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Trump Set to Take Backwards Step on Cuba Policy

Backers of Honduran Dam Opposed by Murdered Activist Withdraw Funding

Nina Lakhani, The Guardian

The international funders behind the hydroelectric dam opposed by murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres are withdrawing from the project, the Guardian can reveal. Three financial institutions had pledged loans worth $44m for the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque river, which is considered sacred by the Lenca people and which Caceres...

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Marking Earth Day, Indigenous People Worldwide to Fight Corporate Forces

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Indigenous people and allies around the world are mobilizing this Earth Day to...

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Honduran Farmers Sue World Bank Lending Arm for 'Profiting From Murder'

Nika Knight, staff writer

Members of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguán Valley (MUCA) carry mock coffins bearing photos of murdered relatives during a 2012 march against the ongoing violence in the Baja Aguán valley.

Honduran farmers on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against a branch of the World...

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A vigil for Berta Cáceres.

Berta Cáceres' Murder Linked to U.S.-Trained Soldiers, Leaked Court Docs Show

Mexican Goldman Environmentalist Prize Winner Killed in Latest Attack on Latin American Activists

Human Rights Defenders Face 'Unthinkable Spiral of Violence' in Latin America

Upend the Tax Havens to Fund Clean Energy Revolution, Group Urges

Brazil Fallout Begins as Leftist Leaders Denounce 'Coup Against Latin America'

US Special Ops Training in Latin America Tripled, Docs Reveal

Completing Democratic Overthrow, Brazil's Right-Wing Senate Ousts Rousseff

Rousseff Warns of Threat to Brazil's Democracy as "Coup" Nears End

Venezuela's Maduro Accuses US of "Imperialist Attack" Against Latin America

Bolivia Builds Anti-Imperialist School to Counter US Hegemony

'Not a Good Day for Democracy': Senate Approves Impeachment Trial for Brazil's Rousseff

Kissinger's "praise for the Argentine government in its campaign against terrorism was the music the Argentine government was longing to hear." (Photo: Brandon/flickr/cc)

Dirty War Files Show How Clinton Ally Kissinger Backed Regime of Terror

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Center for Biological Diversity

Mexican Environmental Activist, Winner of Goldman Prize, Murdered in Relative's Home...

Oxfam International

Violence Against Human Rights Activists in Latin America is Out of Control

Center for International Environmental Law

Deadly Shade of Green

School of The Americas Watch

Thousands to Call for Closure of Controversial Training Facility for Latin American Soldiers

Fight for $15

Golden Arches Faces First-Ever Global Hearing on Company’s Low-Road Business Model, Under Fire for Allegations of Tax Dodging, Unfair Competition, Franchise Law Violations

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