The word people frightens the business leadership, the bourgeoisie and the Latin American middle class, they become uneasy when they hear about working class, let alone when the impassioned cry of the rebellious peasants resounds like an echo of an erupting volcano. Indigenous peoples have spent more than five hundred years resisting, it will not be now that they will be put down. These presidents who were elected in a democracy with the vote of those abused the most by the system, the (…)
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LATIN AMERICA - It is Not Against Dilma, it is Not Against Lula, it is Against the Advancement of the Brazilian PeopleIlka Oliva Corado
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Guatemala AdriftIlka Oliva Corado
21 March 2016, by Ilka Oliva CoradoIn my beautiful country (but not because its society) everything happens. The horror, the panic, the incredible and inadmissible are part of everyday life. A country in decline. A country that with each passing day is sinking more and more. A society that does not try to rise up out of mediocrity. A college student population whose only aim is to ensure their own benefit disassociating itself from the collective. Amorphous masses pretending to be politically consistent but end up kneeling (…)
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LATIN AMERICA - Dirty WarsIlka Oliva Corado
15 March 2016, by Ilka Oliva CoradoThey were established by the US and the Latin-American oligarchy simultaneously with the so-called “Operación Cóndor” (Operation Condor) which originated a series of bloody dictatorships that repressed the civilian population; a fact of which the continent will never recover completely. Because those dirty wars are not encoded manuals that are now filed in newspaper libraries or the governments vaults; they are still in force, renewed in compliance with technology and time requirements. The (…)
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BRASIL - Blind justice in Tocantins: Historic dwellers of Gleba Taua can be driven from their land
CPT Araguaia Tocantins
22 January 2016, by DialAraguaína, November 9th, 2015.
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) is issuing this note to express indignation at the scandalous judgments repeatedly by the judge of Goiatins County (TO), Dr. Bezerra Luatom Adelino de Lima, against the peasant families of Taua Land in Barra do Ouro (TO).
In conformity with its mission of fraternal presence to the rural communities fighting for the respect of their historical rights, the CPT alert to the irreversible impact that these decisions may cause (…) -
UNITED STATES-HONDURAS - Hillary Clinton’s Emails and the Honduras Coup
CEPR
11 November 2015, by Claudia CasalSeptember 23rd, 2015 - Center for Economics and Policy Research (CEPR) - Three batches of Hillary Clinton’s emails have now been released and, though many emails are heavily redacted, we’re starting to get a clearer picture of how Clinton handled major international developments during her tenure at the State Department. One of the first big issues to hit Clinton’s desk was the June 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras that forced democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya into exile. Officially (…)
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MEXICO - San Quintín Valley: From Labor Abuse to Labor Mobilization
Guillermo Castillo, Americas Program
19 August 2015, by colaborador@s extern@sJuly 16, 2015 - Americas Program.
“We’ve been starving to death in San Quintín [Valley] for twenty years.” Javier Ramírez, day labourer, March 2015
“…Our past is hunger, that’s the starvation wages we get.” Fidel Sánchez, day labourer, March 2015
“It’s worse here [in the fields of the San Quintín Valley] because the children are hungry. You come here and sell everything because you haven’t got a cent and here is definitely worse, because you come with promises, illusions, and nothing (…) -
CHILE - After 2011, Social Struggles and Constituent Process: An interview with Sergio Grez and Franck Gaudichaud
Giulia Willig
15 July 2015, by Franck GaudichaudAn interview on the political and social situation in Chile following the great student mobilization of 2011, conducted by Giulia Willig for the Swiss journal SolidaritéS.
Giulia Willig: Where is the Chilean student movement at today?
Franck Gaudichaud: Historically, the movement of students in tertiary and secondary education has always been a very significant social actor in Chile, including under the dictatorship. Under “neo-liberal” democracy, there has been a recomposition of (…) -
NICARAGUA - Country is Not for Sale: The Culmination of President Ortega’s Inconsistent Presidency
Amalia Perez, COHA
15 July 2015, by Claudia CasalJuly 5th, 2015 - COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) - “¡Nicaragua no se vende!” protesters in the central city of Juigalpa exclaimed during the most recent demonstration opposing the proposed Nicaraguan Canal. This rallying cry, Nicaragua is not for sale, reverberates throughout the country in momentous opposition to the construction of the canal—a $50 billion USD project spearheaded by Chinese venture capitalist billionaire, Wang Jing, and enthusiastically approved by the Nicaraguan (…)
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MEXICO - Valle de San Quintín labourers: a reflection of shame and demands for justice
Guillermo Castillo Ramírez, Bilaterals
6 July 2015, by colaborador@s extern@sJune 13th, 2015 - Bilaterals.
“An agricultural labourer works on average 15 hours a day; the average working session of agricultural labourers is 57 hours [per week] for men and 65 for women.” Red de Jornaleros Internos de México, La Jornada, March 27th, 2015.
“ […] From 2007 to March 2015, [the Tlachinollan Centre of Human Rights] has documented that at least 40 children have died in agricultural fields, as a result of accidents at work, atrocities, insect bites, malnutrition, (…) -
MEXICO - “The Other Ayotzinapa”: Organizing Against Feminicide
Nidia Bautista, Americas Program
25 May 2015, by Claudia CasalMarch 13, 2015 - Americas Program - Over the past weeks, the bodies of three women were found in three different municipalities of the State of Mexico. The State of Mexico is the most dangerous state for women — 10 times more women have been murdered there then in Ciudad Juarez over the last 21 years.
The bullet-ridden body of one woman was found washed ashore on the edge of a sewage canal in Tequixquiac on Feb.17. Residents found the body of the victim, dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a (…)