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What a day to return to posting!First of all, a huge apology to all our readers for the time we have been without posting. No excuses, only the commitment to retake from now on this BLOG at least once a week or everytime important news come up.Today, over the US the "Day Without Immigrants" actually materialized despited the threat of immigration officials to round up illegal immigrants and from

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Last Wednesday, the 4th World Water Forum ended in Mexico. Oddly enough, the forum was surrounded by protests against globalization and, perhaps much more relevant, against the privatization of water. At News a la Mexicana, we will recap the results of this week, where worl leaders and legislators met to talk about the most important natrual resource in the world: water.The Mexico City

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After a weekend full of his characteristic paranoia, Hugo Chavez continued his attacks on "Mr. Danger" as he often calls George W. Bush. This time, though, he decided to look South of Mr. Danger's border and "butt in" to the Mexican presidential campaigns.In a speech Chavez made in Carabobo, he accuses the Mexican right of using his image to attempt to stop the leftist frontrunner, Andres Manuel

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Today, in what was catalouged a "historic" vote, the General Assembly of the United Nations gave birth to the new UN Human Rights Council. This new Council was an attempt to increase not only the UN's credibility, but also that of the Human Rights Council which would in turn (hopefully) lead to more efficient and co-operative protection of human rights around the world.Among the changes in the

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Yesterday, Amnesty International had excellent timing.Just on the day that the European Parliament was to open formal investigations of human rights violations by the USA's CIA in the secret Europe detainment camp, they also delivered a full report on one of the EU's members and their violations of human rights: the UK. You can read the full report in English here: United Kingdom, Human Rights: A

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Once again the executive branch of the United States leaves a lot up to interpretation when it comes to torture.They have rejected a UN Human Right's recommendation to close Guantanamo Bay. This recommendation was based on a report made by five human rights watchers who reviewed the Guantanamo detention centre on issues of torture, fair judicial system, freedom of religion and right to physical

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Today was the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with the participants emphasizing the use of creativity to continue economic development, search for peace and stability and assure the prosperity of all the world's citizens. The hot topics at the inaguration were fear that the world economy and specially the US economy lived in an unchecked bubble, the rise of China and

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Canadians went to the polls yesterday to elect for the second time in two years members of parliament that would rebuild a government after the last Liberal minority government fell last November. At the end of the night, Canada had gone from Liberal red to Conservative blue.The election threw out a fragile minority for the Conservative Party and their leader, Stephen Harper, will now be forming

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The new political map of Latin America continues its development in this 2006, focusing on yet another controversial leftist leader in South America: Evo Morales.Since his election, he has gone off on a tour to Europe and various Latin American countries among which figured his visit to his "comrade" Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Right now, Morales is in China where he has continued to associate

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Happy 2006!This year starts with a reminder of how it ended, with elections in Latin America that promised or threatened (depending on how you look at it) to take Latin America to the left. It started with Bolivia, where one of Hugo Chavez's stronger allies, Evo Morales became President. Bolivia cheered but the world worried and ended the year wondering if Evo would in fact nationalize the

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Evo Morales, the candidate for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, became the first Bolivian of indigenous origin to win the presidency of said country with approximately 50.5% of the vote. Evo Morales and his leftist MAS party will have a predominant rule in Parliament as well which should bode well for their policies and ideas to become laws. After all, the people that voted for them -

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Fall in France has seemingly repeated itself now at the doorstep of winter thousands of kilometers away in the pictoresque city of Sydney. More specifically at Cornulla beach on December 11, Sydney had its very own and shameful "Sydney race riot" . This time the instigators were presumed white supremacists who protested in this disorderly and illegal way their discomfort with Australia's multi

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Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq didn't last too long after it started once again this week. Today, the trial was suspended again until December 21 (article in Spanish) and once again puts another obstacle and casts a shadow on this "trial of the century" in Iraq.The day started off on the wrong foot as Saddam followed through on his threat to not attend trial as a sign of protest against the

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Today was World AIDS day and all over the world countries reaffirmed their vows to continue to fight AIDS with diverse prevention strategies. Today was also a day to remind all the individuals (and educate some others) about the disease and the ways they can prevent it while still having a healthy sexual life.The World Health Organization (WHO) also gave out their press release titled "HIV

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Today, Canada's 38th Parliament finally ended its agony. With a final vote of 171 to 133, the Paul Martin Liberal government fell under a vote of no confidence from the other parties. This will result in new Parlimentary elections in the whole of Canada and Quebec that might reshape the nation.But then again, it might not.Canadians still gave Liberals a government to run in this past Parliament

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An endless story of how the center is threatened by the borders...LibertéIn 1789 July, revolutionary French decided to put stop to the indescribable oppression of the monarchy. The social structures were letting work, and nothing seemed to adjust to the new spirit of equality between the human beings. Then, guillotine was witness of end of those had been unfair beneficiary of privileges based on

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Only about an hour ago the showdown between our President Vicente Fox and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez ended in the breaking off of diplomatic ties between Mexico and Venezuela. This culminates a large deterioration of the relationship between these two countries since Chavez called Fox a US "puppy" at the American Summit.Both countries had since then been attempting to resolve the

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The Italian television station RAI came out today with the worst accusations against the abuses of the US in Irak since the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo scandals.In a report titled "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre" , the US is blamed for using chemical weapons in its attack on Fallujah in November 2004. The chemical weapons in question are MK77 (a type of Napalm) and another weapon called "white

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Today, the IV Summit of the Americas ended and as we mentioned yesterday, the differences not only made it hard to move the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) forward but also kept the actual declaration from Mar del Plata from being written. Talks to finish this up had to be prolonged until they were finished. George W. Bush did not stay though and left much before hand which left

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Today, the IV Summit of the Americas started in Argentina. And in the start of the Summit the focus went to fight two of the largest woes in Latin America: poverty and unemployment.As is expected, all 34 nations will sign a document to fight these two ailments of Latin America and once again show "commitment" to reducing both in their countries. Nevertheless, as we all know, what really would

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With global numbers that don't lead to much doubt, Iraq has approved its draft constitution today according to their governing electoral body. The global count gave the "YES" a 78% of the total vote and the "NO" a 21%. With this and with the fact that three provinces did not reject it with a 2/3 mayority, the constitution will become official. You can read the full news article (in Spanish) here:

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Today is the 60th anniversary of the birth of the United Nations (UN).Kofi Annan took today to commemorate all of the people who have worked for the UN and their variety of important humanitarian and peace missions around the world, or who simply, have been one of those behind the scenes. He also took the time to look ahead and remind us that we still have a long way to go - an inference that the

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The US government is threatening to pull back 11.5 million US dollars in aid to Mexico (under the concept of fighting the drug trade) if Mexico continues with its intentions to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is unless Mexico signs on to Article 98 in which Mexico would agree to not turn over any US military personnel, civilian or non-US citizen working for the US government

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Two days ago Canada set an example for the rest of the world. And that example was that no war criminal (though of course, he will have a fair trial) can enter Canada and expect to lead a life where his responsibility in things like genocide goes ignored.The Toronto Star's October 19th edition reports that a Rwandan man by the name of Desire Munyaneza was arrested by the RCMP for his involvement

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Here at World News A La Mexicana we covered the case of Schapelle Corby, a young Australian woman who was arrested in Indonesia for supposed possession of marijuana. She was later convicted and sentenced to spend 20 years in an Indonesian jail. The case had received a lot of attention not only because of her perceived innocence but also because before the sentence was given, Schapelle could have

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