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ENVIRONMENT: Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company - (Found June 29, 2008 )

TORONTO, Jun 28 (Tierramrica) - Residents and activists from the central Mexican state of San Luis Potos travelled to Toronto to tell the shareholders of a Canadian mining company that their investments are at risk because the billion-dollar Cerro San Pedro gold and silver mine is illegal and environmentally unsafe.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43004

NICARAGUA: Asylum for Refugees - At Last - (Found June 29, 2008 )

MANAGUA, Jun 24 (IPS) - Salvadoran refugee Matas Carazo has lived in legal limbo in Nicaragua for more than 26 years. In 1982 he fled from the military in his country who accused him of being a sympathiser of the leftwing guerrillas, and only now is he able to seek protection under a law granting him official refugee status.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42947

PERU: Rights Groups Warn of Authoritarian Tendencies - (Found June 29, 2008 )

LIMA, Jun 25 (IPS) - The government of Peruvian President Alan Garca has demonstrated an authoritarian bent in its intolerance of social protest or any form of criticism, and has sponsored draft laws that treat demonstrations as criminal activity, say human rights groups and academics.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42960

ARGENTINA: Who Are Todays Farmers - (Found June 29, 2008 )

BUENOS AIRES, Jun 25 (IPS) - "I could even do without land, my business would not be affected," Gustavo Grobocopatel, one of Argentinas largest agribusiness owners, said some time ago. His case illustrates how the rural sector includes much more than the associations leading the radical farmers protests of the past few months.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42961

HEALTH-CUBA: Lung Cancer Vaccine Available - (Found June 29, 2008 )

HAVANA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Cubas biotech industry plans to launch on the international market, in the short or medium term, a vaccine for treating lung cancer, which causes the deaths of over one million people a year worldwide.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42965

ECUADOR: Constituent Assembly Shakeup Highlights Divisions - (Found June 29, 2008 )

QUITO, Jun 25 (IPS) - The resignation of the head of the constituent assembly that is rewriting Ecuadors constitution, a popular figure who up to now has been close to President Rafael Correa, highlighted discrepancies within the government.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42970

HEALTH-PARAGUAY: Hospitals on the Critical List - (Found June 29, 2008 )

ASUNCION, Jun 26 (IPS) - Paraguays public hospitals are on the verge of collapse, due to a lack of resources for responding to the wave of southern hemisphere winter illnesses. The first measure to be adopted by the new government that will take over in August will be to declare a "social emergency" in healthcare, the future health minister told IPS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42977

CUBA: The Telenovela as Springboard for Public Debate - (Found June 29, 2008 )

HAVANA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Months have gone by and he still receives suspicious calls on his cell-phone. Memories of a woman who became obsessed with him are triggered every time Chucho sees a popular prime time Brazilian TV "telenovela".
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42978

RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The Other Final Match - (Found June 29, 2008 )

BUENOS AIRES, Jun 26 (IPS) - Thirty years after Argentina won its first Football World Cup, human rights groups and former players will pay homage to the victims of the dictatorship ruling the country at the time.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42983

ENVIRONMENT: Is Whale Conservation Negotiable - (Found June 29, 2008 )

SANTIAGO, Jun 26 (IPS) - Whale conservation organisations attending the 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in the Chilean capital have reacted cautiously to a decision by the organisations member countries to create a small negotiating group to determine the future of whales.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42985