Several thousand people marched on Acapulco, Guerrero, this past Saturday chanting, “We don’t want war, we want education!” The march occurred during poet Javier Sicilia’s visit to the seaside city as his caravan of drug war victims makes its way to the Mexico-Guatemala border.
Audio interview with Chihuahua Autonomous University Professor Roberto Ransom. Ransom was an organizer with the welcoming committee for the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which arrived in Chihuahua June 9th.
Gunmen armed with AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles massacred thirteen people in a Torreón drug rehabilitation center on Wednesday. The massacre occurred less than twenty-four hours before poet Javier Sicilia and his Citizens Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity were scheduled to arrive in Torreón for a rally against the drug war. The rehabilitation center is located just three blocks from the rally site.
Mexican human rights activists have issued an emergency appeal to apply international humanitarian standards in providing relief to more than 150 refugees- including at least 77 children-who have been camped out in the mountains of southern Mexico for more than a month.
The upcoming Peruvian election presents two opposing choices, embodied in Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori. For half of Peru, this choice is about avoiding the triumph of the “fascist threat” and the return to dictatorship predicted by Vargas Llosa. But the mafia clientelism of the Fujimoris has broad social, ecclesiastical and business support.
At the end of December, the first popular uprising in the region against a government of the left took place in Bolivia. It was caused by an excessive increase in the price of fuels. The event demonstrates the difficulties of entering into a truly alternative mode of development, but it also reveals the limits of the Bolivian government’s stated effort to re-establish and decolonize the state.
Those of us who understand that “the enemy is elsewhere”, as José Padilha puts it in his most recent film, cannot believe the farce that the media and the dominant power structure of Rio de Janeiro want to put over on us.
To think that the several crime-fighting operations that have taken place in greater Rio de Janeiro in the past few days should be seen as a war between good, represented by the public security forces, and evil, personified by the drug traffickers, is to ignore the fact that not even the fictional version presented in the film Tropa de Elite 2 manages to sustain that version of events.
Heaven and hell are reversed, traveling to the edge of the abyss, they transform into their opposite: an atrocious war with a community of peace; desperation with hope; life and death dance in an impossible trance. This is Colombia. Where peasants tired of war take refuge in peace in order to continue living. This is the story of a visit to the community from the perspective of a supportive photographer.
A Candidata do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), Dilma Rousseff, será a primeira mulher presidente na história brasileira. Ela foi eleita esse domingo, 31 de outubro, com um pouco mais de 56 por cento dos votos, vencendo o candidato conservador José Serra por doze pontos. Em seu discurso de vitória, Dilma clamou pela união e agradeceu ao presidente cessante Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva. Os apoiadores da Dilma foram às ruas, enchendo a avenida Paulista, em São Paulo.
Today a group of police instigated an uprising against the democratically elected government of President Rafael Correa in Ecuador. They physically attacked Correa and […]
