Source: Security Assistance Monitor Honduras’ former police chief, who was dismissed amidst allegations of involvement in death squads, has been working as the country’s police attaché in Colombia, raising questions about his potential role in […]
When Mexico City’s Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC) closed certain metro cars in February 2011 in order to prevent gay men from using them for sex, the public conversation about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than just a transportation artery … The appropriation of certain metro cars as meeting and hookup sites for gay men exemplifies the clash between the STC and its users, and the closure of these cars illuminates the complex relationship between the political class that controls the city and the LGBTQ community.
Ecuador will continue supporting Palestine despite U.S. pressure to restore diplomatic relations with Israel. Source: teleSUR The successful campaign “Ecuador with Palestine” organized by civil society and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs resulted in 20 tons of medical […]
Dar una lectura políticamente afinada a la presidencia de Nicolás Maduro parte del reconocimiento sobre el cúmulo de circunstancias en las cuales le corresponde asumir como conductor del país. Fuente: Mision Verdad Para empezar, y […]
(IPS) – After its victory in a nearly decade-long struggle against HidroAysén, a project that would have built five large hydroelectric dams on wilderness rivers, Chile’s Patagonia region is gearing up for a new battle: […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com On July 18, two functionaries in the western state of Yaracuy received calls on their cell phones, supposedly from a government minister, asking them to go to a local hardware store that they […]
A politically refined reading on the presidency of Nicolás Maduro starting with a recognition of the morass of circumstances he has had to face as the country’s leader. Without a doubt, the legacy of Maduro’s recent but extremely turbulent presidency is based on constructing a leadership with its own characteristics: its own attributes, its own styles, its own errors, its own incongruities, in a context of structures, as well as new circumstances.
Source: NACLA As the number of Chileans with direct memories of the Pinochet dictatorship dwindles, the country continues to face the question of how it commemorates and deals with the past. Like in other Latin […]
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