Source: Indian Country Today Media Network Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazonian lowlands are calling for the government to drop plans to auction 21 leases near the Peruvian border for oil drilling. After a two-day meeting […]
Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento Los primeros meses de 2012 se abrieron en el Noroeste Argentino con la intensificación del crónico conflicto que atraviesa a nuestras sociedades por la instalación de megaproyectos de minería metalífera […]
La experiencia acumulada por profesionales de la salud mental en el acompañamiento de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado en Argentina es de tal importancia que ya comenzó a trascender las fronteras. Brasil, Chile y Uruguay, […]
(IPS) – Mental health professionals in Argentina have accumulated such a wealth of experience in treating victims of state terrorism that they are now sharing it with colleagues across the country’s borders. Brazil, Chile and […]
The mine, known locally by the name of its subsidiary Minera Cuzcatlán, went into production in late September 2011. Its opponents maintain that Fortuna Silver’s mine is the root of the social problems that plague the once peaceful region. In a press conference following the police shooting of Méndez Vásquez, mine opponents made it clear that they see a direct link between Fortuna Silver and the violence.
Miguel Angel González Ramírez, a member of the Izabal banana workers’ union SITRABI, was killed on 5 February. He was shot several times whilst carrying his young child in his arms. “This is yet another […]
Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they are not just asking questions: They are practicing the kind of education they have spent years dreaming about and struggling to obtain.
Indigenous communities in Peru have a long list of comments and objections to the proposed regulations for the law governing prior consultation on initiatives affecting their territories. This criticism was voiced in a series of workshops conducted across the country ahead of the national meeting on the issue scheduled for Feb. 13-15.
In a recently published news release, the Correa government reaffirmed its intention of opening up the country to large-scale mining and to significantly expand petroleum extraction. While creating the commonly known social, environmental and economic problems […]
Entrevista a Gregorio Santos, Presidente de la región Cajamarca-Perú Cajamarca se ha convertido, en los últimos meses, en el centro del conflicto por la defensa de la soberanía de los recursos naturales y el medio […]
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