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Perus Supreme Court Upholds Fujimoris 25-Year Sentence for Murders and Kidnappings
On January 3, 2010, Perus Supreme Court upheld Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimoris April 2007 conviction and 25-year sentence...
Honduras: Zelayas Safety Ensured by Ban on Pen Deliveries to Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa
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
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
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
Twenty-some years later, the question remains the same: where are the disappeared? Based on a witness testimony, the Association of...
Mary OGrady Incites Violence in Colombian Peace Community
In her latest pro bono public relations initiative on behalf of right-wing Latin American regimes, The Wall Street Journals Mary...
Canadian Mining in Latin America: Paramilitaries, Assassinations, and Impunity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is ironic that while Canadas 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
Some 30,000 people were disappeared during Argentinas 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Kidnapped by commando groups in the middle of the...
Amid Repression, Mobilizing Against the Coup Continues in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPAHundreds 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
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
A few days prior to the November 29 elections in Honduras, Francisco Varelathe homeless man regularly stationed outside the drive-through...
On Presidents and Precedents: Implications of the Honduran Coup
The Nov. 29 election passed with predictable results. For most
Hondurans, Election Day in Honduras was never seen as a...



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