Source: La Jornada Fire devours a vehicle in front of the Chilpancingo government palace. On the chassis of another overturned (vehicle), above one of its sides, furious hands painted: “Justicia.” Guerrero is in flames. The […]
Source: Vancouver Media Coop The forty three students disappeared by municipal police in Iguala, Guerrero on September 26, 2014, are still missing. As much as the state wants to put a lid on the protests, […]
Source: Al Jazeera Leftist governments across Latin America are failing to follow a truly leftist direction. Over the last weeks, Latin America’s left consolidated its presence. Brazil re-elected President Dilma Rousseff to a second term […]
Mexico’s attorney general says detainees admitted setting fire to bodies whose unidentified remains are believed to be those of the missing studentsMexico’s attorney general says detainees admitted setting fire to bodies whose unidentified remains are […]
On October 29, 2014, the Mesoamerican Working Group (MAWG) sponsored a congressional briefing in which a panel of leading human rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia discussed the ongoing violence taking place in their countries and offered […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Early last month, five men were shot dead in a high-rise building at the center of Caracas during an early morning standoff between special intelligence police (CICPC) and armed members of revolutionary collectives. […]
Source: Jacobin Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution hasn’t established socialism. But it has brought the poor into public life. Geographically, Caracas, Venezuela consists of a relatively short, narrow valley just over twenty miles in length, sheltered from […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas A report from Bolivia’s highland provincial capital of Achacachi, on the elections and the continuing contradictions of Bolivia’s “process of change.” On October 12, Election Day in Bolivia, I […]
From RightsAction.org On September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Guerrero killed six people and detained 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural School, who have since been disappeared. Numerous mass graves have since been found outside […]
This article originally appeared at cipamericas.org On Oct. 14, Guatemala’s Court for High-Risk Crimes ruled that charges would be brought against two members of the Army for sexual slavery and domestic slavery against q’eqchís women in […]
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