Source: International Socialism Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the […]
The Guatemala Solidarity Project strongly condemns Guatemalan government and corporate biofuel attacks against the q’eqchi’ communities of Inup Agua Caliente and El Sauce on January 5, 2012. Government police and soldiers joined private security forces […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Two thousand and eleven was a year of global protest and revolt. The Arab Spring, the indignados movement of Spain and southern Europe, and the Occupy Wall Street movement […]
(Ottawa/Washington, D.C.) The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and MiningWatch Canada today expressed deep concern at the political pressure being brought to bear on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the western hemisphere’s […]
Source: Al Jazeera On the morning of March 13, 1982, 10-year-old orphan Jesus Tecu Osorio woke up in his rural Maya Achi village of Rio Negro, Guatemala, with the crushing burden of satisfying the most […]
Source: Americas Program Nunca Mas. Never again. From Argentina to Guatemala, nunca más served as the clarion call for justice for the victims of the mass atrocities and systemic political repression that plagued Latin America […]
Source: Grassroots International According to a local proverb, bad news arrive arrives fast. So it was with the announcement that Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff will end the popular and effective One Million Cisterns Program in […]
Source: Al Jazeera Former member of 19th of April Movement sworn in to second most important political post in Colombia after president. A former leftist fighter has been sworn in as the new mayor of Bogota, […]
The US’ tendency to demonise and formulate assassination attempts on Fidel Castro shows a glaring double standard. Source: Al Jazeera Austin, Texas – In the 1950s, my father’s uncle Benito was summoned to Havana by Santo […]
(IPS) – The stiff local opposition to the Conga gold mining project in the northern Peruvian highlands region of Cajamarca revived a long-postponed debate in this country, on the weakness of environmental impact studies in […]
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