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Written by April Howard
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 Since 1998, the government of President Hugo Chavez has embarked on wide ranging projects to redistribute Venezuelan resources and services. A focus on educating Venezuelans to form state supported cooperatives has created over 227,000 new cooperatives since 1999. A look at pre-Chavez coops and the growth of coops over the last eight years in Venezuela shows the challenge of managing this exploding sector which now accounts for 14% of the country's GDP. |
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Written by Dawn Paley
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 In tandem with the rising tide of violence in Cauca, a department in Colombia’s southwest, the Colombian government is using the media to attack solidarity activists in Colombia and Canada through dangerous allegations. |
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Written by Nancy Romer
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
 Casimira Rodríguez |
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Written by Clifton Ross
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
 Very few who followed the political circus in Paraguay over the past two weeks were surprised when President Fernando Lugo announced that ex-General Lino Oviedo and ex-President Nicanor Duarte Frutos were plotting a coup d’etat. Lugo won the presidency in a contest between Colorado Party candidate Blanca Ovelar and ex-General Oviedo on April 20th and, on August 15, Nicanor Duarte stepped down from the post as Lugo was sworn in. |
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Written by Kari Lydersen
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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 Lomas de Poleo, in the Anapra region of Ciudad Juarez, is in the planned location for the cross-border Jeronimo-Santa Teresa project. Until 2002, no one showed much interest in the destitute parcels of land settled by migrants search of a humble plot of land to raise a few animals. Since then, the residents and the Zaragoza brothers – scions of local gas, dairy and Corona beer franchises – have been locked in a grueling, litigious and often violent struggle over the land.
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Written by Raúl Zibechi
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
 Asunción (Wikipedia) |
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Written by Thaddeus al Nakba
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
 The impunity enjoyed by war criminals is one of the main obstacles to justice in Guatemala. Like other indigenous communities in Guatemala, Rabinal is the current home to powerful criminals of the past. Hundreds of massacre survivors remain quiet and most of those responsible for human rights abuses have stayed behind, confident that justice will never catch up to their crimes. |
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Written by Gustavo Setrini
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
 Among the throng of distinguished international guests drawn to participate in the first democratic transition of government in Paraguay's 190-year history, Joseph Stiglitz, economist and advisor to the Clinton White House, may just prove the most influential. |
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Written by Adrienne Pine
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Human rights abuses, whether they are carried out by private security guards working for companies owned by the leaders of the 1980s death squad "Battalion 316," by the underpaid and poorly-trained police force, or by maquiladora owners, are inseparable from structural adjustment programs being imposed by the IMF and World Bank, with no democratic involvement on the part of the Honduran people. |
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Written by Clifton Ross
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Lugo Addresses Crowd |
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Written by James Suggett
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked on August 7th by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralded by the “Bolivarian Revolution” in their rural Andean Mountain valley. |
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Written by Kim Kohler and Josh MacLeod
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
 Recently, SalvaVidas employees decided to organize a union in the hope of improving their working conditions. Immediately after finding out about the incipient union, the company fired those involved and temporarily closed the factory, declaring bankruptcy and insisting that the union members sign letters of resignation—common union breaking measures. |
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Written by Alex van Schaick, Luis Gonzales and Teresa Carrasco
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
 Cochabamba, Bolivia - On August 10, Bolivian President Evo Morales won a resounding victory in Bolivia’s recall referendum. Regardless of what happens next, the vote invigorated Morales’ mandate in what was a broad endorsement from his base and beyond. As Toribio Terrazas, a farmer from outside Comunidad Mamenaca explained, "I want the president to continue because he is forging a good path for all Bolivians in the country." |
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Written by Christian Peña
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
 In the last five months there have been several incidents of arrest, detainment, and in one case expulsion of documentary filmakers by Chilean authorities. Each case is unique, but what they all have in common is that all three groups have been filming documentaries about the Mapuches. |
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Written by Alex van Schaick
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 On the morning of August 12, Manfred Reyes Villa, the embattled conservative prefect (governor) of Bolivia’s department (state) of Cochabamba, resigned from office following his defeat in Sunday’s recall referendum. |
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Written by Nathan Einbinder
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
 Argued by critics as the next wave of land theft and imperialism, foreign controlled mining activity in Guatemala has increased from practically nothing ten years ago into massive concessions—equaling 10 percent or more of the entire country—giving nearly unlimited exploitative rights to the corporations. |
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