The Peruvian State Carried Out Extrajudicial Killings and Other Abuses

Clau O’Brien Moscoso Relatives mourn victims during a mass after the deadliest clashes in anti-government protests against Peru’s President Dina Boluarte, in Juliaca, Peru February 9, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Pilar Olivares) Human Rights Watch and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights confirm what was already clear to BAR’s reporter and others on the ground in Peru. The coup…

IACHR Condemns Peru’s De-facto Government’s Human Rights Violations Against Protesters

Tanya Wadhwa On February 9, in Lima, delegations from the Puno region organized an act to commemorate the 19 victims of the Juliaca massacre, killed at the hands of public security forces on January 9. (Photo: Juan Zapata/Wayka) The IACHR said that the state’s response to demonstrators was characterized by the “disproportionate, indiscriminate and lethal…

The United Nations is Being Used by the US in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua

John Perry Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a…

Latin America: The United States Improvises in Confronting the Silk Road

Claudio Katz The United States is losing economic primacy in Latin America in the face of the overwhelming presence of China, unable to find recipes to counterbalance this protagonism that threatens its traditional domination. The domination of the United States over Latin America has no equivalent in other parts of the world. In no other…

These Countries Slammed UNHRC for its Attack on Nicaragua

Kawsachun News Several countries have rejected the politicized use of the UN Human Rights Council and the weaponization of human rights against Nicaragua, following the release of a hostile UN expert report. A speakers list which included DPRK, Venezuela, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Eritrea, Syria, and China voiced opposition to the methods of the expert…

The Heinous Instrumentalization of Human Rights against Nicaragua

Stephen Sefton Ilze Brands Kehris, @UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, in an update to the Human Rights Council on the “socio-political crisis” in the country. Twitter Last week saw the advance release of a summary of the United Nations Human Rights report on Nicaragua. The report supposedly results from an investigation by a group…

On the Latest UN Human Rights Council Report on Nicaragua

Stephen Sefton In general, practically all reports on Nicaragua by international human rights institutions and organizations fail to check information supporting false claims, omit facts inconvenient to their findings and claim a commitment to transparency even while failing to engage adequately rival versions of events. They make highly selective use of sources and systematically avoid…

Canada’s Regime Props Up Peru’s and Helps Canadian Mining Companies Exploit Crisis

Camila Escalante Canadian Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia, Louis Marcotte, shaking hands with Peruvian Mining Minister, Oscar Vera Gargurevich. Image credit: Ministry of Energy and Mines of Peru. Two months on from the coup against Peru’s democratically-elected President, Pedro Castillo, Canada is providing key support for a regime responsible for the deaths of 58 civilians…

Ralph Gonsalves: “Latin-Caribbean Integration is Necessary, but it Has Been Discontinuous”

Laura Capote y Leticia Garziglia Interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and President pre tempore of Celac The small island countries of CARICOM have shown their dignity and sovereignty by maintaining firm positions on the US policy of interference against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Exclusive interview with Ralph Gonsalves,…

Guatemala: State Restricts Political Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Ollantay Itzamná MLP demonstration in front of the TSE. Guatemala Before the indigenous and peasants organized politically in Guatemala, whenever these impoverished sectors took to the streets to protest, the corporate media and the middle classes shouted at them: “Make your political party. Go to the polls. Win elections”… Guatemala is one of the most…

Canada: One of the ‘Biggest Gangsters in Haiti’

Catherine Hughes and Jackie McVicar Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. We have failed to respect the Haitian struggle for justice and self-determination The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for the Earth in the Americas. We have been following Canada’s…

Black Alliance for Peace Opposes CELAC Support for Military Intervention in Haiti

Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Team Opposes the Apparent Support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for Foreign Military Intervention Into Haiti Peace and Solidarity In the Region Cannot Be Achieved at the Expense of Haitian Sovereignty For Immediate Release     Media Contact communications@blackallianceforpeace.com (202) 643-1136 FEBRUARY 1, 2023—The Haiti/Americas Team…

‘We Need a Constituent Process in Peru’: An Interview with Héctor Béjar

Lautaro Rivara and Héctor Béjar Presidential hopeful for Peru Libre, Pedro Castillo, had a bumpy ride on a mare while going to his polling station in Cajamarca. With more than 60 years of leading experience in Peruvian politics, Héctor Béjar breaks down in this exclusive interview the context and motives of the coup, and presents…

Honduras: Strategy of Expulsion through Threats to the Garifuna Communities of the Bay of Tela

BLACK HONDURAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION, OFRANEH COMMUNIQUÉ Garífuna Territory, October 24, 2022 WE DENOUNCE: that in recent days the Garifuna communities of Tela Bay (Triunfo de la Cruz, San Juan, Tornabé, Rio Tinto and La Ensenada) face a cruel and cowardly wave of threats, persecution and attacks against the leaders, mainly against the young “Leménigi Durugubuti”,…

US in Latin America: Interference, Extortion and Blackmail in Times of Global Reconfiguration

Jorge Elbaum The disordered and brutal intentionality of the United States to control the political, economic, communicational, military and cultural orientations of Latin America is linked to the loss of its relevance in the region. Last Thursday, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley, arrogated to himself the right to give his opinion on the…

Haiti: Beware of Washington’s Trap!

Berthony Dupont Haitian people have never ceased their protest of foreign domination. Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 4, 2019. (Photo by REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casare) The United States uses its puppet, the Organization of American States, to continue destabilizing Haiti. The Haitian political crisis is a concrete example of cynical manipulation by the imperialist powers. Is it an…

The US Targets Nicaragua

Camila Escalante Today, all Caricom states, with the exception of SVG, joined the U.S. and its satellite states in voting in favor of an interventionist resolution condemning the revolutionary Sandinista government for safeguarding its sovereignty and ejecting illegal foreign agents. — Camila (@camilapress) August 12, 2022 Today, all Caricom states, with the exception of SVG,…

The Era of Northern Hegemony Over Mexico is Coming to an End

Rodrigo Guillot In 2010, Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro said: “López Obrador will be the person with the most moral and political authority in Mexico when the system collapses and, with it, the empire.” He was referring to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO), who is the current president of Mexico and head of the Morena (National…