COLOMBIAColombian cooperation w/US justice system “unprecedented anywhere else in the world” http://bit.ly/lnaslk #cablegate Cable on Betancourt rescue in Colombia. No mention of the Red Cross helicopter though… http://bit.ly/ieQr3Q #cablegate Uribe told USG in 2005 that […]
After four years of war that has left nearly 40,000 people dead, countless more disappeared, and soldiers on the streets of every state in the country, many Mexicans are finally “fed up” with President Felipe Calderón’s drug policy. This weekend, Mexicans in at least 25 of the country’s 31 states will protest to “stop the war, for a just and peaceful Mexico.”
A series of short video reports from Honduras on the resistance movement, land occupations, repression against teachers and the struggle for democracy after the 2009 military coup.
The construction of Santiago El Pinar, the second Sustainable Rural City, clearly unveils another facet of the project: that of a counterinsurgency strategy devised by the Chiapas government against the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Located very close to the Zapatista autonomous municipalities of San Juan de la Libertad and San Andrés Sakamch’en, the ‘city’ breaks down the traditional ways of life, and forces people to enter the capitalist mode of production of small businesses oriented towards the external market.
(IPS) – It wasn’t easy to get to the Bolivian city of Riberalta from Brazil. The adventurous journey included potholes on the Brazilian highway, a rickety boat that ferried us across the Mamoré – the […]
Source: Americas Program Editor’s note: all sources in the story with asterisks had their names changed to protect their identities. Georges Marie* is a proud and angry Haitian lawyer who lost her husband in the […]
(IPS) – Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people’s cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both? In the coming months, diplomats at the U.N. […]
(IPS) – The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly […]
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