Articles by Upside Down World
Chixoy Dam Justice And Reparations Delayed: 31.5 Years And Counting
The government of Guatemala rejects obligation to fund Chixoy dam Reparations Plan, pretends to carry out government ‘community development’ projects. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank remain silent about on-going suffering and the Guatemalan […]
Colombia: Paramilitary Group Threatens Indigenous Protesters with ‘Social Cleansing’
“Given the reports of excessive force used against indigenous protesters in the past 10 days, we have very serious concerns about the safety of the indigenous leaders and members of the organizations named in the paramilitary death threat,” said Amnesty International’s Marcelo Pollack.
The Venezuelan Revolution Has Brought Substantial Improvements to Working-Class Neighbourhoods
Source: Rebelion At the invitation of the Jose Marti Valencian Association of Friendship with Cuba (Asociación Valenciana José Martí de Amistad con Cuba) and the Acontracorrent union, Jasmine Acosta and Hector Zabala are social activists […]
El Salvador: Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Archives
(IPS) – Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control […]
El Salvador: Lucha por reabrir histórico archivo criminal
(IPS) – Unos 50.000 expedientes sobre crímenes contra la humanidad en El Salvador languidecen en un lugar no establecido, algunos ya presa del tiempo y la humedad, mientras estalla un frenesí por su posesión y […]
Lawfare: Ecuador’s New Style of Governance?
Ecuador has achieved what most Latin American societies have been dreaming of for decades: a stable leftist government. Yet things did not turn out the way social movements had imagined them. In particular, the list of people accused of terrorism expands each day and things are about to worsen significantly.
“The Rise of the Middle Class” in Latin America? The World Bank is Still Tone Deaf After all These Years
At the World Bank public briefing and panel, “The Rise of the Middle Class,” held October 10 in Washington, D.C., World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Hasan Tuluy announced that “the […]
Mexico: Bracero Guestworkers, Unpaid
Every Tuesday, 76-year-old Miguel Díaz spends the better part of the day outside the House of Representatives in Mexico City. Díaz went to the United States in 1960s as a bracero, a contracted guestworker. Upon returning to Mexico, he and millions of other braceros were never paid the 10 percent of their earnings that had been withheld and sent to the Mexican government in an attempt to ensure braceros’ temporary status.