Corte consolida la impunidad en Guatemala
El pasado 14 de diciembre 2007 se dio a conocer a través de los medios de comunicación el fallo de la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC) guatemalteca, en el cual se decretó como nula la decisión […]
Year: 2008
La militarización de las periferias urbanas
Source: Programa de las Américas Las periferias urbanas de los países del tercer mundo se han convertido en escenarios de guerra, donde los Estados intentan mantener un orden asentado en el establecimiento de una suerte […]
Venezuelan Grassroots Groups Push For A United Movement
Meetings in El Valle
Hundreds of representatives of Venezuela’s grassroots social movements met in the Southern Caracas barrio of El Valle this weekend, to hash out plans for the formation of the Revolutionary Grassroots Front of the South–a new united movement through which they hope to combat the growing bureaucracy within the Chavez government, and to push their own grassroots agenda.
NACLA Launches Media Accuracy on Latin America Project
Media Accuracy on Latin America is a new initiative that seeks to foster public discourse by offering more pluralistic views on events unfolding throughout the hemisphere. Our network of scholars, journalists, and activists generate constructive media criticism of news coverage, highlighting reports in which news outlets have simplified, overlooked or distorted critical facts as well as reports in which the media fails to connect relevant U.S. policy to developments in Latin America. […]
Ecuador: Entrevista Con Marlon Santi, Nuevo Titular de la CONAIE
Un compromiso muy grande y un reto por reconstruir una nueva CONAIE Santo Domingo de los Tsa¨chilas, 13 de enero de 2008 En breve entrevista para ECUACHASKI, Marlon Santi, nuevo presidente de la CONAIE, luego […]
Week of Action to Protest Anti-Terrorist Law and Repression in El Salvador
January 14-18 marks the second international solidarity week of action to demand that terrorist charges against Salvadoran protestors be dropped. On July 2, 2007 fourteen people were arrested in Suchitoto, El Salvador for taking part […]
Citizens Call For World Bank to Respect Bolivia’s Withdrawal From Arbitration Court
Source: Common Dreams FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 16, 20081:10 PM CONTACT: Institute for Policy StudiesSarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies: 202 234 9382 x 227, saraha@igc.org 863 Citizen Groups Call on World Bank President to Respect […]
Brazil: Land Shortage Provokes Murders of Indigenous People
(IPS) – At least 76 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil in 2007, 58 percent more than in 2006. The killings increased the most in the west-central state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where the […]
Why Bolivia Matters
Source: Americas Program Bolivia’s National Palace is a classic colonial building that sits on the pigeon-filled Plaza Murillo in downtown La Paz. It’s more often called the "Palacio Quemado" or "Burned Palace" because it’s been […]
Marlon Santi: Commitment and Challenge to Reconstruct a New CONAIE in Ecuador
At CONAIE Congress
Marlon Santi is the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). He says that he will "join with the people in the Amazon, in the highlands, and on the coast. Since the problems are same and we have to walk together. I am not a leader who sits at a desk. I am a leader who will be out in the field, fighting for the people." […]