Source: Jacobin Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution hasn’t established socialism. But it has brought the poor into public life. Geographically, Caracas, Venezuela consists of a relatively short, narrow valley just over twenty miles in length, sheltered from […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas A report from Bolivia’s highland provincial capital of Achacachi, on the elections and the continuing contradictions of Bolivia’s “process of change.” On October 12, Election Day in Bolivia, I […]
A problem peasant women face is invisibility in the feminist and women’s movements. A second problem is the weakness with which the food sovereignty concept has dealt with the challenges of feminism.
The 29th National Meeting of Women (ENM) in Argentina took place this October in the city of Salta. Thousands of women from across the country met there to discuss issues of visiblizing gender inequality, gender violence, rape culture, and women’s rights violations. The history of the ENM dates back to 1986, when the first Meeting was held in Buenos Aires at a time when Argentina still did not have a divorce law and parental authority was held by the father only.
As recently as June, more than 10,000 children fleeing unchecked gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made it here over the course of a month. Then, a major security crackdown in Mexico slowed the pace of their arrivals down to about 3,000 in August. However, the problems that caused the children to flee are far from solved.
From RightsAction.org On September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Guerrero killed six people and detained 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural School, who have since been disappeared. Numerous mass graves have since been found outside […]
This article originally appeared at cipamericas.org On Oct. 14, Guatemala’s Court for High-Risk Crimes ruled that charges would be brought against two members of the Army for sexual slavery and domestic slavery against q’eqchís women in […]
“Because those of us below hurt with rage and rebellion, not with resignation and conformity.” —EZLN, October 19, 2014 […]
Source: The Nation Red flags are flying in Rio and Montevideo. Not only did Dilma Rousseff win in Brazil on Sunday but next door in Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, the presidential candidate for Frente Amplio—or Broad […]
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