This is not just another of the many Oaxacan wars. It is part of a much more profound and extensive war that is by no means contained within the national territory itself. But the battle being waged in Oaxaca has a special meaning in that war, in the larger war.
Source: The Nation They’re peacefully resisting US-style neoliberal measures intended to crush the unions—a backbone of Mexico’s social-justice movements. Update: On Sunday, June 19, federal police in Oaxaca fired on teachers and supporters in the […]
Faced with the cowardly repressive attack suffered by the teachers and the community in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca—in which the Mexican state reminds us that this is a war on all—the peoples, nations, and tribes who make up the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation say to the dignified teachers that they are not alone, that we know that reason and truth are on their side, that the collective dignity from which they speak their resistance is unbreakable, and that this the principal weapon of those of us below.
The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT’s serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.
Source: Dissent Magazine This article is part of a forum on the lessons of Latin America’s “pink tide” for democratic socialists. To read the rest of the forum, click here. In his essay “The Path […]
Source: The Nation Washington now has compliant compradores in power in Argentina and Brazil—and perhaps soon in Venezuela. Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s recently deposed president, calls it a coup. Many, perhaps most, of the countries in […]
Source: TowardFreedom.com Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Reynaldo Bignone sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in running Operation Condor in 1970s and 80s Argentina’s last military dictator, 88-year-old former general Reynaldo Bignone, was today sentenced […]
On June 9, Ana Mirian Romero, a 29-year-old indigenous Lenca woman and mother of five from the department of La Paz, Honduras, was recognized by the European human rights organization Front Line Defenders. Romero was awarded the organization’s annual award for Human Rights Defenders for her work struggling for the recognition of indigenous lands and against the corporate destruction of the environment in Honduras.
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