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 […]
Source: Democratic Left "The democratic left of Europe and North America must do the same, nationally and internationally. It is not just that its Fordist program of the past half-century no longer works and that […]
Source: dollars&sense Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but—what security? whose prosperity? Which is closer to your vision of North America? Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, […]
BOGOTÁ-Little more than a week after the Canadian government announced the completion of free trade talks with Colombia, that country’s national daily, El Tiempo, reports that the Águilas Negras (Black Eagles), a violent right-wing paramilitary organization, has sent threatening emails to the Canadian Embassy in Bogotá. […]
It was not hard to find the remains of the victims, some of whose bones were actually exposed to the elements. But it took 24 years for the people of the highlands village of Putis in southern Peru to get a response to their insistent requests for exhumation and identification of the remains.
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Latin American Working Group (LAWG) have sent a letter to the governor of the Mexican state of Guerrero expressing serious concern about reports of human rights […]
(IPS) – No one has been brought to justice for the murders of two young indigenous reporters in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in April, a case that has mobilised social activists and drawn […]
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