Source: Green Left Weekly Having arrived back in Caracas after more than two weeks visiting various rural communities, leaders from the National Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ) told us that the bodies of two of […]
Source: The Guardian Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, […]
Source: Al Jazeera Nearly 38 years after President Salvador Allende died in a military coup and became a Cold War martyr of the international left, his body is being exhumed in a bid to determine […]
Oaxaca’s new governor, Gabino Cue Monteagudo, holds the unhappy job of cleaning the Augean stables of crime and corruption. He is widely credited with honesty and decency, but initiating and promoting profound change may require more than one generation.
COLOMBIA Samuel Moreno, ex-PDA opposition leader in Colombia, compares Uribe to Chavez http://bit.ly/ih96Ho #cablegate Cable on magic laptops that somehow survived bombing of FARC camp w 38,000 files & 200,000+ images intact http://bit.ly/kMvx5D #cablegate GoC […]
(IPS) – El trance de violencia y estado de sitio que soporta el norteño estado guatemalteco de Petén, tras el asesinato y decapitación de 27 campesinos, llevaba años gestándose. Los sitios arqueológicos mayas del Petén […]
The long march arrived at the Plaza de la Catedral—the very same one occupied by Zapatistas on January 1st, 1994. This time, 30 EZLN commanders awaited the crowd.
(IPS) – The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The feature film “También La Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”) has been giving U.S. movie audiences a taste of the popular struggle against water privatization that took place in Cochabamba, […]
(IPS) – The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, […]
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