by the El Reportero’s news services
Fernando Lugo
The overthrown Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo said on Wednesday that U.S. multinational Monsanto and the coup d’etat government currently in power in Paraguay are sowing death and destruction.
Lugo took part in the closing ceremony at an agro-ecological fair sponsored by peasant and indigenous organizations as part of the Week of the Seed, which aims at protesting the marketing of transgenic seeds to sow cotton and corn.
During his speech, Lugo emphasized that his administration worked for two years to recover the native seed previously and successfully used, but the June parliamentary coup d’etat put the multinationals, especially that of Monsanto in the driver’s seat, to exterminate the native seeds.
Great multinationals like Monsanto have been sowing death in Paraguay’s native seed stock since the coup, but we will make our traditional seed blossom again, Lugo assured the crowd.
Narco’s capture boon for Colombia & Venezuela
On 18 September President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia announced that in cooperation with Venezuelan security forces, “the British intelligence service, the MI6, and also with the very effective cooperation of the intelligence agencies of the United States, especially the [Central Intelligence Agency] CIA”, ‘El loco’ Barrera (Daniel Barrera Barrera) had been captured in San Cristóbal, a town in the Venezuelan border state of Táchira.
Chávez courts rich and Capriles woos poor in upside down world
Venezuela’s presidential election campaign has taken a turn for the surreal. President Hugo Chávez is calling on the rich to vote for him to avoid “a civil war”. His rival, Henrique Capriles Radonski, is assuring the poor that if Chávez is a Socialist he is a Marxist-Leninist as he endeavours to convince doubters that he is the real social reformer and would not just maintain but also enhance the social “missions” which are the most popular feature of the Chávez administration.
Mexico among the countries that more retain the original languages
Mexico is now one of the world’’s countries that retain more native speaks to settle for seventh place in the forefront linguistic diversity and continental level, along with Brazil, Peru and the United States, say experts. The linguist Francisco Barriga said that here are spoken 60 languages, with 364 indigenous variants, to announce the V Endangered Languages Meeting, which will be held on September 27 as part of the XXIV Book Fair of Anthropology and History.
Barriga stressed that in the country are preserved the native languages due to several political-educational, editorial work and program of social groups research, seeking conservation and in particular the revitalization of those who are at risk of disappearing.
The researcher, who is national coordinator of the National Institute of Anthropology and History stressed that the literature in native languages is not new, but lately seen an increase in their production. “There are novels, poetry and stories”, he said.
He also warned tha the problem is not in the book publishing, but also in having readers.
