Jan 26, 2019
Defusing the Crisis: A Way Forward for Venezuela
Venezuelan Sociologist Edgardo Lander and Greg Wilpert discuss how Venezuela got into its current international, economic, and political crisis and what it might take to get out of it.
World
Jan 26, 2019
Peaceful Resistance of La Laguna challenges deforestation in Guatemala
Brent Patterson
Forest defenders face risks as deforestation driven by agri-business, logging and drug trafficking worsens climate breakdown and intensifies harm to Indigenous cultures.
Jan 24, 2019
Mexican president's Mayan Train project rejected by Indigenous peoples
Brent Patterson
A proposed multi-billion-dollar tourist train through tropical forests opposed by Indigenous peoples and the Zapatistas draws the interest of Canadian investors.
Jan 23, 2019
Migrant justice groups on U.S.-Mexico border face harassment and threats
Brent Patterson
The migrant justice groups that support the caravans and individuals crossing Mexico into the United States also need protection and support.
Jan 23, 2019
Guatemalan community feminists seek end to violence against the land and women
Brent Patterson
TZK'AT links extractivism, dispossession, and the criminalization of land defenders to patriarchy, violence against Indigenous women and emphasizes the need for spiritual recovery.
Jan 22, 2019
Municipal Summit for Water and Life rejects harmful mine in Tocoa, Honduras
Brent Patterson
A community forum of more than 2,000 people has said no to the mines that endanger their rivers and drinking water.
Jan 22, 2019
U.S. propagates fear of China, again
The U.S. remains the world's dominant power in every respect, with no serious rival. But that does not stop the U.S. from mounting campaigns of fear and paranoia about potential threats to its power.
Jan 22, 2019
All NATO members at risk for Russian hacking: Canadian Brigadier General
Penney Kome
In advance of provincial and federal elections, Canada's director of general military strategic communications is warning that Canadians should be alert for attempts to influence the electorate.
Jan 22, 2019
Mayan Q’eqchi’ communities resist hydroelectric dams in Guatemala
Brent Patterson
The Resistencia Pacifica de Cahabón (Peaceful Resistance Cahabón) opposes the OXEC I and II hydroelectric dams that lack free, prior and informed consent.
Jan 22, 2019
Guatemalans protest against expulsion of United Nations anti-corruption commission
Brent Patterson
Guatemalan president's actions raise concerns about a slow-motion coup, human rights violations, more forced migration, impunity for war crimes, and electoral fraud.
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