President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García are set to handily win the Dec. 6 elections in Bolivia, against a fragmented opposition. In a Gallup International poll published early this month, more than 57 percent of respondents said they would vote for the left-wing Morales. […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Si no hubiera recibido la más importante distinción que otorga el Estado de manos de Evo Morales, la vida de Constantino Lima sería apenas conocida por sus amigos y compañeros, […]
June 22, 2009, was an historic day for the family of Israel Carías Ortiz, and for the people of Guatemala. The Sentencing Tribunal in Zacapa, Guatemala found two men guilty of the 2007 murder of Ortiz and his two sons Ledwin Anilson (age 9) and Ronald Aroldo (age 11). The precedent-setting sentence recognizes Carías was killed because of his leadership in the struggle to reassert legal rights to community land.
(IPS) – Although the international community has warned that it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the Jun. 28 coup d’etat says the […]
Source: Extra! September 2009 Issue The pretext for the Honduran coup d’état is nothing new. In a remarkable replay, bogus charges that the corporate media in the U.S. and Europe have repeated endlessly without attempting […]
The mountain went dark. Flicking on a light switch or turning the bathroom faucets did nothing, and even the telephone lines had gone silent. Tacueyó is one of the fourteen indigenous reservations in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, a thickly forested region dominated both by small-scale coffee farmers and roving bands of Colombia’s Marxist revolutionary group, the FARC. […]
Source: The Real News The resistance to the military coup in Honduras has entered its 71st straight day of direct action in the streets of that country. Meanwhile, the United States Department of State still […]
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