August, 7th, 2018 - Americas Program - There are moments that remain etched in the memory with all their details intact. I remember the angle of the sunbeam that fell on the floor of the hall, the dry heat of the California summer, the phone ringing and the words from the other side of the line: “They won! Somoza is out and the Sandinistas have taken power!”
The call marked the beginning of a long relationship with the small Central American country. The images of the revolutionary forces (...)
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NICARAGUA - From Revolution to Repression
Laura Carlsen, Americas Program
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COLOMBIA - In the Shadow of Peace, Human Rights Defenders Face New Threats
Kati Hinman, Americas Program
30 de mayo, puesto en línea por Claudia CasalMay 15, 2018 - Americas Program - Dec. 29, 2017 began like most days in San Josecito, the central settlement of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in Urabá, Colombia. Community members fed their livestock, went to tend to their crops, or helped sort and sell cacao in their community store. A man arrived to ostensibly sell cacao. A few minutes later four more men arrived. Community members recognized some of them as members of the self-denominated Gaitanista Auto-Defense Forces of (...)
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BRAZIL - Slave Labor, Deforestation and Greed Create Crisis in Countryside
Gabriel Leao, Americas Program
27 February, posted by Claudia Casal8 de febrero de 2018 - Americas Program - Many believe agribusiness pulled Brazil out of the worst recession in its history. Estimates for 2017 register a scant 0.4% growth after four years of crisis, according to the Boletim Focus from the National Central Bank. Agribusiness represents almost 23% of Brazil’s GDP.
Although renewed growth is good news for the world’s 9th economy, progressive sectors of society worry that the rise of agribusiness hides severe labor and environmental costs.
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Somber Mexico City March Commemorates Ayotzinapa Anniversary
Martha Pskowski, Americas Program
6 October 2017, posted by Claudia CasalSeptember 27, 2017 - Americas Program - Tuesday marked three years since the search began for the 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero. It also marked one week since dozens of families began searching for their loved ones trapped in collapsed buildings after the September 19th earthquake.
In a silent march from the Angel of Independence to the “Anti-Monument” to the disappeaared students at the intersection of Reforma and Bucareli, the Ayotzinapa families and hundreds of supporters (...) -
Reforms Against Workers in Brazil Threaten All Latin America
Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA), ALAI
7 de agosto de 2017, puesto en línea por Claudia CasalJuly 20, 2017, São Paulo - ALAI - Today Brazil, the main economy of the region, is the laboratory of the most aggressive and reactionary anti-labor reforms in Latin America. Such is the result of the abrupt political shift to the right recently experienced by the country and, as Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, it is our obligation to analyze what is happening and develop answers that are up to the challenge.
Slightly more than a year ago, a broad coalition of reactionary (...) -
Our Fight Against Femicide in Latin America
Ilka Oliva Corado
24 April 2017, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoApril 8 marked one month since the femicide of 41 Guatemalan girls whom the state of Guatemala raped and burned alive. And also, on April 8 appeared the body of Micaela Garcia, an Argentine girl member of the Evita Movement, who had disappeared a few days ago. Twenty one years old Micaela, was a student of Physical Education, and was very concerned about the outcasts, the black ones, those that classism detests. She was raped and murdered by a serial rapist who was released by a judge (...)
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MEXICO-UNITED STATES - How a US Republican President and a Mexican Youth Ended a Monarchy
Michael Hogan
9 January 2017, posted by Michael HoganOn April 10, 1863, Maximilian I and his wife Charlotte were installed as Emperor and Empress of Mexico. They came to power at the behest of the Napoleon III who had first sent armed forces to collect on past-due Mexican debts, but then encouraged them to stay and finally to conquer the country. At that time the French Army was the most powerful in the world. Although Mexico provided stout resistance, including an underdog victory at Puebla (Cinco de Mayo), its army was finally overwhelmed (...)
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CUBA - I am Fidel! I am Fidel! I am Fidel!
Ilka Oliva Corado
9 December 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoWhere is Fidel? Daniel Ortega asked in the Jose Marti Memorial of the Revolution Square in Havana, in tribute to Fidel, and the Cuban people, exalted, grateful and loving, in unison answered: I am Fidel! I am Fidel! I am Fidel! At that moment, Cuba vibrated again, as in 1st. January 1959. The world listened to the Cuban people, the winds and the seas echoed the reciprocal love between the Cuban Revolution Leader and his people.
The most maligned man on the planet, who survived more than (...) -
It is Imperative to Destabilize Venezuela
Ilka Oliva Corado
2 November 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoThey are impatient for the Bolivarian Revolution to collapse. There have been too many benefits for the outcasts, too many development opportunities for the marginalized of the system, and this is something the right and international capital can not live with.
On December 7, 2015, Hillary Clinton celebrated with Latin right wingers in the United States that the National Assembly was in the hands of the Venezuelan right, and swiftly made use of the occasion to give a speech that fueled the (...) -
COLOMBIA - The No, Triumph of the Oligarchies
Ilka Oliva Corado
12 October 2016, posted by Ilka Oliva CoradoLatin America is still crying tears of blood, how many centuries in agony? The No in Colombia is the result of decades of media manipulation, the particular agenda of Plan Condor has been applied to the letter in the country with the modalities of time and technology.
War is always more profitable than peace for the oligarchies. In all wars is always the people impinged on their rights who provide the corpses. It is more profitable for the big global mafias to maintain impunity structured (...)
