Paraguay: Land of Inequality & Food Insecurity August 4-14 Novelist Augusto Roa Bastos once described his native and insular Paraguay as “an island surrounded by land”. AfGJ Board Member John Ocampo will lead this first-time AfGJ delegation to Paraguay, a little-known country to US solidarity activists, students, and Latin American Studies departments. Paraguay has the most unequal…
by James Patrick Jordan Republished from the People’s World Young people in Villa Rica are like young people everywhere. When school is done, they take to parks, each other’s homes, and street corners to talk, joke around, flirt, and otherwise discuss the day with their friends. That’s what was happening on May 1 in Villa…
This week I want to draw your attention to a report on the delegation I led in February to Honduras and Nicaragua. The delegation compared and contrasted the two counties in the areas of rural development, citizen security, and women’s empowerment. In Nicaragua we were hosted by the ATC farmworkers union. You can read or download the 27-page…
Join the Alliance for Global Justice in a very special visit to Colombia June 30-July 10, 2017 as part of an international project of verification of the peace accords. ACT NOW! TIME IS RUNNING OUT! SEND AN EMAIL TO [email protected] TO GET YOUR APPLICATION! The civil war in Colombia began 53 years ago on May…
The Irish human rights organization, Front Line Defenders, has named Nicaraguan indigenous anti-canal activist Francisca Ramirez Torres as one of its five finalists for the 2017 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. She joins four other finalists from Ukraine, Vietnam, South Africa and Kuwait as a finalist for the award from…
This blogger could not think of anything to write about this week, but I do want to offer up the following brief summaries of news from Nicaragua that I think is important or at least interesting to international solidarity activists. BRIEFS Informe Pastran pointed out that the omnibus spending bill passed by the US Congress to…
AFGJ’s Report on our February Delegation to Honduras and Nicaragua is now available. Please note, the report is posted in 2 parts; for the full report please view/download both. Delegation Report Part 1: Honduras Delegation Report Part 2: Nicaragua
I want to revisit the issue of the NICA Act this week because I may have been too complacent in dismissing it since it is so irrational. As we in the United States are going through a period of greater than normal irrationality, it behooves us to prepare not just for rational events, but for irrational ones as well. Likely…
Click Here to Take Action! The United States government is orchestrating an attempt at anti-democratic regime change in Venezuela in order to bring the extreme right into power. Venezuela does not need more US interference in its internal and electoral affairs. What it needs is for the opposition and their Washington DC backers to recognize, respect and answer affirmatively…
Democrat and Republican senators have introduced a bill to further disrupt Venezuela’s political system with the goal of imposing regime change. We support Pope Frances’ call for dialogue between “ the government and all the components of the Venezuelan society so that every further form of violence is avoided, human rights are respected and negotiated…
