By Silvia Viñas housands of students and teachers marched on the streets of Santiago and in other cities [1]on Tuesday August 28, 2012, to demand education reform. This massive march is part of the student movement’s ongoing efforts to overhaul the education system in Chile. Earlier this month, students occupying [2] schools denounced [3] [es] […]
A broken vow of silence…
El 30 de enero de 2008 murió uno de los hombres más influyentes en la historia del siglo XX mexicano: el padre Marcial Maciel Degollado. Fue el fundador de la orden religiosa más importante y con mayor crecimiento en México y en el mundo: la Legión de Cristo. Con un especial interés por "reevangelizar" a […]
Yukpa Indians, Chávez and land disputes
Citizen media videos have been uploaded informing of the situation arising in Venezuela between the Yukpa Indians of the Perijá Mountains, landowners and President Chávez. This dispute over land limits is 30 years in the making, when military forces displaced the Indigenous communities of the Yukpa by force and established landowners who have cattle ranches […]