On Tuesday, January 11, at about 6:45 pm, the Mexican Army raided the Oaxaca City office of the Committee for the Defense of the People’s Rights (CODEP) and the Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CODEM).
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas On December 10, surrounded by union leaders and foreign dignitaries, President Evo Morales promulgated Bolivia’s new pension law at the headquarters of the Bolivian Workers Central (COB), the country’s […]
(IPS) – The initial steps taken by Brazil’s first woman president, Dilma Rousseff, have confirmed that a stronger female presence will indeed be a hallmark of her administration. After taking office on Jan. 1 and […]
Dancing with Dynamite is “thoughtful and well-reported” and “succeeds in illuminating the gray zones between passion and power that must be negotiated on the road to building a humanist society everywhere.”
(IPS) – The U.S. mining and metallurgical company Doe Run has once again challenged the Peruvian government. The Renco Group, of which it is a subsidiary, notified the government of its plans to start an […]
The Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, FUNAI, has issued an order restricting entry to an area of land near the site of the planned Belo Monte dam, following indications that there are uncontacted Indians living […]
Amnesty International today urged the Haitian authorities to bring former president Jean-Claude Duvalier – also known as ‘Baby Doc’ – to justice for human rights abuses committed during his regime in the 1970s and 80s. […]
John’s gone. John Ross. I doubt that we will ever see anyone remotely like him again. The bare bones, as he would say, are remarkable enough. Born to show business Communists in New York City in 1938, he had minded Billie Holliday’s dog, sold dope to Dizzy Gillespie, and vigiled at the hour of the Rosenberg execution, all before he was sixteen years old. […]
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus This past September, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew criticism for comparing the current situation in Mexico to “Colombia 20 years ago.” Most of that criticism questioned whether […]
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