Mexico: teachers block Acapulco highway

…evaluate all the teachers by identical standards, without its mattering whether their schools lack water, electricity and installations that are minimally decent for carrying out their work, constitutes an unjust…

Colombia: FARC renounce narco-profits

…of the 1990s, when gains in Peru pushed production into Colombia—an instance of the so-called “balloon effect.” Contrary to the assumption that the drug trade itself is the “gasoline” that…

Farmers’ march on Delhi met with repression

Amnesty International released a statement Feb. 14 decrying the Indian government’s disproportionate restrictions on the right to peaceful protest instated to quell the “Dilli Chalo” (on to Delhi) farmers protest….