Honduras: funeral of man assassinated by police
COPINH, the indigenous organisation, issues statement protesting about police brutality (in Spanish).
Brazil’s slave labour law still not approved
Congressional manoeuvres to delay Constitutional amendment expose the extent of slave labour in ‘modern’ Brazil.
Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
Honduras: direct intervention
On 11 May 2012 US and Honduran soldiers shot a group of Miskito Indians from a helicopter, claiming they were involved in drug-trafficking. Berta Cáceres from COPINH says that the indigenous community is under seige.
Honduras: funeral of man assassinated by police
COPINH, the indigenous organisation, issues statement protesting about police brutality (in Spanish).
Brazil: punishment at last
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
Honduras: denunciation of “foreign military occupation”
Human rights body expresses outrage at killing of six civilians by US soldiers
Brazil: incinerating bodies in a sugar mill
A former member of Brazil's secret police makes shocking revelations about the collusion between repression and industry during the military dictatorship. It included burning the bodies of political activists in a sugar mill cauldron.
Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
HONDURAS: Blood on those carbon credits
Long-standing land disputes in the Honduran countryside boil over as palm oil plantations (grown for ‘green energy’) displace more peasant families.