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		<title>US-Drug Enforcement Agents slaughter innocent bystanders in the Honduran Mosquitia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the latest casualties in the US-sponsored ‘War on Drugs’ include four Honduran civilians gunned down by US Drug Enforcement Agents during a pre-dawn on the Río Patuca. Geographically, the Patuca belongs to one of the most remote and impoverished regions in Central America, a favourite haunt of drug traffickers...]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian mining corporation attempts armed invasion of Guatemalan villages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tensions are high in the Guatemalan communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc following an attempted invasion by 300-400 heavily armed anti-riot troops acting on behalf of Radius Gold Inc.]]></description>
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		<title>Act now to stop Barro Blanco and violations of indigenous rights in Panama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction of the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project is continuing unchecked in western Panama, despite grave concerns about its legality and impact. Indigenous Ngabe communities living on the banks of the Rio Tabasará face ruin if the project reaches completion, along with critically endangered endemic wildlife species, such as the Tabasará rain frog.]]></description>
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		<title>El Salvador’s civil society challenges militarisation of public security forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://interamericana.co.uk/?p=3108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[El Savador’s Supreme Court is currently deliberating a lawsuit that seeks to annul recent high ranking military appointments to the country’s public security apparatus. Two former generals – David Munguía Payés and Fransisco Salinas – were recently appointed to top positions in the Public Security Ministry and the National Civil Police force, prompting 31 civil society groups to submit a joint complaint]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous killing sparks ‘state of siege’ in Guatemala</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/05/indigenous-killing-sparks-state-of-siege-in-guatemala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://interamericana.co.uk/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 1 May 2012, three Mayan Canjobal men were shot whilst walking home from a town fair in Santa Cruz de Barillas. The men, outspoken opponents of a hydroelectric dam being developed by the Spanish Corporation Hidralia Energia, were attacked by unknown assailants in a Mazda truck.]]></description>
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		<title>‘Transcendental’ Sandinista hero dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomás Borge, the last surviving founder of Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), has died at the age of 81. Congressman Jacinto Suarez was quoted in the Associated Press saying that Borge was a ‘transcendental figure in Nicaraguan history, not just for his founding of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, but for his right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery of Purépecha murders in Michoacán, western Mexico</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/05/mystery-of-purepecha-murders-in-michoacan-western-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://interamericana.co.uk/?p=3082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gunmen attacked a group of 20 temporary reforestation workers from the federal Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat on 18 April, killing eight indigenous Purépecha. According to human rights activist Salvador Campanur, the attack was orchestrated by “paramilitary groups associated with organised crime and loggers”, who he says originated from the town of El Cerecito. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International delegation confronts Goldcorp shareholders</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/05/international-delegation-confronts-goldcorp-shareholders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday 26 April, shareholders at the Goldcorp annual meeting in South Porcupine, Ontario, were confronted with long-standing grievances over the Canadian company’s apparently irresponsible and abusive behaviour in Central America. Goldcorp is alleged to have committed a variety of human rights and environmental violations. The delegation included Mayan community leaders and members from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distancia, a film by Sergio Ramirez</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/04/distancia-a-film-by-sergio-ramirez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First-time director Sergio Ramirez blends subtle moods and textured imagery in his 2010 film, Distancia, one of the most powerful and understated productions to emerge from Central America in recent years. It tells the story of an elderly man, Tomás Choc, who travels across the highlands of Guatemala to reunite with his long-lost daughter, Lucía, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarians plan autonomous fiefdom for Honduras</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/04/libertarians-plan-autonomous-fiefdom-for-honduras/</link>
		<comments>http://interamericana.co.uk/2012/04/libertarians-plan-autonomous-fiefdom-for-honduras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardarghiris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charter cities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colonialism is alive and well in Central America with plans for a foreign-controlled fiefdom in the remote and ecologically sensitive Honduran Mosquitia. The so-called charter city, which proponents hope to build on the site of Trujillo, an historic Caribbean port town of 30,000 inhabitants, will cover an area the size of Singapore with a projected [...]]]></description>
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