By Laura Simpson Reeves
Beginning on November 21, 2019, at least 250,000 Colombians have flooded the streets in three separate general strikes, sparked by rumors of cuts to minimum wage for young people.
Stories told about the first Thanksgiving often perpetuate harmful stereotypes and erase the true history of the early encounters between Native communities and colonizers.
Cultural Survival condena el uso de fuerza excesiva, violenta, tras la renuncia forzada del presidente boliviano Evo Morales (Aymara), el primer presidente Indígena del país, después de 10 días de protesta pública.
Morales huyó a México luego de denuncias de fraude electoral por parte de la Organización de Estados Americanos. Las protestas posteriores han dejado hasta el momento a 23 personas muertas, más de 100 heridos y varios encarcelados en diferentes partes del país.
Cultural Survival condemns the use of excessive force and violence in the aftermath of the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales (Aymara), the country’s first Indigenous president, after 10 days of public protest.
Morales fled to Mexico after allegations of election fraud from the Organization of American States. Subsequent protests have so far left 23 people dead, more than 100 injured and multiple incarcerated in different parts of the country.
On November 1, 2019, Chile cancelled its hosting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP 25) meeting due to unrest in the country, which also highlighted the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples. Spain will now host the meeting during the same time frame, on December 2 -13, 2019, in Madrid, under the presidency of the Chilean government. The move impacts Indigenous Peoples and delegates coming from the global south who are facing obstacles in obtaining visas, in event planning and implementation in this short period of time.
Interviews by Miriam Anne Frank, article by Miriam Anne Frank and Alexandra Carraher-King
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