At 10:00pm, everyone congregated around the makeshift stage in the schoolyard to hear an address by the Comadantes. Before the crowd of supporters, Comandanta Hortensia delivered a speech with a call to continue the struggle. It is time to strengthen and globalize the resistance and rebellion,” said Comandanta Hortensia.
Source: The Guardian The west’s drive to reduce its carbon footprint cheaply is fuelling a dirty war in Honduras, where US-backed security forces are implicated in the murder, disappearance and intimidation of peasant farmers involved […]
“More than 20 years after being expelled from our ancestral land and living [in camps] along the side of the road, watching the cows occupy the place where we used to live, we decided to return because that land is ours,” the Sawhoyamaxa said in a message accompanying the petition drive.
Source: NACLA In past weeks, the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia moved to shut down or expel major NGOs (non-government organizations) that work on issues of the environment, extractivism, and indigenous rights. In Ecuador, the Ministry […]
“Peace is still far away from our community,” says Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, with his calm, deep peasant farmer’s voice, staring intensely as he speaks. Jesús Emilio is one of the leaders of San José de […]
Following Argentina’s economic crisis in 2001, the country leaned heavily on mining and large-scale agribusiness (especially soy) to reinvigorate its ailing economy. The expansion of these industries requires the accumulation of new lands and the violent displacement of rural communities. Many farmers and indigenous communities don’t have titles to their lands, leaving them vulnerable to displacement or criminal charges for squatting.
(IPS) – Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans. Of course, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished since automotive and tech companies moved their production across […]
Did a bloody confrontation over land rights lead to a coup against the country’s former President Fernando Lugo? Source: Al Jazeera In 2012, Paraguay’s then left-wing President Fernando Lugo was ousted from office after being […]
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