Year: 2012
Mexico Fails to Tackle Increased Levels of Violence Against Women
The Mexican authorities have failed to protect women from increasing levels of violence and discrimination or to ensure those responsible face justice, said Amnesty International in a report handed to a UN body due to […]
Botched DEA Raid in Honduras Exposes How Militarization Terrorizes Communities Around the World
A deadly May raid brought the impact of the drug war on local communities in Honduras into the global spotlight. Source: AlterNet A boat riddled with bullet impact marks sits docked at a landing along […]
Bolivia: TIPNIS Marchers Return Home, Pledge to Resist Government Consulta
Source: NACLA Following a two-week vigil in La Paz, frustrated lowland indigenous marchers have decided to return to their native communities. Some 1,500 marchers arrived in the nation’s capital on June 27, after a 62-day, […]
Express Coup Rattles Paraguay
Transnational corporations including Canada’s Rio Tinto Alcan undeterred by political turmoil Source: The Dominion TORONTO—A coup snuck up on South America last month, taking people around the world by surprise. The June 22 ouster of […]
Peruvian Government Urged to Halt Violence against Citizens Opposed to Mining Projects
Washington, DC — International relief and development organization Oxfam America joined 90 environmental and human rights organizations in sending a letter to the Peruvian Embassy in Washington calling on the Peruvian government to end escalating human rights abuses […]
The Cause of Drug War Violence: Interview with Author Peter Watt
The new book “The Drug War in Mexico: Politics, Violence and Neo-Liberalism in the New Narco-Economy,” looks beyond the clichés to examine the causes of the violence associated with illegal drugs trafficking in Mexico. The Latin America Bureau talked to one of its authors, Peter Watt.
Domitila Chungara, Revolutionary Heroine of Bolivia: An Interview
After Domitila Chungara died in Cochabamba on March 13 of this year, three days of national mourning were decreed, honoring her heroic life of struggle on behalf of the working class and of women. Married to a miner, she organized other women in mining communities to struggle for justice and for better conditions of life. She was jailed, tortured, and driven into exile; she is most famous for joining four other women in leading a hunger strike that began in 1977 and finally brought down the Banzer dictatorship in 1978.
Domitila Chungara, Revolutionary Heroine of Bolivia: An Interview
After Domitila Chungara died in Cochabamba on March 13 of this year, three days of national mourning were decreed, honoring her heroic life of struggle on behalf of the working class and of women. Married to a miner, she organized other women in mining communities to struggle for justice and for better conditions of life. She was jailed, tortured, and driven into exile; she is most famous for joining four other women in leading a hunger strike that began in 1977 and finally brought down the Banzer dictatorship in 1978.