Year: 2012
Chilean Students and Police Clash at Protest
Police report 100 arrests after violent clashes with protesters. Source: The Santiago Times Thousands of high school and university students marched in Santiago on Thursday to express their frustration with a government that they say […]
Peru: Amazon Indians Win Court Case over Land Rights
A small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres Islas community, in […]
Army’s Former Sex Slaves Testify in Guatemala
With her face covered, and with the support of a psychologist and a translator, a crying Rosa Pérez* told a court hearing this week that members of the army kidnapped her husband and turned her into a sex slave and servant in the Sepur Zarco military garrison in the municipality of El Estor in the northeastern province of Izabal. She and 14 other Q’eqchi Maya Indian women who were subjected to sexual and labour slavery between 1982 and 1986 testified at a preliminary hearing held this week in a court in the Guatemalan capital.
Q&A: Guatemala’s Bold Attorney General Makes a Dent in Impunity
(IPS) – Since Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey became attorney general in Guatemala in 2010, a string of crimes involving military personnel who fought leftwing guerrillas, drug traffickers and organised crime have been cleared up. […]
Left International Solidarity in Post-Coup Honduras
Judging by the relative disinterest – in both the mainstream and left media in North America – towards the situation in Honduras, you would think that the crisis in this country was over. Yet, almost everyone I have talked to in my most recent stay here has told me that the situation is grave; twice in one week alone, I was sitting with an activist in the movement when they received news of the assassination of one of their compañeros.
Lawyer Representing Authentic Campesino Movement of Aguan (MARCA) Murdered
Source: COFADEH Lawyer Antonio Trejo, the legal representative of the Authentic Claimant Campesino Movement of Aguan (MARCA) died from several gunshot wounds on Saturday night, September 22. On August 22, he was prosecuted by […]
