News Briefs

Source: www.CommonDreams.org President Obama has given little indication of the strategy for his upcoming trip through Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador. Will “the great listener” promote cooperation and understanding, or carry on the Bush administration’s […]

While friends, families and couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, Colombian workers, unions, and NGOs are joining together to commemorate something different this February 14th: the International Day of the Flower Worker. U.S. consumers spend over $18 […]

Source: PULSE Mary O’Grady, editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal and champion of the 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya “because he was trying to extend his presidency in violation of […]

(IPS) – “He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I […]

Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two […]

Source: USLEAP On June 28, 2009, the democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the Honduran military and removed from the country, precipitating violence, diplomatic isolation, and the persecution of human rights defenders, indigenous leaders, […]

(IPS) – Social mobilisation against gold-mining is growing in Colombia, which is now one of the world’s biggest per capita polluters of mercury, used in artisanal mining, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation […]

Source: Guardian Unlimited Just days after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was inaugurated on new year’s day, thousands of activists from the Landless Farmers Movement (MST) took over three expanses of land and various government buildings, […]

Source: Fellowship of Reconciliation U.S. military agencies in September 2010 signed contracts for construction at Tolemaida, Larandia and Malaga bases in Colombia worth nearly US$5 million, according to official U.S. documents available to the Fellowship […]

IPS) – Spiraling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region. “There has been an upsurge in violence […]