Video Reports: Repression and Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras
A series of short video reports from Honduras on the resistance movement, land occupations, repression against teachers and the struggle for democracy after the 2009 military coup.
Year: 2011
‘Sustainable Rural Cities’, a Nightmare Come True in Chiapas
The construction of Santiago El Pinar, the second Sustainable Rural City, clearly unveils another facet of the project: that of a counterinsurgency strategy devised by the Chiapas government against the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Located very close to the Zapatista autonomous municipalities of San Juan de la Libertad and San Andrés Sakamch’en, the ‘city’ breaks down the traditional ways of life, and forces people to enter the capitalist mode of production of small businesses oriented towards the external market.
Bolivia: The Boomerang Effect for Morales
(IPS) – It wasn’t easy to get to the Bolivian city of Riberalta from Brazil. The adventurous journey included potholes on the Brazilian highway, a rickety boat that ferried us across the Mamoré – the […]
‘Our Misery, Their Jobs’: the Humanitarian Industry in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Source: Americas Program Editor’s note: all sources in the story with asterisks had their names changed to protect their identities. Georges Marie* is a proud and angry Haitian lawyer who lost her husband in the […]
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf
(IPS) – Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people’s cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both? In the coming months, diplomats at the U.N. […]
Displaced Campesinos in Colombia Want a Say on Land Restitution Bill
(IPS) – The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly […]
Community Radio Stations: The Voice of Honduran Resistance
In Honduras, where sensationalizing and manipulating the truth is a common practice among journalists, community radio stations have emerged as a critical part of the anti-coup movement: they can project and expand the many voices of resistance while at the same time they are able to reach and educate listeners who may not have been in the streets in the days following the coup.
Sitio Indígena Sagrado en México es amenazado por la Compañía Minera Canadiense
Todos los años, los indígenas Wixarika (Huichol) de la regíon occidental central de México, caminan 500 km a la tierra sagrada de Wirikuta, donde según la leyenda, nació el sol. Aquí, se colecta jíkuri (peyote), […]
Argentina’s Qom-Toba Community Call for an End to Repression and Discrimination
Source: Free Speech Radio News As Argentine lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that would limit foreign ownership of farm land, the nation’s indigenous face forced displacement, extreme poverty and violent attacks as the […]
No Justice, No Peace: Canadian Mining in Ecuador and Impunity
On December 2, 2006, 14 paramilitaries armed with 38-caliber guns and pepper spray fired into a group of unarmed Ecuadorian campesinos from a community that has been resisting a copper mining project for over a decade. Thankfully no one was killed, but there were several injuries, not to mention the psychological suffering caused by such a vicious attack.