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[Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for November 10. See original article here and related article here.]

by Fabiola Martínez

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, November 9 – “What country was Calderón talking about?” asked Edith Zavala, executive secretary of the Foro Nacional para las Migraciones [National Forum for Migration] of Honduras, a support network for citizens of that country who have suffered abuse while traveling through Mexico, as soon as the president’s long speech ended..

Calderón listed measures to support the migrants, actions to arrest those responsible for the massacre in Tamaulipas of 72 workers from Central and South America and reassured listeners that his administration respects human rights. (more…)

[Translation of an article from TeleSUR of Venezuela for November 10. See original article here.]

A video recording released on Tuesday by Televisión Pública of Ecuador shows the moment in which several uniformed police agents in rebellion attempted to enter the National Police hospital to assault President Rafael Correa on the day they attempted to overthrow him.

The images confirm the account by Ecuadorian Interior Minister Gustavo Jalkh, who said several days ago that last September 30 some of the police in rebellion had attempted to enter the hospital by force with the aim of an attempt on the life of President Correa. (more…)

[Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for November 6. See original article here.]

by Arturo Cano

Salvador de Bahía, November 5 – The election of Dilma Rousseff has unleashed a wave of racism in Brazil. And not because the president elect is the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant, a communist who became moderately wealthy, but because in the northeastern region, the poorest and the darkest of the country, the vote for the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT – Workers’ Party) candidate was substantially larger than that for José Serra, candidate for the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB – Brazilian Social Democrat Party).

On every side, traces of racism and regionalism are surfacing: “Do São Paulo a favor: hang a northeasterner.” The sentence urging the killing of inhabitants of the northeast of Brazil because “they are not people” was written by law student Mayara Petruso on Monday morning. By then it was known that the PT candidate had gotten the majority of the 12 million votes in the north and the northeast of the country that made the difference. Petruso, in the southern city of São Paulo, voted for Serra. (more…)

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Workers reject minimum wage increase and oppose law on temporary work

[Translation of an article from Revistazo.com of Tegucigalpa for November 3. See original article here.]

by Germán Reyes

Called by the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular (FNRP – National Front for Popular Resistance), a large demonstration left the vecinity of the El Obelisco de Comayagüela Park carrying banners and signs and shouting slogans against the government, and arrived near the national congress, where they held a protest rally. (more…)

Neutrality in the runoff may have been only on the surface

[Translation of an article from Brasil de Fato of São Paulo for October 28. See original article here.]

by Eduardo Sales de Lima

Marina Silva says she is neutral in the runoff election, as does the Partido Verde (PV – Green Party). What appears to be agreement at first sight may hide what some political personalities see as a programmatic abyss between the former candidate for the presidency and the majority of the party cadre.

Support for the former PV presidential candidate grew surprisingly in the days before the first round of the elections, winning her 19.6 million votes from throughout Brazil. Roberto Malvezzi, CPT [Comissão Pastoral da Terra – Pastoral Commission for the Earth] advisor, believes many people, to the right and to the left, underestimated the votes for Marina and attributed her growth to conservative and evangelical backing. Support for Marina, according to Malvezzi, reflected more than that; it represented the discontent of many Brazilians over the lack of regard for the environment, especially in connection with large projects like the transposition of the São Francisco river and the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu river. “The Lula government misjudged the environmental question. I don’t know if Serra judged it at all,” he declares. (more…)