El Salvador Free Trade Zone Plan Sparks Debate
Debates around foreign investment, development, and sovereignty, colored by a long history of neoliberalism and U.S. imperialism, are heating up in El Salvador. […]
Politics
Water Wars: El Salvador Social Movements Resist Water Privatization
El Salvador’s right-wing lawmakers and private business lobby are pushing to privatize water. Social movements are fighting to defend it. […]
Pajulies Under Attack: Hydroelectric Company Bypasses Resistance by Military Force
For over a year, community members have denounced state violence and criminalization targeting their peaceful resistance to the Hidrocep project. […]
La mortífera diplomacia canadiense y la preocupante situación de las y los presos políticos en Honduras
El terrorismo de Estado acosa a Honduras, y el mismo cuenta con el apoyo del gobierno de Canadá. […]
Honduran Activist Framed for Vandalism Faces Ongoing Misinformation Campaign
Honduran youth activist Eduardo Enrique Urbina Ayala continues to be the target of state misinformation months after he fled the country fearing for his safety. […]
Canada’s Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
It’s time for Canada to condemn the real perpetrators of violence in Honduras and take a stand for the rights of political prisoners like Edwin Espinal. […]
Demanding Justice: Indigenous Women from Guatemala Battle Canadian Mining Giant
Land defenders make history by challenging Hudbay Minerals in court. […]
Colombia: Extractivist Pax vs. Peace with Social and Environmental Justice
The conflict between the extractivist pax and peace with social and environmental justice is sharp. […]
How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate. […]
‘There Is No Democracy Here’: Corruption Rigs Honduran Politics for the Powerful
Honduras’s elections debacle is just the face of a failed democracy in urgent need of transformation to close a long crisis brought on by the 2009 U.S.-backed coup. […]