News Briefs

Source: USLEAP A long-running struggle by General Motors workers in Colombia garnered new attention last week when five workers went on a hunger strike to protest the company’s firing of sick workers, sewing their lips […]

One of Spain’s richest men has been implicated in the illegal bulldozing of a South American forest where the last uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon are hiding, following a recent raid by Paraguayan officials. Jacinto […]

Source: Honduras Culture and Politics All across the US, the news from Honduras over the last day has been the same: “US withholds funds to Honduran police” Or, if you read the Washington Post, Minneapolis […]

Governments across the Americas are putting profit before the physical and cultural survival of thousands of Indigenous peoples, said Amnesty International in a briefing paper published ahead of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples on […]

Source: Americas Program When the Paraguayan Senate approved the “political judgment” against Fernando Lugo on June 22, it unleashed the biggest political crisis in the Mercosur in the last 20 years.  The dust still hasn’t […]

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 7 2012 (IPS) – The Honduran government’s plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say. The […]

(IPS) – Small-scale hydroelectric dams with a capacity of under 30 MW are seen by the authorities in Mexico as an important alternative for generating energy. But local communities reject them on the argument that […]

Source: NACLA Last week, the Bolivian government launched a highly contested community consultation process on its plan to build a highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS). Affected communities responded with a […]

Source: Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch Martha Mendoza and Trenton Daniel of the Associated Press reported last month on the state of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Haiti. The report is based largely on documents obtained […]