Mexican national and regional rural organizations demanded on Tuesday that the government suspend the trade agreement with North America.

Hay dos causas básicas e interrelacionadas: las hipotecas de alto riesgo (“subprime”) y la burbuja sin precedente en los precios de inmuebles. Las hipotecas de alto riesgo ocupan todos los titulares.

Costa Ricans are coming to realize that sticking with the status quo might not be such a bad thing. In terms of trade, most Costa Rican produce will continue to enjoy duty-free access to the US market due to the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI).

Few critics would deny that in 2006 the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean reported growth performance at the highest rate since the 1970s. The present acceleration began in 2004 with a GDP increase of 5.9 percent.

Does the fact that more of the poor are turning to microcredit sources serve as an indicator of its virtues, or does it, instead, demonstrate the lack of available public alternatives and increased government outsourcing of possible solutions to problems affecting issues of societal equity?

There is growing concern in recent times about a most elusive set of intermediaries managing assets for financial investors: private equity firms. What are these entities? How do they behave? And what are the implications of their growing presence?

World cereal production is on track to reach a record level in 2007. In spite of this, supplies will be barely adequate to meet increased demand, boosted by the development of the biofuels industry.

Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) Whistleblower Anthony Bostic believes he was fired this Monday in retaliation for his documented investigation into millions of dollars total in apparent AHA underpayments to thousands of relocated families in public housing.

A progressive think tank, The Center for American Progress (CAP), released a report on April 25, 2007, outlining a strategy to cut poverty in half in the United States in 10 years.

Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Board of Commissioners consists mostly of Members with ties to the real estate, construction, and banking industries.

The recent FDA debacle over the discovery of the toxic chemical melamine in pet food from China should remind us all that cheap goods, whether animal feed, denim jeans or the latest electronic gadgets, have a price attached.

Atlanta public housing residents who do not have a job or are not in school by the end of June 2007 will be evicted from their residences, months before the City’s intended public housing demolitions are to occur.

Few weeks ago, just as in the last few centuries, the land claims of rural workers have been brought back up in several spots of Latin America.

Amid all the news of killing and carnage (over 600,000 dead civilians in Iraq courtesy of President Bush and our tax dollars, corruption and criminality at home, it must be heartening for the Bush administration and its hangers on to see that at least one of its policy commitments is succeeding.

The history of the free enterprise system is one of anything but free enterprise. Like the monopolistic mercantilistic system of the late middle ages in Europe, the idea of wealth has once again become centered on the accumulation of circulating capital.

he Gateway Center–Mayor Shirley Franklin’s answer to ending chronic homelessness in Atlanta–has now downsized its emergency Overflow for homeless women from about 150 mats, to 10 mats per night, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Over one hundred homeless single women and women with children are facing uncertain futures on this freezing cold night, as the Gateway Overflow shelter for women prepares to abruptly close, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

On December 19 a bunch of foreign investors dumped their holdings in the Thai stock market, triggering a collapse of the stock exchange of Thailand (SET) index. The SET index fell 15 per cent in a single day, losing much of the gains it had registered over the previous year.

While a bill to pass the federal minimum wage passed the US House just last week, an identical bill in the US Senate is uncertain to pass at this time, particularly when 15 Senate Democrats have not cosponsored the bill.

'The Attorney-General should issue a government health warning that capitalism seriously harms you and those around you', Graham Stevenson told the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend.