[Jorney Madriz or Master as he is commonly known is a rapper with hip hop group Area 23, based in 23 de enero, one of the most militant barrios in Caracas and a bedrock of support for the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela. He is also a key member of the ‘Hip Hop Revolución’ cultural collective. This is an excerpt taken from 'Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela' (Alborada Films, 2009). Click here for more info on how to support a forthcoming documentary on Venezuela's 'Hip Hop Revolucion' movement.]

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[According to the Honduran newspaper, Tiempo, as well as the Honduran human rights group, COFADEH, the agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), dressed in military uniforms, killed at least four and possibly six civilians in a raid which took place on Friday, May 11. The victims included two pregnant women and two children.]

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[Julian Assange talks to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.]

[A US military training center in the port city of Concón, in the central Chilean province of Valparaíso, will be used for exercises "clearly oriented toward the control and repression of the civilian population," according to an open letter that more than 20 human rights organizations sent Chile's Defense Minister Andrés Allamand on May 7.]

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['The Guardian's' South American correspondent Rory Carroll’s interpretation of the Cuban revolution and Latin America more generally cannot be viewed as anything other than overt complicity in confining the terrible fate of hundreds of thousands to the memory hole, thereby preserving the image of the United States as a benign force in the world, and denying justice to its many mutilated, murdered, and meticulously forgotten victims.]

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[Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports.]

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[The Brazilian government of Dilma Rousseff is taking firm steps towards stronger relations with Africa, such as the creation of a special fund to finance development projects together with multilateral lenders like the World Bank.]

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[Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has made headlines around the world for his suggestion that the U.S. led “War on Drugs” has failed, and that other options should be explored. However, analyts say the decriminalisation plan is a smokescreen for increased militarisation, and the rearrangement of Guatemala’s drug trafficking elite.]

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[For too long the UK government hasmaligned individual Latin American nations. Collectively, their trading, economic and cultural communities are growing and joining up into internationally important unions. We can be partners in this historic reconfiguration, or we can bang the old Empire drum and be ignored.]

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