As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands, indigenous communities are exchanging seeds in hopes of finding the hardiest varieties. Source: Yes! Magazine On top of a rugged Andean […]
Source: The Americas Blog Last week the Wall Street Journal had a front page article on the net worth of Argentina’s first family since 2003, the year Néstor Kirchner was elected president. Based on financial […]
The core of women’s oppression in patriarchal societies is not maternity, or motherhood, but maternalism; that is to say, the imposition of maternity as women’s primordial and inescapable destiny and the central axis around which they should organize their lives and distribute their time. In the maternal ideology dominant in El Salvador, the imposed hegemonic maternity is constructed out of the religious figure of Mary of Nazareth.
On July 18, 2014, members of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) returned to family members the positively identified remains of ten wartime victims exhumed from the former Military Garrison in San Juan Comalapa between 2003 and 2005. All ten victims, Kakchiquel Mayans whose DNA matched that of living family members, were buried in the municipal cemetery the following day.
From all over the country, communities grouped together in the Indigenous National Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) will travel to Caracol 1, “La Realidad”, in Chiapas to share experiences and reach agreements and resolutions […]
Source: Weekly News Update on the Americas *1. Latin America: Gaza Attack Draws Strong Protests An Israeli military offensive on the Palestinian territory of Gaza starting on July 8 has brought widespread condemnation from governments […]
People in this town in the central Mexican state of Puebla found out the hard way that protesting can be deadly. A new law passed in Puebla makes it possible for police to use firearms or deadly force to break up demonstrations. […]
Source: Against the Current Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela By Sujatha Fernandes Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 336 pages, $24.95 paper. FOR THOSE WHO want a more equitable […]
Source: The Americas Blog On Monday, I wrote this article looking at the splits within the Obama administration on policy toward Venezuela and how they were manifested in the case of Venezuela’s former military intelligence […]
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