Year: 2012
ALBA Advances towards “Alternative Economic Model”, Pursues Anti-Imperialist Agenda
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Member countries of Latin America’s alternative integration bloc, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), met in the Venezuelan capital last weekend in order to discuss the advancement of the organisation […]
Bolivia’s TIPNIS Conflict Continues: Fanning the Flames of Discontent
Source: NACLA Bolivia’s conflict over the recently-cancelled highway through the TIPNIS National Park and Indigenous Territory intensified this week, as the CONISUR counter-march arrived to La Paz and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government renewed […]
Two Killed During Panama Mining Protests
Two indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé men were killed and dozens more injured in connection with a police crackdown on dissent over mining and hydroelectric developments in Panama, where Canadian mining companies have a significant presence. Since January […]
Observations from the World Social Forum in Brazil: The Life and Death of Liberal Democratic Capitalism
I have just finished my second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 9 years after I attended my first. 2003 was a year marked by the inauguration of Lula, a union-leader turned politician who led the Workers´ Party to multiple electoral victories; this year’s social forum has been marked by Tunisa, Tahrir Square, the Spanish Indignant movement of unemployed youth (Indignados in Spanish), and the Occupy movement that took Wall Street and many US cities, like my home of New Orleans. My observation and summation of these processes focuses on the demise, and temporary survival, of liberal, democratic capitalism.
Lawmakers, “Experts” Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America
(IPS) – Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential […]
Elliott Abrams’ Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice
Elliott Abrams, a former high level State Department official during the 1980s, testified last week that the Reagan administration knew that Argentina’s military junta was systematically stealing babies from murdered and jailed democracy activists and giving them to right-wing families friendly to the regime. But this didn’t deter the State Department at the time from granting Argentina certification indicating that the country’s human rights record was improving.
Solicitud de ‘amistad’ peligrosa: Los medios de comunicación sociales y la política de estado siglo xxi
Un informe publicado por el Senado en octubre de 2011, en el que se insta al gobierno estadounidense a desarrollar el empleo de medios de comunicación sociales como parte de su política exterior en América […]
Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling in Haiti
(IPS) – International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses […]
Terrorism and Development in Peru
If Humala wants to be re-elected, he has to look into anti-poverty, healthcare, education and other initiatives. Source: Al Jazeera Ayacucho, Peru – While we waited for the elevator at the Museum of the […]