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Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 100 years ago today
Cross-posted from Survival International 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish...
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After Rio+20, Brazil’s cemetery of mangroves and fisherfolk
Cross-Posted from The Africa Report By Nnimmo Bassey, 4 July 2012 19:44 Two visits outside the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marked the highpoints of my visit to that city for the infamous Rio+20...
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U.S. refusal to extradite Bolivia’s ex-president to face genocide charges
by Glenn Greenwald 10 September 2012. Source: guardian.co.uk Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers In October...
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Gunmen kill Mexican environmental activist being guarded by police team,...
November 29 2012. Source: Associated Press A band of gunmen killed an environmental activist who had received death threats for standing up to drug gangs and had a police guard when she was ambushed in...
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Paraguay peasant leader Vidal Vega shot dead
2 December 2012. Source: BBC News Vidal Vega’s supporters were involved in a deadly land dispute in eastern Paraguay The leader of a landless peasant movement in Paraguay involved in a land dispute...
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Trial starts for killing of Brazil activists
Note: View video here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/201343195752352158.html -The GJEP Team April 3 2013. Source: Al Jazeera Three suspected killers of a couple who protested illegal...
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Action Alert: Obama going to Mexico – Call today to demand accountability for...
TAKE ACTION TODAY: CALL Senator Leahy: (202) 224-4242 As the second most Senior Senator and the Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, Senator Leahy has the power...
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Friends and family of murdered U.S. journalist blast Obama for failure to...
Note: Brad Will: ¡Presente! -The GJEP Team May 7, 2013. Source: Friends of Brad Will President Obama has returned from Mexico having doubled down on the same policies that have created suffering for...
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Mexican environmental activist murdered
Note: Industrial hydroelectric power is yet another false solution to climate change. Across the world, from northern Quebec to Mexico, from the Amazon to the Mekong basin, mega-dams displace...
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Killings of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples highlight tensions of land disputes
By Jonathan Watts, August 8, 2013. Source: The Guardian Celso Rodrigues was walking by a river near his home in Mato Grosso do Sul, when he was ambushed by a gunman in a balaclava, shot with a pistol...
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