Diez Años Después de la Guerra del Agua en Bolivia: Entrevistas con Oscar Olivera y Carlos Crespo
Fuente: Feria Internacional del Agua Entrevistas con Oscar Olivera y Carlos Crespo
Month: April 2010
Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossing
(IPS) – As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where he has a young child and where […]
The Second Killing of Pablo Bac: Deafened by Canadian Silence and Impunity in Guatemala
In 1981, Pablo Bac, a Mayan Qeqchi man from the community of Chichipate (municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala) was disappeared and killed.
Pablo was defending the rights and well-being of the Mayan Qeqchi people, helping to resist forced evictions by the EXMIBAL nickel mining company, subsidiary of the Canadian nickel mining giant INCO.
WOLA Statement on Honduras
WOLA Committed to Human Rights, Democracy and Social Justice in HondurasWOLA considers the current crisis in Honduras to be rooted in the long-standing social, political and economic exclusion of the majority of the people. The […]
Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela?
Source: Venezuela Analysis As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years[1], the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero […]
Indians and Activists March Against Amazon Mega-dam
Approximately 850 people protested on Monday in Brazil’s capital Brasília against the Belo Monte mega-dam which is due to be constructed in the Brazilian Amazon. If built, the dam will be one of the largest […]
Indigenous Justice Threatened in Colombia
(IPS) – Feliciano Valencia, who holds the rank of minister for the Nasa indigenous people in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, was arrested Saturday but released on bail. “It’s clear that there’s no intention […]
Where Shopping is Oppression: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers take on Publix
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a grassroots, Florida-based farmworker group, largely comprised of Mexican, Guatemalan and Haitian immigrants. In recent years, by way of high-profile consumer campaigns, the CIW has compelled the world’s four largest fast food companies, among others, to concede to demands for better pay and unprecedented labor rights. This time, beloved Sunshine State darling Publix Supermarkets is in the tomato pickers’ sights.Why? Here are 5 secrets Publix does not want you to know.
Locals and Indigenous Groups Combat Big Real Estate in Greater Buenos Aires
“The poor man has to disappear. There is no more countryside. It’s all private neighborhoods. All private neighborhoods.” Sara Espinosa, age 94, lives in Punta Canal in the town of Tigre, where real estate giant EIDICO is currently constructing two gated communities on either side of her house. While most of her neighbors have sold their land and moved away, Espinosa remains.
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