In Ecuador, thousands of indigenous, campesinos, Afro-descendants and environmentalists took to the streets on Monday, protesting the pending mining law and government failure to fully apply a mining mandate passed by the National Constituent Assembly in April. […]
Source: Center for the Study of the Americas Evo Morales is the latest democratically-elected Latin American president to be the target of a U.S. plot to destabilize and overthrow his government. On September 10, 2008 […]
Source: The Huffington Post This article was originally published Nov. 6, before President-elect Barack Obama tapped Eric Holder as his pick for the country’s new attorney general. In it’s recent report entitled, "Breaking the Grip? […]
In El Salvador, the residents of one community are feeling the impact of mining long before any ground has been broken. Locals are talking about contamination – but not the kind caused by environmental pollutants – it is "social contamination" that is tearing apart the village of Trinidad, and a Canadian mining company that is being blamed. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas El conflicto social pasó a ocupar el centro del escenario político, descolocando al presidente Alvaro Uribe que se limita a repetir el libreto que tanto éxito le dio en la […]
On Nov. 13, in a crowded room at the Inter-cultural Center at Georgetown University, the audience traveled to Ayacucho, Peru and watched as the Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team-EPAF) exhumed the remains of disappeared persons from the Putis massacre of December 13, 1984. […]
Bogotá, Colombia-As up to 6,000 indigenous protesters participating in the ongoing "Minga Popular" approached the city limits of Ibagué, in the department of Tolima, they were met by a squadron of mounted and special forces police known as ESMAD, as well as the Army, who were given explicit orders by President Alvaro Uribe not to let them into the main highway of the city.
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