Sources: Western Peoples’ Council (CPO) – Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) – MiningWatch Canada – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Guatemala’s Western Peoples’ Council of Mayan organizations (CPO) filed a […]
Source: Horizons of Friendship In recent days, Colombian farmers led nation-wide strikes protesting the impacts of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), high fuel prices, and rural policies that have pushed many further into poverty. Farmers claim […]
A bill that would regulate large-scale mining operations is making its way through Uruguay’s two houses of parliament, despite a lack of political consensus and vocal opposition from environmental organisations and other sectors of civil society. The proposed legislation declares that large-scale mining would serve the “public interest”. But critics charge that the bill was drafted to serve the interests of the Aratirí project planned by the Indian mining group Zamin Ferrous, aimed at the production of 18 million tons of iron ore annually.
Colombian Armed Forces have brutally attacked members of the “Paro Agrario” National Farmers and Popular Strike, with at least four to five persons dead and reports of hundreds wounded. Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos, dismissing strikers as vandals, has ordered the militarization of the capital city of Bogotá and places throughout the country, vowing to deploy 50,000 soldiers.
On Friday, July 26, policemen burst into the office of the CNTC (National Center of Rural Workers) in El Progreso, Yoro, and arrested Magdalena Morales, the CNTC Regional Secretary for the Honduran department of Yoro. Magalena is charged with usurping land as part of the criminalization campaign against campesinos in the Sula Valley to the benefit of large sugar companies. She is just one of 52 campesinos with legal proceedings against them because the Agua Blanca Sur land struggle.
Source: NACLA On August 6, the 188th anniversary of Bolivian independence, a traditional day of festive celebration was transformed into an act of protest by indigenous groups in the Amazonian department of Beni, who demonstrated […]
Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento Una de las iniciativas ambientales más originales de los últimos años, originada en Ecuador, buscaba dejar el petróleo en tierra para preservar la Amazonia y sus pueblos indígenas. Era una […]
Source: El Otro Saber y Poder The following article was written by Reinaldo Iturriza, Venezuela’s minister for communes. On 10 August 2012, a little more than a year ago, the first commune was formally registered […]
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