Month: May 2008
Peru: Indigenous Organizations Aim for the Presidency
Peru’s indigenous associations are pursuing a political project of their own, and hope to win power in the 2011 presidential elections in order to defend their collective rights. […]
Video: U.S. System of Deportation Inhumane
Each day, over 30,000 people are housed within detention centers across the United States. The New York-based Detention Watch Network says that last year, over 276,000 immigrants were deported. The Real News Network offers timely analysis on US immigrant detention and deportation procedures that are violating the human rights of immigrants.
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Stalemate in Bolivia?
Racist Graffiti
What is startling is the approach many Bolivians use to blame Morales and MAS for the nation’s problems. My colleagues frequently speculate on whether or not their fellow Bolivians are masistas…The term masista is often thrown around as an insult, along with campesino, indio, and Evo, by the few that comprise the middle and upper classes. It is clear that Bolivia continues its battles with racism despite multi-cultural reforms within the past few years that seek to rectify the years of discrimination towards campesinos and indigenous peoples. […]
Guatemala: Threats Against People Dealing with Crimes of the Past
Threats Against Members of Guatemala Exhumation Team (FAFG)(Source: FAFG) [Since the 1990s, Rights Action has funded and supported the exhumation process in campesino and Indigenous communities throughout Guatemala and the work of the Fundación de […]
South American Nations Form New Regional Grouping
Source: Venezuela Analysis At a summit in Brasilia, Brazil, on Friday, 12 South American countries formally constituted the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a regional integration initiative which began informally in 2004. At the […]
Open Letter to the U.S. Department of Justice concerning CISPES
The following letter is an effort by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) to stand by one of the founding members, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). […]
Legal Victory Leads to Historic Recovery for Massacre Survivors in Haiti
On May 16, victims of the infamous Raboteau Massacre in Haiti received over $400,000 in court-awarded damages. The historic recovery is the result of a 14-year struggle fought by the victims and their families in […]
La revolución de 1968: Cuando el sótano dijo ¡Basta!
Source: Americas Program "Tan sólo ha habido dos revoluciones mundiales. La primera se produjo en 1848. La segunda en 1968. Ambas constituyeron un fracaso histórico. Ambas transformaron el mundo. El hecho de que ninguna de […]
Guatemala: Ambush-Protest at Mejia Victores’ Home
Revealed in May 1999, a declassified document deemed the Military Diary describes a number of human rights violations directly ordered by former General Humberto Mejia Victores during his tenure as Dictator from 1982 to 1985. […]