The Mexican government committed genocide and crimes against humanity that included rape, murder, kidnapping and a scorched earth campaign during the Mexico’s "dirty war", a government campaign against suspected leftist guerrillas, activists and in reality, […]
The Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous population, is forming a political party in an effort gain autonomy and self-government. The Wallmapuwen (party) hopes to be legally recognized later this year so that it has the time […]
In July of 1982, Guatemalan government forces marched into the small community of Plan de Sánchez, forced community members into a house, and tossed a grenade in after them. They raped young women and girls, destroyed crops, and looted and burned homes with the inhabitants inside, leaving the charred remains of the victims behind.
Leonida Zurita Vargas, a Bolivian coca farmer organizer and alternate Senator, was planning to be in the US right now as part of a three week speaking tour on Bolivian social movements and human rights. This tour would take her to Vermont, Harvard, Stanford and Washington DC. However, upon checking in at the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on February 20th to fly to the US, she was informed her ten year visa had been revoked because of alleged links to terrorist activity.
Ideologues construct arguments by arranging selective constellations of facts and half-truths to support preconceived conclusions. Scholars construct arguments by assaying and weighing facts to determine conclusions and approximate truth. Javier Corrales seems to have adopted the former approach in his January/February contribution to Foreign Policy, "Hugo Boss."
The Guatemalan government wants U.S. helicopters, radar equipment and U.S. agents to help expand its anti-narcotic operations. Colombian president Alvaro Uribe expressed support for Guatemala’s request for "anti-drug" aid during a one-day visit. The two […]
Ecuador declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after soldiers opened fire on protesters who occupied and shut down one of the country’s largest oil pipelines. Local television showed pictures of troops firing their rifles […]
The office of SETA, El Salvador’s water workers union, sits like a mouse at the elephant’s feet. The union’s plain, two room office sits next door to the huge, block-long two story building which is the headquarters for El Salvador’s national water company, ANDA (National Water and Sewage Administration). Inside the SETA office, union reps equipped with an old computer and chairs with broken rollers are bracing for a fight against government attempts to privatize their industry. Representatives for SETA say losing the fight could mean the "extinction" of their union and limits on Salvadoran’s access to clean water.
Guatemala’s Supreme Court suspended a law that requires the government to make birth control available and allow sex education to be taught in schools. The court had acted at the request of Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, […]
Newly elected Bolivian President, Evo Morales, recently swore in the 16 ministers who will form his new government cabinet. For the first time in Bolivia’s 180-year history as an independent nation, the majority of those who now fill the highest governmental posts come from within indigenous and social movements.
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