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| Argentina
National Assembly of "Piqueteros"On Tuesday July 24, 2001, the National Assembly of social, territorial and unemployed organizations took place in La Matanza, in the Province of Buenos Aires. The assembly had been planned for more than a year but the political crisis unleashed by the 7th adjustment undertaken by the government in only a year and a half precipitated its convocation. -> read article... |
| Latin America
New economic turbulencesIn recent years, the traditional vulnerability of the Latin American economy has sharpened in the face of diverse international crises. The recovery from the ’lost decade’ of the 1980s (the decade which began with the thunderclap of the Mexican debt crisis in 1982) has been of short duration. -> read article... |
| Globalisation
No to the FTAA! Another Americas is possible!In mid April, the leaders of 34 American countries met in Quebec City to discuss the pursuance of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Meanwhile, the Second People’s Summit of the Americas, sponsored by trade unions and NGOs, was also meeting and issued the following declaration. -> read article... |
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