In Argentina, the Day All Hell Broke Loose
March 15, 2025
By Tony Phillips On Wednesday, Mar. 12 a police car was burning in Avenida de Mayo next to an Art Deco building of the […]
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Harvesting Equality: The Struggles of Women Day Laborers in Latin America
September 10, 2024
Under the same blazing sun, women day laborers do the same work as men, but for lower wages. In Latin America, women agricultural workers share other problems
Indigenous Voices bring a reality check at the Assembly of The Peoples of The Earth for The Amazon
September 7, 2023
Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state meeting at the Amazon Summit on August 8. The movements met in a parallel summit in Belém that emphasized indigenous unity and leadership in the face of the crisis facing the region.
Mexican Army obstructed the investigation of the Ayotzinapa case: Group of Experts
August 16, 2023
“We are concerned about the family members, the impact of this tragedy, their state of health. The reparation of damage must be given to avoid re-victimization and stigmatization. For our part, we kept the investigation even when the crisis came in September 2022. But the refusal to provide information and the stubbornness weakened the investigation”, concluded Angela Buitrago.
CELAC-European Union Summit: Latin America and the Caribbean reject conditional friendship
August 15, 2023
The Presidential Summit held between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) on July 17 and 18 in Brussels was an important political gesture, given that they had not met for eight years, but it showed how far apart the two regions are.
Thirty years after the Revolutionary Women’s Law, they denounce “permanent war” against the peoples
August 15, 2023
On August 5 and 6, 2023, 181 women delegates and councilwomen of the CIG-CNI, 27 girls and boys, 14 comrades and 7 support comrades […]
The Massacre of the Amazon Yanomami by Land Invaders
June 19, 2023
The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the Health Ministry of the new government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared a medical emergency in Yanomami Indigenous territory deep in the Amazon rainforest that for years has been invaded by illegal miners and loggers, and more recently, organized crime.
Chile: Handing over power to those who defend Pinochet’s constitution
June 3, 2023
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.
CHILE: WHAT COMES AFTER THE REJECTION?
March 8, 2023
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.
Reflections on the day a mob assaulted Brazil’s democracy
March 2, 2023
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.