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Canadian company linked to Indigenous murders in Colombia
While Canada's Parliament weighs in on Bill C-300, and Blackfire Exploration reels over the shut down of their mine in Chiapas, Mexico -- another Canadian company, Cosigo Resources, finds itself implicated in a surge of recent murders in southeast Colombia. The Social & Climate Justice Caravan reports. 7 December 2009 - Canada: Human Rights Hypocrites [...]
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NAFTA Tribunal defends Quechan sacred site
NAFTA. It's known as a "death sentence" to the Zapatista and to millions of farmers in Mexico who find themselves in a desperate state as their livelihoods are taken from right out under them and they are left with nothing. It's something that most us can agree on. NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, [...]
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Democracy Now Reports on Bagua Massacre
Democracy Now reports on the Bagua Massacre of June 5, 2009, which has left anywhere up to 100 people dead according to latest reports. Watch this video on Blip.tv or Democracynow.org ALAN GARCIA MUST RESIGN: criminal poised to continue Indigenous slaughter and disintegrate Peru By Carlos A. Quiroz, http://peruanista.blogspot.com/ Tragedy in Peru. Let us honor [...]
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CAFTA blocked for ignoring indigenous rights
Last week, Costa Rica's highest court overturned an intellectual property law the United states demands for the enactment of the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement, commonly referred to as "CAFTA." The court said that the law - which included provisions on biodiversity - was improperly passed because the government failed "...to consult the indigenous people, [...]
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Indigenous Peruvians Launch State-wide Protest
Marking the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, on Saturday, August 9th, Indigenous Peruvians launched an indefinite, state-wide protest against a set of new government policies that threaten their collective land rights. "In the southern Amazonian province of Cusco, hundreds of indigenous protesters occupied Lot 56 of the controversial Camisea gas field, forcing the [...]
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On The Edge: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez
For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women. More than 400 women have been murdered and another 4000 more have gone missing since 1993. A significant number of these women worked in the maquiladora sector - "sweatshops that produce for export, [...]
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Harper wants to Save Latin America.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently on a mission in Latin America, pushing forward a "Canadian-made" free trade model which he wants applied throughout the region. Harper has also been going to incredible lengths to improve Canada's image in the South, making impressive statements claiming that Canada the perfect, Canada the majestic, Canada the [...]
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