Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Earlier this month president Nicolas Maduro created a security body, the CESSPA, to coordinate information from intelligence organizations. Opposition spokespeople and private media have categorised the new body as “Castro-esque”, “dictatorial”, and “limiting […]
“Although the rulers do not like it, we will continue defending our territory because this is where we come from, and we are not leaving despite their repression and corruption” say the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajón, who denounce the murder with impunity of their leader Juan Vázquez Guzmán, and request the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to protect their rights and the integrity of their territory.
In October and November, Bolivian author and activist, Felix Muruchi will be speaking in the northeastern US and Chicago area about current process of social change. He is co-author with Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing […]
The government of Guatemala rejects obligation to fund Chixoy dam Reparations Plan, pretends to carry out government ‘community development’ projects. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank remain silent about on-going suffering and the Guatemalan […]
“Given the reports of excessive force used against indigenous protesters in the past 10 days, we have very serious concerns about the safety of the indigenous leaders and members of the organizations named in the paramilitary death threat,” said Amnesty International’s Marcelo Pollack.
Source: Rebelion At the invitation of the Jose Marti Valencian Association of Friendship with Cuba (Asociación Valenciana José Martí de Amistad con Cuba) and the Acontracorrent union, Jasmine Acosta and Hector Zabala are social activists […]
(IPS) – Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control […]
(IPS) – Unos 50.000 expedientes sobre crímenes contra la humanidad en El Salvador languidecen en un lugar no establecido, algunos ya presa del tiempo y la humedad, mientras estalla un frenesí por su posesión y […]
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