Source: NACLA On May 2, CNN executive producer Arthur Brice published what was purported to be a news article on Venezuela. Instead, Brice’s 4,300-word screed, titled “Chavez Health Problems Plunge Venezuela’s Future Into Doubt,” is little […]
(IPS) – Foreign non-residents, gay or straight, can now get married in the Argentine capital, thanks to a resolution that removed bureaucratic obstacles and streamlined the procedure. Since same-sex marriage was approved in Argentina in […]
There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is also no end in sight to American and Canadian governments and business maintaining political, economic and military relations with the country’s military-backed regime. Since the June 2009 military coup, that ousted the country’s democratically-elected government, Honduras has been referred to as the ‘murder capital’ of the world, a ‘journalist killing’ capital of the Americas, an ‘LGBT killing capital’, a ‘prisoner killing capital’, and a ‘lawyer killing capital.’
The Belo Monte dam project shows the government’s failure to respect indigenous rights and reform energy policy. Source: Al Jazeera It’s rather ironic to find commonalities between President Rousseff’s government and past Brazilian military regimes. […]
Over 300 people from ten states in Mexico marched through the capital on Mother’s Day demanding an end to forced disappearances and calling on authorities to find their loved ones. With them marched brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and grandparents. All of them asking the same question; where are they? Their question is met with silence from the government.
A US military training center in the port city of Concón, in the central Chilean province of Valparaíso, will be used for exercises “clearly oriented toward the control and repression of the civilian population,” according to an open letter that more than 20 human rights organizations sent Chile’s Defense Minister Andrés Allamand on May 7. The US Southern Command is also planning to build an installation in Argentina, at the airport in Resistencia, capital of the northeastern province of Chaco.
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