Former leader of the Inter-Ethnic Alliance for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) Alberto Pizango held a press conference in Puno to announce his candidacy for president of Peru.
Seven Peruvian SOA graduates were convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, and conspiracy for their roles in two massacres and the murder of a radio journalist.
Col. Manuel E. Rivadeneira Tello, a School of the Americas graduate, has been charged for last week’s unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador. Two other police leaders are under investigation.
UN talks on climate change in Tianjin are nearing a close with no clear consensus yet in sight as China and Brazil blocked discussion of extending the Kyoto Protocol.
On the heels of electoral reversals for his ruling party, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced new land expropriations to benefit the peasants, and called for creation of a popular militia force.
Journalist Bill Weinberg reports back from the Cochabamba climate summit and leads a discussion on indigenous, peasant and ecological struggles in Bolivia. Oct. 10 at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library.
A flood of red toxic sludge spilled by an aluminum plant in western Hungary has advanced along a secondary tributary to the Danube River and could reach the international waterway by the weekend.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Paraguay must return lands to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community—but the Paraguayan government has ignored such rulings before.
More Chilean troops are being flown to Rapanui (Easter Island) to augment the already in-place armed forces set to remove indigenous Rapanui people from their ancestral lands.
Some 20 thousand peasants marked the 50th commemoration of Indonesia’s National Farmers Day and passage of the country’s first agrarian law, with mobilizations to demand a new agrarian reform program.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman prompted the Palestinian mission to walk out of the UN General Assembly by calling for an “exchange of populated territory” on the West Bank.
Israeli commandos intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach the blockade of the Gaza Strip, using a Taser gun against well-known refusenik Yonatan Shapira.
