Colombian Town Says ‘No’ to Gold Mine
People in a farming town in central Colombia voted overwhelmingly against global corporation AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa gold mine.
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Venezuela: Extraction-ism, Movements, and Revolution
Source: La Jornada, Translation by Tamara Pearson for Venezuela Analysis Some days ago a meeting was held in Caracas to debate the relationships between movements and states, and how autonomy and popular power can build […]
Guatemala’s ‘Femicide’ Courts Hold Out New Hope for Justice
(IPS) – Douglas Cuc, a 32-year-old clown, entered the courtroom with the same smile on his face as when he told jokes for coins on the buses in the town of San Miguel Petapa, near […]
Get your legal marijuana high in Uruguay
Source: The New Internationalist Uruguay has become the first country in the world to take the bold step to create a legal national market for marijuana. After 13 hours of passionate debate the country’s Broad […]
Benjamin Kohl, Temple professor, expert on Bolivia
Upside Down World mourns the death of Benjamin Kohl, a long time writer on Bolivia. Source: Philly.com AS A TEMPLE University professor, Ben Kohl had this quaint idea that his students should think. Not just […]
Grassroots Groups Wary of Haiti’s ‘Attractive’ Mining Law
As the government works on preparing “an attractive law that will entice investors”, Haitian popular organizations are mobilizing and forming networks to resist mining in their country. Already one-third of the north of Haiti is under research, exploration, or exploitation license to foreign companies.
Argentina: Millions Against Monsanto
Vanina Barboza Vaca from the Malvinas Assembly said that the town is a city “besieged” by fumigation, which has seen repeated spontaneous abortions, birth defects, cancer and respiratory diseases. “We know the evils of the model representing Monsanto. We also know that their promises are lies and so we refuse to allow them to install in our neighborhood 200 silos of transgenic seeds treated with agrotoxins,” warned Barboza Vaca.
Battle Over Seeds Heats Up in Argentina
(IPS) – The debate over the reform of Argentina’s seed law has pitted transnational corporations that make transgenic seeds against social and rural organisations and academics opposed to the expansion of monoculture in defence of […]
‘This American Life’ Whitewashes U.S. Crimes in Central America, Wins Peabody Award
Source: NACLA Celebrating 2012’s best examples of broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Awards attracted the likes of D.L. Hughley, Amy Poehler and Bryant Gumbel to the Waldorf-Astoria’s four-story grand ballroom in New York this […]
Mining Company’s Security Threatens International Human Rights Observers, Terrorizes Communities in Honduras
Armed thugs kidnap and threaten international human rights observers, in the midst of a community’s resistance and struggle against a mining project. “The terror we lived for two hours is the tragic everyday life in this town,” says kidnapped human rights observer.