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- Guatemala overturns former dictator's genocide conviction
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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Bryan Finlayson
Wednesday November 9 2011
On Sunday, voters in Nicaragua and Guatemala chose their country’s next presidents. In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega sailed to victory and a third term. In Guatemala, retired general Otto Perez Molina was elected despite concerns over his involvement in human rights violations during the former military regime.
Children as Collateral Damage
A report released last week shows that damage to the wellbeing of children and families is an increasingly fundamental component of the U.S. immigration enforcement regime.
Pablo Morales
Friday November 4 2011
The U.S. government and its right-wing allies are using human rights as a political weapon to discredit those governments in the region that have most aggressively undermined U.S. hegemony. This article was originally published as the introduction to the September/October 2011 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas.
Dario Kenner
Thursday November 3 2011
On October 21, Bolivian President Evo Morales agreed to scrap a controversial plan to build a highway through the TIPNIS reserve. His decision came just two days after over 1,000 indigenous TIPNIS protesters arrived in La Paz after marching 370 miles against the highway project. This photo essay looks at some of the defining moments of the two-month-long TIPNIS march.
NACLA Update 11/03/2011
Dear NACLA friends,
Join Witness for Peace, NACLA, and Nicaragua activist Uriel Carazo from The Promoters of Peace and Development in a lecture about the U.S.
Holtville, California on the Day of the Dead
November 2 marks the Day of the Dead, the holiday observed by people in Mexico and the country’s ever-expanding diaspora to remember friends, family, and loved ones—or individuals with whom one ide