Threats Against Members of Guatemala Exhumation Team (FAFG)(Source: FAFG) [Since the 1990s, Rights Action has funded and supported the exhumation process in campesino and Indigenous communities throughout Guatemala and the work of the Fundación de […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis At a summit in Brasilia, Brazil, on Friday, 12 South American countries formally constituted the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a regional integration initiative which began informally in 2004. At the […]
The following letter is an effort by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) to stand by one of the founding members, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). […]
On May 16, victims of the infamous Raboteau Massacre in Haiti received over $400,000 in court-awarded damages. The historic recovery is the result of a 14-year struggle fought by the victims and their families in […]
Revealed in May 1999, a declassified document deemed the Military Diary describes a number of human rights violations directly ordered by former General Humberto Mejia Victores during his tenure as Dictator from 1982 to 1985. […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis On Tuesday, U.S. presidential candidate John McCain told supporters at a Cuban independence day celebration in Miami that, if he becomes president, he “will work to impede Venezuela and Bolivia from following […]
An independent report published last month condemns the business practices of Canada’s Goldcorp Inc. and exposes the Canadian mining industry’s often socially and environmentally destructive practices throughout the hemisphere. […]
(IPS) – Five workers and three pensioners from the Mexican state oil company PEMEX disappeared one year ago. A lawmaker suspects that they were detained by the army, but there are also signs that point […]
The situation for trade unionists in Guatemala is getting worse by the day. Sergio Miguel García, a member of the National Health Workers’ Union of Guatemala (SNTSG) and organizing and minutes secretary of the “Vector-Borne […]
Land occupations are not unusual in the poorest suburbs surrounding Buenos Aires, but what sets this "Tierra y Libertad" occupation apart is its vision for another kind of community. All decisions are taken by popular assembly and the mechanisms of party politics have been consciously excluded. […]
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