Source: The Guardian Unlimited In Honduras, Reagan-era atrocities are back as the Obama administration funds a state implicated in murdering opponents. The video, caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling. Five young men […]
It is Tuesday, April 2nd; music and people fill the streets of Caracas. This is the official opening day of the campaign for Presidential elections in Venezuela, due to take place on April 14th after the death of Hugo Chavez. The candidates, Nicolas Maduro, former bus driver, ex-Vice-President and the man Chavez personally named as his successor, and Henrique Capriles, the main opposition candidate who lost to Chavez last November, are both kicking off their tours of the country. But, as journalist Reinaldo Iturriza once told me, these are not “normal elections” that take place here in Venezuela. From the beginning, the political campaigns are vibrant, colorful and visible everywhere you turn.
The struggle to maintain fertile lands continues to decimate Campesino communities in Honduras. Source: Al Jazeera Under the hot sun of a mid-March afternoon, I sat on a plastic chair outside the gracious home of […]
Fuente: Programa de las Américas Se pusieron en marcha el 25 de febrero, desde distintas regiones de un país destrozado. En silencioso desafío, entraron a la ciudad capital de Tegucigalpa el 6 de marzo, y […]
The largest gold mining company in the world, Barrick Gold and its Chilean subsidiary, Nevada Spa Mining, could lose in the coming months the Pascua deposit worth millions after a series of frauds regarding mining […]
Source: La Silla Vacía “I fear for my life because the threats were very serious, and according to [a credible source] it appears that they were not playing around with the threats.” That is how […]
Tourism in Chiapas has become part of the strategy of big business and the government to break the resistance of the Zapatista communities in rebellion, and facilitate their dispossession from their territories. Hermann Bellinghausen, a correspondent in Chiapas for the newspaper La Jornada, talks about the increasing development of tourism in the State and its various implications.
Researchers have unveiled new data warning that governments in Latin America are infringing on the rights of their indigenous populations in a bid to fuel development through the extraction of natural resources. The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a Washington-based organization, says it has documented a “natural resources giveaway” in Latin America, which highlights how an outdated development model is trampling on human rights and the environment throughout much of the region.
Source: NACLA Land reform in Bolivia, and the promise of land redistribution from wealthy latifundistas and agrobusiness elites to poor farmers and indigenous communities, has been a hallmark of President Evo Morales’s administration. Recent data […]
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