Shortly after the US pushed to overturn the 2010 election, the agency gave a political movement backing Martelly $100K Source: Al Jazeera The U.S. Agency for International Development gave nearly $100,000 to a Haitian political […]
Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship. Source: NACLA On Wednesday June 17, the deadline for Haitian immigrants and people of […]
Lula is trying to break away from “his” Workers Party (PT) and the government he helped to elect, and to establish itself as a leader outraged by corruption and the Brazilian political crisis. If the […]
Ethnocide, the new accusation leveled against the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, brings to light deeper underlying aspects of the conflicts and controversies unleashed by megaprojects in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Federal prosecutor Thais Santi announced that legal action would be taken “in the next few weeks” against Norte Energía, the company building the dam, on the argument that its initiatives to squelch indigenous resistance amount to ethnocide.
Source: The Nation As mass mobilizations sweep Guatemala and Honduras, the US prepares its usual response: Send in the military. Street protests over “corruption” in Latin America are often expressly reactionary. Very similar to Tea […]
Source: TeleSUR English Communities condemn the corporate sell-off of land for mining extraction and the creation of a “transnational dictatorship” in Honduras. Indigenous people in Honduras are protesting an international conference on mining in the […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship. On Wednesday June 17, the deadline for Haitian […]
Source: Al Jazeera Upcoming elections likely to attract renewed skepticism of Washington’s fresh approach to Caracas For a couple of months I have noted the unprecedented diplomatic thaw between the U.S. and Venezuela. Now it […]
The indigenous Wounaan people are some of the latest to feel the effects of the displacement that characterizes Colombia’s armed conflict.
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