Source: NACLA On September 25, Bolivians marked the second anniversary of events at Chaparina, where national police brutally repressed indigenous marchers protesting the construction of a government-proposed highway through the TIPNIS indigenous territory and national […]
Source: Honduras Culture and Politics For the last few weeks of the Honduran election, no surveys of the electorate can be published. But really, the only poll that matters will take place this coming Sunday, […]
Source: Reuters Leftist candidate Michelle Bachelet was the clear winner in Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, although she will have to wait until a second-round runoff next month to seal her victory. With nine candidates […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Woman who led 2011 student uprising joins lower house as Michelle Bachelet comes top in first round of presidential election Camila Vallejo, who helped spearhead Chile‘s student uprising in 2011, has […]
Top Secret Facility Barred Mexicans, Focused on “High Value Targeting” Source: Migration Declassified National Security Agency (NSA) personnel rotated in and out of a U.S.-operated “Mexico Fusion Center” located inside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico […]
Source: NACLA Attempts to rescue the brutal past from historical amnesia and indifference have been an immense challenge for Argentine, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Chilean, Paraguayan, and Uruguayan human rights campaigners and victims of political repression, and […]
A march of medical workers, labor unions, students, and other activists took to the streets across Colombia throughout last week to mobilize opposition against the Santos government’s proposal to reform Colombia’s healthcare system. Leading the […]
(IPS) – Ongoing efforts to determine the causes of the deaths of high-profile Chileans – singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, former presidents Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende, and Nobel Literate Prize-winner Pablo Neruda – indirectly bring […]
Plans to build a massive hydro-electric dam on the land of two unique tribes in Guyana would lead to the destruction of a unique people and vast tracts of rainforest, a new report has revealed […]
Source: Open Society Foundations Argentina’s Defense Minister Agustín Rossi has just announced the discovery on October 31st of some 1,500 files belonging to the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976-83. The documents were found in […]
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