Posted by Corina Nolet in Featured, Latin America on 30th September, 2010 | 1 Comment
Early this morning, Ecuadorians woke up to a state of national unrest as sections of the national police and military coordinated nation-wide protests against President Rafael Correa’s democratically-elected government. In an interview, Correa insisted that the protests were a coup d’etat attempt by the opposition. Insist that the Obama administration unconditionally support President Rafael Correa and his democratically-elected government.
Read More...
Posted by Corina Nolet in Latin America on 31st August, 2010 | 2 Comments
This blog was written by Tanya Kerssen. She will be traveling with Global Exchange and Food First on the upcoming Food and Farms delegation to Bolivia. Drastic variations in climate and topography—ranging from tropical jungles and subtropical cloud forests to the vast arid plains of the Altiplano—make Bolivian agriculture a truly remarkable feat. Before the »
Read More...
Posted by Corina Nolet in Human trafficking, Latin America, Trip Participant Stories on 2nd August, 2010 | 3 Comments
Since returning two weeks ago from the Reality Tour to Peru, scores of friends, family, coworkers and acquaintances have asked me, “So how was your trip?” and for the first time ever upon returning from a vacation, I stumbled over the answer. “Great” or “we had a wonderful time” certainly did not describe the experience, »
Read More...
Posted by Corina Nolet in Latin America on 27th July, 2010 | No Comments
By Marta Sanchez, Global Exchange Costa Rica Program Officer As you might know, Costa Rica, a country bound to its ideals of anti-militarism and pacifism, is ready to break its tradition of neutrality, which started after the army abolition in 1949. Our territory is now about to become virtually occupied by the US military, under »
Read More...
Posted by Corina Nolet in Latin America on 27th July, 2010 | No Comments
Join us at the Global Exchange Fair Trade Store in San Francisco for a Dominican Republic Fair Cocoa Harvest Global Exchange Reality Tours Report Back by honored participants and Fair Harvesters Keri Ferencz & Hime Levine! Date: Wednesday, July 28 Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm Where: 4018 24th St, San Francisco CA 94114 (map) As participants »
Read More...
Posted by Malia Everette in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Uncategorized on 8th June, 2010 | No Comments
Global Exchange Reality Tours blog invites you to Meet the People, Learn the Facts, Make a Difference! The idea for a Reality Tours blog came from members of the global community. Over the years people have expressed a desire to: Hear more about the work that we do as a dynamic human rights organization working »
Read More...
Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 17th July, 2007 | No Comments
By Lowell Blankfort It is twilight and, as April and I sit back on their terrace sipping wine with John Pate and his wife, we enjoy a sense of tranquility hardly experienced in our almost three weeks in Venezuela. Below us lies a verdant valley, framed by a wooded green mountain which mercifully blocks the »
Read More...
Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 21st February, 2007 | No Comments
By Natasha Mayers Just back from a two-week study tour in Venezuela with Global Exchange, I am inspired by what we heard and saw. Many Venezuelans urged us to let people here know that “Democracy is alive and well in Venezuela”, “there’s no dictator here”, “for the first time we have hope”, and “we don’t »
Read More...
Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 30th October, 2006 | 1 Comment
By Karin Orr On October 30th, 2006, amidst the smoke, scorched cars, police barricades, and remnants of various rubbish formerly used as blockades by La Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO), six participants arrived from various parts of the United States to Oaxaca city for Global Exchange’s nine-day Dia de los Muertos Reality »
Read More...
Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 20th May, 2006 | No Comments
By Geoff Bottoms PUBLISHED IN THE UK MORNING STAR SATURDAY 20TH MAY 2006 Charlie Hardy is a former US Catholic priest who spent eight years living among the poor of Caracas in a house of compressed cardboard without sanitation during the dying days of Venezuela’s ancien regime that were triggered by the Caracazo or social »
Read More...
Older Entries
Newer Entries
