Source: Survival The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has demanded answers from the Brazilian government about the plight of the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, which is being […]
Source: La Jornada Alberto Patishtán is not a French kidnapper like Florence Cassez, nor a drug trafficker like Rafael Caro Quintero, nor one of the assassins of the Acteal massacre. He is a Tzotzil teacher, […]
Source: The Bullet On September 11, millions of Chileans commemorate 40 years since the coup d’état in which the Palace of La Moneda in Santiago was attacked by warplanes and President Salvador Allende died fighting […]
Source: Miami Herald It’s widely known that the Honduran police are corrupt, thoroughly enmeshed in organized crime, drug trafficking, and extrajudicial killings. But rather than clean them up, the current government of President Porfirio Lobo […]
It has already been four months since the Association of Affected Peoples of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project (ASOQUIMBO) began liberating the lands which are not destined to be inundated by the impending reservoir, but that […]
Comunicado en español abajo. Urgent Communiqué on the Massacre in Nacahuil We are informing the international and the national community of the massacre that occurred on 7 September at 23 hours, against the Kaqchikel community […]
Source: Press TV Latin American countries have almost unanimously rejected US plans to launch an aggression against Syria and consider that this action would be not only a catastrophe for the Middle East but also […]
Enforced disappearances in the Americas are not only an inheritance of the dark past of the authoritarian governments of the 1970s and 80s, but also an appalling ongoing practice, Amnesty International said as it marked […]
Sources: Western Peoples’ Council (CPO) – Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) – MiningWatch Canada – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Guatemala’s Western Peoples’ Council of Mayan organizations (CPO) filed a […]
Source: Horizons of Friendship In recent days, Colombian farmers led nation-wide strikes protesting the impacts of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), high fuel prices, and rural policies that have pushed many further into poverty. Farmers claim […]
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