Source: Folha de São Paulo She defines herself as a Marxist-Leninist “popular educator.” A Chilean, she was a student of philosopher Louis Althusser, a Catholic student leader and a member of the socialist government of […]
“Paul Romer’s propaganda talks about building Charter Cities in uninhabited places. Unfortunately, in Honduras they are trying to dispossess the Garífuna people of half of our territory in order to create the RED (Special Development Region). The level of disinformation and violence that exists in this country reveals that multiple human rights violations will be caused by the establishment of a neocolonial project in the 21st century.”
On July 14-15 the first ever International People’s Health Tribunal was held in the town of San Miguel Ixtahuacán in Guatemala’s Western highlands. The tribunal was organized to judge Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. for […]
Source: Cultural Survival On September 11th, a judge revoked ten arrest warrants that were issued against community leaders in the municipality of Barillas, Huehuetenango for alleged crimes against the Spanish hydroelectric subsidiary Hydro Santa Cruz, […]
Masked security guards of Honduras’s largest landowner verbally threatened and then fired a warning shot at nine human rights activists in Tocoa, Honduras, in the country’s violence wracked Aguan valley at about 3 PM local time yesterday. The incident was captured on videotape and in still pictures.
Source: Honduras Culture and Politics Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is the presidential candidate for LIBRE, the progressive party founded in the wake of post-coup activism in Honduras. She is also, as most readers of this […]
As with the water, so too “this land is heavily contaminated,” sighs Father Lorenzo, the priest from the nearby city of Santa Rosa de Lima. In the words of a local man whose father worked for Wisconsin-based Commerce Group: large-scale mining involved “making a pact with the devil.”
Achuar people celebrate a major victory for indigenous rights Talisman Energy (TLM) announced yesterday its decision to cease oil exploration activities in the Peruvian Amazon and to exit the country upon completion of ongoing commercial […]
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