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Maya Villagers Resist Mega Hog Farms in Yucatán

Maya Villagers Resist Mega Hog Farms in Yucatán

Featured Content Food Sovereignty Land and Territory 11 hours ago 0Likes 0Comments

More than 220 mega hog farms operate in the Yucatan territory, wreaking havoc on water reserves, traditional agriculture, food sovereignty and territorial control by local communities. This industry relies on exports and bases its operation on the looting of natural resources, the subjugation of indigenous peoples, and a low-cost operation based on the creation of precarious employment. These accelerated and intense socio-environmental impacts have multiplied the resistance of local Mayan communities.

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Chile: Handing over power to those who defend Pinochet’s constitution

Chile: Handing over power to those who defend Pinochet’s constitution

Democracy and Society Featured Content Human Rights June 3, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

The results of the election on May 7th to form the 51 members of the Constitutional Council who will finalize the drafting of the new Constitution represent a defeat for the government of President Gabriel Boric and for all those, not necessarily identified with left-wing parties, who believe that the 1980 Constitution should be replaced.

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Pacific Resistance in la Puya: Arbitration as a pressure mechanism against Guatemala

Pacific Resistance in la Puya: Arbitration as a pressure mechanism against Guatemala

Featured Content Human Rights June 3, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

Peaceful Resistance La Puya Celebrates 11 Years of Community Organization in Defense of Territory, Water, and Life, at a critical moment for the future of the organization and its communities. After successfully suspending the Progreso VII Derivada mining project, it now faces a lawsuit of over 400 million dollars filed by the mining company Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates, based in Nevada, USA, against the Guatemalan State.

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Canada, U.S., Mexico Lithium Contagion Calls for Urgent Care

Canada, U.S., Mexico Lithium Contagion Calls for Urgent Care

Featured Content Land and Territory April 25, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

Stating that “oil and lithium belong to the nation”, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a decree “to nationalize lithium so that it cannot be exploited by foreigners, neither by Russia, nor by China nor by the United States” Americas Program columnist Talli Nauman argues that betting on lithium ‘is a buy-in to a doomed U.S. climate policy of incentives for electric passenger vehicles that is a myopic approach to rescuing the planet and endangers Mexican environmental stability.’

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Good news in Honduras for International Women’s Day

Good news in Honduras for International Women’s Day

Featured Content Gender Equality March 16, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

Although we still have a long way to go and we continue to be one of the countries with the highest rates of femicide in the world, this is a step forward. We know that it can be a fragile achievement because we are surrounded by conservative and powerful forces, conditioned by the resources of the evangelical and Catholic churches to have control of women’s bodies. We know that and, as a feminist, I am alert to backlash because, as I said at the beginning, I’ve learned to be wary and not take good intentions for granted.

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El Salvador registers human rights violations, suspension of freedoms under “state of exception”

El Salvador registers human rights violations, suspension of freedoms under “state of exception”

Democracy and Society Featured Content Human Rights March 8, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

The pro-government deputies approved in early January the tenth extension of martial law that allows the government, among other things, to hide information on public spending. The exception regime includes the suspension of the constitutional guarantees of Salvadorans and the use of the military in public security.

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CHILE: WHAT COMES AFTER THE REJECTION?

CHILE: WHAT COMES AFTER THE REJECTION?

Democracy and Society Featured Content March 8, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

One week after the Chilean citizens overwhelmingly voted to reject the text of the new Magna Carta in the plebiscite on September 4 (62% to 38%), the leaders of the political parties in Chile, with the exception of the far-right Republican Party of Sebastián Katz, met to outline a new constitutional process. They agreed to designate a completely new body, elected by popular vote, in charge of drafting the new text, although the number of people that will integrate it is not yet known.

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Reflections on the day a mob assaulted Brazil’s democracy

Reflections on the day a mob assaulted Brazil’s democracy

Democracy and Society Featured Content March 2, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

The images of the January 8 violent attacks against the governmental buildings in Brasília spread through international media and are still resounding today. Wearing the colors of the national flag and the beloved Brazilian football team, the mob of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed and vandalized the Federal Supreme Court, the National Congress’s building and the Planalto Presidential Palace, institutions that compose the Three Powers Plaza.

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The Removal of Pedro Castillo, Repression and Political Crisis in Peru

The Removal of Pedro Castillo, Repression and Political Crisis in Peru

Democracy and Society Featured Content January 31, 2023 0Likes 0Comments

After being besieged relentlessly throughout his 16 months in office, Pedro Castillo was removed from the presidency on December 7 by Peru’s national Congress after he announced a gutting of the institutional order. Castillo’s attempt to dissolve Congress was followed just hours later by the move to “vacate” him, the third attempt during his term, and the first successful one.

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