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Death Squad Revelations and the New Police in Honduras
On June 21, 2015 the London-based Guardian newspaper published an article describing the testimony of a soldier who says he deserted the army after his unit was given an order to kill activists whose...
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How Brexit Affects Latin America
Almost as soon as the results of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union came out, Latin America felt the impact. Following the Brexit referendum, the Brazilian stock market plummeted,...
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U.S. and Mexican Teachers Find Common Ground
Clayton Beverly is among teachers and activists who gathered last month outside the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The protesters demanded a halt to government attacks against Mexican...
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Both Parties are Playing the Mexico Card
From immigration to the drug war, there's a lot that needs fixing in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. But border walls, hate speech, and deportations won't do it. Surprisingly, Mexico has taken center...
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Rio 2016: the Irresistible Militarization of Sports
Rio de Janeiro is militarized for the Olympic Games, with more than 80,000 soldiers and police officers patrolling the streets. But in the games themselves, a much less visible process is taking place:...
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Honduran Human Rights Organizations Call for Suspension of US Aid
Some fifty major Honduran human rights organizations wrote a letter to the New York Times in response to a recent commentary by a journalist who claimed that U.S. aid is helping Honduras to overcome...
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Six Months Without Berta; Six Months Without Justice
[caption id="attachment_19080" align="alignleft" width="225"] "The right to be happy is very subversive so we should all strive to be happy"[/caption]Six months after the murder of Berta Caceres, far...
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Guatemala’s Chief Human Rights Prosecutor Arrested on Trumped-Up Charges
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and Attorney General Thelma Aldana arrived in Washington to convince aid and lending agencies of Guatemala's commitment to rule of law just a day after their...
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Ayotzinapa’s Message to the World: Organize!
It has been two years to the day since the crime of Ayotzinapa. A moment of soul-searching for Mexico.You can feel it in the streets. You can read it in the many articles and messages that look back to...
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The Silent Drama of the Disappeared
Silent traumas grip a growing number of families in Mexico. Not knowing where a loved one is, relatives comb jails, hospitals, morgues and common graves. Digging into the earth, their shovels probe for...
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Colombia Votes NO Amid Polarization and Misinformation
Colombia voted NO in a referendum on the peace agreement signed by the government of President Santos and the FARC, after four years of negotiations in Havana, Cuba. The NO vote won in a close decision...
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Anatomy of the new Brazilian right
The Free Brazil Movement was one of the groups in charge of convening the massive demonstrations to impeach Dilma Rousseff. The institutional coup they promoted encouraged the movement, made up...
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Plan Colombia, Permanent War and the NO Vote
[caption id="attachment_19202" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thousands turn out to support peace after No vote[/caption]The Colombian people voted NO to peace. Or to be exact, 50.2% of 37% of the...
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Citizen Excursions into the Border’s Valley of Dollars and Death
It’s anybody’s guess how many victims of violence are still buried somewhere in the Juarez Valley on the Mexico-U.S. border. For starters, there is the still largely unexcavated Navajo Arroyo, where...
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From Student Movement to Autonomous Education
The broad student movement that won Chile's alamedas - with demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of young people and the occupation of dozens of secondary schools, demanding changes in the education...
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Remembering Tom Hayden: Interview on the 2016 U.S. Elections
On Oct. 23, Tom Hayden, a leader on the U.S. left who dedicated his life to social justice, died. His work began in the student anti-war and civil rights movements in the sixties to span nearly two...
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How is gender-based violence in Latin America measured?
Note: On Oct. 19 throughout Latin America, people demonstrated against violence against women. This call was born in Argentina after the killing of Lucia Perez, 16, who was raped and murdered on...
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Crossing the Line
The weather is undecided. One day is winter and the next day, spring. Today, fortunately, it is springtime in New York City and we carry our coats, caps and scarves on our arm as we cross the Brooklyn...
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The Fallen for Standing Rock, Carbon, and the Paris Climate Agreement
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, an intellectual author of the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007 after 21 years of negotiations, passed away...
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The Fallen for Standing Rock, Carbon, and the Paris Climate Agreement
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, an intellectual author of the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007 after 21 years of negotiations, passed away...
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