Mothers Step Up Justice Campaign as a Cover-Up Takes Hold
Like other mothers, Patricia Cervantes has heard the promises sung like empty lyrics by a chorus of presidents, governors, and law enforcement authorities. Their reassuring words vow to end impunity and find justice for the murdered daughters. Cervantes, whose 19-year-old daughter Neyra was raped, tortured, and murdered last year in Chihuahua City, has seen authorities [...]
Read more →A Nation Divided: Fundamentalism and Modernity
By olea
The recent electoral process in the United States and the past four years of the George W. Bush administration have provided an opportunity to reflect on many American paradoxes and problems. The most powerful economic and military nation in the world with unquestioned global influence has shown, in one half of its population, a strong [...]
Read more →Dangerous Liaisons: Center-Left Governments & the Grassroots
By Raúl Zibechi
Grassroots movements often become prisoners of their own success. This is the essential paradox and challenge of popular struggle. When movements develop the ability to mobilize large numbers of people and gain influence in the political arena, they create a new scenario that often turns against them. Too often, their success weakens and even divides [...]
Read more →Migration and Coffee in Mexico and Central America
By navarro
Reyno Bartolo Hernández died of heatstroke in the Arizona desert near Yuma on May 22, 2001. He wasn’t the only Mexican farmer who lost his life that day trying to cross the border. Thirteen of his countrymen and -women perished along with him in one more of the migratory tragedies of modern history. Reyno and [...]
Read more →Supporters Say Another Mexican Forest Defender Framed
Dashing and handsome, Gabriel Soto shines as the ecological superhero of the currently hot Mexican soap opera Mujer de Madera. He is cast as Carlos Gómez, a passionate, young official of Mexico ‘s Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat who risks his life battling gun-toting caciques (rural bosses), illegal loggers, and psychopathic traffickers of endangered animals. [...]
Read more →The Toxic Border
By David Bacon
In early September 2002, the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM) put out a call to border activists, urging them to act quickly to salvage one of the few remaining complaints filed under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)–the case of mistreated workers at Customtrim/Autotrim. Inside the cavernous San Diego Convention Center, [...]
Read more →“Electoral Cleansing” in Haiti Violates Human Rights and Democracy
By concannon
Haiti is in the midst of a comprehensive program of electoral cleansing. Its ballots are being cleansed of political dissidents, its voting rolls cleansed of the urban and rural poor. The streets are being cleansed of anti-government political activity. This cleansing violates the fundamental human rights guaranteed by the charters and other instruments of the [...]
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