April 2012 – Page 6 – Upside Down World

Regional Peruvian Government Fights Conga Gold Mining: An Interview with Dr. César Aliaga Díaz

April 4, 2012 Alice Bernard and Diego Cupolo 0

Dr. César Aliaga Díaz is the regional vice president of Cajamarca, Peru. His government has taken a central role in the fight to stop the proposed Conga Gold Mine, a $4.8 billion project owned by Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. The mine will be located in Cajamarca’s Andean highlands, where five major headwaters originate and supply the region’s drinking water. If passed, Conga is set to become the biggest investment in Peru’s history and second-largest gold mine in the world.

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Venezuela Rejects U.S. Democrat’s Calls for “Robust” Mission to Monitor Election

April 4, 2012 Rachael Boothroyd 0

Source: Venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Roy Chaderton, has vehemently rejected calls from U.S. congressman, Eliot Engel, for the Venezuelan government to accept an OAS mission to monitor this […]

Metrics of U.S. Militarization in Latin America

April 4, 2012 John Lindsay-Poland 0

Source: Fellowship of Reconciliation I have been crunching some numbers lately, in an attempt to pull together different forms of U.S. military aid, spending and sales in Latin America and the Caribbean. The following graphs […]

Alerta por criminalización del movimiento indígena en América Latina

April 2, 2012 Por Marielle Cauthin 0

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Photo Essay: Indigenous, Peasant and Popular March arrives to Guatemala City

April 2, 2012 James Rodriguez 0

A photo essay of the marcher’s culminating protest. Movement leaders have issued a press statement, a “Declaration of the March for Resistance and Dignity, in Defense of the Earth and Territory,” in which they have made the demands for the legalization of community radio, an end to industrial mining and agricultural concessions and violence, and an end to government imposed agrarian debt – reiterations of longstanding grievances of the Indigenous and campesinos in Guatemala

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Bolivian Radical Feminist Maria Galindo on Evo Morales, Sex-Ed, and Rebellion in the Universe of Women

April 2, 2012 Sharyl Green and Peter Lackowski 0

Mujeres Creando is a radical feminist organization that has been confronting the patriarchalism of Bolivian society since the 1980’s. During a recent visit, one of the founders, Maria Galindo, spoke with us about women’s rights, access to work, education, reproductive freedom and politics during the presidency of Evo Morales in Bolivia. We met in the restaurant of their small hotel and cultural center in the capital La Paz, while the Mujeres Creando radio station, broadcasting from another room, played on the speaker in the background. […]