As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands, indigenous communities are exchanging seeds in hopes of finding the hardiest varieties. Source: Yes! Magazine On top of a rugged Andean […]
Source: The Americas Blog Last week the Wall Street Journal had a front page article on the net worth of Argentina’s first family since 2003, the year Néstor Kirchner was elected president. Based on financial […]
From all over the country, communities grouped together in the Indigenous National Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) will travel to Caracol 1, “La Realidad”, in Chiapas to share experiences and reach agreements and resolutions […]
Source: Weekly News Update on the Americas *1. Latin America: Gaza Attack Draws Strong Protests An Israeli military offensive on the Palestinian territory of Gaza starting on July 8 has brought widespread condemnation from governments […]
Source: Against the Current Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela By Sujatha Fernandes Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 336 pages, $24.95 paper. FOR THOSE WHO want a more equitable […]
Source: The Americas Blog On Monday, I wrote this article looking at the splits within the Obama administration on policy toward Venezuela and how they were manifested in the case of Venezuela’s former military intelligence […]
Source: Dissent When the long-simmering child migrant crisis bubbled over onto front pages in early June, Republicans predictably pounced on President Obama. The reason, they claimed, for the enormous surge in the number of child […]
For Mexico the emigration of its nationals to the United States has traditionally been the top political priority. In recent years, however, the situation of transmigrants—many from Central America—has spurred growing interest because of the […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas In recent months, Bolivia has witnessed dramatic rebellions in the ranks of its national security forces. Last April, several thousand uniformed sergeants and non-commissioned military officers marched through the […]
(IPS) – As the presidents of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala prepare to meet with President Barack Obama Friday, more than 40 organisations issued a petition urging U.S. lawmakers to meet their “moral and legal […]
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