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Written by Thelma Mejía*
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
 Manuel Zelaya |
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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
 Worldwide condemnation has followed the coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras on Sunday, June 28. Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression. One protester outside the government palace in Honduras told reporters that if Roberto Micheletti, the leader installed by the coup, wants to enter the palace, "he had better do so by air" because if he goes by land "we will stop him." |
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Written by Michael Fox
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
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 The Presidential residence is surrounded; the president is kidnapped and flown out of the country. Thousands take to the streets, but the mainstream television stations report nothing. No, this is not Venezuela in 2002. Nor is it Haiti, 2004. It’s Honduras, 2009, but roughly the same story is once again being told, on a different stage with different actors. But that difference could mean everything.
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Written by Thelma Mejía
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Sunday, 28 June 2009 |
 A group of at least
100 soldiers surrounded the residence of Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya early Sunday morning, hauled him out of bed, took him to an air
force base and put him on a plane for Costa Rica.
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Written by Center for International Policy
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Sunday, 28 June 2009 |
 Troops
have arrested President Manuel Zelaya this morning, the day that
Hondurans were to vote in a referendum to change the constitution to
allow him to run for another term. The apparent coup comes four days
after Zelaya fired the chief of the armed forces for refusing to assist
in carrying out the referendum. Zelaya was reportedly put on a plane to
Costa Rica, where he may be now.
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Written by Erica Thompson
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
 This
is Part Six in a series of interviews with members of the Salvadoran
Social movement titled "What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left."
Radio
Zurda is a radical youth media collective that broadcasts a weekly
radio program on 22 community stations in El Salvador. Through a live
Internet feed, the program has the capacity to reach millions of people
around the world with critical and otherwise under or un-reported news
and a consistent drive for community engagement, collective process,
and political empowerment.
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Written by Caitlin McNulty
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
 Barrio Adentro Clinic |
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Written by Roger Leduc
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
 A confluence of factors - a rapid succession of executions in the last
few months, arrogance and defiance from Dominican government officials,
institutions and citizenry vis-a-vis the plight of Haitian workers,
the shameful indifference of the Haitian government, and the relatively
superior economic and military position of the Dominican Republic - has
created a pre-genocidal atmosphere that raises the specter of the 1937
mass murder of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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Written by Hans Bennett
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
 Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca (PM Press) teaches us why the 2006 rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico was so impressive, and is something we can all learn from.
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Written by Maria Hoisington
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
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 Police in El Salvador
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Written by Elyssa Pachico
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 |
 The
push to reintroduce long-lost native crops is one expression of Latin America’s
burgeoning food sovereignty movement. Governments across Latin America
are increasingly concerned with promoting the rural poor’s ability to
live self-sufficiently on locally produced goods instead of dumped products
often exported from monoculture farms.
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Written by Raúl Zibechi
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
 On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands—a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States. |
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Written by Hans Bennett
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
 An interview with Aviva Chomsky, professor of history and Latin American Studies at
Salem State College in Massachusetts.
Chomsky is a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee,
which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular
movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining
sector. She just returned from a Witness for Peace delegation (May 28
– June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the
state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia.
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Written by Lainie Cassel
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
 In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city. Funded completely by the government, they consider themselves a voice of President Hugo Chavez’s “socialist revolution.” |
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Written by Marc Becker
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
 Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. |
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Written by Milagros Salazar
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
 Leaders of the two-month roadblock say at least 40
indigenous people, including three children, were killed and that the
authorities are covering up the massacre by throwing bodies in the
river.
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