TeleSur conversó en exclusiva con el presidente electo de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, quien se encuentra de visita en Venezuela para estrechar las relaciones bilaterales entre ambos países y buscar apoyo del gobierno venezolano en el reciente conflicto generado con Colombia por la reanudación de las fumigaciones con glifosato en la frontera. (more…)

El controvertido paquete económico para el próximo año 2007, presentado por el Gobierno de Calderón y que prevé fuertes restricciones para la educación, la cultura y salud, será sometido este miércoles a la evaluación de la Cámara de Senadores, luego de ser aprobado por los diputados. (more…)

About 50 Salvadoran union members, campesinos and environmental activists blocked the Juan Pablo II avenue near the Legislative Assembly in San Salvador for about two hours to protest a proposed new General Water Law that they say will in effect privatize the country’s water supply. Protesters held large banners across six lanes and handed out fliers to passersby. Police agents eventually removed the protesters from the street with no serious incidents; the activists continued to hold banners on the sidewalk afterwards. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters shut down bridges and highways in coordinated actions at seven points across the country, including Santa Ana, Ahuachapan, Chalatenango and the Puente de Oro. (more…)

On Dec. 13, some 5,000 people from across Argentina (or as many as 10,000, according to some press reports) took part in a colorful march in scorching weather to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to defend the environment and natural resources. Marchers carried banners and puppets (including a giant toilet, flushing polluted waters into the environment), performed street theater and danced to regional traditional carnaval music. (more…)

Felipe Calderon Hinojosa started his six-year term as president of Mexico with a chaotic five-minute inauguration on Dec. 1, heavily guarded by members of the Presidential General Staff. Legislators from the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and two allied parties chanted: “Illegitimate!” as Calderon and outgoing president Vicente Fox Quesada, both of the center-right National Action Party (PAN), slipped into the hall through a back door and rushed through the ceremony before fleeing the scene. The podium had been the site of fistfights between PAN and PRD legislators since Nov. 28, when the PAN deputies had seized it to keep the PRD from blocking Calderon’s swearing in. (more…)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cruised to an easy re-election victory in yesterday’s Presidential elections. He has earned another six year term which will take his presidency into the year 2013. Preliminary results from Venezuela’s Electoral Council show that Chavez triumphed by 61.4% of the votes to his opponent’s 38.4%. (more…)

While politicians from across the political spectrum and editorial pages throughout the United States have been taking their shots at Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez since his now infamous ‘’devil'’ comment at the United Nations, no one is asking what made him so mad. Seats are getting crowded on the anti-Chávez bandwagon as retailer 7-Eleven announced it will drop Venezuelan-owned Citgo gasoline from its 2,100 service stations in the United States in protest and Florida lawmaker Rep. Adam Hasner has called for Citgo to be kicked off of the state’s turnpike. (more…)