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Gangs, Security and Criminalization: Youth Experiences of Violence in El Salvador

June 19, 2009 Maria Hoisington 0

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As a result of ever-increasing rates of violence, number of gang members, and citizen insecurity, the government of El Salvador implemented a series of ‘zero tolerance’ policies in 2004, known as Mano Dura, or the Iron Fist. However, the gangs are not understood as the product of social and economic factors that leave youth with little opportunity for alternatives to crime.

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Quinoa Plants a Seed for Food Revolution in Colombia

June 17, 2009 Elyssa Pachico 0

The push to reintroduce long-lost native crops is one expression of Latin America’s burgeoning food sovereignty movement. Governments across Latin America are increasingly concerned with promoting the rural poor’s ability to live self-sufficiently on locally produced goods instead of dumped products often exported from monoculture farms. […]

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Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal

June 15, 2009 Hans Bennett 0

An interview with Aviva Chomsky, professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts.

Chomsky is a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining sector. She just returned from a Witness for Peace delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia. […]

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Avila TV in Venezuela: Revolutionizing Television

June 11, 2009 Lainie Cassel 0

In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city. Funded completely by the government, they consider themselves a voice of President Hugo Chavez’s “socialist revolution.” […]

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Moving Forward: The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples

June 9, 2009 Marc Becker 0

Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. […]

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Massacre in Peru: Photo Essay and Dispatch on the Bloody Conflict

June 8, 2009 Catapa 0

The enduring conflict in Northern Peru between the Peruvian government and indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon have led to violent confrontations on Friday, June 5. According to different sources, between 30 and 84 deaths are reported, and more than 100 were wounded when the security forces tried to stop a roadblock by using violent force. […]

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50 Days of Protest and One Massacre in the Peruvian Amazon

June 6, 2009 Ben Powless 0

Many Indigenous groups, human rights organizations, and environmental groups have called for Peruvian President Alan Garcia to step down and have also issued calls for demonstrations at Peruvian embassies around the world "until the bloodbath is stopped and the legislative decrees for the Free Trade Agreement with the United States are repealed." […]

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Interview: Members of University Front of Roque Dalton from the National University of El Salvador

June 4, 2009 Erica Thompson 0

This is Part Five in a series of interviews with members of the Salvadoran Social movement titled "What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left."

Corporate media’s two-dimensional depiction of Salvadoran youth leads us to believe that most are caught up in a vicious cycle of gang violence; it has failed to convey the full picture, which involves hundreds of youth moving thousands more into political activism and shepherding a new generation of leftist thinkers in El Salvador.

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