Month: July 2014
Brazil Organizations Challenge Legality of Belo Monte Dam in Court
The authorization violates national and international law because the communities affected by the project were not consulted. Construction of the dam continues, causing harms to people, communities and the ecosystem of the Brazilian Amazon. Source: […]
Honduran Charter Cities New Model for Salvadoran Private Sector
Source: CISPES Last week, at the 14th annual National Private Sector Encounter (ENADE) in San Salvador, the most powerful agents of El Salvador’s economic elite proposed an extreme municipal privatization initiative, based on a model […]
U.S. Gives Brazil Declassified Documents Detailing Torture and Executions During its Dictatorship Era
Source: UNREDACTED The Brazilian military regime employed a “sophisticated and elaborate psychophysical duress system” to “intimidate and terrify” suspected leftist militants in the early 1970s, according to a State Department report dated in April 1973 […]
“World Cup For Who?” Photo Report From Outside the Stadiums
Protesting the World Cup: Brazilian favela residents, artists and activists make visible their take on the militarization of favelas and police use of “non-lethal” weapons, the death of stadium workers, the true costs of the Cup, and where the true priorities of the state should lie.