Source: History News Network Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He has written numerous research […]
Grassroots groups in Haiti are developing strategies to respond to one of the greatest lingering crises of many after the January 12 earthquake: homelessness for 1.9 million people whose houses crumbled or were too damaged to occupy. […]
(IPS) – “There are alarming links between increased reports of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the Colombian army and units that receive U.S. military financing,” John Lindsay-Poland, lead author of a two-year study on the […]
Winning an election against a party in power for more than eighty years in Oaxaca constituted a triumph for voters and organizers, as well as for the individuals who won offices. But for Gabino Cue […]
Source: NACLA Increases in U.S. military funding have been accompanied by an increase in the number of extrajudicial killings by the Colombian military, according to a report released on July 29 by the Fellowship on […]
Source: International Cry Two days ago, more than one hundred Oaxaca state troopers raided the autonomous indigenous municipality of San Juan Copala, in Oaxaca, Mexico. The shocking move reveals the extent of the Oaxaca government’s […]
Residents of San Juan Copala once again huddle together under fire, pleading for urgent support from national and state governments, as well as the ambassadors of Finland, Germany, and Belgium. Shootings have increased and another indigenous leader has been threatened with death.
When right-wing billionaire Ricardo Martinelli was elected Panama’s president in May 2009, political commentators heralded it as a sign that Latin Americans were becoming disillusioned with the “pink tide” of progressive and leftist governments. But one year later, the Martinelli government is facing a wave of resistance to its anti-labour and anti-union laws. Resistance has grown in the face of deadly repression. […]
This dispute highlights the importance of the institutional changes that the left-of-center governments in Latin America are trying to make. The increasing importance of UNASUR, displacing the OAS, has become vital to Latin American progress and stability. […]
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