Source: Grassroots International According to a local proverb, bad news arrive arrives fast. So it was with the announcement that Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff will end the popular and effective One Million Cisterns Program in […]
The U.S.military approach to undocumented immigrants has moved further south – to a new military academy in Panama. The new school, which Panama announced in early December, will bring together U.S. and Colombian trainers to train Central American police units in border patrol, countering drug traffic, and “combatting undocumented persons.”
Chilean students have taken over schools and city streets in the largest protests the country has seen in decades. This video follows Chile’s student protest movement and examines the underlying issues driving the anger. […]
Source: Al Jazeera Former member of 19th of April Movement sworn in to second most important political post in Colombia after president. A former leftist fighter has been sworn in as the new mayor of Bogota, […]
Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento La “guerra contra el terror” inaugurada por George W Bush tras los atentados del 11 S, está siendo desplazada por la “contención” de China, la nueva estrategia delineada por el Pentágono […]
Trampling out the Vintage explains better than any other book how the UFW under Chavez’s leadership became in the 1960s and 1970s one of the most remarkable and successful unions in U.S. history but then crashed and burned so breathtakingly fast that by the end of the 1980s it had pretty much disappeared from the fields.
The US’ tendency to demonise and formulate assassination attempts on Fidel Castro shows a glaring double standard. Source: Al Jazeera Austin, Texas – In the 1950s, my father’s uncle Benito was summoned to Havana by Santo […]
“We need to be the ones to provide the answers to the questions of our times, because we are the main victims of the voracious policies of capitalism,” says Alexis Jiménez, a 23-year-old ethnologist who has spent the last two months camping out in front of the Mexico City Stock Exchange. […]
The “war against terror” inaugurated by George W. Bush as a response to the September 11 2001 attack is now giving way to a strategy of “containment” of China, the new strategy laid out by the Pentagon to encircle, and eventually stifle the asiatic power, with the objective of maintaining US global supremacy.
(IPS) – The stiff local opposition to the Conga gold mining project in the northern Peruvian highlands region of Cajamarca revived a long-postponed debate in this country, on the weakness of environmental impact studies in […]
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