Source: Truthout Thousands of federal and state police troops were dispatched in mid-July to the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico to guard strategic buildings, patrol the skies and ensure that protesters cannot take over […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández has vowed to root out corruption ‘no matter who falls’ while in Guatemala the promise of new elections has not sated: ‘Without reform, it will just […]
Source: Jacobin Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa. Rafael Correa was first elected president of Ecuador late in 2006, assuming office in 2007. Under his […]
Source: The Nation WikiLeaks has exposed US government collusion with the chamber’s destabilization strategy. On July 20, 2015, the government of El Salvador issued an official warning that right-wing forces are orchestrating “a movement for […]
Source: The Intercept THE KILLING OF a Mexican photographer, murdered along with four women over the weekend in Mexico City, has added another name to the nation’s long, grim list of dead journalists, and left […]
Source: Dissent Magazine On November 28, 2014 José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a representative of the indigenous Shuar nation in the southernmost province of Ecuador, was on his way to an anti-mining meeting. He never arrived. […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis Caracas, July 30, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Activists from diverse social movements gathered outside Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Mining in Caracas this morning to demand the repeal of a controversial presidential decree […]
Source: Foreign Policy CARACAS — In the nearly year and a half since street protests rocked Caracas, the U.S. press has been kind to Leopoldo López, the 44-year-old jailed leader of Venezuela’s radical opposition. He […]
Source: teleSUR English Despite all the opposition’s attempts to overthrow Chavez, this political force is rooted in Venezuela’s poor majority, mobilized within the state and on the street to defend the Bolivarian revolution and advance […]
Let us walk together, my country, I’m with you I’ll climb down whatever chasms you ask me to I’ll drink from your bitter cup I’ll go blind so that you can have eyes I’ll go […]
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