insurrección is an interactive portal for English-language news and analysis on Latin America, focusing on autonomous social movements.

News Roundup - August 6, 2008

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, waves as Mexican billionaire businessman Carlos Slim stands behind at a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008.

Honduras: Garifuna Resistance to Mega-Tourism in Tela Bay

Garifuna communities have managed to survive numerous perils over the last 400 years: slavery, military aggressions by several European nations,...

Haiti's Compounding Food and Health Crises

Haiti today is a tragic case study of how developing nations can lose the sovereign right to ensure access to healthcare when they lose their right to local food self-sufficiency under globalization.

Colombia: Interview with Antonio Navarro Wolf

Antonio Navarro Wolf, a former guerrilla leader of the M-19 and currently governor of Nariño, talks with Upside Down World...

The U.S. press' love affair with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, March 8, 2007.

Several People Died in Confrontation Over Land in Honduras

Several people died in Honduras after an attack against peasants living in Guadalupe Carney community, near Puerto de Trujillo.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, Rafael Alegria, counselor of the Coordinating Committee of Peasant Organizations, said the attack had been carried out by gunmen paid by estate owner Henry Osorto, who claims the property of the lands donated by the municipality, which have been occupied by nearly 560 families for twenty years.

Garifuna Resistance Against Mega-Tourism in Tela Bay

“’We have hundreds of kilometers of beaches that aren't developed, and it's

read more

‘A New Alliance of the Americas’? Reflections of 1961 for Obama in 2008

In 2008, as the new regional dynamic of the Left continues to develop, now most often from within the seats...

Syndicate content