“We cannot repress the people,” one masked COBRAS officer told Upside Down World. “This isn’t a political issue, but yes we are with the people because it is unjust what is happening.” […]
As Honduras slides deeper into its worst crisis since the 2009 U.S.-backed coup, rights defender Bertha Oliva speaks about the state of human rights and the anti-democratic maneuvers that have set the stage the current crackdown. […]
The Guatemalan government is looking to crush any resistance to land grabs through a new law being proposed in Congress which will classify protests and highway blockades as a form of terrorism. […]
In order to understand present resistance to the coup government, it is important to look at how changes in the political economy have both weakened workers’ ability to organize and weakened elite support for a nationalist development project. […]
A comrade of murdered Honduran leader Berta Cáceres talks about how he champions popular education on sexual diversity and body autonomy to smash taboos, blazing a trail in Central America of defending LGBTI rights in Indigenous spaces. […]
Rebeca Lane and other feminist activists in Guatemala are working to ensure that the victims of a state femicide are not forgotten, while those affected by civil war violence still fight for justice after decades of impunity. […]
In this interview the eco-feminist also talks about the urgent need to build a transnational resistance against mining in Central America. […]
For the FARC’s Insurgent Feminism, fighting for gender equality goes beyond creating progressive laws that encourage women to study, own land, or control their own finances. It also means fighting the capitalist system. […]
Years into the fight to hold Chevron-Texaco accountable for the “Amazon Chernobyl,” those involved are still struggling to win justice for victims, clean up the rainforest, and combat corporate impunity. With the future of their communities and the environment at stake, they refuse to give up. […]
Chinese investment is increasingly displacing U.S. capital in Latin America, but the environmental consequences and impacts on community rights show that the shift is not a step forward but rather more of the same. […]
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