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Thu, 01/07/2010 - 9:40am
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Peru’s Supreme Court Upholds Fujimori’s 25-Year Sentence for Murders and Kidnappings

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 8:49am
On January 3, 2010, Peru’s Supreme Court upheld Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s April 2007 conviction and 25-year sentence...

Honduras: Zelaya’s Safety Ensured by Ban on Pen Deliveries to Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa

Tue, 01/05/2010 - 8:18am
All items entering the Brazilian embassy undergo police inspection, although the final say as to what gets through and what does...

Honduras: Entrenched Corruption Stymies Hope

Tue, 01/05/2010 - 4:56am
Corruption in Honduras has taken root at every level of the state, which is helpless to combat it because of...

Report on Massacre of Native Protesters in Peru Biased, Says Head of Inquiry

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 10:31am
The coordinator of the commission convened by the Peruvian government to clarify a June massacre of 33 indigenous protesters and police near...

The Incessant Search for the Disappeared: Exhumation in Villalobos

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 10:21am
Twenty-some years later, the question remains the same: where are the disappeared? Based on a witness testimony, the Association of...

Mary O’Grady Incites Violence in Colombian Peace Community

Tue, 12/29/2009 - 3:56am
In her latest pro bono public relations initiative on behalf of right-wing Latin American regimes, The Wall Street Journal’s Mary...

Canadian Mining in Latin America: Paramilitaries, Assassinations, and Impunity

Sun, 12/27/2009 - 1:07pm
Latin Waves is a weekly syndicated radio program focused on building community across borders. The show was started as a resource to...

El Salvador - Hitmen Assassinate Prominent Woman Activist in Cabañas; Pro-Mining Violence Continues

Sat, 12/26/2009 - 11:29pm
Six days after heavily armed men took the life of a respected anti-mining activist in Cabañas, El Salvador, another prominent community...

Killing Activists in Honduras

Wed, 12/23/2009 - 6:28am
“As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow and forever on the front lines of my people, all the while...

Bicentennial and Breaking Continuity: Ecuador, Latin America, and Obama

Wed, 12/23/2009 - 6:22am
President Rafael Correa, elected in 2006, and reelected in 2009 under the new constitution, is leading Ecuador through what he...

Honduran Coup d'état Finds Rival in Nicaragua

Mon, 12/21/2009 - 8:37am
I was surprised to discover at the end of October while reading the newspaper in Honduras that a coup d'état...

Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations

Mon, 12/21/2009 - 4:43am
Recently, Toronto-based Pinetree Capital bought a few million shares of Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, making it the largest share owner of a...

El Salvador: Ramiro Rivera Shot to Death in Cabañas

Sun, 12/20/2009 - 8:26pm
December 20, 4:00pm - Hitmen gunned down and killed our compañero Ramiro Rivera Gomez, Vice president of the Comité Ambiental de Cabañas,...

International Day for Human Rights “Celebrated” in Guatemala City

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 12:41pm
It is ironic that while Canada’s Governor General Michaëlle Jean was replacing the white rose to commemorate 24 hours of...

Memory and Justice: A Photo Essay on Argentina's Human Rights Movement

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 11:16am
Some 30,000 people were disappeared during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Kidnapped by commando groups in the middle of the...

Amid Repression, Mobilizing Against the Coup Continues in Honduras

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 4:41am
TEGUCIGALPA–Hundreds of Hondurans marched in the capital city on Friday, demanding the return of elected President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales,...

Critiquing the Trajectory of the Zapatista Movement

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 4:08am
It has been noted, perhaps somewhat unfairly, that by this stage there are probably more books and papers written about the Zapatistas...

Honduran Coup Regime Erects Superficial Reality Around Elections

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 7:55am
A few days prior to the November 29 elections in Honduras, Francisco Varela—the homeless man regularly stationed outside the drive-through...

On Presidents and Precedents: Implications of the Honduran Coup

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 3:24am
The Nov. 29 election passed with predictable results. For most Hondurans, Election Day in Honduras was never seen as a...