News Briefs
Agreement to End Honduran Coup Marks Victory and Challenge
Source: Americas MexicoBlog Last night, Oct. 29, Honduras’ de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote to "restore full executive power prior to June 28". Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran […]
The Hidden Side of Mexico’s Drug War
Source: Z Magazine An interview with ERPI guerrilla leader Comandante Ramiro Ramiro of the ERPI—photo by John Gibler They came shooting. Three military Humvees raced up the sole dirt road that leads to Puerto Las […]
Ecuador: The Battle for Natural Resources Deepens
Source: Americas Program A new indigenous uprising began in defense of water sources threatened by open air mining in Ecuador in late September. This time indigenous organizations find themselves up against a government that claims […]
Video: 100 Days of Resistance in Honduras
Produced by Avi Lewis of Al Jazeera 100 days since the coup detat that ousted Manuel Zelaya, Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines with Avi Lewis travels to Honduras to look at polarisation and power in the Americas, […]
Peruvian Cardinal Does Not Want Rebel Priest as President
Marco Arana jots down concerns, complaints and demands of indigenous peasant farmers. Credit:Courtesy of La República LIMA, Oct 28 (IPS) – Catholic priest Marco Arana, who is also a social and environmental activist, has not […]
Ecuador: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
(IPS) – The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had […]
The Zetas and the Kaibiles: A Mexican Hit Squad Reconnects With Its Guatemalan Trainers
Source: NACLA It’s been called the "balloon effect," the idea that if you squeeze a problem – say, drug trafficking – out of one location, the problem inevitably expands into another. It’s a catchy metaphor, […]