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Guardian | - Bolivia law lets Morales run for third term
Al Jazeera | - Official Bullying Lurks Behind Prep for Olympics in Brazil
Inter Press Service | Fabiola Ortiz - Former Argentine dictator Videla Dies in Prison at Age 87
Reuters | Hugh Bronstein - Venezuelan Soldiers to Patrol alongside Police to Fight Crime
Venezuelanalysis.com | Tamara Pearson - Detention of Undocumented Immigrants, a Multimillion Dollar Business
Latin American Herald Tribune | - Brazil judicial decision paves way for gay marriage
BBC | - Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Silicon Angle | Mike Wheatley - Guatemala's Rios Montt found guilty of genocide
BBC | - Historic Genocide Trial Nears End; Rios Montt Addresses the Court, Declares Innocence
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NACLA: Web Articles
Roger Burbach
Friday January 6 2012
Along with the Arab Spring, the indignados movement of Spain, and Occupy Wall Street, Latin America also played a role in the global tumult in 2011. Over the last year diverse grassroots movements in Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru have been raising questions and challenging the existent order.
Alexander Main and Daniel McCurdy
Thursday December 22 2011
The U.S. government has denounced the recent legitimate presidential election in Nicaragua, while supporing flawed elections in Haiti and Honduras over the last two years. While this U.S. policy may appear baffling, it begins to make sense when you consider the long-standing U.S. political agenda in the region.
NACLA
Wednesday December 21 2011
NACLA’s latest Report on the Americas is now available. This issue, "Latino Student Movements: Defending Education," gives voice to Latino student movements across the Americas that are standing up to the crises, cutbacks, and repression.
Marina Sitrin
Monday December 19 2011
Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the popular rebellion in Argentina. An uprising that with popular power forced out four governments in two weeks. But that was only the beginning. This year, 2011, is also a beginning. Not at all dissimilar from Argentina, this has been a year of popular uprisings, popular power, and new ways of organizing and doing politics.
Sujatha Fernandes
Friday December 16 2011
Fifty years ago, in 1961, the Cuban literacy campaign mobilized more than 1 million Cubans as teachers or students. In that same year, 707,000 Cubans learned how to read or write. The new documentary Maestra tells the story of that inspiring campaign through the memories of the women who served as literacy teachers—the maestras themselves.
Sanjuana Martínez
Wednesday December 14 2011
During Felipe Calderón’s War on Drugs systematic human rights violations have been documented. Now testimonies confirm the suspicions that clandestine detention centers are operating in Mexico. We don't know how many, but we can determine who is operating them—organized crime and the Mexican Army and Marines.
Charlie Goff
Tuesday December 6 2011
In recent years, media coverage of Mexico has painted a picture of widespread fear. It is a picture that bears little resemblance to what I experience living in central Mexico. Could this picture have been deliberately invented or exaggerated? Might the government of Felipe Calderón want to justify its policies of militarization to attract further U.S. support?
Brittany Peterson
Thursday December 1 2011
In November, Chilean mayor Cristián Labbé announced a tribute to a former member of Augusto Pinochet’s secret police, who is serving time on 23 counts of human rights violations. The event, which was held on November 21, sparked outrage, protests, and a debate over public accountability and reconciliation.
Ray Downs
Monday November 28 2011
Just legalize it, already—that was the message heard at the Cato Institute's “Ending the War on Drugs” conference on November 15. From the heavy death toll in Mexico to the high financial cost to U.S. taxpayers, the only winners in the drug war have been the drug cartels and security companies. Yet the war goes on with no end in sight
Michael Fox
Sunday November 20 2011
On November 17, the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, occupiers and supporters took to the streets of New York City for a day of action. 30,000 marched from Foley Square over the Brooklyn Bridge. Among those in the crowd were unions, teachers, students, immigrants, youth, and older activists—united in support for Occupy Wall Street.