News Briefs

According to several Intag residents, on Thursday, May 8 almost 400 people, including 200-300 police, entered Intag. Part of this group violated a community checkpoint into the Chalguyacu Alto region, where 75 women and men […]

Source: The Nation In news as shocking as it was unreported in the United States, the Brazilian press revealed earlier this week that Academi—the rebranded private militia once known as Blackwater—has been providing security training […]

Source: Latin America Press Following ruling party’s defeat at the polls, Correa looks to control land use and local governments. For seven years, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa seemed unbeatable in elections. He won with margins […]

Source: Latin America In Movement Workers in the whole world take a break today to commemorate the martyrs of Chicago, a group of workers who were chastised for their libertarian ideas and unjustly hanged at […]

Source: Indian Country Today Ngöbe-Buglé leaders promised to increase their resistance on the national stage and in the courts in Panama; part of that promise came to fruition in April. Two weeks ago they filed […]

Human rights and the fight to end impunity in Colombia must be a high priority for all candidates in the presidential elections scheduled for 25 May, Amnesty International said today in a public letter addressed […]

(IPS) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed into law an Internet bill of rights just before her opening speech at an international conference on Internet reform in the southern city of São Paulo Wednesday. The […]

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Source: CISPES The US’s ransoming of development aid has entered a new phase in El Salvador. Not content with the passage of the controversial Public-Private Partnership (P3) Law, nor with its modification by way of […]

Yasunidos Defends Signatures and Denounces Electoral Irregularities Quito, Ecuador – Just five days after turning in more than enough signatures to qualify for a national referendum to stop oil drilling plans in a critical part […]