INDÍGENAS-MÉXICO: Atrincherados en defensa propia
(IPS) – “Se terminó la paciencia”, dice Mary, una indígena sostén de los tres hijos desde que su esposo fue secuestrado de su casa por un grupo armado. Es que los vecinos de este occidental […]
Year: 2011
Case against Amazon Indian Leader in Peru ‘Closed’
A two-year legal case against the leader of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has been shelved. Alberto Pizango was forced into exile following violent clashes between indigenous protesters and police in June 2009 which left 33 […]
Colombia: ‘Impunity’ – Keeping the ‘Black Hand’ Anonymous
(IPS) – The film “Impunity” has only just now arrived in Colombia, although the filming was completed a year ago and it was first shown to the public in Geneva in January. But the wait […]
Photo Chronicle of Mexico’s Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity
On June 4, poet Javier Sicilia and farmer Julian LeBaron led a 500-person caravan through some of the most dangerous places in Mexico, and which one major Mexican magazine referred to as the country’s “route of blood.” The caravan ended on June 10 in Ciudad Juarez, which Sicilia dubbed Mexico’s “epicenter of pain” because just over one-fifth of the country’s homicides occurred in that city in 2010.
The People Legislate: Grassroots Media Movement Creates Its Own Law in Venezuela
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Media activists from around the state of Merida crowded into the Carlos Marx building yesterday to debate the new community media law. As we broke up into working groups, a member of […]
People’s Tribunal against the Criminalization of Protest in Ecuador
During three days in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, hundreds of representatives from several Latin American countries gathered to share experiences and strategies during the Continental Conference in Defense of Water and Mother Earth. The event took place between June 17 and 23, and was organized as an act of resistance against development projects that threaten this vital resource, Yakumama, our mother water.
WikiLeaks Cables of Interest on Latin America, Released June 6-26, 2011
COLOMBIA Colombians now represent the single largest group of refugees granted asylum in Argentina bit.ly/jPSd7Y #cablegate USG happy with first round of privatization at ECOPETROL, Colombia’s formerly state oil company bit.ly/lvrpsu #cablegate USG: CIDA “will […]
The Different Logics within the Honduran Resistance: An Interview with Bertha Cáceres
On June 18, 2011, during a two-day assembly of the Espacio Refundacional (Refoundational Space) current of the Frente Nacional de la Resistencia Popular (National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP), we caught up with with Bertha Cáceres, General Coordinator of Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares y Indígenas de Honduras (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, COPINH).
Mexico: Citizen’s Pact for Peace with Justice and Dignity
Source: Americas Program For more than four years now, our country has suffered a war on drugs that officially does not exist. It is really a war against the people that has cost 40,000 Mexican […]