Source: Americas MexicoBlog Last night, Oct. 29, Honduras’ de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote to "restore full executive power prior to June 28". Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran […]
Gloria Arenas Agís was released from prison around 7:30PM on October 28, ten years after Mexican federal agents abducted, tortured, and then—after several days of being held incommunicado—arrested her and her husband Jacobo Silva Nogales on charges ranging from terrorism and homicide to rebellion. One day later, on October 29, Jacobo Silva was released from federal prison in the state of Nayarit, to where he had been recently transferred after nine and a half years inside Mexico’s highest security prison, known as the Altiplano. […]
Source: Z Magazine An interview with ERPI guerrilla leader Comandante Ramiro Ramiro of the ERPI—photo by John Gibler They came shooting. Three military Humvees raced up the sole dirt road that leads to Puerto Las […]
Source: Americas Program A new indigenous uprising began in defense of water sources threatened by open air mining in Ecuador in late September. This time indigenous organizations find themselves up against a government that claims […]
Produced by Avi Lewis of Al Jazeera 100 days since the coup detat that ousted Manuel Zelaya, Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines with Avi Lewis travels to Honduras to look at polarisation and power in the Americas, […]
Marco Arana jots down concerns, complaints and demands of indigenous peasant farmers. Credit:Courtesy of La República LIMA, Oct 28 (IPS) – Catholic priest Marco Arana, who is also a social and environmental activist, has not […]
(IPS) – The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had […]
Source: NACLA It’s been called the "balloon effect," the idea that if you squeeze a problem – say, drug trafficking – out of one location, the problem inevitably expands into another. It’s a catchy metaphor, […]
To prolong influence over Colombia, every US administrations from Nixon to Obama has embraced a ‘war on drugs,’ or more recently a ‘war on terror,’ as a means to deploy counterinsurgency campaigns to silence antagonistic sectors of said population. It is increasingly clear, when concerning the recent actions of Bogotá and Washington to facilitate seven fortified bases controlled by the United States on Colombian territory, that both states have coordinated a strategic alliance to militarize the region, not simply one country. […]
At midnight on Octover 10, President Felipe Calderon issued an executive decree to liquidate the company and its union, the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas—SME), one of the strongest and most vocal independent unions in the nation. Ironically, the current economic crisis provided the Calderon Administration its strategic opportunity to cut the underfunded company and malign the union.
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