Nearly all newspapers, television and radio stations in Venezuela are in the hands of people opposed to President Hugo Chavez’s government, providing an endless stream of articles and programs criticizing the administration. This opposition media […]
“We, the environmentalists, defend this place and all of Olancho I wanted to show you how the lands ended up and how many years they have been exploited, destroyed,” explained Father Andrés Tamayo to an international delegation in 2003, visiting the department in eastern Honduras in the wake of the murder of young environmental and community activist Carlos Reyes.
Filiberto Ojeda-Rios, the 72-year-old Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalist who was killed by U.S. government agents in Puerto Rico a few days ago wrote the following autobiographical notes for the 1988 book Can’t Jail The Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. (which was produced by the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown for the National Campaign for Amnesty and Human Rights for Political Prisoners): […]
Hundreds of U.S. troops recently arrived in Paraguay to begin questionable activities which political analysts say are part of a preventative war to control regional resources such as gas and water reserves and suppress social uprisings in Bolivia.
There is no greater contrast to the way a country reacts to a hurricane than the way the Cuban government and the Bush regime reacted to their respective disasters. A hurricane with 160 mile-an-hour winds […]
Before Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, unfair land distribution, a lack of health care and education, and virtual enslavement to the sugar and tourist industry led to a groundswell of discontentment among citizens. […]
HAVANA — After nearly half a century of revolution, the small island of Cuba is still evolving. Even Cuba’s supporters were moved to criticize the nation’s human rights record last April, when 75 Cuban dissidents […]
A few regulars dragged their chairs over to the small community television in the park. But this evening, instead of the standard soap opera, Cuba’s bearded leader took over the screen to begin what would […]
Historically, Bolivia’s natural resources such as gold, tin, and coal have been exploited by foreign investors who made enormous profits while most Bolivians remained impoverished. In the Gas War, many Bolivians tried to defend one […]
At this year’s Ibero-American Presidential Summit and parallel Alternative Social Forum, two opposing forces in Latin America’s fierce polemic over the direction of its own social and economic progress were well defined. The twenty one […]
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