If we look past the rhetoric, it becomes clear that both countries have the same goal: exploiting foreign workers as source of cheap labor without having to invest in their health and welfare.
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Community gardens serve as an organizing tool in Cochabamba On a beautiful late summer morning in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Oscar Olivera, leader of the famous Bolivian Water War that catalyzed […]
Source: The Cipher Brief There are many lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that are relevant to the current debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). First, like the TPP, NAFTA was never […]
Source: Beacon Reader After years of community resistance to the Vancouver-based B2Gold mining company’s activities in Rancho Grande, in the department of Matagalpa, the Nicaraguan government nixed the project on October 12. Communities in northern […]
Forty-seven years after the Tlatelolco student massacre, a new generation of students marched to demand an end to impunity and repression in Mexico.
The mobilizations under the slogan #UnaNoTeCalles (UNA don’t be silent) have led to the removal of a large part of the corrupt hierarchy of the National University of Asunción (UNA); a hierarchy of university administration, and corrupt authorities tied to the old superstructure of power.
Source: The Guardian Unlimited The Obama administration has declassified documents showing that the Chilean dictator personally ordered the assassination of Orlando Letelier in 1976 General Augusto Pinochet directly ordered the 1976 assassination of a Chilean […]
Source: Truthout As Guatemala faces its greatest political crisis since the 1980s, behind the scenes, plans for the United States’ Alliance for Prosperity continue to move along. The plan, which was modeled after Plan Colombia, […]
Source: TeleSUR English Human right advocates in the U.S. are working alongside Salvadorans to end the system of impunity in the Central American country. The University of Washington filed a lawsuit to force the CIA […]
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