Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, signed an anti-racism law Friday that his opponents say could be used to stifle media criticism of his government.
HAVANA/BOGOTA, June 23 (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels signed a historic ceasefire deal on Thursday, bringing them tantalizingly close to ending Latin America's last major insurgency and sparking scattered celebrations in the Andean nation's capital.
In another campaign, hundreds of female academics, writers and journalists, many of them liberals, leftists and secularists, have signed a petition to stop discrimination in the public space against headscarved women.
The Colombian government and leftist Farc rebels have signed a revised peace agreement to end more than 50 years of conflict, despite continued objections by many who rejected the original deal in an October referendum.
The group of leftist intellectuals and artists signed the declaration endorsing a Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders and asserting that an end to Israel's occupation "will liberate the two peoples and open the way to a lasting peace".
Using a pen fashioned out of the spent casing of a rifle bullet, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and leftist rebel leader Timochenko signed a peace deal between the government and Farc rebels, closing a long, bloody chapter of this country's violent history.
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Yet his government and the leftist Farc rebels have now signed a ceasefire agreement and stand on the brink of a historic peace deal.
Morello said of wage slavery in America: Some critics have accused the group of hypocrisy for voicing commitment to leftist causes while being millionaires signed to Epic Records, a subsidiary of media conglomerate Sony Records.
The punchline of this declaration of surrender is that it was signed by a radical leftist rebel, who stepped up with the aim of mobilising the whole of Europe against the German chancellor's austerity diktats.
