Source: Honduras Culture and Politics Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is the presidential candidate for LIBRE, the progressive party founded in the wake of post-coup activism in Honduras. She is also, as most readers of this […]
Achuar people celebrate a major victory for indigenous rights Talisman Energy (TLM) announced yesterday its decision to cease oil exploration activities in the Peruvian Amazon and to exit the country upon completion of ongoing commercial […]
(Ottawa) Records filed Monday confirm that four Canadian Members of Parliament and one Senator flew on Goldcorp’s tab to visit company operations in Guatemala and meet with legislators in charge of mines at the end of August. […]
Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers Source: The Guardian In October 2003, the intensely pro-US president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de […]
Source: Alianza Arkana Over 400 villagers in the Native Community of Canan de Cachiaco in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon have taken control of nine oil wells, belonging to Canadian oil company, Maple […]
Investigations into the history of Calle Conferencia I and II – a clandestine operation of Direccion de Intelligencia Nacional (DINA) aimed at eliminating members of the Communist Party and Movimiento Izquierda Revolucionario (MIR), has confirmed […]
(IPS) – Peru will debut a new mechanism for prior consultation with indigenous peoples by seeking their approval for a new stage of oil drilling operations in the infamous Lot 1AB in the northeastern Amazon […]
The last time Victoria Montenegro saw her biological mother, Hilda Ramona Torres, she was just 13 days old. On 13 February 1976, a military intelligence group forced their way into her home in Buenos Aires […]
Source: Americas Program Exactly nine years ago, in August 2003, EZLN’s support bases announced the organization of 38 autonomous municipalities in rebellion. The process of the new geography of the Zapatista territory had gotten started […]
Source: UNREDACTED In a huge step forward for justice in Colombia, a former army general accused by prosecutors of forming a “macabre alliance” with illegal paramilitary death squads was sentenced to 25 years in prison […]
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