Public prosecutors in Brazil have called on the government to pay 1.4 million reais (US$ 630,000) in compensation to Guarani Indians and to instal road signs, after eight Indians from one community were run over […]
Clean energy technologies are slowly making headway throughout the Caribbean. And the nearby United States, the world’s number-one historical emitter of carbon emissions, should pay attention. Source: FPIF Lefties Food Stall, a pint-sized eatery serving […]
Last week, Guatemalan authorities informed two Peace Brigades International (PBI) volunteers that their temporary residence permits were cancelled and that they have ten days to leave the country. Both volunteers witnessed a violent eviction on […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas During his brief visit to Costa Rica in May 2013, President Obama appeared eager to downplay the U.S. regional security agenda, emphasizing instead trade relations, energy cooperation, and youth […]
JIQUILISCO, El Salvador, Jul 5 2014 (IPS) – Under a searing sun, surrounded by a sea of young maize plants, Gladys Cortez expresses her fears that her employment in the cooperative that produces seed for […]
The authorization violates national and international law because the communities affected by the project were not consulted. Construction of the dam continues, causing harms to people, communities and the ecosystem of the Brazilian Amazon. Source: […]
Source: CISPES Last week, at the 14th annual National Private Sector Encounter (ENADE) in San Salvador, the most powerful agents of El Salvador’s economic elite proposed an extreme municipal privatization initiative, based on a model […]
Source: UNREDACTED The Brazilian military regime employed a “sophisticated and elaborate psychophysical duress system” to “intimidate and terrify” suspected leftist militants in the early 1970s, according to a State Department report dated in April 1973 […]
Source: NACLA Schemes designed to demonstrate that governments considered hostile to U.S. interests are ruthless and undemocratic span many decades and continents. There is one highly effective type of manipulation that is frequently employed: Peaceful […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Law exempts soldiers and police from criminal responsibility if they cause injuries or deaths Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – […]
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