January 1, 2008 - On January 1, 1994, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN), commonly called the Zapatistas, led an insurrection in San Cristobal de las Casas in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. Just under fourteen years later, the EZLN convened an international colloquium on December 13-17, 2007 in the same city on the theme "Planet Earth: Antisystemic Movements" - a sort of stock-taking, both global and local, of their objectives. I myself participated in this colloquium, (...)
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MEXICO - What Have the Zapatistas Accomplished?
Immanuel Wallerstein
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HAITI - Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti, An Interview with Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine (Part 2/2)
Darren Ell, Haiti Information Project
22 October 2007, posted by Dial[ >> Read Part 1/2.]
March 4, 2007 - Haiti Information Project / HaitiAction - Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is the coordinator of Haiti’s Fondasyon Trant Septanm (September 30th Foundation) ithat works with the victims of the coup d’états of 1991 and 2004. As a young man, Pierre-Antoine worked on literacy projects with street children in his hometown of Port de Paix. After moving to Port au Prince and completing his training as a psychologist, he began creating organizations such as: (...) -
HAITI - Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti, An Interview with Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine (Part 1/2)
Darren Ell, Haiti Information Project
22 October 2007, posted by DialFebruary 18, 2007 - Haiti Information Project / HaitiAction - Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is the coordinator of the Fondasyon Trant Septanm (September 30th Foundation) that works with the victims of the coup d’états of 1991 and 2004. As a young man, Pierre-Antoine worked on literacy projects with street children in his hometown of Port de Paix. After moving to Port au Prince and completing his training as a psychologist, he began creating organizations such as: Fondsayon Kore Timoun Yo (...)
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HAITI - The disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
Roger Annis, ZNET
17 October 2007, posted by DialVancouver, Canada, September 19, 2007 - On August 12, one of Haiti’s best-known and respected advocates of human and social rights, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, disappeared. The Haitian National Police later confirmed that he was kidnapped.
There has been no communication with alleged kidnappers since the early days of his disappearance. As the silence continues, it seems increasingly evident that his disappearance is a political act, that is, some among the Haitian elite and its foreign (...) -
NICARAGUA - From Telescopic to Microscopic: Three Youth Gang Members Speak
José Luis Rocha, Revista Envío
19 September 2007, posted by DialRevista Envío - Only proximity can help us understand the motivations, strategies and dead ends in the lives of youth gang members. Let’s trade the sociological telescope and macro-explanations for a strong microscope to zoom in on three personal stories and improve our understanding of the best paths to rehabilitation.
Thirty years ago, comedian and movie director Woody Allen predicted that in the near future rape and kid-napping would be predominant forms of human relations. We didn’t (...) -
Women Afraid to Seek Life-Saving Treatment
NICARAGUA - Blanket Ban on Abortion Harms WomenHuman Rights Watch
4 September 2007, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioNew York, August 31, 2007 – HRW - Nicaragua’s new blanket ban on abortion – even in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening pregnancy – violates international human rights standards and poses a grave risk to women, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to the country’s Supreme Court.
The court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the ban, imposed last November, within the next two weeks.
“International law prohibits bans on abortion because such restrictions deny (...) -
MEXICO - Amnesty International’s Visit to Mexico: The Shameful Conclusions
Emilio Godoy, IPS
3 August 2007, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - “They tortured me, took away my shoes, and beat me brutally, with a lot of hatred and fury,” said Pedro Alvarado, a human rights activist arrested by Mexican police in 2006.
Alvarado was one of the victims of a crackdown in San Salvador Atenco, 15 kilometres from the Mexican capital, during a clash between local residents and police in May.
After his arrest, the activist was released on bail and is facing prosecution on charges of attacks on the public highway and the transport (...) -
BRAZIL - South America’s Agro-Power Heats Up
Roberto Villar Belmonte, IPS
4 June 2007, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - Brazil, one of the world’s agricultural superpowers, will see changes in the map of its emblematic crops, like coffee and soybeans, as a result of global climate change, say the latest studies.
Even the most optimistic scenarios outlined in the studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that the thermometer will keep rising and will alter the rainfall patterns over much of South America.
Agro-meteorological researcher Moacir Ant- nio Berlato, from the (...) -
VENEZUELA - Don’t Cry for RCTV
Charles Hardy, The Narcosphere
30 May 2007, posted by John MaloneSunday May 27th, 2007 - The Narcosphere - As I write this, I am looking at a Venezuelan newspaper, El Diario, from February 10, 1992. The editorial that would have occupied half of page 2 is missing. Page 4 is completely blank. The contents were censored by the government of the then president Carlos Andres Perez.
The newspaper is just one of many horrible memories of the pre-Hugo Chavez days in Venezuela’s “exceptional” democracy.
U.S. newspapers seem to overlook what Venezuela used (...) -
MEXICO - Activists Defending Central American Migrants Complain of Harassment
Diego Cevallos, IPS
30 May 2007, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - Activists with the Mexican non-governmental organisation Sin Fronteras complained that they are the targets of harassment and intimidation by the authorities in Mexico because of their work on behalf of Central American migrants who suffer abuses of all kinds in this country on their way to the United States.
"If they are harassing us as never before, you can imagine what is happening in the case of the migrants themselves," Karina Arias, spokeswoman for Sin Fronteras (Without (...)