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Ecuadorian Court Rules Against Chevron in Historic Case

February 16, 2011 Upside Down World 0

The case, Aguinda v. ChevronTexaco, began on November 3, 1993, when 30,000 people from Ecuador’s Amazon filed a class action suit against Texaco in New York federal court. The trial was then forced to move from New York to a local court in Ecuador in 2002, alleging that any decision required national jurisdiction. Monday Superior Court Judge Nicolás Zambrano ordered Chevron to pay $8.6 billion in damages and twice that amout if they refuse to “publicly apologize to the victims of the Ecuadorian Amazon for the crimes committed.”

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Stand in Solidarity: International Day of the Flower Worker

February 15, 2011 Upside Down World 0

While friends, families and couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, Colombian workers, unions, and NGOs are joining together to commemorate something different this February 14th: the International Day of the Flower Worker. U.S. consumers spend over $18 […]

O’Grady’s Honduran Free Market Fantasies

February 15, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Source: PULSE Mary O’Grady, editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal and champion of the 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya “because he was trying to extend his presidency in violation of […]

Sobrevivir al genocidio machista en Guatemala

February 10, 2011 Upside Down World 0

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Surviving the Sexist Genocide in Guatemala

February 9, 2011 Upside Down World 0

(IPS) – “He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I […]

Mexico – Don Samuel Ruiz García: From the People, Below and to the Left

February 9, 2011 Upside Down World 0

On January 24, Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia died aged 86. Thousands of people, especially indigenous people from the communities from the most forgotten corner of the country, as the Zapatistas defined it in 1994, have filed past the coffin of the man who was the bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas for forty years. […]

Hundreds Protest against Ecuadorian Indigenous Leader’s Arrest

February 9, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two […]

January Reports Indicate Dismal Times Ahead for Colombia’s 7,500 Political Prisoners

February 9, 2011 Upside Down World 0

The first month of 2011 has not fared well for political prisoners and prison conditions in Colombia. Already at least two fatalities have occurred under questionable circumstances, along with four arrests of student and labor activists. While the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos speaks about improvements regarding human rights in the country, facts on the ground suggest otherwise.

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Liliany Obando: Political Prisoner in Colombia

February 9, 2011 Upside Down World 0

When the Colombian state arrested her on August 8, 2008, sociologist and documentary film maker Liliany Obando, mother of two, was serving as human rights director and fund raiser for Fensuagro, Colombia’s largest agricultural workers’ union. A week earlier, she had issued a report documenting 1500 union members murdered or disappeared since 1976.

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Labor Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

February 8, 2011 Upside Down World 0

Source: USLEAP On June 28, 2009, the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the Honduran military and removed from the country, precipitating violence, diplomatic isolation, and the persecution of human rights defenders, indigenous leaders, […]