Month: January 2014
“It’s not just 2 pesos; It’s the country:” Mexico City’s #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
Mexico City’s extensive subway system, constantly packed with its 5 million daily users, has just become one of the most expensive public transit systems in the world. A basic daily commute in the city can account for a minimum of one sixth of one’s daily salary. Confronted by this daunting reality, hundreds of residents participated in turnstile jumping protests in the majority of major train stations on the first day of the fare hike.
Zapatistas: Twenty Years After
Source: La Jornada For the Mexican elites, similar winds are blowing to those which blew 20 years ago. Much like Enrique Peña Nieto today, at that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible. His project […]
One-quarter of Colombia’s Indians Displaced – Report
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation More than a quarter of Colombia’s 1.4 million Indians have been forced to flee their tribal lands in recent decades, the head of the government’s programme to protect indigenous peoples has […]
Chico Mendes: 25 Years after His Death
The Amazon activist, Chico Mendes, was murdered outside the door of his house on 22 December 1998. Jan Rocha, who met him, looks at his legacy. Source: Latin America Bureau The first and last time […]
Photo Essay: EZLN 20th Anniversary in Chiapas
At 10:00pm, everyone congregated around the makeshift stage in the schoolyard to hear an address by the Comadantes. Before the crowd of supporters, Comandanta Hortensia delivered a speech with a call to continue the struggle. It is time to strengthen and globalize the resistance and rebellion,” said Comandanta Hortensia.
Honduras and the Dirty war Fuelled by the West’s Drive for Clean Energy
Source: The Guardian The west’s drive to reduce its carbon footprint cheaply is fuelling a dirty war in Honduras, where US-backed security forces are implicated in the murder, disappearance and intimidation of peasant farmers involved […]
Sawhoyamaxa Battle for Their Land in Paraguay
“More than 20 years after being expelled from our ancestral land and living [in camps] along the side of the road, watching the cows occupy the place where we used to live, we decided to return because that land is ours,” the Sawhoyamaxa said in a message accompanying the petition drive.