Ecuador’s government announced on Friday that it was revoking Ascendant Copper‘s mining concessions for the controversial Junin Project. “As an Intag resident, I am ecstatic to be rid of a source of conflict that was tearing our communities apart,” said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.
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Exalted by the success of his social programmes, but harassed by opponents who are threatening to declare de facto autonomy in four of Bolivia’s nine departments, indigenous President Evo Morales completes two years of his mandate on Tuesday, a milestone the country’s three previous presidents failed to reach. […]
Dubbed “La Parota” after a tall leafy tree native to the banks of the Papagayo River, a proposed dam that would displace as many as twenty-five thousand people is being aggressively pursued by Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
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Just after midnight on January 1st, was the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. This night marked the end of the third Encuentro [Gathering] of the Zapatistas with the People of the World, and the first Encuentro of Zapatista Women and the Women of the world.
There’s a new law being debated in Brazil that threatens to undermine the rights and livelihoods of all Indigenous people in this South American nation. […]
"Welcome to Ixlán: Our land is communal land, not to be bought or sold," pronounces a rusting billboard just outside regional centre of Ixlán, 60km north of the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca’s capital city, Oaxaca de Juarez.
Last month, the Constitutional Court’s verdict nullified a former ruling calling for the detention and extradition of retired Generals Ángel Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez and Pedro García Arredondo, and demands that the generals be set free. According Guatemalan human rights organizations and the families of the victims of massacres that occurred between 1982 and 1983, the verdict makes justice into a joke. […]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took the world by surprise last week when he asked the Colombian government to stop calling the FARC and ELN terrorists. Chavez then appealed to the international community to formally recognize the belligerent status of the two insurgent groups. […]
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Marlon Santi is the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). He says that he will "join with the people in the Amazon, in the highlands, and on the coast. Since the problems are same and we have to walk together. I am not a leader who sits at a desk. I am a leader who will be out in the field, fighting for the people." […]
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