Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Member countries of Latin America’s alternative integration bloc, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), met in the Venezuelan capital last weekend in order to discuss the advancement of the organisation […]
Source: NACLA Bolivia’s conflict over the recently-cancelled highway through the TIPNIS National Park and Indigenous Territory intensified this week, as the CONISUR counter-march arrived to La Paz and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government renewed […]
Two indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé men were killed and dozens more injured in connection with a police crackdown on dissent over mining and hydroelectric developments in Panama, where Canadian mining companies have a significant presence. Since January […]
(IPS) – Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential […]
(IPS) – International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses […]
If Humala wants to be re-elected, he has to look into anti-poverty, healthcare, education and other initiatives. Source: Al Jazeera Ayacucho, Peru – While we waited for the elevator at the Museum of the […]
Source: Kaosenlared The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are suffering from the abusive and polluting presence of oil companies.The Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO in Spanish) has called for collective action […]
Where did it come from and what do the movements have in common? The second international seminar of reflection and analysis, “Planet Earth: anti-systemic movements”, was held from the 30th of December to the 2nd […]
Guatemala has begun a politically difficult process to make human rights violators of the 1980s accountable for their crimes, including genocide inflicted on Indian villages, yet the United States still heaps praise on the killers’ chief […]
Source: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) On Monday January 23, the Funes administration named retired general Francisco Ramón Salinas as the new director of El Salvador’s National Civil Police (PNC), replacing […]
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