Source: Honduras Culture and Politics The law enabling Regiones Especialles de Desarrollo (RED) sometimes referred to as Model or Charter Cities, has been found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Law branch of the Supreme Court in […]
Source: NACLA Rival mineworker factions have signed an agreement with the Bolivian government to end a violent dispute at the Colquiri tin mine, Bolivia’s second largest, which has rocked the country for months. The conflict […]
Police report 100 arrests after violent clashes with protesters. Source: The Santiago Times Thousands of high school and university students marched in Santiago on Thursday to express their frustration with a government that they say […]
A small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres Islas community, in […]
(IPS) – Since Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey became attorney general in Guatemala in 2010, a string of crimes involving military personnel who fought leftwing guerrillas, drug traffickers and organised crime have been cleared up. […]
Source: COFADEH Lawyer Antonio Trejo, the legal representative of the Authentic Claimant Campesino Movement of Aguan (MARCA) died from several gunshot wounds on Saturday night, September 22. On August 22, he was prosecuted by […]
Uphold International Norms for Use of Force and Military Jurisdiction The Peruvian government should act to prevent the unlawful use of lethal force by security forces during crowd-control operations, Human Rights Watch said today in […]
Source: Folha de São Paulo She defines herself as a Marxist-Leninist “popular educator.” A Chilean, she was a student of philosopher Louis Althusser, a Catholic student leader and a member of the socialist government of […]
Source: Cultural Survival On September 11th, a judge revoked ten arrest warrants that were issued against community leaders in the municipality of Barillas, Huehuetenango for alleged crimes against the Spanish hydroelectric subsidiary Hydro Santa Cruz, […]
Masked security guards of Honduras’s largest landowner verbally threatened and then fired a warning shot at nine human rights activists in Tocoa, Honduras, in the country’s violence wracked Aguan valley at about 3 PM local time yesterday. The incident was captured on videotape and in still pictures.
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