Founded in May 1967, Chilean nueva canción group Inti Illimani quickly became popular in Chile and other neighbouring countries. Inti Illimani willingly involved itself in transmitting the message of Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular to Chileans, bringing the social aspect of politics to the people through music.
As tens of thousands of corpses continue to pile up as a result of the US-led “War on Drugs” in Latin America, private contractors are benefiting from lucrative federal counternarcotics contracts amounting to billions of dollars, without worry of oversight or accountability.
(IPS) – The expansion of renewable energies in Latin America will drive up demand for metals like copper, which only recycling will be able to meet. Alternative technologies, such as photovoltaic cells, wind turbines and […]
Lopez Fuentes, 81 years old, is accused by the Public Prosecutor’s bureau for human rights “for over ten thousand murders, nine thousand forcibly displaced persons, and numerous rapes against women in the Maya Ixil region – all crimes took place between March 1982 and October 1983.
Source: Americas Program For more than five months, indigenous Argentinians from the community of Primavera set up camp in the small plazas on The Ninth of July and Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires. They […]
Source: Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English Once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the […]
Source: CISPES Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Begin an Investigation Immediately! (check out the Mesa press release here and aqui en Español ) With heavy hearts, we report that […]
Since mid-April, the planned construction of 5 hydroelectric dams in the ecologically rich region of Aysén in Southern Chile has produced persistent floods of protesters in the streets and plazas of cities spanning the length of the country.
A response to the recent Op-Ed entitled “Fixing Honduras” by Noah Feldman, David Landau and Brian Sheppard that was published in the L.A. Times. This op-ed by US-based constitutional lawyers completely misidentifies the real crisis in Honduras.
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