Photo: Mainor Ortiz Delgado's home, damaged by in December 2018 by the family of the shooter. Courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme

By John McPhaul

Mainor Ortiz Delgado, a member of the Indigenous Bribri Tubolwak clan, was shot in the leg by a trespasser on February 9, 2020, on his farm in Rio Azul de Salitre in southwestern Costa Rica. This act of is part of an ongoing wave of violence spurring from the Costa Rican government’s failure to implement Indigenous land rights and bring sanctions on non-Indigenous settlers on Indigenous land.

By Tristan Suarez

Reposteado por el programa de Hindenburg

Hindenburg celebra el Día Mundial de la Radio 2020 (WRD2020) este 13 de febrero de 2020, en el que se ofrecen descuentos  en nuestros productos para productores de radio y podcasts.

Hindenburg de nuevo se une a Cultural Survival para impulsar su misión en la promoción de los derechos y las culturas de los pueblos Indígenas en todo el mundo a través de la radio.

By Augusta Davis

By Alexandra Carraher-Kang

By Arianna Adirim-Lanza

Reposted with permission from Mongabay

by Mike Gaworecki 

El encuentro internacional reunirá a delegaciones desde Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Cuba, Perú y EE.UU.

It is no coincidence that eighty percent of the Earth’s most biodiverse zones overlap with Indigenous lands and territories. Slow Food, a global grassroots organization founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, argues, “from a holistic perspective, Indigenous Peoples’ food systems can provide answers to global issues such as climate change and food sovereignty.” The upcoming Indigenous Terra Madre for Peoples of the Americas conference is poised to add fuel to the ongoing awareness surrounding Indigenous knowledge and land rights.
 

En medio de un denso hermetismo se logra apenas saber de manera extraoficial que un grupo armado de aproximadamente 80 personas al que identifican como “el grupo armado Kukalón” irrumpió la tranquilidad de la comunidad Alal, Indígena Mayangna, en Bonanza, a 400 kilómetros al noreste de la ciudad capital, Managua.
 

According to early reports, an armed group of approximately 80 people who identify as “the Kukalón Armed Group” recently disturbed the peace of an Indigenous Mayangna village of Alal, Bonanza, 400 kilometers northeast of Managua, Nicaragua. On January 28, 2020, the group massacred 6 Indigenous Mayangnas, another 10 are reported missing, and several houses were burned. Five of the victims have been identified: Tránsito Mesa, Víctor Díaz, Juan Emilio Devis, Carlos Martín, and Miguel Dixon.
 

By Nati Garcia