The Andes
Colombia: peace talks advance amid violence
Colombian peasants held a mass meeting to press for agrarian reform as talks with the FARC continue in Havana—but fighting and repression continue around the country.
Tag: land
Inner Asia
China: Mongol herders’ protest march blocked
Police in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region blocked an attempted cross-country march by traditional Mongol herders, with police assaulting hundreds in two incidents.
Palestine
Jerusalem: troops fire on Palestinian protesters
As Obama left Israel for Jordan, two Palestinian youths were critically wounded when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets on protesters at Anata north of Jerusalem.
Palestine
Israeli forces surround new ‘village’
As President Obama arrived in Israel, security forces surrounded a new tent village erected by Palestinian activists to protest the planned settlement corridor east of Jerusalem.
Central America
Honduras: 200-km march protests ‘model cities,’ mining law
Hundreds of campesinos marched from the northern town of La Barca to protest new laws expanding mining and enabling the creation of autonomous “model cities.”
Palestine
Negev Bedouin struggle for water, land
The Israeli high court dismissed an appeal by an “unrecognized” Bedouin village demanding access to water. A land titling plan for the Bedouin is being blocked by the military.
The Andes
Contradictory legacy of Hugo Chávez
Whether the gains of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution will survive his passing depends on how genuinely it is based on popular power, not just that of a charismatic leader.
Africa
Kenya: land at issue in electoral tensions
Separatists on Kenya's coast are boycotting the elections, claiming their territory was illegally annexed, its lands usurped from the inhabitants and handed out to settlers.
The Andes
We are not drug traffickers: FARC
FARC commander Rodrigo Granda, speaking to reporters in Havana where the peace talks are underway, denied that the guerilla army is a drug-trafficking organization.
Central America
Honduras: US-trained unit named in Aguán abuses
A new report finds that soldiers from Honduras' US-trained 15th Battalion are directly implicated in "kidnappings, killings, threats, torture and abuse of authority."
The Andes
Ecuador left opposition reacts to Correa re-election
Ecuador’s indigenous movement reacted to the re-election of President Rafael Correa by calling upon him to end the extractive model and criminalization of protest.
Palestine
New expressway to divide Palestinian village
Residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa are appealing to Israel’s Supreme Court to halt construction of a highway that will divide the Arab district.