NACLA Update 11/11/10 - Ethanol on Guarani Land/U.S. Media and Ecuador




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Brazil: Ethanol Interests on Guaraní Land
by Sean Power
As Brazil's Guaraní Kaiowá attempt to reoccupy their ancestral lands, acts of violence against them are virtually an everyday occurrence. Having been stripped of nearly all their land, which has been converted into cattle ranches, soybean farms, and most recently sugar cane fields for the production of ethanol, their homelands now are largely unrecognizable. Containing Brazil's expanding ethanol industry as it seeks to devour more indigenous lands will not be on the to-do list of President-elect Dilma Rousseff. On the contrary, one of her campaign pledges was to expand the industry.
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The U.S. Media and the Crisis in Ecuador
by Michael Corcoran
When Rudolfo Muñoz, a reporter working in Ecuador for CNN, resigned from the cable news channel in the immediate aftermath of the September 30 political turmoil, not a single noteworthy U.S. news outlet-including CNN-bothered to report on his departure. Fittingly, Muñoz said that CNN had a "distinct slant" and "acted as if nothing happened" despite "proof that [police forces] tried to kill the president." While it is still unclear whether the violent events of September 30 constituted an attempted coup, as President Rafael Correa claimed, Muñoz's critique raises questions about how the crisis was covered in the U.S. mainstream media.
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