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Indigenous People in Brazil’s Amazon – Crushed by the Belo Monte Dam?

July 17, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Ethnocide, the new accusation leveled against the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, brings to light deeper underlying aspects of the conflicts and controversies unleashed by megaprojects in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Federal prosecutor Thais Santi announced that legal action would be taken “in the next few weeks” against Norte Energía, the company building the dam, on the argument that its initiatives to squelch indigenous resistance amount to ethnocide.

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Crisis hídrica en Brasil obliga a buena gestión del agua

July 15, 2015 Upside Down World 0

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Popular Protests Are Spreading Across Central America, and Washington Is Getting Nervous

July 15, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Nation As mass mobilizations sweep Guatemala and Honduras, the US prepares its usual response: Send in the military. Street protests over “corruption” in Latin America are often expressly reactionary. Very similar to Tea […]

Indigenous Communities Slam Mining Injustice in Honduras

July 15, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: TeleSUR English Communities condemn the corporate sell-off of land for mining extraction and the creation of a “transnational dictatorship” in Honduras. Indigenous people in Honduras are protesting an international conference on mining in the […]

The Origins of Anti-Haitian Sentiment in the Dominican Republic

July 15, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship. On Wednesday June 17, the deadline for Haitian […]

US-Venezuela détente still going – for now

July 15, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: Al Jazeera Upcoming elections likely to attract renewed skepticism of Washington’s fresh approach to Caracas For a couple of months I have noted the unprecedented diplomatic thaw between the U.S. and Venezuela. Now it […]

Colombia: Displaced Wounaan Look for Government Support in Guaranteeing Safety

July 13, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The indigenous Wounaan people are some of the latest to feel the effects of the displacement that characterizes Colombia’s armed conflict.

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The Struggle As The Women We Are: Communiques From The Zapatistas

July 8, 2015 Upside Down World 0

From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to “provoke thought, reflection, critique.” Comandanta Dalia as well as other compañeras took a moment to remind us of the struggles they have faced as Zapatista women and to share some of the strategies they are putting to practice to help young people understand “that they shouldn’t live exploited by the capitalist system.”

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Brasil: La “Pacificación” de Río de Janeiro y la intervención militar en las escuelas

July 7, 2015 Upside Down World 0

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Palm Oil Industry Tied to Ecocide in Guatemalan River

July 7, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The Pasión River in northern Guatemala is a disaster area. Beginning on June 6, residents along the river in the municipality of Sayaxché, Peten, began to find millions of fish, their primary source of food and income, floating dead in the river. […]