Source: BBC News Four Peruvian tribal leaders have been killed on their way to a meeting to discuss ways to stop illegal logging. The men from the Ashaninka community were attempting to travel to Brazil […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas As Bolivia’s election campaign moves into full swing ahead of the scheduled October 12 vote, President Evo Morales’s controversial plan to build a highway linking the country’s Andean and […]
Thirty years after the US-backed military dictatorship in, the Tupamaros – left-wing urban guerillas active in the 1960s and ‘70s – have assumed control of the Uruguayan presidency by being elected to office as part […]
The president asserts that Acosta filled the Constituent Assembly with members of Acción Ecológica (Ecological Action), CONAIE and unionists from PetroEcuador. Source: Ecuadorinmediato.com During Enlace Ciudadano (Citizenship Connection), President Rafael Correa criticized the 2008 Constitution […]
Two years after the fall of the Fernando Lugo government and one year after the rise of Horacio Cartes of the Colorado party, social movements show signs of rebuilding, with remarkable leadership of the campesino movement facing agribusiness and repression.
“I would say that the strength of Bolivia is not the state but the people. And the people have been strong and stubborn enough to be what they are, and to put their own desires as the terms and conditions of what is going to be the change. And that is what saves this process of Evo.” – Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Francisca was an eye-witness to and survivor of the Chixoy Dam/ Rio Negro massacres, while Brenda was a child of survivors. The Guatemalan military massacred over 440 villagers from the Mayan Achi village of Rio Negro in 1982. Thirty-two years later, two more Mayan Achi women from Rio Negro were brutally killed, caused indirectly, but in effect by the violently imposed Chixoy hydro-electric dam project.
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