Gasoline floods the Colombian Amazon
June 19, 2025
NOTE: With this excellent investigative report, we begin our collaboration with El Turbión, a website that describes itself as follows: “El Turbión is a […]
Category: Human Rights
Conflicts of Interest and Sovereignty at Stake: The Ecuador-Canada FTA
April 8, 2025
By Paola Jaimes Santamaria, Pedro Labayen Herrera Last month, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced the finalization of a “free trade” agreement (FTA) with Canada, […]
Milei’s Fire Sale of the Patagonia and the Mapuche people’s fight for life
April 4, 2025
By Laura Carlsen Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear, cut off from most […]
“Free, powerful and fearless”: International Women’s Day 2025 in Mexico
March 17, 2025
By Laura Carlsen It’s impossible to say how many of us there are. The International Women”s Day march in Mexico City isn”t a congregation, […]
In Argentina, the Day All Hell Broke Loose
March 15, 2025
By Tony Phillips On Wednesday, Mar. 12 a police car was burning in Avenida de Mayo next to an Art Deco building of the […]
‘I’m Still Here’ reminds the world that the pain wrought by the Brazilian dictatorship and its U.S. allies still hurts
March 6, 2025
The thick, dirty walls of the dim-lighted cell can’t block the sounds of pain and despair from the torture taking place in an unknown […]
From Tragedy to Movement: Mexican Communities Fight Against “Sacrifice Zones”
February 28, 2025
By Tracy L. Barnett Seventeen years after 8-year-old Miguel Ángel López Rocha fell into the Santiago River and died from toxic poisoning, his death […]
SECURITY IN MEXICO: SOME FEMINIST NOTES
October 3, 2024
Since 2006, Mexico has been living through a war known for its senselessness. The declaration of the war on drugs by former President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) not only led the country into a cycle of violence and insecurity, but also marked the beginning of a process of militarization that has affected various sectors of society.
The Contorted Case of the Fall of Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Lord
September 13, 2024
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was taken into custody by US officials in New Mexico on July 25. We still don’t really know what happened. We might never know.
Crossing the Medicine Line
May 22, 2024
About 21 million people become climate refugees annually, from the big storms and droughts, and by 2050, 1.2 billion people will be climate refugees. Thank the energy companies for most of that.