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		<title>Nicaragua leads in malaria eradication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicaragua has been recognized by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), as a champion in the battle to eradicate malaria for its program of community vigilance against malaria in 2011. The Ministry of Health received the letter of tribute from Dr. Mirta Roses, director of PAHO, on Jan. 17. The Health Ministry coordinates volunteer health brigades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2012/01/nicaragua-leads-in-malaria-eradication/</link>
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		<title>21st Century Cuba Seminar Report, Latin America 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a lively discussion on economic developments and labour relations in 21st century Cuba, Emily Morris from London Metropolitan University began by contextualising the challenges facing Cuba’s evolving economy. Emily demonstrated that, by 2004, the Cuban economy had recovered to the same levels as before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The recovery prior to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2012/01/21st-century-cuba-seminar-report-latin-america-2011/</link>
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		<title>Latin America 2011 Conference Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 500 students, activists, campaigners and trade unionists attended the seventh annual Latin America Conference at Congress House in December. Speakers included trade union and labour leaders from Britain – such as Frances O’Grady, Hugh Lanning, and Jeremy Corbyn MP – but  the indisputable highlights were contributions from Latin American comrades including three mothers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2012/01/latin-america-2011-conference-report/</link>
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		<title>How buying Fairtrade nuts can help change lives…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost all of the Fairtrade nuts in UK supermarkets come from an organisation called Liberation Foods CIC which is anything but a usual company. It is the world’s only Fairtrade nut company and its biggest shareholder is a co-operative of the very nut farming and gatherering groups which supply the nuts it sells. These groups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/11/how-buying-fairtrade-nuts-can-help-change-lives%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>From ALCA to ALBA – An End To Dependency in Latin America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 6th, 2011, over 5,000 people gathered in Mar del Plata to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the “IV Summit of the Americas” where Latin American presidents rejected the US-led initiative to establish a free trade zone for the entire region with the exception of Cuba. US President, George Bush, had come to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/11/from-alca-to-alba-%e2%80%93-an-end-to-dependency-in-latin-america/</link>
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		<title>Another way is possible: fair trade, cooperation and solidarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current events and discussion on the crisis in the Eurozone and more globally, have raised interesting questions of democratic deficit, sovereignty over economic policy and whether countries can work co-operatuively together to improve economic and social development. Yet in Latin America, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) agreement between progressive governments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/11/another-way-is-possible-fair-trade-cooperation-and-solidarity/</link>
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		<title>Liberation Foods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberation Foods CIC is the world’s only Fairtrade nut company and its biggest shareholder is a co-operative of the very nut farming and gatherering groups which supply the nuts it sells. These groups represent more than 22,000 nut producers. This includes peanut and cashew nut farmers from NICARAGUA, peanut farmers from EL SALVADOR and Brazil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/11/liberation-foods/</link>
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		<title>Watch the full Noam Chomsky lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now watch Noam Chomsky&#8217;s full lecture on Latin America and the progressive challenge to US neo-liberal hegemony online. Please see video below.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/10/watch-the-full-noam-chomsky-lecture-now/</link>
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		<title>Noam Chomsky urges increased action to win freedom for Miami Five</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Over 500 activists, academics and students attended a lecture by renowned American philosopher Noam Chomsky on Saturday. The meeting – organised by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign as part of the Latin America series of events – coincided with the release of Rene Gonzalez, one of the Miami Five, and the 44th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/10/noam-chomsky-urges-increased-action-to-win-freedom-for-miami-five/</link>
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		<title>Latin America 2011 Conference: Making a better world possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 50 speakers include: Alberto Juantorena, Cuban Deputy Sports Minister and former Olympic 400m &#38; 800m gold medal winner Mirta Rodriguez Perez, Irma Sehwerert Mileham and Magali Llort Ruiz, mothers of the Miami 5 Egle Sanchez, Venezuelan trade union leader Guissell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Embassy Professor Ernesto Laclau, world renowned academic Frances O’Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/2011/09/latin-america-2011/</link>
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