COLOMBIA Samuel Moreno, ex-PDA opposition leader in Colombia, compares Uribe to Chavez http://bit.ly/ih96Ho #cablegate Cable on magic laptops that somehow survived bombing of FARC camp w 38,000 files & 200,000+ images intact http://bit.ly/kMvx5D #cablegate GoC […]
(IPS) – El trance de violencia y estado de sitio que soporta el norteño estado guatemalteco de Petén, tras el asesinato y decapitación de 27 campesinos, llevaba años gestándose. Los sitios arqueológicos mayas del Petén […]
The long march arrived at the Plaza de la Catedral—the very same one occupied by Zapatistas on January 1st, 1994. This time, 30 EZLN commanders awaited the crowd.
(IPS) – The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The feature film “También La Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”) has been giving U.S. movie audiences a taste of the popular struggle against water privatization that took place in Cochabamba, […]
(IPS) – The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, […]
(IPS) – Although gay rights organisations in Brazil are celebrating a historic triumph, legal recognition of civil unions by the Supreme Court, they say the struggle is far from over. Legal recognition of “stable homosexual […]
On May 7, Ecuadorians voted in a referendum on ten questions ranging through constitution, judicial, political, and social issues. In the run-up to the vote many observers cast the election as a plebiscite on president Rafael Correa’s four years in office, a test of his popularity, and on his prospects of winning reelection in 2013, rather than a contest over any specific issue that the referendum raised. More than anything, however, the referendum revealed the deeply fragmented nature of the country.
The Zapatistas remain the ever patient outsiders in a country torn apart by violence and corruption, quietly building an autonomous alternative, a living example of what a disciplined, long-term struggle can achieve.
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