National Security Archive Expert Testifies before International Court Fundación Myrna Mack Calls Hearing “Unprecedented Source: National Security Archive On April 25, 2012, Kate Doyle, senior analyst and director of the Guatemala Documentation Project at the […]
Chomsky praises the developments in Latin America over the past decade, and places them in a larger context of Latin American history. The interview was conducted in Leiden, the Netherlands, in March 2011.
Source: NACLA On April 19, The Washington Post’s editorial board published a cartoonishly hysterical rant titled “Argentina’s president rejects stepping into the future,” in reaction to the government’s re-nationalization of the Spanish-owned oil company, Repsol […]
(IPS) – Rightwing President Otto Pérez Molina is keeping his promise to take a hard line on soaring crime in Guatemala, but his government is neglecting prevention measures. Analysts warn the strategy, along with upcoming […]
Source: CISPES Civil society’s opposition to the rapid changes in El Salvador’s Public Security Ministry continues to gain ground. On March 26, the Supreme Court accepted a lawsuit seeking to annul the appointment of two […]
The Enawene Nawe Indians of the Brazilian Amazon have said they feel ‘desperate’, as their annual fishing ritual has provided them with almost no fish. This is the fourth year running that the Indians have […]
Source: Americas Program On March 9th, the Ministers of Communication from 12 countries that make up the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR, for its acronym in Spanish) made the decision to build a fiber-optic […]
Indigenous community leader celebrates ruling, promises continued opposition Source: Vancouver Media Co-op On Friday, the Chilean Supreme Court ratified a lower court ruling that rendered Goldcorp’s environmental assessment for the El Morro mine null, due […]
Plans by Anglo-French oil and gas company Perenco to exploit oil deposits slated to transform Peru’s economy have been slammed as a “1970s-era” project and forecast to cause huge unnecessary environmental damage to the Amazon. […]
Source: La Journada After the recent sixth Summit of the Americas there remains little doubt that the Latin American region has changed. It stopped being the back- yard of a decadent empire that has very […]
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