June 10, 2015
The municipality of Nejapa suffers from water scarcity and contamination. Photo: Creative Commons
The main and only source of water for thousands of Salvadorans is in peril. Residents from a Salvadoran municipality have seen a gradual depletion and contamination of their main and only water source since multinational corporations like Coca-Cola started operations there, activists have denounced. (more…)
By Sam Laird on June 11, 2015
After Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana and Mississippi in August 2005, Cuba offered a cadre of doctors and medical supplies to help treat injured and displaced Americans. Cuba is renowned around the world for the quality of its doctors — but the United States government declined the offer. (more…)
By Carmen Esquivel Sarría on June 12, 2015
The Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) held in Brussels, agreed to strengthen their bi-regional relationship and was a positive sign for countries south of the Rio Grande River. (more…)
June 11, 2015
On June 11, 1,500 strong ‘Summit of the People’ in Brussels brought progressives together from 23 countries across Europe to meet with powerful social movements from Latin America to learn lessons on how to end austerity in Europe, to build united pressure for an ambitious binding global climate deal in Paris and to oppose western interventions into Latin America. (more…)
By James Jordan* on June 11 2015
Photo: Street protest against Peru’s Tia Maria mining project. | Global Voices Online (CC)
What does it take to stop a transnational corporate giant in its tracks when it threatens workers, farmers and communities? The people of Arequipa, Peru have an answer. (more…)
Local Editor by June 11, 2015
The Yemeni army and Popular Committees (PC) forces stormed on Thursday morning the Al-Dood Saudi military site for the second time in retaliation for the Saudi-US aggression on Yemen, leaving a number of hostile vehicles destroyed as Saudi soldiers were escaping the blows of resistance units. (more…)
June 10, 2015
Marti Batres, President of the Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Photo: Morena
teleSUR spoke with Marti Batres of Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) after last Sunday’s midterm elections.
teleSUR: Tell me your opinion on the most recent midterm elections in Mexico, how it was it for you as president of a party that was running for the first time? (more…)
By Paulina Abramovich on June 10, 2015
The protest was the latest in a series of rallies by students who say President Michelle Bachelet’s education reforms are insufficient to overhaul a deeply unequal system inherited from late dictator Augusto Pinochet. (more…)