Source: NACLA As the international uproar continues over last week’s grounding of Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane in Europe, after U.S. officials apparently suspected whistle-blower Edward Snowden of being on board, many questions remain unanswered […]
Honduran society remains shocked at the tragic fate of Aníbal Barrow, a journalist and university professor whose body was dismembered and scattered around a lake in Villanueva, in the northern province of Cortés. Stunned, in broken voices, the reporters who covered the recovery of Barrow’s remains told how his clothes and personal documents were found buried, and later on, parts of his body were discovered wrapped in bags while other parts were found in a different spot, charred from burning.
(IPS) – More than 100 non-farming cooperatives this month joined the independent sector of the Cuban economy, which includes self-employed workers and farmers granted public land to work, as part of the policy outlined by […]
Though Jeremy Scahill’s latest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, is firmly rooted in the Arab world, it is a valuable volume for those wishing to better understand how current and past events in Mexico and Central and South America connect to the so-called war on terror.
The swarm, without a queen bee, is now in the middle of an “ideological tug-of-war,” according to João Pedro Stédile, leader of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) which is now joining the protests.“Since young people do not have a mass organisation, the social classes have begun an ideological debate. They dispute the young people’s ideas in order to influence them,” said Stédile.
The country has supported repressive governments in the region to suppress indigenous movements and uprisings. Source: Al Jazeera According to a Mexican news article that surfaced in May, the Israeli military will begin training the […]
As usual, the one thing the media aren’t covering is what the immigrants themselves think about immigration reform. This was a central issue at a meeting that some 40 to 45 activists–some of them visiting New York from Mexico and Central America–held in the basement of a mid-Manhattan church on the evening of May 23.
There are no prisons for autonomy. There are no situations that make it impossible. The experience of the Corriente Villera Independiente in Buenos Aires’ Villa 31 demonstrates that even in the most difficult of material conditions, even going against the current, autonomy can be placed at the center of collective community building.
Source: Al Jazeera Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota is deeply concerned about the scope of a US monitoring programme targeting Brazilians. Brazil’s foreign minister has said his government is worried by a report that the United […]
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