from Weekly News Update on the Americas BUENOS AIRES: HOTEL WORKERS ATTACKED Early on Dec. 8, a delegation of 12 cooperative members from the autonomous worker-controlled Bauen hotel were violently ousted from the Buenos Aires municipal legislature as they sought… Read moreARGENTINA: AUTONOMOUS WORKERS UNDER ATTACK
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: AUTONOMOUS WORKERS UNDER ATTACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas MATO GROSSO DO SUL: GUARANI-KAIOWA EVICTED On Dec. 15 some 100-200 Brazilian federal police agents, backed by a helicopter and armed with tear gas and rifles that fire rubber bullets, forcibly evicted more… Read moreBRAZIL: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EVICTED FROM LANDS
Continue ReadingBRAZIL: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EVICTED FROM LANDSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Residents of the Machiguenga and other indigenous communities of the lower Urubamba river area in Peru’s Ucayali region began a 72-hour strike on Dec. 2 to protest the government’s failure to address the… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS PROTEST GAS SPILLS
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS PROTEST GAS SPILLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas The 31 new judges of Ecuador’s Supreme Court of Justice were sworn in, along with 21 alternate judges, on Nov. 30 by Carlos Estarellas, president of a four-member commission appointed to choose the… Read moreECUADOR: MOVES TOWARDS NEW CONSTITUTION
Continue ReadingECUADOR: MOVES TOWARDS NEW CONSTITUTIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas With 79% of the votes counted on the evening of Dec. 4, the six parties supporting left-populist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias had won all 167 seats in the National Assembly in national… Read moreVENEZUELA: CHAVISTAS SWEEP ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CHAVISTAS SWEEP ELECTIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CESAR: PARAMILITARIES MASSACRE 22 According to a report from the Minga Association for Alternative Social Promotion, on Dec. 4 and 5 a group of about 200 armed and uniformed paramilitaries entered the rural… Read moreCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS IN NEW MASSACRE
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS IN NEW MASSACREfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Dec. 23, with 99.7% of the votes counted from the Dec. 18 general elections, Bolivia’s National Electoral Court (CNE) announced that Evo Morales Ayma of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) had won… Read moreBOLIVIA: EVO MORALES VICTORY CONFIRMED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: EVO MORALES VICTORY CONFIRMEDby Kathryn Ledebur and Julia Dietz Over two years have passed since Bolivian security forces killed 59 and left over 200 people seriously injured during widespread demonstrations protesting the management of Bolivia’s gas reserves in September and October of 2003…. Read moreBOLIVIA: “GAS WAR” IMPUNITY AGGRAVATES TENSIONS
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: “GAS WAR” IMPUNITY AGGRAVATES TENSIONSPart Three in a Troubling Series by Michael I. Niman Remember Fallujah? It’s the Iraqi city of 300,000 that we had to destroy in order to save back in April of 2004. Over 30 Americans died and over 400 American… Read moreYES, THE PENTAGON MURDERS JOURNALISTS
Continue ReadingYES, THE PENTAGON MURDERS JOURNALISTSAn Interview with Gilbert Achcar by Bill Weinberg Gilbert Achcar is the author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (Monthly Review Press, 2002) and Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq… Read moreIRAQ: THE CASE FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
Continue ReadingIRAQ: THE CASE FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWALOn December 16 the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights (LIMEDDH) reported that a campesino active in the environmental movement in the southern state of Guerrero, Diego Bahena Armenta, hasn’t been seen since November 8, when he was… Read moreMexico: peasant ecologist kidnapped in Guerrero
A group of 25 US Catholic peace protesters held a three-day fast starting on Dec. 12 near the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to protest the situation of 500 male Muslim detainees held there for three years as… Read moreUS protesters fast at Gitmo
