In the run-up to Ecuador’s presidential elections on 13 April 2025, the two leading candidates, Daniel Noboa of the Acción Democrática Nacional (AND), and Luisa González, leader of former president Rafael Correa’s Citizens Revolution party, faced the challenge of wresting control of the country from local narco-traffickers and gang leaders. With Noboa remaining president, Ecuador’s […]
What do deep divisions within Pachakutik, Correísmo’s troubled history with the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and of Nature, and the ongoing demonization of Fernando Villavicencio have to do with Ecuador’s recent presidential elections? Linda Etchart reports. In the run-off to the presidential elections on 13 April 2025, Luisa González’s chances of winning the Presidency for […]
A local fishing community does not feel adequately compensated and Repsol must do more to repair the damage, write researchers. This piece by Rocío López De La Lama, Aurora Maguiña, and Patricia Sangiorgi was originally published by our partner Dialogue Earth. In January 2022, crude oil began leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the site of La […]
The Bukele government in El Salvador, as well as locking up thousands of alleged gang members is now extending its attacks to communities and those who seek to defend their human rights and their land.
The arrest in London of General Pinochet, with a view to his extradition to Spain on charges of crimes against humanity had an extraordinary impact in Chile, among the Chilean diaspora and around the world. Beatrice Twentyman looks at this impact.
The extreme backlash against feminism and subsequent attack on women’s rights by the government in Argentina has impacted women in different ways. One victim of this violent wave is Carolina Sigal Fogliani, whose story, a representation of the physical and psychological abuse of pregnant women and the violation of their maternity rights in Argentina, LAB […]
‘People are feeling impotent; marching raises our hopes’, says Claudia Hasanbegovic, the femicide lawyer WRV’s Marilyn Thomson spoke to for this alarming piece on the backlash against feminism in Argentina under Milei and civil demonstrations resisting against it. Thousands upon thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Argentina since President Milei came […]
The mobilization on March 13 was part of the Landless Women’s Day of Struggle, a preparation for the MST’s ‘Red April’. This piece has been republished from Brasil de Fato via peoplesdispatch.org. A series of actions on Thursday March 13, led by women from Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese) increased the pressure […]
The discovery of a pile of shoes and a ditch containing human remains at a farm in Jalisco state suggests that this was an extermination camp operated by the drug cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación. The government of Claudi Sheinbaum is trying to evade responsibility, blaming the authorities in Jalisco and trumpeting its progress in reducing the murder rate. Meanwhile, disappearances have escalated.
‘It is difficult to come across a book as enlightening, far-reaching and appropriate as the Amazon in Times of War in accessing the complexity of the Amazon in a meaningful way,’ argues Brazilian journalist and writer Jotabê Medeiros. Main image: Indigenous people from the Matis and Mayuruna ethnic groups during a protest over the disappearance […]
