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Indigenous leaders demand suspension of 2024 budget in Guatemala

Published on: December 20, 2023
13:07

Guatemala, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) Mayan indigenous leaders on Tuesday demanded the definitive suspension of Guatemala's criticized 2024 Budget Law, following the provisional injunction granted on Monday by the Constitutional Court (CC).

Guatemalan indigenous people reaffirm their right to peaceful rally

Published on: October 18, 2023
17:20

Guatemala City, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The President of the Boards of Directors of 48 Cantons of the Totonicapan Department Luis Pacheco reaffirmed on Wednesday the right to peaceful rally in Guatemala, following the order of the Constitutional Court (CC).

Ecuadorian indigenous people to create anti-mining front

Published on: December 23, 2022
00:45

Quito, Dec 23 (Prensa Latina) The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) announced the creation of a front to preserve water reserves against the plan currently promoted by the Government to militarize mining projects.

Mexico protects by law indigenous and Afro-Mexican cultural heritage

Published on: January 18, 2022
11:41

Mexico, Jan 18 (Prensa Latina) Mexico made official this Tuesday a decree that issues the Federal Law for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Communities, whose objective is to recognize and guarantee them that property right.

Indigenous leader murdered in Colombia

Published on: November 22, 2021
12:37

Bogota, Nov 22 (Prensa Latina) The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia on Monday repudiated the murder of the Nasa people's leader, Marcos Camayo, perpetrated this Sunday in Buenos Aires municipality, in Cauca department.

Int´l leader urges UN to treat indigenous situation as a war conflict

Published on: November 10, 2021
00:08

United Nations, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) Discrimination and poverty situation of indigenous pooples is too serious to the point of being treated at the United Nations as a warlike conflict, the international leader Lourdes Tiban said at the UN Security Council (UNSC).

Indigenous people continue in Bogotá without solution to demands

Published on: October 18, 2021
14:10

Bogotá, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The 13 indigenous communities planted in the National Park continue today asking for a dialogue table with mayor of the capital, Claudia López, to comply with the reached agreements.

Venezuela calls on Spain to rectify indigenous massacre

Published on: October 12, 2021
13:49

Caracas, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday called on the Spanish government to rectify and apologize for the massacre of millions of indigenous people from America during colonization.

Colombian indigenous people have nothing to celebrate

Published on: October 12, 2021
11:41

Bogota, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) Senior Advisor at the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), Orlando Rayo Acosta, said that ancestral peoples have nothing to celebrate today.

Chile takes another step towards a new Constitution

Published on: October 8, 2021
14:14

Santiago de Chile, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) After approving its regulations, the Constitutional Convention in Chile on Friday paved the way for the drafting of a Constitution to replace that from the times of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

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