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Over 300 Days in Prison: Francisco Sántiz Lόpez, Zapatista Political Prisoner, is Innocent!

October 9, 2012 Jessica Davies 0

“His only crime is struggling for his people, telling the truth, and fighting for true democracy, liberty and justice,” says the Good Government Junta (JBG)[i] of Oventic of their compañero Francisco Sántiz Lόpez, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the state penitentiary in San Cristόbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, since December 4, 2011. On September 29, 2012, a week before his 57th birthday, Francisco completed 300 days behind bars for a crime it has been proven he did not commit.

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Chavez Wins Venezuelan Presidential Election with 54% of the Vote

October 8, 2012 Ewan Robertson 0

Hugo Chavez has won the Venezuelan presidential election with 54.42% of the vote against 44.97% for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. A spontaneous street party immediately kicked off in the centre of the Andean city of Merida, and a massive crowd of Chavez supporters began celebrating in front of the presidential palace, Miraflores, in Caracas.

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Venezuela: A Pre-election Report

October 5, 2012 Larry Fisk 0

Venezuelan elections are administered by the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) in accordance with the 1999 constitution. The system is electronic, standardized throughout the country and perhaps the most modern and secure in the world. “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world,” former President Jimmy Carter said last month at The Carter Center.

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Red Light on the Canadian Red Cross in Haiti?

October 4, 2012 Stefan Christoff 0

Today, as tensions rise between the Haitian government and the hundreds of thousands who continue to live in makeshift displacement camps in Port-au-Prince, many in Haiti and around the world are questioning both the impact and transparency of major NGOs, and specifically the Red Cross.

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Haitian Government Faces Mounting Popular Anger

October 2, 2012 Milo Milfort and Lafontaine Orvild 0

Several thousand marchers demonstrated against Haitian President Michel Martelly on Sunday, the anniversary of a bloody coup d’état that toppled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide 21 years ago. With posters and slogans denouncing the rising cost of living, the government’s authoritarianism and corruption, and also calling for Martelly to step down, demonstrators made their way to the ruins of the National Palace, crushed in the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010.

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Building a New Society Through Education: Chronicle of El Salvador’s First International Literacy Brigade

September 29, 2012 Madeleine Conway, member of the University of Santa Cruz CISPES Chapter 0

Since 2010, El salvador’s Ministry of Education has eradicated illiteracy in six municipalities and hopes to declare the country’s illiteracy rate to be 4 percent or less by 2014.This summer, CISPES accompanied the NLP for three weeks – visiting dozens of community literacy circles, promoting the program on local and national media, and helping conduct a literacy census – as the first international volunteer brigade to answer the government’s call and support the literacy program.

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Guatemala: Women’s Gathering in Defense of Water, Life and Territory

September 28, 2012 Patricia Ardón and Orfe Castillo 0

Miriam Plxtún of the Movement of Indigeous Women Tz ́ununija identified several major achievements of the gathering, including the importance of creating their own space for recognizing and strengthening the peaceful struggle in defense of territory and natural resources, the discussion of alternatives, and the effort to build cross-border alliances that spread information on the effects of mega-projects.

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Army’s Former Sex Slaves Testify in Guatemala

September 28, 2012 Danilo Valladares 0

With her face covered, and with the support of a psychologist and a translator, a crying Rosa Pérez* told a court hearing this week that members of the army kidnapped her husband and turned her into a sex slave and servant in the Sepur Zarco military garrison in the municipality of El Estor in the northeastern province of Izabal. She and 14 other Q’eqchi Maya Indian women who were subjected to sexual and labour slavery between 1982 and 1986 testified at a preliminary hearing held this week in a court in the Guatemalan capital.

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