Haitians Mobilize for Aristide’s Return
Source: Haiti Liberte Seven years after he was kidnapped and exiled to Africa after the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d ‘etat, former president Jean Bertrand Aristide finally has a passport that will allow him […]
Month: February 2011
Celebrating Popular Struggle in Cauca, Colombia
This month marks forty years since the founding of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) in Toribío, Colombia. It might be a sign of the times that, especially these days, celebrations are often bittersweet. This editorial highlights both the bitter and the sweet of the CRIC’s first forty years, as well as the challenges underpinning the next.
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El Salvador’s Environmental Crisis
Communities and officials demand that government protect the people from poisonous industries. Source: Al Jazeera Boanerge Lovo lives in a subsistence community on Isla de Monte Cristo near the central coast of El Salvador. […]
Putting People Over Money in El Salvador
Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. Source: Al Jazeera While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in […]
Washington, Peru and Ollanta Humala: You Can’t Always Believe What You Read in WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks-released State Department cables have shed fresh light on the reality of US foreign policy. Many of them have been extremely accurate situation reports from a given country at a given time. More often than not they are considered the absolute truth written by all-knowing and completely unbiased officials. But this is not always the case.
With Increased US Aid, Honduras Militarises Anti-Drug Fight
The United States appears to be strengthening its anti-drug strategy in Central America, whose focus in the case of Honduras will include military operations with troops from both countries, to begin in the jungle region of Mosquitia on the Atlantic coast.
Governing by Obeying the People: Bolivia’s Politics of the Street
From across North Africa to Wisconsin, activists are navigating a new terrain of global protest and relationships with their governments. Whether in ousting old tyrants or dealing with new allies in office, the example of Bolivia holds many lessons for social movements.
Ecuador: Still a Ways to Go, After Historic Ruling Against Chevron
(IPS) – The plaintiffs in the case against Chevron tried in Ecuador, who won a historic 9.5 billion dollar verdict after a nearly 18-year struggle over environmental and health damages caused in a quarter-century of […]