Source: The Americas Program The price hike in transportation was the crack that revealed deep discontent in Brazilian society. In less than two weeks, the demonstrations multiplied: from 5,000 the first days, to more than […]
Source: The Center for Economic and Policy Research The NSA surveillance scandal and the case of whistleblower Edward Snowden have brought before the U.S. public a whole set of issues that could be vital to […]
Adjoining Venezuela, the Catatumbo region in Colombia’s Norte de Santandar department is remarkable for coca growing and almost exclusive use of Monsato’s Glyphosate product for aerial fumigations of the crop. Also noteworthy is the presence […]
Source: Reuters Ecuador’s leftist government thumbed its nose at Washington on Thursday by renouncing U.S. trade benefits and offering to pay for human rights training in America in response to pressure over asylum for former […]
(IPS) – The Salvadoran army kept a detailed list of names and photographs of leftists detained or sought during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. The report is the first official military document proving the armed […]
Society is in movement, creating autonomously, and yet the State moves in and appropriates society for its own ends. This is one of the main ideas coming out of the talk that we had with Raúl Zibechi.
There are some things Goldcorp would probably rather forget about its San Martin mine in Honduras. But Oneyda Velásquez can’t forget. She lives three kilometres from the mine site in the Siria Valley, Honduras.
Emerging as a complete surprise, the wave of massive demonstrations Brazil has been experiencing is undoubtedly the most serious movement of popular protests in the country since the dictatorship years.
Source: Democracy Now! Brazil is witnessing some of its largest protests in decades, after some 240,000 people protested Monday. Tens of thousands continue to take the streets. The demonstrations were initially sparked by an increase […]
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