09 de marzo de 2015 - Upsidedownworld - Carolina is 33 years old, a feminist, sociologist from Iquique, Chile, and one of the operators who attends the Línea Aborto Libre [Abortion Liberty Hotline]. This hotline gives callers information about how to safely self-induce a chemical abortion using misoprostol pills up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. In Chile, where abortion is currently illegal in all cases, women suffer an estimated 160,000 illegal and often unsafe abortions per year. A (...)
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Latin America’s Safe Abortion Hotlines: Women Take Reproductive Rights Into Their Own Hands
April Howard, Upside Down World
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MEXICO - Sustainable Rural Cities, Dispossession and Counterinsurgency in Chiapas
Karela Contreras, Rosaluz Pérez, Miguel Pickard, Abraham Rivera and Mariela Zunino
4 January 2015, posted by Claudia Casal, Riley Pentico“In the past, poverty divided Chiapans and confronted them; today poverty unites us, today poverty invokes unity, combining all the efforts to resolve the greatest challenges that Chiapas has.” Juan Sabines Guerrero, governor of Chiapas (2006-2012).
What are Sustainable Rural Cities?
Sustainable Rural Cities in Chiapas are new projects, small cities built expressly in the rural area, which offer the country’s peasants a series of services (among them: electricity, water, sewage, (...) -
MEXICO-UNITED STATES - Beyond Ayotzinapa: How U.S. Intervention in Colombia Paved the Way for Mexico’s
Julia Duranti & Maggie Ervin, Upside Down World
22 December 2014, posted by Claudia CasalDecember 18th, 2014 - Upside Down World.
Until two weeks ago, there were 43 disappeared students in Guerrero, Mexico. Now there are 42. Despite tens of thousands of Mexican protesters chanting, “You took them alive! We want them back alive,” one of the students was officially pronounced dead on Saturday, December 6. Alexander Mora Venancio was just 19 years old. The identification of his remains was a transnational effort: Mexican officials found them, Austrian scientists tested them, (...) -
LATIN AMERICA - State violence and human rights
Raúl Zibechi, Americas Program
17 November 2014, posted by Claudia Casal, Raúl ZibechiNovember 15th, 2014 - Americas Program - The expansion of rights seen in almost all of Latin America is being challenged by the growth of police and institutional repression. From Mexico and Guatemala to Argentina and Brazil, repressive forces are out of control.
“Violent police practices are inconsistent with a rights expansion policy” is the title of a report by the Center for Social and Legal Studies (Centro de Estudios Sociales y Legales, CELS), chaired by Horacio Verbitsky. The (...) -
VENEZUELA - Terminal Crisis of the Rentier Petro-State Model?
Edgardo Lander
10 November 2014, posted by DialCaracas, September 2014.
Over the 15 years of the Bolivarian government in Venezuela, significant changes have taken place in the political culture, the social and organisational fabric, and the material living conditions of previously excluded low-income groups. Through multiple social policies (known as “missions”) aimed at different sectors of the population, levels of poverty and extreme poverty have been reduced significantly. According to ECLAC, Venezuela has become – together with (...) -
MEXICO - Disappeared Youth Spark Protests in the Worst Political Crisis in Decades
Laura Carlsen, Americas Program
4 November 2014, posted by Claudia CasalOctober 26th, 2014 - Americas Program - Following a week of accolades abroad, President Enrique Peña Nieto returned home to face the worst political crisis of his administration. Protests rage after local police forcibly disappeared 43 students of Ayotzinapa, a rural teaching college in the state of Guerrero. As investigations continue, the crisis has laid bare the violence and corruption that control large parts of the nation.
Led by youth, protestors across the country blame the (...) -
Morales elected for another 5 years
BOLIVIA - Is Real Revolutionary Change Still on the Agenda?Claire Veale, Global South
15 October 2014, posted by colaborador@s extern@sOctober 14th, 2014 - Global South Development Magazine - On Sunday, Bolivians voted to re-elect Evo Morales Ayma, Bolivia’s incumbent president, with an overwhelming 60%. Morales has indeed gained widespread popular support through his anti-imperialist and socialist policies, with even the World Bank forced to recognise the successes of his social programmes. His government has fallen short, however, of the revolutionary promises it was first elected on, which is why it is important to ask (...)
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EL SALVADOR - The Carrot, the Stick, and the Seeds: U.S. development policy faces resistance
Martha Pskowski, Americas Program
25 August 2014, posted by Claudia CasalAugust 15th, 2014 - Americas Program - When I visited the Bajo Lempa region of eastern El Salvador this year, my new acquaintances taught me a joke.
“Why aren’t there coupes de états in the United States?” they asked me. “I don’t know, why?” “Because there isn’t a U.S. Embassy.”
We laughed over it together, and I was reminded that in El Salvador, memories of U.S. intervention leading up to and during the Civil War are still fresh. Today interventionism rears its head in new forms, and (...) -
BRAZIL - Campaign Begins for Presidential Elections
13 July 2014, posted by Riley Pentico
The current president and candidate for reelection, Dilma Rousseff, will center her campaign under the phrase "With the power of the people". The main opposition, the social democratic senator Aécio Neves, will employ the simple action phrase of "Change Brazil".
This Sunday began, officially, the political campaign for presidential elections on the upcoming 5th of October. Nonetheless the main electoral candidate Dilma Rousseff, current president, has failed to perform any public acts. (...) -
GUATEMALA - A Country Where the Defense of Rights Is Punished with Kidnapping, Imprisonment, Burial and Exile
Ollantay Itzamná
7 July 2014, posted by Riley PenticoThis last 26th of June, in the northeast of Guatemala City, three leaders of the Committee of Rural Development (CODECA) were violently kidnapped by a group of people in normal dress that argued in the defense of the interests of ENERGUATE (brother to British ACTIS), distributor of electric energy in 19 regions of the country.
The kidnapped leaders are: Don Mauro Vay Gonón, co-founder and current coordinator of CODECA, Vice President Doña Blanca Julia Ajtun Mejía, and the organization’s (...)