Peru has fired its top indigenous affairs official after she reversed an ‘illegal’ decision to allow Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to enter land inhabited by uncontacted tribes. Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo has been replaced as head […]
A Colombian Army officer charged with multiple civilian killings, known as “false positives,” last month publicly charged the commander of the U.S.-assisted unit – General Javier Fernández Leal – with collaborating in the killings. Fernández Leal has been promoted to chief of joint intelligence for the Colombian military.
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(IPS) – Some 200 Wixáritari or Huichol men, women and children travelled 20 hours from western Mexico to the capital to defend their sacred ceremonial sites from silver mining. Dressed in their colourful traditional attire, […]
Source: Against the Current Los ritmos de Pachakuti:Levantamiento y movilización en Bolivia (2000-2005)Raquel Gutiérrez AguilarBajo Tierra Ediciones, D.F., México. 2009. Dispersing Power:Social Movements as Anti-State ForcesRaul Zibechi. Translated by Ramor RyanAK Press, Oakland, 2010, 163 […]
Increasingly unpopular Chilean President Sebastián Piñera approved an initiative seeking to clamp down on student ‘occupations’ by enacting harsher punishments toward those who destroy public property and take over educational institutions.
(IPS) – A bill for protection, recovery and use of water resources in El Salvador, drafted by a platform of about 100 social, religious and academic organisations, has been bogged down in parliament for the […]
Source: Al Jazeera Parliament votes to lift amnesty on alleged crimes against humanity committed under military-backed dictatorship. Uruguay’s parliament has revoked an amnesty for military officials charged with committing human rights abuses during a crackdown […]
Source: Americas Program Colombia, traditionally Washington’s best ally in the region, is cozying up to Brazil and building a solid commercial, financial and political network with its neighbor while Washington becomes more and more isolated […]
Last week, the Guatemalan government of Álvaro Colom formally apologized to the family of former president Jacobo Árbenz who was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup in 1954 and later died in exile in Mexico. […]
Source: NACLA Will tiny El Salvador, where two thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day, become the first nation on the planet to legally ban gold mining? On June 28, President […]
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