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Guatemala: Resisting the New Colonialism

Posted 18 July 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Central America, Citizen Action, Drug War, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade, Right-to-Know & Communications Rights | 1 Comment

Two objectives guide the United States and transnational companies in Central America: geopolitical and military control and enormous profits from mining megaprojects. Militarism, drug-trafficking, and violence complete a picture in which the same ones always lose.

Haiti according to Haiti: International Aid as Colonialism

Posted 17 May 2010 | By | Categories: Caribbean, Indigenous People | 1 Comment

Brazilian anthropologist Omar Ribeiro Thomaz was in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12. He’s spent long periods of time there as a teacher over the last ten years. Despite being white and foreign, he speaks Haitian Creole and interacts with Haitians as an equal. His vision of the country after the earthquake and of international aid challenges ideas and images propagated by the media.