On December 29 – 31 women from all five Zapatista Caracoles (centers of resistance) gathered in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas to meet with women who had come from all around the world to hear their stories of struggling, organizing, and participating in the Zapatista movement, and to share their own experiences.
A pesar de los ataques del presidente derechista Álvaro Uribe, la oposición izquierdista colombiana del Polo Democrático arrasó en las elecciones del 28 de Octubre por el alcalde de Bogotá – la segunda posición política más […]
Despite hundreds of thousands of casualties in the last sixty years alone, the Colombian government denies the existence of an insurgency within its borders. Too weak to seize power, but too strong to defeat, the rebels have now been recognized by neighboring
Source: The Dominion On 18 October 2007, the Supreme Court of Belize ruled in Cal v. Attorney General that the national government must recognize the indigenous Mayans’ customary tenure to land and refrain from any […]
Ecuador’s government announced on Friday that it was revoking Ascendant Copper‘s mining concessions for the controversial Junin Project. “As an Intag resident, I am ecstatic to be rid of a source of conflict that was tearing our communities apart,” said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.
[…]
Exalted by the success of his social programmes, but harassed by opponents who are threatening to declare de facto autonomy in four of Bolivia’s nine departments, indigenous President Evo Morales completes two years of his mandate on Tuesday, a milestone the country’s three previous presidents failed to reach. […]
Fuente: Lavaca Eduardo Mondino recomendó al gobierno de San Juan que suspenda la explotación minera en San Guillermo, declarada Reserva de la Biosfera por la UNESCO. Pidió también la elaboración por parte de Parques Nacionales […]
(IPS) – The Salvadoran government had proclaimed that from the moment of its entry into force, the free trade agreement with the United States would boost the local economy, creating thousands of jobs, so that […]
Copyright 2003-2018 Upside Down World