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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park: big love for Big Bend'

Thousands protested against the border wall construction through Big Bend, uniting bipartisan opposition to the White House's plans.
Portland food
fromKqed
1 week ago

Indigenous Communities Reclaim Ancestral Lands and Waters | KQED

The Potter Valley Pomo tribe creates a community forest for youth camps and events, marking a significant cultural initiative in California.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

If they pollute our rivers, what will become of us?': the town divided between hope and fear in Brazil's Amazon oil rush

Oiapoque, Brazil, is poised for development through oil production, raising concerns about environmental impacts and Indigenous rights amid a global energy transition.
fromSmithsonian Magazine
1 week ago

Native Nations Fought in the American Revolution to Protect Their Ancestral Lands. After the War, Settlers Seized Their Territory Anyway

"Once the Declaration of Independence is issued by Congress, then it kind of changes the calculus. Then, both sides are putting pressure on Native people to join one side or the other."
History
#colombia
US Elections
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Migrants march in southern Mexico to denounce immigration restrictions

Migrants in southern Mexico are protesting against the local immigration system and alleged secret deportation agreements with the US.
Madrid food
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Farmers Describe Torture From US-Ecuadorian Joint Military Operation

The US is escalating military operations in Latin America, particularly against drug cartels, under 'Operation Total Extermination' and 'Operation Southern Spear'.
#amazon
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago
Arts

Amazonia's Indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

European depictions of the Amazon as a timeless wilderness ignore its cultural diversity and historical complexity.
fromTruthout
2 months ago
Left-wing politics

Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible

Coordinated strikes by Amazon Murcia RMU1 workers secured a negotiated deal: immediate 14% wage increase, recurring raises, improved shift pay, and more paid time off.
Arts
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Amazonia's Indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

European depictions of the Amazon as a timeless wilderness ignore its cultural diversity and historical complexity.
fromLos Angeles Times
4 weeks ago

California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes - a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise

That number represents roughly 7% of the state's land and waters. It also corresponds with the amount of land the federal government promised it would hold as reservations for Indigenous tribes after California joined the union in 1850. Congress ultimately rejected these treaties in a secret meeting - after pressure from the state - and failed to notify tribes, many of whom upheld their end of the agreement to relocate.
Agriculture
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Illegal gold mining is rampant on Nicaragua-Costa Rica border, fueled by China's voracious appetite

Illegal gold mining across 3,000+ hectares on Costa Rica's northern border generates an estimated $250 million annually, driven by Chinese companies in Nicaragua purchasing illicit ore at prices exceeding $5,000 per ounce.
fromNew York Post
4 weeks ago

California plots return of 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters to Indigenous tribes

When California became a state in 1850, officials signed 18 treaties setting aside millions of acres for tribal reservations. Congress killed the deals in secret after pressure from state leaders. Many tribes had already moved, trusting the promises. Now California wants to make good.
SF politics
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

ICE's growing detention footprint, and the communities fighting back

The Trump administration is significantly expanding migrant detention facilities, aiming to detain and deport a record number of immigrants in U.S. history.
World politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Petro accuses Ecuador of bombing Colombia, sparking a new diplomatic crisis

Colombia and Ecuador face a severe diplomatic crisis with presidents exchanging accusations of cross-border bombing and harboring narco-terrorist groups, with diplomatic channels completely collapsed.
US news
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 weeks ago

Salvadorans deported by Trump to Bukele's megaprison fight against being forgotten

Five Salvadorans deported to El Salvador in March 2024 remain imprisoned without contact with families or lawyers, while Venezuelan deportees were released after a prisoner swap and can rebuild their lives.
Non-profit organizations
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

SCOTUS Case on Munitions in Guam Could Set Precedent for Indigenous Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case regarding the open detonation of munitions on Tarague Beach, impacting the CHamoru people's ancestral land.
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Ivan Cepeda: Our fight is not with Paloma or Abelardo, it is with Uribe'

Cepeda emphasizes that he is not competing against other candidates like Abelardo de La Espriella or Paloma Valencia, but rather against former president Alvaro Uribe Velez.
US Elections
Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

Chile's President Kast tosses out dozens of environmental protections

Chile's new President Jose Antonio Kast suspended 43 environmental regulations covering emissions, pollution, and national parks to prioritize economic growth and job creation over environmental protections.
#colombia-ecuador-border-conflict
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Colombian president accuses Ecuador after 27 charred bodies' found near border

Colombian President Petro accuses Ecuador of bombing Colombian territory, killing 27 people, while Ecuadorian President Noboa denies the allegations and blames Colombia for allowing criminal groups to operate across their shared border.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

Colombia's Petro accuses Ecuador of bombing near border

Colombian President Petro accused Ecuador's military of bombing Colombian territory and reported 27 charred bodies found on the border, while Ecuador's President Noboa denied the allegations, claiming all military strikes occur within Ecuador's borders.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Ex-minister Gamboa targeted in Costa Rica's first extradition to the US

Costa Rica is sending a strong message: no one can use our nationality to evade justice, Attorney General Carlo Diaz said. This is a historic day.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Kast is more like Trump': Chile's environmentalists prepare to do battle for the country's future

The highlands are the sustenance of life, and all that water comes down from the mountains to the valleys, such as Azapa and Lluta and to the coast. The city of Arica is on the coast. So, we have a very serious problem. We will not have water—not for agriculture, not for livestock, not for tourism.
Miscellaneous
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The hidden history of Afro-Bolivians: From slavery in silver mines to fighting for power

Cerro Rico produced massive quantities of global silver through enslaved African labor under brutal conditions in colonial Bolivia.
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Ecuador Is Suspending the Bank Accounts of Environmental Activists

Financial strangulation, as he put it, is the latest weapon in the government's escalating effort to clear the way for expanded mining and oil development in one of the world's most biodiverse countries. Months earlier, officials had temporarily frozen the accounts of several of Ecuador's most prominent environmental defenders, including Tapia, citing investigations into unjust private enrichment and financing terrorism.
Social justice
Women in technology
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

3. Colombia: Mothers for Peace

Carmen Elena, a Colombian woman displaced by violence that killed her husband and brother, lost her project to create a safe village for mothers protecting children from armed group recruitment after USAID withdrew funding.
US politics
fromTruthout
4 weeks ago

US-Backed Repression in Latin America Paved the Way for ICE

Trump administration immigration policies enable mass detention, family separation, and deportations through opaque bureaucratic practices compared to enforced disappearances.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I am trying to live': Haitians in Mexico seek community despite broken immigration systems

With time, as his research led to police intervention, he caught the attention of the city's gangs. In November 2024, during a period of escalating violence in the Haitian capital, gang members entered the compound where Gensley lived. They burned the radio station, my home and many other things in the area. They even killed his dog.
US news
Social justice
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

International ruling protects the Garifuna people from Survivor' shoot in Honduras

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Honduras for violating Garifuna collective property rights and political participation by designating Cayos Cochinos a protected area without proper consultation, favoring tourism and television production over indigenous residents' ancestral access.
Madrid food
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Berta Caceres and the resistance that was born under an oak tree

Berta Caceres, a Lenca leader murdered in Honduras in 2016 for defending the Gualcarque River against business and military interests, remains a symbol of both judicial progress and persistent impunity in human rights defense.
fromNature
1 month ago

How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse

Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization's grand ceremonial buildings and striking art, created in parts of Mesoamerica during the Classic Maya period (ad 150-900) had tantalized foreign visitors since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. But no one, including several million twentieth-century speakers of Maya languages, could read the ancient Maya hieroglyphs.
History
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Indigenous Antif*scism

Relational Indigenous knowledge and practices must be mobilized to dismantle settler colonial state-forms, capitalism, and fascism while building constellations of co-resistance.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Pain Didn't Come to Kill Me' | Ep 4 El Salvador

Bereaved mothers in El Salvador unite through shared grief, transforming personal loss into collective strength and solidarity that transcends violence and despair.
California
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

LandBack advances across the West - High Country News

14,000 acres of Blue Creek returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing California's largest tribal land return and doubling tribal land for ecological and cultural restoration.
#honduras
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The river won': how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won, said the campaigners in Santarem when it was clear their actions had forced the Brazilian government into a U-turn on plans to privatise one of the world's most beautiful waterways and expand its role as a soy canal.
Environment
#guatemala
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Acquittal of Chile riot officer who blinded protester raises impunity fears

A Santiago court ruled Lt Col Claudio Crespo legitimately defended his actions after shooting and blinding protester Gustavo Gatica, raising concerns about impunity and heavy-handed policing.
Environment
frombigthink.com
1 month ago

Widening the frame: Indigenous land rights and the future of climate policy

Indigenous land rights are essential to climate action, with Indigenous representatives at COP30 demanding recognition of their ancestral land ownership and management authority.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Where the Silence Breaks | Ep 3 Colombia

Colombian military soldiers confess to extrajudicial killings of innocent civilians through the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a transitional justice mechanism established by the 2016 peace agreement.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

1,000-year-old gold-filled tomb unearthed in Panama

A richly furnished elite Coclé tomb (800–1000 A.D.) at El Cano reveals ornate gold and ceramics, indicating centralized chiefdoms with long-distance exchange and ritual complexity.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Men charged with contract killing of Indigenous leader to go on trial in Peru

Peru will try five suspects for the November 2023 killing of Amazonian Kichwa leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado, testing prosecution of violence against environmental defenders.
World news
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Resisting the Empire Next Door, Protests in Mexico Grow

A broad anti-imperialist movement in Mexico mobilized massive protests opposing U.S. attacks on Venezuela and demanding Latin American sovereignty and independence from U.S. dominance.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Latin America: In the Shadow of the US | Ep 2 Wars

The 1980s bring revolutionary wars, CIA-backed conflict and the violent birth of a new democratic era. Episode 2: Wars begins with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, which promised egalitarian transformation through literacy crusades. But civil war erupted as United States President Ronald Reagan's administration covertly backed the Contra rebels, plunging the nation into turmoil and suffering. Panama transitioned from Omar Torrijos's diplomatic triumphs over the Panama Canal to Manuel Noriega's sinister collaboration with both the CIA and drug cartels.
US politics
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Andrea Martinez Baracs, historian: Indigenous allies saved the Spanish on the Night of Sorrows'

Tlaxcalans allied with the Spanish as strategic partners, maintaining autonomy and leveraging local knowledge to oppose the Triple Alliance during conquest.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Puerto Rico's Mothers Against War Turn to Revolutionary Love

A Puerto Rican mother founded Mothers Against War after her son's enlistment, connecting maternity, colonial sterilization history, and opposition to U.S. military interventions.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

In Panama, the fall of Maduro brings back memories of the US invasion in 1989

On January 3, Panama woke up with the strange sensation of looking in a mirror. During the early hours of the morning while the world tried to process the details about the capture of Nicolas Maduro, as a result of a U.S. military operation the country that is home to the Panama Canal once again delved into a wound that, 36 years later, remains open: the 1989 U.S. invasion.
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

From the Panama Canal standoff to Honduras: Trump reasserts Washington's grip on Central America

It was not just another bombastic statement in the Republican's provocative style it was the first visible sign of a policy that once again places the region under U.S. oversight. Trump revived old interventionist instincts by interfering in Honduras's presidential election and threatening to cut aid to Central American governments as leverage to force them into agreements aimed at curbing migration.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis

In Emilio Pena Delgado's home, several photos hang on the wall. One shows him standing in front of a statue with his wife and oldest son in the centre of San Jose and smiling. In another, his two sons sit in front of caricatures from the film Cars. For him, the photos capture moments of joy that feel distant when he returns home to La Carpio, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Costa Rica's capital.
Environment
Social justice
fromFortune
2 months ago

I've studied nonviolent resistance in war zones for 20 years and Minnesota reminds me of Colombia, the Philippines and Syria | Fortune

Organized, disciplined nonviolent community action and mutual aid can protect migrants from violent immigration enforcement but requires courage and carries real risk.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Colombian ex-paramilitary leader jailed for crimes against Indigenous groups

Salvatore Mancuso received a 40-year prison sentence for 117 crimes against Indigenous communities in La Guajira, potentially reducible to eight years with victim-centered collaboration.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Nicaragua closes the border to Cubans migrating to the US

Nicaragua revoked visa-free entry for Cuban citizens, changing ordinary passport holders from visa-exempt to category C (visa consulted) amid U.S. pressure and regional realignment.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

We're in danger of extinction': can Bolivia's water people' survive a rising tide of salt and migration?

In the small town of Chipaya, everything is dry. Only a few people walk along the sandy streets, and many houses look abandoned some secured with a padlock. The wind is so strong that it forces you to close your eyes. Chipaya lies on Bolivia's Altiplano, 35 miles from the Chilean border. The vast plateau, nearly 4,000 metres above sea level, feels almost empty of people and animals, its solitude framed by snow-capped volcanoes. It raises the question: can anybody possibly live here?
Environment
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

Arhuaco face escalating violence as paramilitaries, guerrillas, and traffickers seize Sierra Nevada territory to control drug routes, coca regions, and illicit mineral extraction.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Occupied Minnesota

Immigration enforcement in Minnesota has created occupation-like conditions requiring faith-based protective presence to shelter and escort vulnerable parishioners.
US politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The People vs. ICE

Abandoned bicycles left at day-labor corners symbolize families torn apart by ICE raids and motivate community volunteers to document, support, and watch for enforcement actions.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Banana republics are making a comeback in Latin America

South America faces a dangerous convergence of rising insecurity, militarised politics, weakened institutions and external coercion undermining democratic legitimacy and self-determination.
#evo-morales
#panama-canal
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras

In April 2025, Peter Thiel's Palantir made headlines after documents were released detailing its partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to create ImmigrationOS, a massive database of information gathered from a variety of sources including the IRS, in order to surveil, detain, and deport immigrants. Thiel is not new to spearheading endeavors that aim to dehumanize and attack people of color. In fact, the tech mogul is one of the billionaires leading our modern-day version of tech neocolonialism,
World news
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Guatemala declares state of siege after gang violence

Guatemala declared a 30-day state of siege after gang attacks killed at least seven police officers and triggered prison riots linked to Barrio 18.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

There's no such thing as a better coloniser': Indigenous views on Trump's Greenland push

Inuit and other Arctic Indigenous peoples see external interest in Greenland as a threat to their self-determination and control over land and resources.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

What 'banana republic' means and why its history matters

In the coastal city of Trujillo, he'd observed how the US-owned United Fruit Company dominated the city's railways and docks and wielded significant political influence. This inspired his novel "Cabbages and Kings" (1904), in which he wrote about the fictional republic of Anchuria — a 'small, maritime banana republic' whose government bent to the interests of a powerful foreign corporation.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Colombia to resume peace talks with ECG after temporary suspension

Colombia's government has announced it will resume peace talks with the powerful Gulf Clan, also known as the Gaitanist Self-Defence Forces (ECG), after the criminal group expressed concern about a recent deal with the United States. Tuesday's announcement addresses a temporary suspension the Gulf Clan announced earlier this month, in the wake of a meeting between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart, Donald Trump.
World news
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The discovery of Camilo Torres' body revives one of the most sensitive issues in Colombia's internal conflict

Forensic experts confirmed identification of Camilo Torres's remains, resolving a decades-long mystery about his 1966 death and closing a chapter in Latin American armed struggle.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

As Colombia moves to outlaw cockfighting, a bloody night unfolds in Cartagena

On the outskirts of Cartagena far from the brightly coloured facades of the old city and the 500-year-old fortress walls overlooking the Caribbean a crowd of about 300 people erupted into a roar. Given Colombians' passion for football, it could have been the celebration of a goal. But the cheers followed the bloody climax of bout in a cockfighting ring whose white padded walls were now splattered with blood.
World news
World news
fromSun Sentinel
2 months ago

Nicaraguan government blocks key pathway used by Cuban migrants to reach United States

Nicaragua suspended visa-free entry for Cuban citizens, blocking a major migration route to the United States amid increased U.S. pressure on Cuba and Nicaragua.
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