Making Sure Votes Count in Honduras?
Source: Honduras Culture and Politics For the last few weeks of the Honduran election, no surveys of the electorate can be published. But really, the only poll that matters will take place this coming Sunday, […]
Year: 2013
The June Uprisings in Brazil: Below and Behind the Huge Mobilizations (Part 2)
For activists with the Popular Committee for the World Cup, the Pan American Games were a watershed as it revealed the Brazilian government’s inability to manage public funds in a democratic and transparent manner, or to open a space for effective dialogue with civil society on the legacy of the Games (Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpiadas do Rio de Janeiro, 2012). For the social movement, the games were an opportunity to create a broad and stable coordination that could bring people together, overcoming localism and fragmentation.
The June Uprisings in Brazil: Below and Behind the Huge Mobilizations (Part 1)
In this analysis, I would like to address the new forms of protest, organization, and mobilization from a social movement perspective. These new forms emerged within small activist groups composed mainly of young people that began organizing in 2003, the year Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took government. These new social movements are key to the June mobilizations because of their ability to organize beyond their local scene, to involve the broadest sectors of society in the struggle, and to employ forms of action and organization that sets them apart from the groups that went before them.
Bachelet triumphs in Chile election but faces runoff
Source: Reuters Leftist candidate Michelle Bachelet was the clear winner in Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, although she will have to wait until a second-round runoff next month to seal her victory. With nine candidates […]
Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo elected to Congress
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Woman who led 2011 student uprising joins lower house as Michelle Bachelet comes top in first round of presidential election Camila Vallejo, who helped spearhead Chile‘s student uprising in 2011, has […]
Honduras: Indigenous Movement Defends Land and Rights as Election Looms
“Our people have awakened, and we’re not going to give in to those who want take away what is ours as indigenous Lenca people,” said Francisco Sanchez Garcia, President of the Indigenous Council of the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organization of Honduras (COPINH).
NSA Staffed U.S.-Only Intelligence “Fusion Center” in Mexico City
Top Secret Facility Barred Mexicans, Focused on “High Value Targeting” Source: Migration Declassified National Security Agency (NSA) personnel rotated in and out of a U.S.-operated “Mexico Fusion Center” located inside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico […]
Mexico’s Blood Banks
Source: NACLA Attempts to rescue the brutal past from historical amnesia and indifference have been an immense challenge for Argentine, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Chilean, Paraguayan, and Uruguayan human rights campaigners and victims of political repression, and […]
Honduras: A Partial Victory for the Campaign to Free “Chavelo” Morales
The judges in the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras rendered their decision on Novemeber 5 in the case of Jose Isabel “Chavelo” Morales, partially siding with his lawyers’ appeal. The judges annulled the conviction and the 20-year sentence and they ordered that he be released from prison, but they have returned the case to the lower court in Trujillo for retrial. Most significantly, Chavelo can remain free during this new process.
