August 2009

L AT I N P U L S E
Latin American issues
relevant to the
American public, as
presented by
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from different Latin
American countries.

Colombia-Venezuela Border

THE NEW LATIN PULSE BLOG:

THE COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA STANDOFF

We are happy to announce the new LATIN PULSE BLOG! Read blogger Daniel Marrin’s first entry...

This
week
as
Venezuela
shut
 maintaining
strong
economic

down
its
border
with
Colombia,
 and
diplomatic
ties
with
both

cargo
trucks
bringing
perishable
 countries.

While
the
U.S.

food
sat
in
park
on
the
highway.

 continues
funneling
military
aid

It
was
a
perfect
image
to
capture
 to
Colombia
through
Plan

the
state
of
affairs
between
 Colombia,
Colombia
has

Venezuela
and
Colombia:
a
 maintained
a
huge
export

standstill,
with
potential
for
 business
with
a
longtime
enemy

spoiling.
For
the
last
several
 of
the
U.S.
government...
years,
Alvaro
Uribe
has
 Curbside
contraband
gasoline
vendors
line
the

roads
in
Colombia's
border
region
with

maintained
a
tricky
alliance
with
 for
more,
visit Venezuela.
(Charlie
Devereux/GlobalPost)

both
the
U.S.
and
Venezuela,
 
linktv.org/latinpulseBLOG

ARGENTINA. To
know
more
about
the
effects

of
the
industrial
soy
production
in

South
America,
read
Maria


SOLO SE ESCUCHA Tregona's
article
or
take
a
look
at


this
striking
photo‐essay
from

NACLA.

EL VIENTO. Al Jazzera: Hunger in El Chaco

Since
July,
12
2007
members
of
the

Toba
tribe
have
died
from

malnourishment
and
associated

diseases...more
info.

Photographs
by
Evan
Abramson.
NACLA.
On our next episode.
LATIN
PULSE's
Next
 show
features 
an
Argentinean
 Study
Released
in
Argentina
Puts
Glyphosate
Under
Fire
documentary
"Solo
se
escucha
el
viento"
by
Alejandro
 







Argentina
has
seen
an
explosion
in
genetically
modified
(GM)


Moujan.
We 
follow
him
to
El
Chaco
region,
to
explore
 soy
bean
production
with
soy
exports
topping
$16.5
billion
in


the
 social 
 conflicts
 and
 environmental 
 effects
 2008.
The
fertile
South
American
nation
is
now
the
world's
third


largest
producer
of
soy,
trailing
behind
the
United
States
and

generated
 by
 industrial
 soy
 production.
 Latin
 Pulse

Brazil.
However,
this
lucrative
industrial
form
of
farming
has

speaks 
 to
 journalist
 Marie
 Trigona 
 and
 Arturo
 XXX

come
under
fire
with
environmental
groups,
local
residents,
and

about
 the
consequences 
of
 extensive
soy
 production

traditional
farmers
reporting
that
GM
soy
threatens
biodiversity,

on
argentinean
environment,
 health,
 impoverishment

the
nation's
ability
to
feed
itself,
and
health
in
rural
communities.

of
communities
and
food
sovereignty.
 More...

Update on our Last Show

KILLING OF INDIGENOUS IN CAUCA
Colombia:
indigenous
march
 this
violence!"
(El

against
violence
in
Cauca
In
a
 Tiempo,
Bogotá,
July
24)
minga
(popular
mobilization)
 The
cabildo
(traditional

called
in
response
to
growing
 governor)
of
the

violence
on
their
territories,
some
 community
of

10,000
indigenous
residents
of
 Jambaló
said
there
is

Colombia's
Cauca
department
 a
"social
and

marched
140
kilometers
between
 humanitarian
 condemned
abuses

the
towns
of
Santander
de
 emergency"
on
Cauca's
 committed
by
the
FARC,
"Public

Quilichao
and
Corinto
July
23‐4.
 indigenous
territories,
and
 Force"
(official
security
forces)

On
July
19,
Corinto
was
the
scene
 reiterated
his
demand
that
the
 and
paramilitaries.
The
statement

of
a
clash
between
FARC
guerillas
 guerillas
and
army
alike
respect
 also
protested
the
June
23
slaying

and
government
forces
in
which
 the
declared
wish
of
the
 of
Marino
Mestizo,
one
of
the

three
local
residents
were
killed
 indigenous
reserves
not
to
be
 traditional
leaders
of
Jambaló,
by

and
17
wounded.
Jorge
Arias
of
 involved
in
the
armed
conflict.
(El
 unknown
masked
gunmen.
As
the

the
Association
of
Indigenous
 País,
Calí,
July
25)The
official
 march
took
place,
the
FARC
were

Cabildos
of
North
Cauca
(ACIN)
 statement
announcing
the
march,
 accused
of
killing
three
Embera

told
the
crowd
in
Corinto
at
the
 ACIN
demanded
the
 indigenous
people
in
Antioquia

march's
end:
"We
come
here
to
 "harmonization"
of
Cxab
Wala
 department,
in
the
north
of
the

honor
the
memory
of
our
dead,
 Kiwe,
the
Nasa
indigenous
name
 country.

and
to
say
to
the
armed
groups,
 for
their
territory
(meaning
Land
 Article
by
WW4
Report
on
July
25,
2009.

legal
and
illegal,
enough
with
all
 of
the
great
People).
It


PULSO LATINO ARGENTINA MEXICO HONDURAS COLOMBIA

Farmers, Protests, Ousted South American

drought and heavy security Honduran leaders
taxes cripple mark North leader asks concerned over
Argentina... America for more US US-Colombia
summit... help... military
deal...

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