Year: 2012

Mexico: Calderón Government Monitoring Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity Leaders

May 2, 2012 José Gil Olmos, Translation by Jim Rudolf 0

After the Mexican government set the scene to sit down and have a “dialogue” with the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), and after President Felipe Calderón supposedly engaged with its members, now we learn that his government has files on the movement’s leaders, including Javier Sicilia. This information is part of an extensive file that includes profiles with public and private data of the activists.

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South American Fiber Optic Ring

May 2, 2012 Raúl Zibechi 0

Source: Americas Program On March 9th, the Ministers of Communication from 12 countries that make up the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR, for its acronym in Spanish) made the decision to build a fiber-optic […]

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Scientist Calls Peru Conga Mining Project an ‘Environmental Disaster:’ Interview with Reinhard Seifert

May 1, 2012 Alice Bernard and Diego Cupolo 0

Environmental engineer Reinhard Seifert has been persecuted, threatened and arrested, but he continues researching the effects of mining on Cajamarca’s water resources as the Peruvian government currently weighs its decision on the future of the Conga gold mine. If approved, the project would give Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. the ability to construct one of the world’s largest gold mines on fragile, high-altitude wetlands.

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Chilean Supreme Court Red Lights Goldcorp Mine

May 1, 2012 Dawn Paley 0

Indigenous community leader celebrates ruling, promises continued opposition Source: Vancouver Media Co-op On Friday, the Chilean Supreme Court ratified a lower court ruling that rendered Goldcorp’s environmental assessment for the El Morro mine null, due […]

First School for Transvestites Opens in Buenos Aires

April 28, 2012 Marcela Valente 0

With 35 students, the first secondary school specifically for transvestites and other members of sexual minorities who face discrimination in mainstream schools opened in March in the Argentine capital. Francisco Quiñones, the head of the new school, explained that the idea was “to create an inclusive school, free of discrimination, that takes into account and values the different trans identities, where they can manage to finish secondary school. Public schools, which are governed by rules that cater to heterosexuals, drive these people away.”

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