Nativas quieren la mitad de los escaños del parlamento, dice Nilda Copa Crédito: Franz Chávez/IPS. (IPS) – La lucha por la mitad del poder político es el primer paso que quieren dar las bolivianas para […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis Two days after the referendum in which 54.9% of Venezuelans approved a constitutional amendment to lift term limits on elected officials, journalist and activist of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) […]
Last week over 200 people held a march and rally in the city of Barrancabermeja, Santander department, to demand justice for two imprisoned leaders of the largest campesino association in the region a day before the beginning of their trial. […]
On Sunday, Feb. 15 2009, after a ferociously fought campaign, the Venezuelan electorate voted to allow indefinite re-election for all Venezuelan political offices. The vote was not close: according to the second official bulletin, with 99.57 percent of the votes counted, “Si” had garnered 6,310,482 votes—54.85 percent of the total. The “No” got 5,193,839 votes—45.14 percent of the total.
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U.S. Representatives Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter to encourage other Representatives to sign on to a letter to President Barack Obama calling for the U.S. government to […]
Protest march for the freedom of Mapuche prisoners. SANTIAGO, Feb 23 (IPS) – "They burst in aiming machine guns at us. They found him in the hallway, they grabbed him by the hair, they […]
Carlos Slim, the second richest man in the world, calls Mexico home, as do millions of impoverished citizens. From Spanish colonization to today’s state and corporate repression, Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt, by John Gibler, is written from the street barricades, against the Slims of the world, and alongside "the underdogs and rebels" of an unconquered country. […]
Each time those from below throw off the trappings of domination, other, newer, more perfected forms necessarily appear. Only by neutralizing the social programs and overcoming the offensive against autonomy from below can social movements find their way back to the road to independence. […]
We write these lines overcome by tremendous pain and sadness. We write from the shared rage we feel towards this criminal act, apparently committed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cauca, FARC, whom we condemn for these irreversible horrors and the shedding of innocent blood. […]
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