Lucas Koerner Back in March, when coronavirus cases were beginning to surge in the US and in South American allies such as Brazil and Ecuador, Washington was busy raising the alarm about the “expansion of Covid-19 pandemic in the region, if not globally, if Venezuela… fails to address it.” Venezuela was reporting under 150 cases…
Category: HUMAN RIGHTS
Genocide of Colombia’s Social Leaders Continues Unabated
Peoples Dispatch Social movements held a protest held in Bogotá, on July 20, Colombian independence day, denouncing the silence of the national government in the face of the genocide of social leaders in Colombia. Photo: Colombia Informa On July 27, Colombian organizations including the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), the Marcha Patriótica (the…
They Shot Us Like Animals: Black November and Bolivia’s Interim Government
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE>> EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Following a disputed presidential election on October 20, 2019, Bolivia has endured a surge of human rights violations. On November 12, 2019, Jeanine Áñez Chavez became Bolivia’s interim president with the mandate of restoring peace and calling new elections. Under her administration, however, state-sponsored violence, restrictions on free…
Human Rights Fraud from Ukraine to Nicaragua
Stephen Sefton Current Western human rights industry practice has nothing to do with establishing the truth. Increasingly in recent years, US and allied elites have sought to legitimize illegal aggression by exploiting human rights motifs in their attempts to recolonize the majority world. In any given crisis, human rights NGOs funded by the US and…
Frei Betto: A Genocide Is Taking Place In Brazil
Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, philosopher, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar. Involved in Brazil’s emancipatory struggles for decades, Betto was imprisoned for four years under the Military dicatatorship for helping its victims escape abroad. More recently he has been heavily involved in the battle to eradicate hunger in his country. He has made a personal…
Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters
Alan Macleod Anonymous masked federal agents in military uniforms jump out of unmarked minivans, abducting seemingly random people on the street in Portland, frightening new viral videos show. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC have been sent to the city to tamp down of 49 days of…
Neoliberal Discourse on Land Harms Livelihoods and Environmental Security: Oakland Institute Report
Abdul Rahman Landless agricultural workers working the fields in Orissa, India. Photo: P. Sainath / People’s Archive of Rural India A report titled “Driving Dispossession: The global push to “unlock the economic potential of land” published by the Oakland Institute was released on July 14, Tuesday. The report debunks myths propagated by mainstream neoliberal economics…
Border Wall Threatens Kumeyaay Nation Burial Sites
Zola Fish Photo: Bobby Wallace Members of the Kumeyaay Nation gathered in Boulevard, Calif., on June 30 to halt the building of Donald Trump’s border wall. The Army Corps of Engineers has been using dynamite to blast an existing wall which is located on sacred burial sites of the Kumeyaay ancestors. Indigenous artifacts and bones…
And What of the Children?
Erica Caines Image of Black Educator with Black Students In the months since the US government formally announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic, government officials have made calls for city and statewide quarantines to control the spread. However, [self] quarantine as a solution has been disrupted by the government’s inability to provide assistance to its…
Bolivia Suffers Devastating Effects of Pandemic and Political Instability
Guido Vassallo With contagion rates reaching record highs on a daily basis, the health situation is worsening with hospitals in major cities in a state of emergency. Meanwhile, the persecution of MAS continues unabated. The situation that Bolivia is currently undergoing after the coup d’état of November 10, 2019 continues to add new and dramatic…
The Hunger Pandemic in Colombia
Yanis Iqbal The unchecked growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America is tearing apart the socio-economic fabric of the countrieslocated in that continent. One manifestation of this socio-economic rupture is the emergence of what David Beasley, the Executive Director of UN World Food Programme (WFP), has called a “hunger pandemic”. According to WFP, “The…
Colombian Social Leaders Walked 15 Days and 600 km to Demand the Right to Life
Peoples Dispatch March for Dignity arrived to Bogotá on Friday July 10. Photo: Colombia Informa After walking for 15 days, social leaders and human rights defenders part of the “March for Dignity” arrived to Bogotá on July 10. The participants that represent 40 Indigenous, Afro-descendant, peasant and social movements and organizations, were moved to make…
