In 2011, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) received 1,669 reports of torture and ill-treatment by police and security forces; up from 1,161 in 2010; 1,055 in 2009 and 564 in 2008. These figures cover reports of abuses by federal officials. In the last three years, Amnesty International has recorded reports of torture in all 31 states and the Federal District.
In small communities across the Ramal Jujeño in Argentina Guarani women are rising up to defend their rights. On October 15 their struggle will receive international recognition, when Matilde Lucio be awarded one of 10 international prizes for her creativity in rural life in recognition of Rural Women’s Day.
The Historical Archive of the National Police (NP) was discovered by chance in July 2005. Tens of millions of documents, including papers, books, photographs and floppy disks, were piled from floor to ceiling, filling entire […]
Whatever the internal contradictions of the Bolivarian process, the electoral victory of Chávez was the necessary starting point for addressing them, salvaging the social gains that have been introduced, and radically extending the breadth and depth of a radical conceptualization of democracy in the country and the region – that is to say initiating a transition to socialism.
The 3rd of February 2010 marked the beginning of a nightmare for Israel Arzate Meléndez. His crime? In a stroke of bad luck he ran into a Mexican army unit just days after the Villas de Salvárcar massacre – an international scandal where 16 young people were killed in Ciudad Juarez. To take pressure off themselves, the Mexican government needed to uncover (or perhaps invent) the culprits of the killings.
Protestors paralyze construction and vow to maintain occupation until dam builders comply with mitigation requirements Altamira, Brazil – Yesterday some 120 indigenous demonstrators from the Xipaia, Kuruaia, Parakanã, Arara, Juruna and Assurini peoples united with […]
The deaths of eight indigenous demonstrators taking part in a protest against the Guatemalan government in the southwestern province of Totonicapán have provoked outrage within the country and abroad. “The army should never be involved in actions of law and order,” said Helen Mack, the founder and president of the Myrna Mack Foundation. “Their doctrine is to kill, and what was happening there did not call for any killing.”
“His only crime is struggling for his people, telling the truth, and fighting for true democracy, liberty and justice,” says the Good Government Junta (JBG)[i] of Oventic of their compañero Francisco Sántiz Lόpez, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the state penitentiary in San Cristόbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, since December 4, 2011. On September 29, 2012, a week before his 57th birthday, Francisco completed 300 days behind bars for a crime it has been proven he did not commit.
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