Guatemalan Mayans occupying land owned by a Canadian mining company clashed with police over the weekend. The police were able to temporarily evict the protestors, but only to have them return and burn down a […]
Last week Guatemalan authorities detained two of eight defendants named in an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge earlier this year. The warrant was based on a criminal complaint filed by Nobel Laureate Rigoberta […]
Source: ZNet In recent years leading up to Argentina’s 2001 financial crisis, thousands of factories have closed and millions of jobs have been lost. Many workers have decided to defeat the destiny of unemployment, taking […]
Source: The Nation If you listen to right-wing pundits and Republican officials, the return to power of former revolutionary Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua is not evidence of democracy in action but rather an invitation to […]
This article was originally published on NACLA News, a new source of news and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean produced by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Luiz Inácio Lula da […]
Source: IRC Americas In late September and early October, some major moves on the regional chess board shook up the political situation in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay. The moves confirmed that Washington is not the […]
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