Hermosa Maquila Workers Put Former Boss in the Hotseat Women workers from the now-closed “Hermosa Manufacturing” maquila factory announced that Hermosa owner, Joaquin Salvador Montalvo, will be the subject of a court hearing set for […]
A U.S. based environmental research group, the Inter-Amerian Association for Environmental Defense, has published a study of U.S. funded aerial spraying of coca crops in Colombia is damaging health, water, food crops and the natural […]
The tragedy faced by Petrona Villasboa’s peasant family doesn’t seem to come to an end. The family has been affected by agrotoxic contamination for more than 3 years. This time Petrona’s 3 month-old grandchild is […]
Source: IRC Americas Program Two soccer teams played for a spot in the semifinal of the Copa Libertadores of America on July 18th in Asunción, Paraguay: River Plate from Argentina and Libertad of Paraguay. Before […]
La expansión de la soja continúa provocando violentos desalojos y represión contra campesinos paraguayos En Paraguay, la expansión de monocultivos como la soja lleva a un modelo agrícola en el que los campesinos no tienen […]
Unionized workers in El Salvador’s privatized telecommunications sector won a major court decision in their struggle to form an industrial union last week. The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ in Spanish) found that the Salvadoran […]
"It was chaos; the women were crying, the men trembling and it seemed that we were returning to the past, when there were massacres. It was truly worse than a nightmare," said Marcos Hernández, the […]
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