Source: Contagio Radio / The Dawn News / April 11, 2016. The recent armed strike organized by the Úsuga Clan, which paralyzed 36 municipalities, put once again a spotlight on paramilitarism in Colombia. Mass media and official sources have described the situation as a “resurgence” of illegal groups —a strange […]
Chile: In Chiloé a whole people is fighting against those who pollute their water, by Carlos Aznárez By: Carlos Aznárez / The Dawn News / May 6, 2016. It’s not exaggerated to say that Chiloé is almost located in the end of the world, in the Pacific Ocean, southern Chile. […]
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News / May 8, 2016. Lima, Peru, April 29 to May 2, 2016. Political training to reinforce the re-grouping and the counteroffensive of the popular movement. We, trainers of Social Movements of 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, have gathered in […]
By Enric Llopis / Source Rebelión / The Dawn News / May 2, 2016 Interview with Nazanin Armanian, political scientist and Professor of International Relations at the UNED. Armanian lives in Spain since 1983, and she is a researcher of geopolitics in the Middle East and the Islamic world. She […]
By: Rasoul Goudarzi / Source: HispanTV / The Dawn News / May 4, 2016. Currently, the Yemeni people is not only suffering from the power vacuum and the Saudi invasion. There is another crucial element that threatens their life constantly: the growth of extremism and the disagreements between Al Qaeda […]
Source: Brasil De Fato / The Dawn News / May 9, 2016 “Temer is a coupist. He finances the coup and agribusiness” In the morning of Monday 9, approximately a thousand members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), occupied the Esmeralda Estate, located in the interior of Sao Paulo, […]
The move was made despite a decision by the lower house’s interim speaker to annul it earlier in the day. Brazil’s Senate pressed ahead with the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, despite the lower house interim speaker’s decision earlier in the day to annul that chamber’s vote for removing her from office. […]
Source TeleSur / The Dawn News / May 9, 2016. The interim president of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Waldir Maranhao | Photo: Reuters The decision by Waldir Maranhao means the impeachment process will be sent back to the lower house from the Senate for a re-vote. The interim President […]
By: Marco Teruggi (from Caracas) / Source Resumen Latinoamericano / May 5, 2016. Something is going to give in Venezuela. It’s a feeling that can be perceived in the air, in talks, on the streets, in public transport, in the people… tension is everywhere. As if we were looking at […]
By: María de Lourdes Guzmán / Source: Claridad Puerto Rico / The Dawn News / May 3, 2016 Soon, it will be 118 years since the US military invaded us. Even though the official history has tried to make it look like they saved the country, the truth is that […]