October 12, 2011 6:28 PM
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - (AP) -- Hundreds of teachers, farmers and union members have gathered outside the Dominican Republic's Congress to demand the government spend more on public education

We, as members of The Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas (IDEA Network), which brings together education labor unions and social organizations from across the continent, express our solidarity with the striking teachers in Acapulco, Guerrero, who are demanding guarantees from the  Mexican government in order to be able to continue their work as teachers

In the past four weeks, the so-called education reform being pushed by the de facto regime gave way to a strike by high school students

University and school students in Chile are continuing their fight to overturn years of neo-liberal education policies

All 44 teachers at the public high school in Las Delicias, a village in Tierralta municipality in the northern Colombian province of Córdoba, sought refuge in Montería, the department’s capital, on July 22 after being threatened by a paramilitary group

June 28, 2011: The Confederation of University Students in Chile (CONFECH) convened today, along with the College of Teachers, and called for a new protest march on Thursday June 30, demanding a budget increase for public universities and a return of primary and secondary education institutions to the jurisdiction of the state

Brussels, 6 June 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has once again condemned and expressed its deep sorrow at the murders of two more Colombian teachers, Carlos Julio Gómez Freddy, on 26 May, and Antonio Cuadrado Núñez, on 29 May

The Real News has produced an excellent video in English that explains the relationship of the assault on public education in Honduras to the “shock doctrine,” including how de facto president Lobo travelled to New Orleans to study how Louisiana managed to break the teachers’ union and privatize the education system in the wake of the shock of Hurricane Katrina

Honduras, Tegucigalpa - May 12, 2011: As female Honduran teachers we took the initiative to organize this demonstration of women teachers at La Plaza La Merced, on Thursday May 12^th, to stand with our four colleagues who are undertaking a hunger strike in response to the government’s indifference to the teacher’s crisis

May 9th, 2011

(From hondurashumanrights

After almost 3 weeks of street protests and strikes during which security forces killed two protesters and beat and imprisoned hundreds more, Honduran teachers announced a ¨strategic retreat¨ on Monday April 4

- Endless Repression by Military-backed Regime

 - Eye-witness report from the streets of Tegucigalpa

  By Karen Spring (Rights Action, , Tegucigalpa, March 30, 2011

Today, a National Strike was called in Honduras by the public school teachers and the National Front of Popular Resistance to protest the last two weeks of brutal and fierce repression, the eighteen political prisoners on trial and the attempt of the post-coup regime and international financial institutions to privatize public education

For several months now, the de facto Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and his corrupt education minister Jose Ventura have launched an escalating offensive against public education and the teachers´ movement in Honduras

The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) are requesting that letters be written to leaders at the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) regarding the current human rights crisis in Honduras, including threats and attacks against specific human rights defenders, and violent repression of public protest since last Thursday, as outlined below in the following sample letter

Monday March 21st, 2011

SOS!!!! We report that these savages (police) have us imprisoned in the COPEMH

One teacher has died in hospital in Tegucigalpa as a result of injuries following police repression

Ilse Ivania Velázquez Rodriquez, a teacher who was hit in the head with a projectile tear gas canister fired by police then allegedly struck by a police tank, has died in Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa as a result of her injuries

Puerto Rican Education Secretary Jesús Rivera Sánchez dismissed the 11 members of the executive committee of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation (FMPR)  [unaffiliated with US teaching federations] from their teaching posts and blocking them from exercising their profession in public and private systems

June 9, 2010: The ITUC Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights came out this week <Read more...

Italian students protesting at education reforms have targeted two top tourist attractions, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum

Honduran Resistance Protests Wage Laws
by Victoria Cervantes,
La Voz de los de Abajo
On November 3, thousands of teachers, students and other supporters of the teachers tied up traffic for hours in Tegucigalpa in the first mobilization against new actions by the Lobo regime targeting organized workers and educators

Ecuadorian University students Federation President, Marcelo Rivera, detained for more than ten months in the former prison Garcia Moreno, declared today on hungry strike indefinitely, as a measure of pressure against the Government and justice to demand their freedom

Update on the situation in Honduras, September 3^rd, 2010
After the negotiations between the de facto government and the teachers broke down on August 26^th of August, the repression against teachers and their supporters has intensified and the presidents of the Teachers Colleges of Honduras are warning that they won’t return to negotiations  until the regime reigns in its security forces

The teachers’ movement in Honduras has been the backbone of the resistance to the coup and the defacto President Porfirio Lobo

On May 10th and 11th, 2010 at the 14th Meeting of the IDEA Network Coordinating Committee in Montreal, Canada, representatives from IDEA Network partners presented written and verbal reports about the state of public education in their countries, regions and sectors

 Peru
Security Forces detain striking teacher leaders
The government of President Alan Garcia has escalated its offensive against the Peruvian teachers union SUTEP, detaining more than 100 teachers including most of the Union's national leadership July 12, and the deacon of the Peruvian Teachers College (CPP) the evening of July 13