Source: Green Left Weekly Having arrived back in Caracas after more than two weeks visiting various rural communities, leaders from the National Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ) told us that the bodies of two of […]
Source: The Guardian Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, […]
Source: Al Jazeera Nearly 38 years after President Salvador Allende died in a military coup and became a Cold War martyr of the international left, his body is being exhumed in a bid to determine […]
COLOMBIA Samuel Moreno, ex-PDA opposition leader in Colombia, compares Uribe to Chavez http://bit.ly/ih96Ho #cablegate Cable on magic laptops that somehow survived bombing of FARC camp w 38,000 files & 200,000+ images intact http://bit.ly/kMvx5D #cablegate GoC […]
(IPS) – The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The feature film “También La Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”) has been giving U.S. movie audiences a taste of the popular struggle against water privatization that took place in Cochabamba, […]
(IPS) – The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, […]
(IPS) – Although gay rights organisations in Brazil are celebrating a historic triumph, legal recognition of civil unions by the Supreme Court, they say the struggle is far from over. Legal recognition of “stable homosexual […]
Source: Americas Program Thousands of Mexicans changed the face of national and international politics May 8 in the world’s first mass protest against the drug war. Following a four-day march from Cuernavaca to Mexico City, […]
Source: Al Jazeera In Chile, it was called the The Brick. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by “the Chicago Boys” – Chilean exchange students from the University of […]
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