Written by Paul Imison
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Friday, 28 October 2011 12:27 |
Last week, the Guatemalan government of Álvaro Colom formally apologized to the family of former president Jacobo Árbenz who was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup in 1954 and later died in exile in Mexico.
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Written by James Rodriguez
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:34 |
On July 7, 2010, Diodora Hernandez, a staunch anti-mining activist, was shot point-blank on the right eye outside her home in the small community of San José Nueva Esperanza – only a few meters from a fence that delimits Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine. One year after her miraculous recuperation, Diodora’s anti-mining stance and activism remains as steadfast as ever.
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Written by John Washington
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Friday, 21 October 2011 10:19 |
There Mexican Army has conducted 20,000 raids in the last five years. Arturo Rodríguez García, writing for Proceso, reports that, “in the past two years . . . the number of captured citizens, raids without warrants, disappearances, instances of torture and executions have multiplied." One defender of human rights affirms that the Marines “have the implicit right to violate the constitution. They rob, kidnap, disappear and kill and nothing happens.”
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Written by Raúl Zibechi
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 08:25 |
A production model in Paraguay based on soy monoculture results in economic growth, but also causes social instability that can lead to political crises. The temptation is to use armed force to resolve them.
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Written by Ramona Wadi
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Friday, 14 October 2011 14:17 |
The culture of Mapuche poetry has evolved into three distinctive forms: traditional, intellectual and urban. David Aniñir Guilitraro, an urban Mapuche poet from Santiago, has created a literary realm which connects the history of the Mapuche struggle to the social problems which the people face today. Guilitraro describes his book, Mapurbe, as ‘a poetic concept of identity’ which harbors ‘revenge against everything’.
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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:32 |
This report from Liberty Plaza connects tactics and philosophies surrounding the Occupy Wall Street movement with similar movements in Latin America, from the popular assemblies and occupation of factories during Argentina’s economic crisis in 2001-2002, to grassroots struggles for land in Brazil.
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Written by Tatiana Félix, Adital
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Friday, 07 October 2011 14:09 |
In this interview Salvadoran activist Carolina Amaya says that the challenge of social movements is to deconstruct the false paradigm of development that triggered the economic and environmental crisis that puts the life of our civilization at risk.
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Written by Pablo Solon
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:09 |
The following is a letter to Bolivian President Evo Morales from Pablo Solon on the TIPNIS march. Solon is the former ambassador for Bolivia at the UN and the coordinator of the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
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Written by Dawn Paley
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:20 |
In their 2010 annual report, Conservation International calls the results of their partnership with Starbucks in Chiapas "one of the first and most notable corporate engagements to address climate change." But outside the feel good gloss of annual reports and promotional videos, the relationship between CI and Starbucks isn't quite so transparent.
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Written by Mark Weisbrot
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Monday, 24 October 2011 10:34 |
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was re-elected president on Sunday, October 23rd, receiving roughly 54% of the votes. Her nearest challenger received less than 17% support. This article looks at the economic policies that contributed to Kirchner's victory.
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Written by Jeff Conant
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 08:37 |
Seringal Sao Bernardo, in the state of Acre in Brazil’s Western Amazon, is a settlement of seringuieros – rubber tappers – who have lived on their piece of forested land since before they were freed from plantation serfdom in the 1970’s.
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Written by Carlos Zorrilla
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Friday, 14 October 2011 20:28 |
Canadian mining company Iamgold’s Quimsacocha gold mining project, high in the Andes of southern Ecuador is going nowhere fast. On October 2, the mining project was the latest one to fall victim to the community referendums that have defeated mining projects in Peru, Guatemala and Argentina.
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Written by Cristina Cielo
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011 16:15 |
In this year of growing popular protests worldwide, demands for political and economic equality have burst forth in the Middle East, Europe and even in the United States. Further south in the Americas, civil society organization over the past decade brought social movement leaders to state power and marginalized peoples' rights to national agendas. In this interview, Uruguayan intellectual and journalist Raúl Zibechi gives us a South American perspective of the momentous changes taking place globally, through a focus on the inaugural mobilizations in the Middle East.
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Written by William Lloyd George
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Saturday, 08 October 2011 10:39 |
As public universities across the country go on strike, thousands of students are discussing the next step on how to make sure the reform isn't passed. The main focus of criticism for the reform is Law 30, which would break from the past and allow for private businesses to run schools for profit.
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Written by Shalini Adnani
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 22:09 |
“For us the differences that might exist are diversity and that is the positive aspect of this movement. Where there are many positions, discussions and the fact that we argue things out, that betters our final positions and requirements,” said Camila Vallejo.
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Written by Franz Chávez
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Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:37 |
Bolivia's main trade union declared a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest Sunday's police crackdown on indigenous demonstrators who were protesting the construction of a road through a pristine rainforest preserve.
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