Tag: Indigenous peoples
The King of Spain Is Not Invited to Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Inauguration
In 2019, President AMLO asked him to acknowledge the wrongs against Indigenous peoples committed during the conquest. On Wednesday, Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that she did not invite King Felipe VI of Spain to the inauguration ceremony that will take place on October 1. RELATED: Mexican President-Elect Sheinbaum Rejects Zelensky’s Invitation to Visit Ukraine […]
September 25, 2024
Evo Morales’ March Seeks to Alter the Democratic Order: Bolivian Government
On Monday, Morales said that President Arce must change his Cabinet within 24 hours if he wants to continue governing, On Tuesday, the Bolivian Foreign Affairs Ministry accused former president Evo Morales of threatening the continuity of democracy in the Andean country by demanding that President Luis Arce make changes to his cabinet within 24 […]
September 24, 2024
Bolivian President Arce Calls on Evo Morales to Dialogue
Indigenous communities demand that Morales be allowed to run as presidential candidate in the 2025 elections. On Sunday, Bolivian President Luis Arce called former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) to a dialogue just hours before a massive Indigenous march is set to arrive in La Paz on Monday. The Indigenous communities demand that Morales be allowed […]
September 23, 2024
Mapuche Leader Hector Llaitul’s Health Deteriorates in a Chilean Prison
He is serving a 23-year sentence for alleged crimes of violence, usurpation, wood theft, and attacks on authorities. On Wednesday, Ernesto Llaitul warned that his father, Hector Llaitul, the Mapuche leader and founder of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator (CAM), is in critical health due to a hunger strike. RELATED: Chile to Judge With High Penalties […]
August 15, 2024
At Least 973 Native American Children Died at US Federal Boarding Schools
From 1871 to 1969, the U.S. forced Native to attend boarding schools, where they were deprived of their cultural identities. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Interior release a report showing that at least 973 Native American children died at U.S. federal-operated Indian boarding schools that “forcibly confined and attempted to assimilate Indigenous children.” […]
August 1, 2024
Argentines Remember the Napalpi Massacre in 1924
A ‘Truth Trial’ held in 2022 declared the events that took place in Napalpi as crimes against humanity. On July 19, 1924, the security forces of the Argentine state murdered 700 people from the Qom and Mocoi Indigenous communities, thus initiating the extinction of a large part of their language, culture, and history. RELATED: 7,860 […]
July 19, 2024
Peruvian Court Condemns Soldiers Who Committed Crimes Against Humanity
In the 1980s, the military raped Indigenous women in the communities of Manta and Vilca. On Thursday, the First Transitory Superior Criminal Chamber issued a conviction against ten former Peruvian soldiers who raped Indigenous women in Huancavelica between 1984 and 1995. RELATED: Peruvians Ask Inter-American Court to Prevent Impunity in Crimes Against Humanity This crime […]
June 20, 2024
Brazilian Indigenous People Demand Demarcation of Their Lands
Since Monday until Friday, thousands of Brazilian Indigenous people are participating in the 20th Free Land Camp to demand their ancestral rights to the land. RELATED: Lula and Petro Discuss Bilateral and Regional Issues in Bogota Currently, Indigenous communities are fighting against the so-called “Temporal Framework,” a proposal through which agricultural, mining, and forestry corporations […]
April 23, 2024
Brazilian Yanomami Indigenous Leader Meets With Pope Francis
On Wednesday, the leader of the Yanomami Indigenous people, Davi Kopenawa, met with Pope Francis and asked him to support Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s actions in favor of protecting the Indigenous territories at the Amazon basin. RELATED: Brazil Condemns Murder of World Central Kitchen Workers in Gaza “The Pope wanted to know my people’s […]
April 10, 2024
Paraguayan Indigenous Peoples & Farmers Start March in Asuncion
On Thursday, the National Farmers’ Federation (FNC) kicked off its 30th “Farmer, Indigenous, and Popular March” in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, under the motto “For land and production, and against All Injustices.” RELATED: Paraguayan Firefighters on Alert for Forest Fires Summoned by the FNC, social activists, environmental defenders, and progressive politicians departed from […]