Descendants of Slaves Report Military Abuses in Brazil

January 16, 2014 Fabiola Ortiz 0

“In the community you can’t tell that the military dictatorship is over,” Marisa Viegas, a lawyer with Justiça Global, one of the human rights groups that brought the complaints, told IPS. “The military continue to use repression against the local residents, who are unable to achieve minimal living conditions.”

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Reagan-Era Criminal slanders FMLN

January 16, 2014 CISPES 0

Source: CISPES On Monday, January 3, Elliot Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, published an editorial in the Washington Post that brashly proclaimed that a Farabundo Martí National […]

Southwest Antioquia: Microcosm of Social Conflict in Colombia’s New Gold Rush

January 14, 2014 James Rodríguez 0

Twenty kilometers west, in the municipality of Ciudad Bolivar, locals have carried out protest marches and painted numerous anti-mining murals throughout the municipality. Diego Tobón, president of the Friends of the Arboleda Environmental Corporation (Corporación Ambiental Amigos de la Arboleda, COAMAR, in Spanish), states: “Ciudad Bolivar is a farming municipality and [the government] wants to impose a mining culture that nobody here wants.”

 

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