Year: 2015
San Sebastián Bachajón: The Struggle against Dispossession in Mexico
Two years have passed since the vicious assassination of Juan Vázquez Guzmán, community leader, spokesperson and social activist from the ejido San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, Mexico. Despite the killing of two of their leaders and frequent attacks from local government-supporters and public security forces, the ejidatarios (common landholders) remain firm in their resistance to dispossession, and in their struggle in defense of their ancestral land, territory and Mother Earth. The situation has now become critical.
Latin American Organizations Campaign to Ban Monsanto
Source: teleSUR Doctors, scientists and environmentalists in Argentina and across Latin America are demanding a ban on Monsanto products. Over 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina are the latest to add their voice […]
Days of Rage in Baltimore and Mexico
Source: The Nation Yesterday, as Baltimore restaged the intifada, protesters in Mexico, in Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, rammed a flaming truck into the glass-fronted congressional building, and set fire to at […]
Brasil e o MST: Os desafios de um povo sem terra
O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) no Brasil é um dos maiores movimentos sociais, em termos de participação e duração, na América Latina, e até hoje continua como uma força relevante nas vidas […]
Bolivia: The Two Faces of Evo
Source: In These Times Ever since Evo Morales took office nine years ago, becoming Bolivia’s first indigenous president, he has been celebrated worldwide as a beacon of social and economic justice. The spectacular success of […]
Male Machismo Is Still Alive and Well in Bolivia
Source: Vice.com Which world leader declared that he wants to remove the panties of female ministers as he strummed a lute in his country’s main plaza? Or that he beds members of his country’s most […]
Bolivia: 15 Years After the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt.
Planned Mega-Port in Brazil Threatens Rich Ecological Region
(IPS) – Activists and local residents have brought legal action aimed at blocking the construction of a nearly 50 sq km port terminal in the Northeast Brazilian state of Bahia because of the huge environmental […]
Indigenous Campesinos in Guatemala Demand an End to Violent Evictions
“In the last few weeks and few months, there has been an incremental increase in the orders for arrest against campesinos organized with CCDA for the defense of their territory, rivers, forests, and of life,” said Leocadio Juracan, the national coordinator of CCDA, in a press conference with alternative media. “It is repression.”