Rody Alvarado Peña and Guatemala’s Lingering War
Source: NACLA Who is Rody Alvarado Peña? For much of the 1980s and early 1990s, she was one of Guatemala’s thousands of battered women, suffering daily violent abuse at the hands of her husband. […]
Year: 2009
Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations
Recently, Toronto-based Pinetree Capital bought a few million shares of Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, making it the largest share owner of a failing company currently embroiled in a lawsuit. Copper Mesa, until last year, was the owner of a couple of mining concessions in the Intag region of Ecuador. The Vancouver-based company is infamous for using the equivalent of paramilitaries in the anti-mining community of Junín. […]
El Salvador: Ramiro Rivera Shot to Death in Cabañas
December 20, 4:00pm – Hitmen gunned down and killed our compañero Ramiro Rivera Gomez, Vice president of the Comité Ambiental de Cabañas, [Cabañas Environmental Committee], in the Canton of Trinidad, city of Ilobasco, Cabañas. Rivera was a leader in the resistance against the Pacific Rim Mining Company.
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El reloj climático corre para América Latina
(IPS) América Latina debería aprovechar el tiempo de que dispone para buscar un nuevo modelo de producción, consumo y distribución adaptado a las realidades que impone el cambio climático. Pero sin un acuerdo mundial para […]
International Day for Human Rights “Celebrated” in Guatemala City
It is ironic that while Canada’s Governor General Michaëlle Jean was replacing the white rose to commemorate 24 hours of “peace” in Guatemala inside the country’s Constitutional Palace, 150 National Civil Police agents were outside violently evicting workers from their make-shift homes in the Central Plaza. […]
Memory and Justice: A Photo Essay on Argentina’s Human Rights Movement
Some 30,000 people were disappeared during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Kidnapped by commando groups in the middle of the night, they were taken to clandestine detention centers. The largest and most notorious torture center, The ESMA Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires still stands today, but as a museum for Memory.