U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, by Privatization This Time
Unions in El Salvador are fighting a bill that would auction off everything from highways, ports, and airports to municipal services and higher education to private companies—mainly foreign multinationals. If the Public-Private Partnership, or P3, law is approved, workers in those areas will be vulnerable to the massive layoffs, wage cuts, and anti-union persecution that already characterize private sector work in the tiny Central American country.
Venezuela After Chavez’s Victory
Source: International Viewpoint The state of health of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is such that it is possible new elections will have to take place following his victory in October 2012. International Viewpoint correspondent Franck […]
Chile: Mapuches Still Fighting Pinochet-Era Highway Project
For more than two decades, Mapuche indigenous people in the Chilean region of Araucanía have been fighting the construction of the Ruta Costera (Coastal Highway), a mega-project initially conceived during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) which has already caused significant archeological and cultural losses and damages.
Eviction of Triqui Protest Camp in Oaxaca Results in Death of a Newborn
Source: Revolution is eternal On December 23, 2012, the encampment of indigenous Triqui stationed in front of the Government Palace in Oaxaca City was violently evicted by municipal and state police. Police in full riot […]
Guatemala – Mayan Oxlajuj Baktun: End of an Era, More of the Same
Events in the Guatemalan northern city of Huehuetenango during the much-awaited end of the Mayan Oxlajuj Baktun provide a clear reflection of the divisions and challenges faced by Mayan communities today. The media exploited erroneous apocalyptic rumors, the government and business sectors viewed it as an opportunity to gain economically through tourism, and progressive groups seized the opportunity “to strengthen ancestral wisdom and never-ending search for balance” while vindicating what seem never-ending struggles for justice, inclusion, and self-determination.
Radio Documentary – Communities in the Crosshairs: The Drug War in Guatemala
Source: Free Speech Radio News Last summer, 200 US Marines arrived in Guatemala to disrupt the operations drug traffickers on the Pacific coast. President Otto Perez Molina, inaugurated in 2012, is a retired general who […]
Do We Know Them? Letter by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATIONMEXICO. December 29, 2012.To whom it may concern up there above: They think they are on the winning side …and so aside from being traitors, they are idiots.Tyrion Lannister in A […]
‘Learning to Govern Ourselves’: Venezuela’s National Network of Commoners
The model the commoners strive for is, to the extent possible, horizontal and collectivist, breaking the division between those who plan and those who execute the community work. “The network is very important,” said one of the facilitators, “there are no leaders, and it’s important that everyone shares the information.”
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