Source: Truthout The move to extradite Florida resident Pedro Barrientos Nunez in connection with the murder of famed Chilean singer Victor Jara – a supporter of deposed President Salvador Allende – is re-igniting Chile’s campaign […]
Source: The Americas Blog It started in Colombia in 2000, moved on to Mexico in 2008 and now rages in Central America. Since the beginning of the century, the U.S.-backed “war on drugs” has progressively […]
Source: Americas Program More than 500 people from 12 countries travelled the sinuous mountain road from Oaxaca, México to the small Zapotec community of Capulálpam de Méndez to attend the “Yes to Life, No to […]
Source: UNI Global Union On Friday, January 25, local unions have organized a Walmart store strike in Limeira, a town about two hours drive from Sao Paolo on the motorway and set up a picket […]
Source: USLEAP Careful what you eat: the world’s biggest exporter of asparagus, which proudly advertises itself as socially-responsible, has just fired workers who organized a union. CAMPOSOL is Peru’s most prominent agro-industry company, supplying markets […]
Source: The Americas Blog The Associated Press recently reported that General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, who led the military-backed coup against democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, would himself run for president in this […]
Source: Mongabay A judge in Guyana’s high court has ruled that indigenous groups do not have the right to expel legal miners from their land. The judge, Diana Insanally, found that if the miners in […]
The recent approval of the Mining Law and Special Development Regimens, the new disguised version of the law for the “Charter Cities” by the National Congress, is an indication of the collapse of the nation […]
A Guatemalan judge’s decision to try the former de facto head of state, Efraín Ríos Montt, for genocide and crimes against humanity is a major step forward for accountability in Guatemala, Human Rights Watch said […]
Today, representatives of U.S. Solidarity organizations the Committee in Solidarity with the people of El Salvador (CISPES), U.S. El Salvador Sister Cities, the SHARE Foundation, Voices on the Border and the Red Uniendo Manos El […]
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