http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/6996/0 fr http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/rio-tinto-alcan-talks-paraguay-coup-government/11625 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> $4 billion smelter project held up in negotiations pre-coup lurches forward </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/alm2001_7.jpg" alt="" title="Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter in Quebec" width="409" height="308" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Paraguay&#39;s major newspaper is <a href="http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/autorizaran-negociacion-con-rio-tinto-alcan-423155.html" rel="nofollow">reporting</a>&nbsp;today that the government of Paraguay--which came to power after a coup on June 22--has agreed to resume negotiations with Montreal-based Rio Tinto Alcan for a $4 billion aluminum plant.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/rio-tinto-alcan-talks-paraguay-coup-government/11625" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/rio-tinto-alcan-talks-paraguay-coup-government/11625#comments Dawn Paley Paraguay Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:11:41 +0000 dawn 11625 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/what%E2%80%99s-behind-%E2%80%98coup%E2%80%99-paraguay-last-week/11514 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Latin American analysts draw connections between agribusiness and the Paraguayan elite </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/lugo.jpeg" alt="" title="Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo at the World Economic Forum in 2010. Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) / Edgar Alberto Domínguez Cataño [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" width="450" height="325" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/what%E2%80%99s-behind-%E2%80%98coup%E2%80%99-paraguay-last-week/11514" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/what%E2%80%99s-behind-%E2%80%98coup%E2%80%99-paraguay-last-week/11514#comments Altilio Boron and Idilio Mendez Grimaldi (translated by Jay Hartling) Governance Médias La paix et la guerre Solidarité agribusiness Coup imperialism Latin America Latin American Politics Paraguay Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:55:17 +0000 bsichel 11514 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca