The Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, FUNAI, has issued an order restricting entry to an area of land near the site of the planned Belo Monte dam, following indications that there are uncontacted Indians living […]
Amnesty International today urged the Haitian authorities to bring former president Jean-Claude Duvalier – also known as ‘Baby Doc’ – to justice for human rights abuses committed during his regime in the 1970s and 80s. […]
John’s gone. John Ross. I doubt that we will ever see anyone remotely like him again. The bare bones, as he would say, are remarkable enough. Born to show business Communists in New York City in 1938, he had minded Billie Holliday’s dog, sold dope to Dizzy Gillespie, and vigiled at the hour of the Rosenberg execution, all before he was sixteen years old. […]
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus This past September, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew criticism for comparing the current situation in Mexico to “Colombia 20 years ago.” Most of that criticism questioned whether […]
(IPS) – Fresh calls emerged Wednesday for Haiti to void its recent disputed presidential elections, following a new analysis from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) showing serious and unprecedented flaws in the […]
Fuente: Programa de las AmericasEn muchos sentidos, la primera década del siglo XXI es la contracara de la última del XX. La lista de cambios es tan larga como trascendente. Resta saber si se trata […]
In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century in South America. There have been numerous and significant changes. We still don’t know if it’s a glitch in time or a new beginning. In any case, the region will never be the same.
Source: PULSE “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” – George Orwell, 1984 In her effort to whitewash the history of Argentina’s dirty war, The Wall Street […]
(IPS) – While many are sceptical that the Chilean government will deliver on its promise of a shift in indigenous policy, the deadline is looming for the administration of Sebastián Piñera to live up to […]
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