Month: April 2012
First School for Transvestites Opens in Buenos Aires
With 35 students, the first secondary school specifically for transvestites and other members of sexual minorities who face discrimination in mainstream schools opened in March in the Argentine capital. Francisco Quiñones, the head of the new school, explained that the idea was “to create an inclusive school, free of discrimination, that takes into account and values the different trans identities, where they can manage to finish secondary school. Public schools, which are governed by rules that cater to heterosexuals, drive these people away.”
Oil company Perenco accused of ‘1970s-era’ methods in Peru’s Amazon
Plans by Anglo-French oil and gas company Perenco to exploit oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy have been slammed as a “1970s-era” project and forecast to cause huge unnecessary environmental damage to the Amazon. […]
Latin America: What Comes After the Back Yard
Source: La Journada After the recent sixth Summit of the Americas there remains little doubt that the Latin American region has changed. It stopped being the back- yard of a decadent empire that has very […]
Charter Cities in Honduras: A Proposal to Expand Canadian Colonialism
Source: The Media Co-op The Globe and Mail really outdid themselves today. With the help of a writer named Jeremy Torobin, they took their journalism to the level of the commentary they once specialized in […]
228 Venezuelan Movements Form Sexual Diversity Council
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Movements for LGBTI rights in the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) met yesterday to form a sexual diversity council. Other movements and grassroots organisations in the revolutionary pole have also formed women’s, youth, and […]
Brazilian Mining Giant under Fire for Deaths, Environmental Damage
(IPS) – Social movements from several countries accused Brazil’s Vale, the world’s second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the deaths of 15 workers in labour accidents between […]
Women of Las Patronas Aid Central American Migrants in Mexico
For seventeen years, a group of women in La Patrona, Veracruz, has been handing out food and water to Central American migrants riding cargo trains north in search of work. Most are hoping to make it to the US to find work but first they must make it through Mexico, where they risk being robbed, beaten, kidnapped, murdered. The passage through La Patrona is one of the few bright spots on their trip.