Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

BBC News website: Chile indigenous politics on the move, 28 January 2009

Indigenous politics rarely register on the Chilean national radar despite flourishing across the border in Bolivia. Provincial history teacher Gustavo Quilaqueo wants to change that by quitting the classroom to found the first political party representing Chile’s forgotten indigenous people. Kate Joynes-Burgess meets him in Temuco.

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Guatemala’s new National Justice and Security Pact

Guatemalan authorities and diverse representatives of civil society signed a 101-point security pact on 15 April. I commented on the significance of these far-reaching reforms in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.

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