Source: Survival International The Paraguayan government has this week signed an agreement with Enxet Indians to hand back 1,000 hectares of their ancestral land. The decision comes after a long legal battle between the indigenous […]
(IPS) – Los estudiantes y campesinos mexicanos Gabriel Echeverría de Jesús, de 20 años, y Jorge Alexis Herrera Pino, de 21, participaron el lunes 12 en un bloqueo carretero para reclamar un aumento en la […]
(IPS) – Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is taking an increasingly hard-line stance against protests, and is losing important allies less than five months into his term. The centrist party led by former president Alejandro Toledo, […]
(IPS) – En Argentina, donde la disponibilidad de agua es muy superior a la demanda, 11 por ciento de la población todavía carece de acceso a la red, mientras buena parte del resto desperdicia el […]
Gabriel Echeverría de Jesús, 20, and Jorge Alexis Herrera, 21, paid a high price for taking part in student protests in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero: they were killed when police tried to break up their roadblock. The deaths of the student protesters occurred in the midst of a spate of murders of human rights defenders.
Source: Honduras Culture and Politics Late December 5, the Honduran Cabinet, in a session without the participation of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, approved a decree declaring an emergency of public security for 90 days, enabling the […]
In another event which exposes the reality of Chilean society’s split memory, an homage to former Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) officer Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko was described as an exercise in freedom of expression by mayor of Providencia Christian Labbé, in turn prompting outrage and protests from human rights and activist groups in Chile since its announcement.
Little noticed by the rest of the world, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is cutting a swath through one of the world’s poorest populations, along a stretch of Central America’s Pacific Coast that spans six countries and nearly 700 miles. Its victims are manual laborers, mostly sugarcane workers.
Explanations include a breakdown of social fabric during the armed conflict and a generation gap between war victims and today’s voters. Source: Latinamerica Press A plain, white, cement cross, marks the spot, next to the […]
In October, U.S. anti-drug czar and former ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield testified about what he called “Merida Part II,” before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Brownfield highlighted strengthening Mexican institutions and the “rule of law” as well as promoting civil society participation in anti-crime initiatives as key areas of U.S. Mexico cooperation.
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