Indigenous Social Movements in Latin America Resist an ‘Atmosphere of Repression and Human Rights Violations’

Conflict between populist social movements and national governments that aim to silence dissent by criminalizing them is on the rise across Latin America, Jeff Abbott reports. Abbott’s report first focuses on Guatemala, where two indigenous leaders—Rigoberto Juarez and Domingo Baltazar—have been targeted with arrest for their leadership in a fight against proposed hydroelectric dams in […]
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