The state uses propaganda to justify eliminating civil rights because of the threat of ‘terrorism’. Source: Al Jazeera A few months after the 2009 coup d’etat against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, I was approached on […]
Teacher and environmentalist from Siria Valley, Carlos Amador and Marlon Hernandez (at least), was detained this morning in their community of El Porvenir roughly 2 hours ago. Apparently the police have capture orders for all the community […]
SourceL: Fault Lines, Al Jazeera As the debate over whether to sign the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement unfolds in Congress, the reality of the impact of free trade policies becoming increasingly apparent on the […]
(IPS) – “Today we need structural changes; we need to move towards a new model of education in Chile and to sit down to talks that include all of the concerned parties,” said Camila Vallejo, […]
A presidential decree issued in Uruguay opens the door for investigations and prosecutions of an estimated 80 cases of human rights violations committed from 1973-1985. President José Mujica’s decree yesterday revoked decisions by former Presidents […]
A two-year legal case against the leader of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has been shelved. Alberto Pizango was forced into exile following violent clashes between indigenous protesters and police in June 2009 which left 33 […]
(IPS) – The film “Impunity” has only just now arrived in Colombia, although the filming was completed a year ago and it was first shown to the public in Geneva in January. But the wait […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Media activists from around the state of Merida crowded into the Carlos Marx building yesterday to debate the new community media law. As we broke up into working groups, a member of […]
COLOMBIA Colombians now represent the single largest group of refugees granted asylum in Argentina bit.ly/jPSd7Y #cablegate USG happy with first round of privatization at ECOPETROL, Colombia’s formerly state oil company bit.ly/lvrpsu #cablegate USG: CIDA “will […]
Source: Americas Program For more than four years now, our country has suffered a war on drugs that officially does not exist. It is really a war against the people that has cost 40,000 Mexican […]
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