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Honduras: Indigenous Tolupanes Return to Their Territory with IACHR Orders of Protection

March 6, 2014 Upside Down World 0

San Francisco de Locomapa is the site of a massacre that occurred on August 25, 2013. Armando Fúnez Medina (46), Ricardo Soto Fúnez (40), and Maria Enriqueta Matute (71) were murdered by Selvin Matute and Carlos Matute (no relation to Enriqueta). The latter two are hired guns for the Bella Vista Mining Company, which has been extracting antimony from the surrounding mountains without the consent of the community and with a mining concession that is in dispute.

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Chevron gana otro round para no pagar por lo que hizo en Ecuador

March 6, 2014 Upside Down World 0

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US Oil and Gas Firm Hunt Urged to Suspend Amazon Exploration

March 6, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Concerns over indigenous reserve and archaeological remains prompts call from local federation Source: The Guardian An indigenous federation from south-east Peru wants exploration operations by US company Hunt Oil in a supposedly protected reserve in […]

Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case

March 6, 2014 Upside Down World 0

In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.

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Bombardeos de las fuerzas armadas arriesgan y matan a poblaciones civiles en Colombia

March 5, 2014 Upside Down World 0

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For Abortion Rights in Bolivia, A Modest Gain

March 5, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Source: NACLA On February 13, Bolivia’s highest court issued a long-awaited ruling addressing provisions of the country’s penal code that criminalize abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life or health […]

Manufacturing Contempt for Venezuela

March 5, 2014 Upside Down World 0

The Venezuelan opposition has been skillfully using Twitter and Facebook to disseminate horrifying photos and testimonies of alleged government violence and abuse against protesters over the last few weeks. The problem with these allegations and images which have gone viral globally, and even used by media outlets, is that they are fabrications; many of the most viral photos allegedly from Venezuela have actually depicted images from places such as Syria, Chile, Brazil – and even a US-based porn site.

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Ecuador’s President Correa Suffers Political Setback in Local Elections

March 3, 2014 Upside Down World 0

After seven consecutive electoral victories in seven years, Ecuador’s progressive president Rafael Correa suffered an unexpected reversal of fortunes in the country’s local elections on February 23. This defeat for the ruling Alianza País (AP) came only a year after Correa trounced the conservative opposition in the 2013 presidential and legislative elections.

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Trinidad and Tobago: Battling the Resource Curse

March 3, 2014 Upside Down World 0

Kyle De Lima has an escape plan, just in case. Stamping his shoeless foot on the gas pedal and speeding past quarry security in Trinidad’s lush Northern Range, De Lima explains how the day might […]

Latin America: The Impact of the Extractive Industries

March 1, 2014 Upside Down World 0

A study by a Unites States NGO shows that the main US mining and oil companies operate on the lands of 370 indigenous communities in 36 countries. Fuente: Página/12 The largest oil and mining companies […]