Month: June 2013
Ecuador – CONAIE Leader: “We will not defend wealthy media interests”
Ecuador’s Indigenous movement leader recognizes that there are internal differences in the organization, but they will never join with the political right.
Torture in Mexico: “I Still Think it was a Nightmare”
It took Miriam Isaura López Vargas several weeks to piece together what happened to her after she was tortured and raped by Mexican soldiers. On 2 February 2011, the 30-year-old mother of four had just […]
Mexico: Activists Demand Liberation of Indigenous Political Prisoner, Alberto Patishtán
Dozens of activists, human rights defenders, intellectuals and cultural figures held a rally on Wednesday in front of the Council of the Federal Judiciary in Mexico City to demand the immediate freedom of political prisoner Alberto Patishtán Gomez.
Protests in Brazil: The Twenty-Cent Revolt
Source: The Americas Program The price hike in transportation was the crack that revealed deep discontent in Brazilian society. In less than two weeks, the demonstrations multiplied: from 5,000 the first days, to more than […]
Americas: The Edward Snowden Case Monitor
Source: The Center for Economic and Policy Research The NSA surveillance scandal and the case of whistleblower Edward Snowden have brought before the U.S. public a whole set of issues that could be vital to […]
Colombia : Catatumbo Peasants Protest, Confront Violent State Repression
Adjoining Venezuela, the Catatumbo region in Colombia’s Norte de Santandar department is remarkable for coca growing and almost exclusive use of Monsato’s Glyphosate product for aerial fumigations of the crop. Also noteworthy is the presence […]
Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits
Source: Reuters Ecuador’s leftist government thumbed its nose at Washington on Thursday by renouncing U.S. trade benefits and offering to pay for human rights training in America in response to pressure over asylum for former […]
Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun
(IPS) – The Salvadoran army kept a detailed list of names and photographs of leftists detained or sought during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. The report is the first official military document proving the armed […]