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 […]
Mexican activists winding down a month-long U.S. tour warned Tuesday that guns licensed in the United States were playing a massive part in gang- and drug cartel-related violence in Mexico. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has confirmed that approximately 70 percent of the guns being used and recovered in the Mexican drug war are of U.S origin.
(Ottawa) Records filed Monday confirm that four Canadian Members of Parliament and one Senator flew on Goldcorp’s tab to visit company operations in Guatemala and meet with legislators in charge of mines at the end of August. […]
The false notion that the state and drug traffickers are oppositional forces is firmly dispelled in Drug War Mexico, which draws on numerous examples to prove cooperation and at the very least complicity between the political and business class and the so-called underworld. They go on to document how narcotics trafficking must be understood as an “integral component” in Mexico’s economic transformation towards neoliberalism.
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