News Briefs

Mexican journalist, author and campaigner Lydia Cacho is in London this week to rally support for those who risk their lives to expose corruption. Source: The Guardian “I suddenly had a clearer understanding than ever […]

Setbacks for the ruling MAS party in Bolivia’s subnational elections show that voters want more local democracy and accountability, without necessarily rejecting the MAS political project. Source: NACLA On March 29, Bolivians went to the […]

Source: Truthout Hydro energy may represent a form of clean, renewable energy, but the expansion of hydro in Guatemala has driven social conflict between the government, multinationals and the indigenous populations. In the process, it […]

The letter, signed by 132 groups from 18 countries, calls for the eradication of hunger in the Latin American nation.   Source: teleSUR English Over 100 social justice movements from around the world have signed […]

Source: Latino Rebels Seven months have passed since the Mexican government said that there were no bodies: no bones, no teeth, no nothing. All 43 of them were burned up in a pile of trash, […]

Leading indigenous human rights defender has been killed by unknown gun men At 8pm on April 7, Fernando Salazar Calvo was gunned down brutally outside his home. He was a prominent human rights defender and […]

Human rights groups are calling for investigation of the killing of a member of group critical of proposal to expand silver mine. Oxfam’s office in Guatemala is joining with 23 other organizations to call for […]

Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The strategy of “defeating” the political right by incorporating elite sectors into Bolivia’s ruling MAS party will be put to the test in Evo Morales’s third term. Evo Morales […]

Source: Jacobin Our people are winning here,” read a message Pablo Iglesias sent to Íñigo Errejón in early December 2005. Iglesias was in Bolivia watching the presidential election unfold from up close. A Spanish political […]