Year: 2009
Paraguay: Protests and Rubber Bullets Greet Return of Dictatorship Criminal
Workers and activists gathered in the central
Argentina: Water is Worth More Than Gold! 300 Organizations Collectively Say “No To Open-Pit Mining”
Gathering in the Province of San Juan, the heart of the Argentinean mining industry, representatives of the Union of Citizens Assemblies reaffirmed their commitment to fighting an economic model which is plundering natural resources and destroying livelihoods. […]
What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left
This is Part Two of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”
Josefina Lazo and Sandra Henriquez are members of the first vendors association of San Salvador, which represented 1,000 vendors 25 years ago. In San Salvador today, 30-33 associations are active with a representation of about 20,000 vendors.
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The US-Colombia FTA and National Insecurity: A Call for Ethical Foreign Policy
There is a dire need for international reflection regarding the role of U.S policy abroad, and especially in response to US Government publications regarding the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). In actuality, if passed, the FTA would further destabilize Colombia’s small-property farmers, take away an estimated 250,000 jobs, maintain state sanctioned impunities for military and paramilitary violences against Colombia’s civilian populations, and threaten biodiversity within the country. […]
Colombia: Paramilitary Chief Says He Helped Finance Uribe’s Campaign
(IPS) – Former Colombian paramilitary chief and drug lord Diego Murillo, alias "Don Berna", testified in a U.S. court that he helped finance President Álvaro Uribe’s first election campaign, in 2002. The president’s campaign chief […]