By Jay Janson, Global Research

Presiding Judge, "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out." US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President Ríos Montt. Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as "a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?

The potential of media as a way of granting a community´s right to life and territory. For details on this Kickstarter fundraising idea to support the people of Pitalito (Colombia) click here. Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects.

Efraín Ríos Montt held to account for abuses in campaign that killed an estimated 200,000 and led to 45,000 disappearances

The Africa Centre is facing the threat of closure due to lack of funding and is now calling on all stakeholders who can help to secure an office and meeting space for the organisation to facilitate its good work and to prevent closure.

Political Declaration of the "European conference in solidarity with the agrarian and popular struggles, and in support of the talks for Peace with Social Justice in Colombia."

Dublin, April 20-21, 2013

For 17 months, eight agrarian leaders, organisers of Astracatol, a peasant union in the central department of Tolima in Colombia, have been subject of arbitrary imprisonment and unspeakable abuse. All for their commitment to the right to land of poor peasants and their opposition to a hydroelectrical project in the region which would affect their lands.

Source: Paul Dobson in Venezuela

"The U.S. intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs in recent months, and particularly during the election campaign, has been brutal, vulgar" denounced President Maduro this week, in response to interventionary statements from the White House, from the US sponsored Human Rights Watch, and from private US media outlets which openly called for a coup d'état against the democratically elected President.

By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí.

The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.

Those who died in order to defend life itself, cannot be considered dead. (Alí Primera)

On 27th April, 2013, it will be the third anniversary of the cowardly murders of Bety Cariño (the "Red Pitaya") and Jyri Jakkola from Finland.

Hi All,

As signalled, before the elections, the right-wing opposition are engaging in activities similar to those that laid the ground for the short-lived coup in 2002. Here's an update: