An indigenous Bolivian politician will fund her campaign for governor by selling both normal potatoes and traditional freeze-dried potatoes. Source: teleSUR One candidate running for governor of the Bolivian department of La Paz will fund her campaign in an unusual […]
Brazil’s National Truth Commission (Commissão Nacional da Verdade, CNV) presented its final report on the history of the human rights violations committed by the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. Through its working group “The Dictatorship and Gender,” the CNV took testimony and detailed the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon against those the dictatorship considered to be political and social activists or otherwise subversive.
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Critiques from both Chavistas and the opposition in Venezuela raise the question: How to evaluate a government committed to a gradual democratic road to far-reaching change in the context […]
Since the forced disappearance in Iguala, Guerrero, of 43 Normalista students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College on September 26, 2014, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand that the students be returned alive and also to denounce political corruption and the “Narco-Government.” The Southern state of Guerrero has been the epicenter of these protests and a wide range of actions including citizen searches, takeovers of tollbooths, a statewide caravan and the burning of government buildings.
Source: ASNA The congregation that oversees canonization for the Catholic Church declared on Friday that Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was killed “in odium fidei”, a necessary requirement for beatification as a martyr, said Avvenire, the […]
(IPS) – With Haiti’s Parliament having dissolved on Tuesday, civil society groups are worried that the Haitian president may move to unilaterally put in place a contentious revision to the country’s decades-old mining law. Starting […]
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