Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.” King is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Georgia. “There are impulses within both Black abolition and Native decolonization…
Category: INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
Closing the First International Congress of Indigenous Peoples Maduro Calls for Respect for Evo Morales’s Victory
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros called on all indigenous and popular movements in the world to raise their flags in support of Evo Morales, who faces a destabilizing plan after the presidential elections held on October 20 where he was elected with more half a million votes in his favor. “We are going to boost…
Indigenous Peoples of the World Reaffirm their Anti-imperialist Struggle in Bolivar
Patricia Martínez On October 30th, the cycle of presentations of the First International Meeting of Native Peoples took place in the state of Bolivar with the participation of 18 countries. The vice-president of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Adán Chávez, recalled in his speech the struggle led by commander Hugo Chávez…
Venezuela Boosts Ties of Brotherhood With US Indigenous People
Arreaza met with Professor Nick Estes and the team of The Red Nation, an American organization dedicated to promoting the liberation of the natives from capitalism and colonialism. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza spoke Tuesday with indigenous representatives from the United States to strengthen ties of brotherhood in the context of the First International Meeting…
Indigenous People Will Consolidate a Fight Plan Within the Framework of the First International Meeting of Native Peoples
From October 29 to 31 will be held in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar state, the First International Meeting of Native Peoples, a proposal that was born within the framework of the development of the XXV Forum of Sao Paulo as a Bolivarian alliance of indigenous peoples for sovereignty, solidarity and decolonization. Indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Brazil,…
Neoliberalism and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Ollantay Itzamná Quechuas in Machupiccchu. OI. It is clear that the neoliberal system advanced in Latin America until it found social resistance in the indigenous territories. It seems that “sovereignty” and “dignity” are no longer disputed in the jurisdiction of national states, but in indigenous territories. Neoliberalism, as a stage in the accumulation/speculation of capital…
Guatemala: When the State of Siege No Longer Intimidates
Ollantay Itzamná At the beginning of the 20th century, when Carl Schmitt, a German, formulated his political theory on “State of Exception” as an extreme measure to preserve the “public good”, he was thinking of healthy modern states. The State of Guatemala, with increasing evidence of internal cooptation and an accelerated process of entropy since…
Criminalization and Judicialization of the Peasant People
Ketsy Medina Sifontes On August 22 of this year, around eight in the morning, Paula Guillermina Lovera, 42 years old, and her grandson, 8 years old, were in their house located in Las Ventanas, in the municipality of San Gerónimo de Guayabal, Guárico state, when people dressed in civilian clothes, verbally identifying themselves as police…
Venezuela: “Landowners Persecute and Murder the Yukpa with Impunity.”
Alex Anfruns The French journalist Angèle Savino lived in Venezuela for thirteen years, during which time she followed closely the conflict between the Yukpa and the major landowners. “After Chavez decided to hand over the land to the Yukpa, the assassinations ensued” – he confides. Convinced that in Venezuela, the indigenous struggle for land is…
Guatemala: What We Indians Keep Quiet About
Ollantay Itzamná Rabin Ajaw 2019/2010. Internet With the advent of postmodernity, the “elements” of indigenous identities were used, both by the rulers of the creole states and by the business agents of the neoliberal system, as “amulets” to distract and deactivate the historic resistance of indigenous peoples. As never before, ceremonial performances such as Inti…
Are the Indigenous Movements Left Movements?
Ollantay Itzamná Mayan Quiché Indians in assembly. CQ. In the course of this century, new transgressive socio-political subjects emerged with force in Latin America under the current hegemonic system. These protagonists are: indigenous people, peasants, women, young people, etc. Whether through mental laziness or through the fictions of left/right binarism, these new social movements, were…
Death of Key Witness in Berta Cáceres Case Points to a Plot to Erase Evidence
Peoples Dispatch The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reported that on July 5 that Olvin Gustavo García Mejía was found dead in the San Bartolo community, in the north region of the Intibucá department. García Mejía was an unofficial employee of the Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA) company and allegedly carried…
