Day: November 1, 2005

#. 115. November 2005

FILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION? U.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa ALGERIA: THE AMNESTY VOTE AND THE KABYLIA QUESTION Berber Boycott in Restive Region Signals Continued Struggle by Zighen Aym ALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?… Read more#. 115. November 2005

BUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURS

BOOK REVIEW Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush and the Hubris of Empire By Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell Zed Books, London, 2004 by Daniel Leal Diaz In the optimistically-entitled Imperial Overstretch, Burbach and Tarbell credit the contemporary United States, “an… Read moreBUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURS

CENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES

from Weekly News Update on the Americas DEADLY HURRICANE HITS More than a thousand people are feared dead in flooding and mudslides in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas as a result… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES

ARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN

from Weekly News Update on the Americas PATAGONIA, EL CHACO: CAMPESINOS UNDER ATTACK On Sept. 15, police agents in the southern Argentine province of Chubut nearly beat to death campesino Simforoso Jaramillo, according to the Front of Mapuche and Campesino… Read moreARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN

BOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

BOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

VENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS

from Weekly News Update on the Americas ZULIA: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTACKED On Sept. 15, a group of 15 heavily armed men in olive green military uniforms arrived in two pickup trucks at the Yukpa and Wayuu indigenous campesino community of… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS

COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR

from Weekly News Update on the Americas INDIGENOUS HOLD NATIONWIDE “MINGA,” TWO DIE On Oct. 10, tens of thousands of Colombian indigenous people began marching to various regional capitals in a coordinated Minga (community mobilization) to demand indigenous rights, protest… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR

PERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 30, residents of the districts of Atalaya, Sepahua and Tahuania in the Peruvian Amazon held a 24-hour strike protesting the contamination of the region’s rivers by the Camisea natural gas project…. Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT

EASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO

“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO

EASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO

ALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?

by Rene Wadlow On Sept. 29, 97% of those voting in the Algerian referendum on Peace and Reconciliation voted yes for peace and reconciliation. Was this a necessary act of popular catharsis after some 13 years of violence? Or was… Read moreALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?