Human rights abuses, whether they are carried out by private security guards working for companies owned by the leaders of the 1980s death squad "Battalion 316," by the underpaid and poorly-trained police force, or by maquiladora owners, are inseparable from structural adjustment programs being imposed by the IMF and World Bank, with no democratic involvement on the part of the Honduran people. […]
Source: Green Left Weekly Political and social conflict continues to grow in Peru in the wake of a general strike against the neoliberal policies of President Alan Garcia’s government, which saw much of the country […]
Source: Prensa Latina Cabinet Minister Juan Ramon Quintana The Bolivian government condemned roadblocks put up by the opposition in Pando, Beni and Santa Cruz to protest President Evo Morales’s plans to redistribute natural gas revenues. […]
At the inauguration of president Fernando Lugo, the central plaza in Asunción, Paraguay was full of the people who brought Lugo to power, including the indigenous and campesinos from distant parts of the country. Lugo summed up the sentiments of his supporters: "I refuse to live in a country where some can’t sleep because of fear and others can’t sleep because they’re hungry." […]
Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked on August 7th by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralded by the “Bolivarian Revolution” in their rural Andean Mountain valley. […]
This op-ed was distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information Services on August 12, 2008 and published in the Kansas City Star and other newspapers. In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin […]
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus The great debate on how much – or how little — Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere […]
(IPS)-Manfredo Velásquez was a student at the National Autonomous University of Honduras when he was violently arrested by intelligence agents without a warrant on the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1981.Several witnesses said the 35-year-old Velásquez, […]
Recently, SalvaVidas employees decided to organize a union in the hope of improving their working conditions. Immediately after finding out about the incipient union, the company fired those involved and temporarily closed the factory, declaring bankruptcy and insisting that the union members sign letters of resignation—common union breaking measures. […]
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