Source: Haiti Analysis The Court of Appeal of Port-au-Prince has announced the dismissal of all remaining charges against Father Gerard Jean-Juste. The Catholic priest is a prominent supporter of Famni Lavalas, the political party of […]
In unison, hundreds of Mayan Mam community leaders raised their hands in the Gimnasio Municipal (municipal gym) of San Miguel Ixtahuacan (SMI), Guatemala on April 30. These hundreds of raised hands indicated a "yes" vote for the municipality of SMI to hold a legally binding community consultation concerning whether or not to permit mining. […]
Women actors name their mothers, one by one, to initiate their performance of "¡Somos Mujeres, Somos Madres!", an original, collectively- developed theater production based on their personal and ancestral stories. At the Somos Mayfair organization, cultural work–especially theater–are critical tools that encourage immigrant women to tell their stories.
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Programa de las Americas ¿Están dispuestos los estadounidenses a pagar los crecientes costos de las nuevas medidas severas en contra de los inmigrantes? El gobierno del Presidente George W. Bush y el Congreso están apoyando […]
30/10/2007 Corporativismo colonial (quema el petróleo en territorio indígenas amazónicos) La expansión de las operaciones de la constructora sueca Skanska en América Latina y los daños ambientales que ésta ocasiona es poco conocida en Europa. […]
Drug trafficking, migration, high crime rates and even a supposed Iranian presence was the cocktail of concerns raised by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on his recent tour of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. […]
Once more, the International Trade Union Confederation is forced to note that the assassinations, attempted murders, attacks and death threats that Colombian trade unionists have continually been exposed to are not coming to an end […]
Potable water access shouldn’t be a problem for the tiny community of Chilama in El Salvador. Located just outside of the Port City of La Libertad, Chilama is literally surrounded by water.
With the Tambogrande mine threat getting renewed — amidst the occupation of a mine in Puno and a fraudulent referendum in Michiquillay — it’s back to business as usual in Peru.
Two weeks after completing the exhumation of the largest mass grave found in Peru’s history, the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) returned to Putis today to begin work on exhuming four additional graves from a […]
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