Introduction by Luísa Molina Letter translation made in a collaborative work (by Daniela Justino, Juan Bogotá and Jeremy Campbell) Coordinated by the “São Paulo Committee of Solidarity to the Tapajós Struggle” In October 2014 the […]
Source: Waging Non-Violence For three years the communities of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc have struggled against the construction of a gold mine in their communities. The La Puya resistance has maintained […]
Source: The Nation Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away. Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the […]
“We are here to speak for them, to call for their release. When there is an injustice, silence is complicity,” said Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch and a decades-long advocate […]
Source: Cultural Survival The Tolupanes of Yoro in central Honduras have become major actors in the massive protests and demonstrations that have been filling the streets of Honduran cities for weeks. Revelations that Honduran government […]
The threat of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project at its final hour, the Huilense people stand once again in defense of the Yuma River and their territory In what has been close to eight years of […]
Shortly after the US pushed to overturn the 2010 election, the agency gave a political movement backing Martelly $100K Source: Al Jazeera The U.S. Agency for International Development gave nearly $100,000 to a Haitian political […]
Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship. Source: NACLA On Wednesday June 17, the deadline for Haitian immigrants and people of […]
Lula is trying to break away from “his” Workers Party (PT) and the government he helped to elect, and to establish itself as a leader outraged by corruption and the Brazilian political crisis. If the […]
Source: The Nation As mass mobilizations sweep Guatemala and Honduras, the US prepares its usual response: Send in the military. Street protests over “corruption” in Latin America are often expressly reactionary. Very similar to Tea […]
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