Source: The Dominion On August 22nd, the Peruvian Congress repealed two legislative decrees at the root of the indigenous demonstrations that paralyzed various roads and energy installations from August 9th through 20th. The indigenous movement […]
Fuente: Resumen Latinoamericano A partir del 20 de octubre, el control obrero no tendrá resguardo judicial para seguir funcionando, ya que la Cámara de Apelaciones redujo a un año la autorización que tiene la cooperativa […]
Lomas de Poleo, in the Anapra region of Ciudad Juarez, is in the planned location for the cross-border Jeronimo-Santa Teresa project. Until 2002, no one showed much interest in the destitute parcels of land settled by migrants search of a humble plot of land to raise a few animals. Since then, the residents and the Zaragoza brothers – scions of local gas, dairy and Corona beer franchises – have been locked in a grueling, litigious and often violent struggle over the land.
It has been nearly half a century since the Bañados area (Spanish for marshy wetlands) was a swamp upon where the Paraguay River dumped its waters during rainy seasons. It was also Asunción’s garbage dump. Today, it is one of the most populous neighborhoods, where extreme poverty has become tolerable thanks to incredible solidarity. […]
(IPS) – Honduras has joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), amid criticism from the business community and right-wing political sectors. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who took office in 2006, and Venezuelan President Hugo […]
The impunity enjoyed by war criminals is one of the main obstacles to justice in Guatemala. Like other indigenous communities in Guatemala, Rabinal is the current home to powerful criminals of the past. Hundreds of massacre survivors remain quiet and most of those responsible for human rights abuses have stayed behind, confident that justice will never catch up to their crimes. […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and Zamni Lasante released internal U.S. Treasury Department documents on Aug. 4 exposing politically motivated, behind-the-scenes interventions by the United States and other members of the […]
(IPS) – A beef producers’ boycott declared by agribusiness interests in eastern Bolivia is the latest attempt by the pro-autonomy opposition movement to undermine the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales. The measure forms part […]
Among the throng of distinguished international guests drawn to participate in the first democratic transition of government in Paraguay’s 190-year history, Joseph Stiglitz, economist and advisor to the Clinton White House, may just prove the most influential. […]
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