Journalists in more than 20 cities throughout Mexico went to the streets on Sunday to demand an end to threats, systemic violence and impunity that they face. Since 2007 more than 120 journalists or media workers have been murdered or have disappeared in Mexico.
The Bachillerato Popular and the Cooperative are part of Ñanderoga, the social organization located in Las Flores neighborhood, in the district of Vicente López, north of Greater Buenos Aires. Ñanderoga, established in 2004, sets out to organize around cultural, social, and educational activities in an impoverished neighborhood of a wealthy district — a reflection of the so-called paradoxes of a painfully unequal Argentina.
How shall we put today’s revolutionary left in Venezuela into context? Is the left a movement of transformative action, or is it a simple ideological protocol that presupposes a pre-established discursive contract?
Source: The Nation The protests this week have far more to do with returning economic and political elites to power than with their downfall. Ukraine. Bosnia. Venezuela. Tear gas. Masks. Water cannons. Ours is an […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis Mérida, 24th February 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has called for a “National Peace Conference” as a means of resolving the on-going violent opposition protests in Venezuela. The opposition has […]
Source: Americas Program The press and Mexican government announced that yesterday [Feb. 22] at 6:40 in the morning, Mexican security forces captured the nation’s most wanted drug lord. Led by the Mexican Navy, agents and […]
Source: NACLA The media coverage of the events unfolding in Venezuela provides a troubling example of how the imperial ambitions of the United States can magnify crises—especially when contrasted with the current political situation in […]
“Today the counter-revolutionary Right is reactivating itself,” according to long-time Venezuelan revolutionary Roland Denis, “taking advantage of the profound deterioration that this slow revolutionary process is suffering. Its reappearance and interlacing with ‘democratic civil society’ is a clear signal to the popular movement that we either convert this moment into a creative and reactivating crisis of the collective revolutionary will, or we bid farewell to this beautiful and traumatic history that we have built over the last 25 years.”
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