From Within the Storm: National Indigenous Congress and Zapatista Communique on Oaxaca Teacher Protests
Faced with the cowardly repressive attack suffered by the teachers and the community in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca—in which the Mexican state reminds us that this is a war on all—the peoples, nations, and tribes who make up the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation say to the dignified teachers that they are not alone, that we know that reason and truth are on their side, that the collective dignity from which they speak their resistance is unbreakable, and that this the principal weapon of those of us below.
Brazil’s Crisis and the New Right
The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT’s serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.
Latin America: Populism and the People
Source: Dissent Magazine This article is part of a forum on the lessons of Latin America’s “pink tide” for democratic socialists. To read the rest of the forum, click here. In his essay “The Path […]
The US Applauds the Coup in Brazil, Calls It Democracy
Source: The Nation Washington now has compliant compradores in power in Argentina and Brazil—and perhaps soon in Venezuela. Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s recently deposed president, calls it a coup. Many, perhaps most, of the countries in […]
After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure
Source: TowardFreedom.com Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the […]
Argentina’s last military dictator jailed for role in international death squad
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Reynaldo Bignone sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in running Operation Condor in 1970s and 80s Argentina’s last military dictator, 88-year-old former general Reynaldo Bignone, was today sentenced […]
Honduran Indigenous Activist Wins Human Rights Award for Struggle Against Corporate Destruction of Land
On June 9, Ana Mirian Romero, a 29-year-old indigenous Lenca woman and mother of five from the department of La Paz, Honduras, was recognized by the European human rights organization Front Line Defenders. Romero was awarded the organization’s annual award for Human Rights Defenders for her work struggling for the recognition of indigenous lands and against the corporate destruction of the environment in Honduras.
Revolutionary Mothering in Northern Cauca, Colombia
Over the past week, hundreds of black women from the region of Northern Cauca, in southwestern Colombia have been participating in the National Inter-Ethnic Agrarian Protest. For the sisters of the Black Women’s Mobilization for the Care of Life and the Ancestral Territories their decision to participate in the national protest was an act of Revolutionary Mothering.
Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts. A recent investigation by the Guatemalan public ministry could come with criminal charges for executives of the controversial gold mine.