Source: Waging Nonviolence Mexico’s ongoing Yo Soy 132 movement continues to show a capacity for creativity and joy while opening new spaces for political participation. A case in point: On June 19, Yo Soy 132 organized […]
Source: Guardian Unlimited It was three years ago this week that the Honduran military launched an assault on the home of President Mel Zelaya, kidnapped him, and flew him out of the country. The Obama […]
Source: Al Jazeera, Inside Story Americas Police protests and anger among indigenous groups piles the pressure on Latin America’s first indigenous president. It was a bitter dispute which saw hundreds of Bolivian police officers protest […]
Source: SOA Watch On Wednesday, June 27, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, after hearing from a delegation of SOA Watch, has taken the decision to cease sending Ecuadoran soldiers to the School of the Americas. We […]
Source: Bolivia Diary For the second time in 8 months a march by representatives of indigenous movements arrived in La Paz to demand a road does not cut through the TIPNIS indigenous territory and national […]
Source: BolPress The Union of Production Trades (UGP), closely linked to the Zuccolillo Group, owner of the newspaper ABC Color and senior partner of Cargill in Paraguay, had been preparing a national act of protest […]
Source: Americas Program On the evening of Saturday, June 16 two environmental activists and human rights defenders were with friends in front of city hall on the main street of San José del Progreso, Mexico. […]
The United States today uses an extensive and unprecedented form of imprisonment and policing as social control of its most marginalized communities. It is a unique culture of incarceration: no other country locks up their […]
Source: Al Jazeera, Inside Story Americas Click here to view video Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay, has vowed to fight on after being ousted in what he calls a parliamentary coup. He was removed […]
Source: Democracy Now! Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been ousted in what he has described as a parliamentary coup. On Friday, the Paraguayan Senate voted 39-to-4 to impeach Lugo, saying he had failed in his […]
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