Month: January 2015
Cuba and the United States Resume Relations: Happy New Year!
Source: Toward Freedom On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro simultaneously announced that the two countries would resume normal diplomatic relations, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ended in […]
Interview with Association for Justice and Reconciliation Members on Guatemala’s Genocide Retrial and Its Suspension
Source: NISGUA NISGUA sat down with several members of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) to ask them how they feel about the genocide retrial and the events of January 5th, when lead Judge […]
El Salvador’s Other Crisis
Source: Warscapes A couple of nights ago, I tweeted an article—which inspired a blog post—about the dramatic rise in murders reported by the Salvadoran government in the last year. The alarming spike in killings is, […]
Genocide Trial against Guatemalan Dictator Suspended Once Again
Judge Valdez recused herself from the trial after Rios Montt’s defense team presented a motion for her to step down from the trial. Source: teleSUR English The trial of Guatemalan former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was […]
Territories Free of Mining on the Rise in Honduras
While the Honduran government continues its promotion of mining investment, communities around the country are voting against mining in open town hall assemblies. At least 10 municipalities in Honduras have now been declared territories free of mining.
Obama Has Nothing to Gain by Propping Up Mexico’s Government
If Washington gives the Mexican president a pat on the back, it will be a stab in the back for the Mexican movement for justice and transparency.
Guatemalan Genocide Trial Set to Resume Amid Amnesty Battles
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Under pressure from entrenched economic and military interests, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court undid its historic genocide ruling in 2013. The trial is set to resume on January 5, but faces […]
Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes
In this town in Peru’s highlands over 3,000 metres above sea level, in the mountains surrounding the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Quechua Indians who have lived here since time immemorial are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.
Dissecting the Drug War: New Book Charts Ways Global Capitalism Profits From “War on People”
In her newly released book Drug War Capitalism, journalist Dawn Paley demonstrates how the so-called war on drugs is really a war on people. To understand this ongoing war against people, Paley argues that we must recognize how capitalist expansion of new markets is linked to the reorganization (or destabilization) of a country’s security state and political economy.