Source: Guatemala Solidarity Project Thousands of q’eqchi’ peasants near Livingston, Guatemala had been anticipating February 14, 2011 as a possible day of joy and celebration. Instead it became a day of unbearable grief after the bodies […]
For more than 20 years, the people of Porto Alegre, Brazil have been directly determining how the city spends it’s money. Chicago’s 49th Ward became the first US community to adopt the practice in 2009, and is now repeating the process.
(Tierramérica) – The booming tourist industry along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the “Riviera Maya,” is polluting the world’s largest underwater cave system and harming the world’s second largest coral […]
(Tierramérica) – As freshwater disappears from the super-populated Peruvian coast, the most water-intensive crops are expanding unabated as highly profitable exports. Observers warn about the harm this is causing and demand greater responsibility from the […]
Source: www.CommonDreams.org President Obama has given little indication of the strategy for his upcoming trip through Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador. Will “the great listener” promote cooperation and understanding, or carry on the Bush administration’s […]
Colombia entrena a miles de soldados y de policías mexicanos, a la vez que coquetea con funcionarios en un esfuerzo para apoyar el combate de México contra los cárteles de la droga. Siendo esto otro […]
The case, Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco, began on November 3, 1993, when 30,000 people from Ecuador’s Amazon filed a class action suit against Texaco in New York federal court. The trial was then forced to move from New York to a local court in Ecuador in 2002, alleging that any decision required national jurisdiction. Monday Superior Court Judge Nicolás Zambrano ordered Chevron to pay $8.6 billion in damages and twice that amout if they refuse to “publicly apologize to the victims of the Ecuadorian Amazon for the crimes committed.”
While friends, families and couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, Colombian workers, unions, and NGOs are joining together to commemorate something different this February 14th: the International Day of the Flower Worker. U.S. consumers spend over $18 […]
Source: PULSE Mary O’Grady, editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal and champion of the 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya “because he was trying to extend his presidency in violation of […]
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