Source: Al Jazeera Model cities’ unprecedented privatization scheme will undermine democracy and exacerbate inequality On May 26, the Honduran Supreme Court upheld a 2013 law that would in effect cede control of sovereign territory to […]
Source: Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña The proliferation of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ mines across Honduras, prior to and following the passage of the new and totally questionable Mining Law, benefits the prosperity of a minuscule group […]
Salvadoran feminist and women’s organizations are waging an international campaign demanding a pardon for the 17 women currently incarcerated in El Salvador for abortion, in hopes of challenging the country’s harsh anti-abortion laws and beginning to change the anti-choice views held by the vast majority of Salvadoran society.
When I made my first trip to Nicaragua in 1987 with a Nicaragua Network coffee picking brigade, I learned a number of things. I learned that it was possible not just to oppose my country’s wars, but to support an alternative to war and capitalist exploitation.
Source: The Nation Since 2006, more than 100,000 people have been disappeared or killed in Mexico, a country where more than 90 percent of crimes go unpunished. While running for president in 2012, Enrique Peña […]
Direct action by an Argentine Mapuche community in the second largest non-conventional gas reserve in the world Communiqué MAPUCHE ACTION PLAN IN LOMA CAMPANA (VACA MUERTA GAS & OIL RESERVE, NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA) Loma Campana, July […]
With the new book Evo’s Bolivia: Continuity and Change, authors Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl achieve an admirable balance of providing an excellent entry point for those with little background in Bolivia as well as key insights for scholars and activists with a long history in the country.
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