Eleven people were shot and killed on Saturday night, September 7th in San José Nacahuil, a small Kaqchikel community of San Pedro Ayampuc, just outside of Guatemala City, Guatemala.
The World Bank has finally responded to pressure from NGOs, rights activists and grassroots groups calling on an end to financing for land grabbing projects that allow the leasing of huge tracts traditionally occupied by the world's poorest and most disenfranchised to make way for large-scale corporate agriculture projects. In their statement, released at the close of this week's World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Bank President Dr.
Martin Cobin, age 91, lives in Louisville, Colorado.
Cultural Survival is deeply saddened by the sudden death of our long-time Bazaar vendor, Jean Crandall of La Chula Mula. Jean, 47, a former folklorist at the DC Arts Councildied on November 1, 2011, at her home in Poughkeepsie, New York.