Year: 2010

Displaced Zapatistas Return Home

October 21, 2010 Jessica Davies 0
Thirty people from the political parties PRI, PRD and PVEM, armed with machetes and firearms, violently broke into the houses of the Zapatista families in San Marcos Avilés, forcing these families to flee their homes and abandon all of their possessions. One hundred seventy men, women and children became refugees in the mountains, enduring throughout the recent torrential rains hunger, cold, sleeplessness, mud and the fear of attacks on women and children.
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Dominican National Police: A Deadly Tradition

October 20, 2010 David Holmes Morris 0

Despite national and international outcry, the Dominican National Police are continuing their tradition of violent repression of dissidents at a time when protests are becoming more common across the country. Some recent incidents in El Cibao, the agricultural and mining region in the north, have resulted in the arrests of many demonstrators, a number of injuries by tear gas and gunshot, and one death.

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Brasil: Toward the Continuation of Lulismo

October 14, 2010 Raúl Zibechi 0
Dilma Rousseff came very close to winning in the first round of voting in Brazil, she ended up on the threshold of the government currently led by Lula de Silva. Lula, the most popular president Brazil has ever had, is stepping down after eight years that changed the face of the country and transformed its place in the world. How can it be that a nearly unknown woman, who barely had 8.4% of projected votes two years ago, is about to become the next president of Brazil?

Immigrant Rights Activist, and Former Torture Victim from Chile Faces Deprotation

October 13, 2010 Lainie Cassel 0
When Victor Toro settled with his family in the Bronx over 20 years ago he thought he had finally found a place to call home. After being tortured and imprisoned for his work as a Chilean activist under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in the 1970’s, Toro spent several years jumping from country to country in search of a safe haven, until finally settling in New York City in 1986. Now 68 years old, Toro may once again be forced into displacement as he heads to a US deportation court on Friday, October 15.
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Coup in Ecuador?

October 12, 2010 Kristin Bricker 0

Source: NACLA On September 30, about 1,000 Ecuadoran national police officers took to the streets, blocking key intersections and taking over public space, in protest of a new law that eliminated their bonuses and other […]

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