UN Scolds Washington for War on Migrants
The United Nations released a report this month scolding the United States for disregarding international law and violating the human rights of migrants.
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Reciclamos! Is Community Recycling a Sustainable Livelihood in Coastal Mexico?
Luz and Marta spend their days sorting through the old beer bottles and plastic milk jugs of Mexican residents and tourists alike, but they aren’t doing it on top of a garbage dump, as happens in many other Mexican cities and in developing countries around the world. In San Pancho, Nayarit, a growing town on the west coast of Mexico, a non-profit started by an American ex-patriot seeks to channel the influx of tourist dollars into education and livelihood programs that also clean up the environment.
Another SOA? Police Academy in El Salvador Worries Critics
Semi-secretly established in 2005, a Salvadoran branch of the International Law Enforcement Academy, a U.S.-sponsored global network of police schools, has angered critics and human rights activists, who wonder if it will perpetuate long-standing patterns of police and military abuse in the country.
Paraguay: Elections, Yellow Fever, and a Meddling Ambassador
Fernando Lugo
The election climate in Paraguay grows tense with the possible defeat of the Red Party that has been in power for more than half a century. The U.S. ambassador’s interference in the electoral campaign and a yellow fever epidemic are keeping tensions high. […]
Grassroots Group Accused of Being Foreign “Agent” of Leftist Political Party in El Salvador
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), illegally targeted in the 1980’s by the largest FBI Internal Security investigation of the Reagan era, has in recent months again received threatening communications from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Fighting for Survival in Paraguay’s Green Desert Wonderland
Road to Juliana Fleitas.
(IPS) "The first red stains on Nicanor’s white shirt" reads the inscription on a memorial niche at the side of the road to Ypecuá, 230 kilometres from Asunción, where peasant farmers are fighting for their land and against the diseases caused by agrochemicals used on nearby soybean plantations.
Waiting for Hector: An Implacable Fight for Justice in Nueva Linda, Guatemala
Why would anybody camp by the side of a busy road? Why would anybody camp by the side of a busy road sheltered only by rough structures made from palm tree fronds in the punishing tropical heat and torrential downpours? And why would anyone do it for four long years?
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