready to collide on many issues. Cuba, human rights...
"“There’s another attitude, totally different, in Obama’s behavior: more openness, more dialogue, more respect. There are good prospects,” said Zelaya, one of the leaders in the region who has been most critical of the United States and an ally of Venezuelan...
The Maya nut could be the miracle food we've all been looking for. The nutrient rich, marble-sized seed is giving impoverished women of Central America new economic possibilities and it has a positive impact on the rainforest in which it grows Abundant in the rain forests of...
Southbound Net is Alive and Well! Southbound Net now has it's own website...you can find it by either Googling for Southbound Net and looking for the link to it - or by clicking here. Here are the coordinates:...
Salamanders are declining rapidly in areas like Central America, and scientists studying them have attributed this to global warming. Two species are already extinct and a few others are losing numbers so quickly...
created by Amy Judd | 41 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 266 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
In June of 2008, I spent five weeks in El Salvador and was fortunate to have the opportunity to volunteer in a local health care clinic. The Zaragosa Clinic is just shy of an hour’s bus ride inland from the...
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Cuatro de los seis países con mayores tasas de prevalencia de VIH-sida en América Latina están en Centroamérica, y en tres de esos países las tasas de incidencia son superiores a un 1%.En material de...
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The Mexican Home Minister, 37 year old Juan Camilo Mourino died in a plane crash today. "Mr Mourino was in charge of security during the government's violent battle with powerful drug cartels". "The cause of...