Colombia achieves milestone in peace process as right-wing intensifies destabilization campaign
Colombia

Colombia achieves milestone in peace process as right-wing intensifies destabilization campaign

The historic ceasefire between the government and the ELN coincided with a fresh destabilization campaign against the Gustavo Petro government

Peoples Dispatch
August 5, 2023
Can a movement leader solve Argentina’s problems?
Argentina

Can a movement leader solve Argentina’s problems?

Social leader Juan Grabois is contesting the candidacy for the center-left Union for the Homeland coalition in the upcoming primaries in Argentina

Peoples Dispatch
August 4, 2023
Director of Ecuador’s penitentiary system resigns amid increasing prison crisis
Ecuador

Director of Ecuador’s penitentiary system resigns amid increasing prison crisis

The resignation of Guillermo Rodríguez from the SNAI comes a week after the last prison massacre, which claimed the lives of 31 inmates in the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil city

Peoples Dispatch
August 3, 2023
Hundreds of human rights organizations urge Biden to release Alex Saab
Venezuela World

Hundreds of human rights organizations urge Biden to release Alex Saab

The Venezuelan diplomat has been illegally detained since 2020, a victim of the US hybrid war against Venezuela

Peoples Dispatch
August 3, 2023
“A slave who cannot assume his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied,” says Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

“A slave who cannot assume his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied,” says Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso

Captain Ibrahim Traoré denounced Western neo-colonialism, pledges an end to poverty and deadly mass migration from Africa

Peoples Dispatch
August 2, 2023
US-based Korean activists call for peace after 70 years of war
North Korea South Korea United States

US-based Korean activists call for peace after 70 years of war

Activists call for a true end to the 70-year-long Korean War and the lifting of the travel ban on North Korea

Peoples Dispatch
August 1, 2023
El Salvador authorizes mass trials of up to 900 prisoners
El Salvador

El Salvador authorizes mass trials of up to 900 prisoners

The country’s congress approved a reform to the Law Against Organized Crime which human rights organizations say creates an “arbitrary justice system”

Peoples Dispatch
July 28, 2023
Paramilitary violence takes more lives in Colombia
Colombia

Paramilitary violence takes more lives in Colombia

During the past week, one Indigenous leader, one social leader, one former member of the FARC were assassinated, and three people were killed in a new massacre

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2023