Treinte anos despues, Mariposa recuerda su desarollo como activista en los dias cuando se formo el Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional. (FMLN)

Toni Solo walks us through the cooperative school he has founded in Nicaragua on the outskirts of Esteli.

Toni Solo walks us through the cooperative school he has founded on the outskirts of Esteli.

Entrevista con una mujer votante el dia de las elecciones en Honduras.

I began by asking Annie if she had any doubts that the election results in Honduras were fraudulent. She was adamant thst they were. What did this mean for Honduras in the near future?

Juan Barahona entrevistado por periodista veterano, Dick Emanuellson, despues de poner su voto en la manana de Noviembre 24.

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Election obsdervers interviewed at ta booth share their initial impressions mid morning on the day. An observer from the European Union team, and two from the US, representing the Union movement.

La noche de viernes Noviembre 29 salio la dirigencia del LIBRE con las pruebas del fraude en las elecciones  del 24. Despues la presentacion, Xiomara explico las medidas y acciones que LIBRE iba tomar.

Observadores que habian salido al campo antes el dia de las elecciones hablan de como fueron agregidos y amenazados por los autoridades. qui estan sus testimonios.

En la conferencia de prensa en la sede de COFADEH, Berta Oliva hace una declaracion.

Observadores y Berta Caceres hablan de la ingerencia de los militares, policia, y officiales en la communidad del Rio Blanco, incluso la detencion de observadores internacionales.

OBservadores contestan las preguntas de la prensa en la sede de COFADEH

Conferencia de prensa despues las elecciones, observadores hablan de los irregularidades y el intimidaciones de que fueron testigos.

Observadores dan repuestas a las preguntas de los periodistas, sobre  sus experiencias y reportajes.

Los observadores y delegados se presentan en la oficina de los derechos humanos COFADEH

Los sentimientos de unas activistas del LIBRE en preparacion para las elecciones en el Parque Central de Tegucigalpa, y una encuesta de la gente tranquilamente observando.

Los sentimientos de unas activistas del LIBRE en preparacion para las elecciones en el Parque Central de Tegucigalpa, y una encuesta de la gente tranquilamente observando.

(Foto, Una conferencia de prensa con observadores y victimas de un desalojo y el asesinato de familiares, unos pocos dias antes la fecha de las elecciones)

Despues una conferencia de prensa con un equipo de observadores, hablando del ambiente de intimidacion en Honduras en los dias y semanas antes las elecciones de Noviembre 24, un periodista del Radio Globo me conto sus proprios experiencias como periodista, trabajando en Honduras.

At a press conference in the capital of Honduras and indigenous Canadian enumertes abuses against Honduras´indigenous people that escalated in the days leading up to the elections on November 24 2013

Dirigente de COPINH (Representando los Derechos Humanos de los pueblos  Indigenes de Honduras), Berta Caceres es bajo detencion domicilio. Sin embargo, sigue hablando fuertemente sobre los derechos del pueblo indigena que estan sufriendo una represion mas fuerte que nunca en los dias antes las elecciones en Honduras.

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Karen Spring is a journalist and researcher based in Honduras. She was present during the 2009 coup and is currently working out of the main human rights office in Honduras (COFEDAH). An expert observer of Honduran politics, she gives her assessment of what is happening in the lead up to the Honduras'elections, behind the facade presented to the rest of the world.

Janette describes her experience of life in a Zapatista community, with a strong emphasis on the role of women.

A Mexican photojournalist who covered the zapatista uprising of January 1 1994 describes his experience of a Zapatista community 18 years later.

Mariposa talks about her life in Nicaragua and her love for that country, in spite of having been a participant in the Salvadoran revolutionary process.

Mariposa habla sobre los razones que ella vive casi en exilio en Nicaragua, su respeto y amor por el pais, aunque todavia participa en los procesos politicos de El Salvador.

Mariposa comments on the current debate in El Salvador and other countries in the region of Central America about the issue of ím punity' - or amnesty for those known to be guilty of war crimes and gross human rights violations that took place during the 12 year civil war in El Salvador.

Mariposa habla sobre 'la impunidad' para los militares y otros culpable de violaciones de los derechos humanos y crimenes de guerra (masacres y torturas). Ahora en El Salvador hay un fuerte debate sobre la impunidad y los atentos de controlar los archivos de Tutela Legal, la oficina establecido por el asesinado arzobispado Arnulfo Romero y la Igesia Catolica, para invesigar los violaciones de los derechos humanos de los Salvadorenos.

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Rodolfo Pacheco, un maestro Mexicano explica el como y el porque de las protestas de los maestros. LOs maestros han occupado el Zocalo desde hace 5 meses protestando una ley de 'Reforma Educativa'. Los maestro dicen que es mas una ley de reforma laboral porque obliga a los maestros a someterse a una evaluacion para seguir trabajando en su profesion.

En la segunda semana de Septiembre se pasaron la ley, y los maestros cerraron el centro de Ciudad Mexico, y hubo enfrentamientos con la policia. El viernes fueron desalojados del Zocalo. Los maestros se han ubicado en otros lugares, y siguen con sus desfiles.

Rudolfo Pacheco, a Mexican Philosophy teacher explains the whys and wherefores of the Mexican teachers' protests. The teachers have occupied the Zocalo for over 5 months in protest against 'Educational Reform' legislation, claiming that it is more about labor reform than educational reform, because it requires the teachers to undergo periodic evaluation to continue working in their profession.

In the second week of September the legislation was passed, and the teachers shut down the centre of Mexico City with confrontations with the police. On Friday they were evicted from the Zocalo and they have relocated to other public locations in the city, and are continuing with their protest marches.

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Second part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.

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First part of an interview with Toni Solo, based in Nicaragua. In the context of the legal and international rights controversies generated by Snowden, Assange, the trials of Guatemalan ex-President Rios Montt for war crimes, and the Canadian mining company Hudbay for Human rights violations, the meeting of the Latin American ALBA countries in Ecuador this week, to discuss human rights issues takes on significant geopolitical weight.

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Toni Dolo reports from Nicaragua. Why whistleblower Snowden would want to go there , how Venezuela is sending US State Secretary John Kerry bonkers, and why Latin American countries (and some in the Caribbean) are standing up for their rights. Musical breaks from David Rovic's Prism album. 

http://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/into-a-prism

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Toni Solo from Nicaragua talks about some of the environmental and geopolitical issues at stake in the announcement by the Nicaraguan government of an agreement with a Hong Kong based Chinese company to go ahead with feasability studies for a massive canal project connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean coast through largely uninhabited jungle areas of Nicaragua.

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Toni Solo from Nicaragua talks about some of the environmental and geopolitical issues at stake in the announcement by the Nicaraguan government of an agreement with a Hong Kong based Chinese company to go ahead with feasability studies for a massive canal project connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean coast through largely uninhabited jungle areas of Nicaragua.

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Grahame Russel is a Canadian lawyer who works with Rights Action (http://rightsaction.org). He was in Guatemala as an observer for the trial of Rios Efrain Montt who is accused of being responsible for the genocide of over 100 thousand Mayan indigenous people during his term as President in the early 1980s. Grahame makes the point that this is a ground breaking trial as it implicates the current President of Guatemala who was a major in the Guatemalan Armed Forces at the time the human rights abuses and the genocide was peaking. Alan Nairn, a journalist who filmed current President Otto Perez Molina gloating over the bodies of villagers suspected of being supporters of the guerilla forces was blocked from presenting evidence at the trial. (http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/19/exclusive_allan_nairn_exposes_role_of)

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Pavel Nunez Duarte, Honduras'  revolutionary musican and songwriter, of the top selling band 'Cafe Guancasco' talks to community radio about how politics informs their music. A teacher of mathematics, a student organiser, and now active in the Resistance Front of Honduras against the coup, he finds music is 'another language', his guitar 'a megaphone' to communicate the social realities of Honduras. He can't say how he 'came to be involved in politics' because it has always been part of his life. It is more a question of why he can't leave it !  A revealing interview in which even the explanation of 'Guancasco' has a social import. A 'Guancasco, he says, is a gathering , or get together of people in an indigenous community. You don't get that, in the cities but, he explains, in urban communities around the world you have 'Cafes' . Hence the name  - a blend of the modern and the traditional, the regional and the global. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRzsUAIAUxQ