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“Water is Life”: Guatemalan March for Water Rights Connects Struggles Across Latin America

April 29, 2016 Upside Down World 0

“Water is life” is the message that countless organizations across Guatemala have rallied around as thousands march more than 260 miles to demand that the Guatemalan government act, and protect right to water. Tens of thousands of protesters set out on the long, and grueling march to Guatemala City on April 11 to demand that the government protect their right to water, and for an end to the privatization of water resources.

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Deepening Police Violence in Mexico: “Ley Eruviel,” Megaprojects and Organized Resistance

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

The authorities of the state of Mexico have grown impatient, or perhaps even fearful. Faced with the well-organized and constantly growing resistance to countless megaprojects in the state of Mexico—projects driven by the ruthless pursuit of capital accumulation—political authorities have sought justification and legal protection to violently repress the resistance and see these projects through. […]

Deepening Police Violence in Mexico: “Ley Eruviel,” Megaprojects and Organized Resistance

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

The authorities of the state of Mexico have grown impatient, or perhaps even fearful. Faced with the well-organized and constantly growing resistance to countless megaprojects in the state of Mexico—projects driven by the ruthless pursuit of capital accumulation—political authorities have sought justification and legal protection to violently repress the resistance and see these projects through. […]

Raúl Zibechi: “Brasil enfrenta en la actualidad una grave crisis de carácter multidimensional”

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

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After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Intercept (Para ler a versão desse artigo em Português, clique aqui.) BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In […]

Goldman prize winner Acuña de Chaupe of Peru: ‘I will never be defeated by the mining companies’

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Guardian Unlimited Maxima Acuña de Chaupe has won a major environmental prize for defending her land from the biggest gold-mining project in South America Environmental activism may not have been what Maxima Acuña […]

The Right Rises Up as Latin American Left Faces Setbacks

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Source: Toward Freedom Fidel Castro, in an address to the Cuban Communist Party congress yesterday, spoke of his own mortality, mentioning that soon he will be 90, “but the ideas of Cuban communism will endure.” […]

Interview with Gustavo Castro, Sole Witness to Assasination of Berta Cáceres

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Intercept Leer en español. GUSTAVO CASTRO was the sole witness to the murder on March 3 of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, the co-founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Movements of […]

Berta Cáceres Lives On, and So Does Violence by Honduran Government and Dam Company

April 22, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Fifteen hundred people from at least 22 countries convened in Honduras from April 13-15, 2016 for the “Peoples of ¡Berta Vive!” International Gathering. They came to honor slain global movement leader Berta Cáceres and to commit themselves to keeping her legacy alive.

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A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America

April 16, 2016 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Nation Support for coup regimes, militarization, and privatization; trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism. There’s been too little discussion of Latin American through the Democratic primary, including at […]