U.S. pressures Guatemala on labor front
This is the first labor case ever brought by the United States against a trade agreement partner.
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May 2011
Apartheid Housing Posed as Solution to Climate Vulnerability in Chiapas
“…you see clearly that the architects have no idea, no vision.”
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Delegations to Cuba this summer!
The agenda includes meetings with Cuban academics, popular organizations, NGOs and government officials.
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Leader for the displaced killed in Cordoba, northern Colombia
A leader of a group of peasants reclaiming land they were forced to leave by illegal armed groups, was assassinated in northern Colombia said the human rights ombudsman Wednesday.
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New Video: On Mothers’ Day, Some Families Under Siege
Across the country, migrant communities and the families that make them up have been roiled by the wave of criminalization that comes in the form of police/ICE collaborations and Arizona-style copycat bills.
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Guatemala’s Crippled Peace Process: A Look Back on the 1996 Peace Accords
Even with years of attention by the United Nations, Guatemala continues to be far from achieving the stability envisioned in the original peace agreement. As Guatemala approaches the fifteen year anniversary of the Peace Accords this December, the country remains just as far from implementing the Peace Accords as it had been when the agreement was first signed
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Beyond Solidarity
We no longer look to Latin America to save it; we look to Latin America to help save ourselves.
Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon
More than 80,000 workers all over the country paralyzed the work of “progress” in the form of hydroelectric plants, refineries, and thermoelectric generating facilities.
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Correa Seeks Tighter Control of Press & Courts in Ecuador Vote
“The common idiomatic expression ¨si o no?¨ has taken on a whole new and highly loaded meaning as Ecuador´s national Referendum and Consulta Popular draws near,”
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Community Radio Stations: The Voice of Honduran Resistance
Community radio is not just a social and political commitment to ‘give voice to the voiceless’—rather it is the shared property of a community, which articulates itself as a whole through the mics.
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