Mexican State Plays Ethnic Divide-and-Rule in the Chiapas Rainforest by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT When Mexico's President Vicente Fox was elected six years ago, he pledged he would end the long-simmering Chiapas revolt "in fifteen minutes." Now, as his successor… Read moreTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE LACANDON SELVA
Continue ReadingTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE LACANDON SELVAA Model for the Korean Peninsula? by Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom With a political sky darkened by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the growing tensions over the nuclear program of Iran, a ray of sunlight comes from… Read moreNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIA
Continue ReadingNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIAInternational Complicity in Morocco’s Repression by Simon Cunich, Green Left Weekly On October 31, Morocco’s allies on the United Nations Security Council-including France, the United States and Britaināblocked a motion to condemn human rights abuses against the people of occupied… Read moreTHE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN SAHARA
Continue ReadingTHE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN SAHARADissected Nations Oppose Wall and Militarization by Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program Indigenous peoples at the Border Summit of the Americas on Tohono O’odham tribal land opposed the construction of a border wall, which will dissect indigenous communities on ancestral… Read moreINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMIT
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMITfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Ayma met on Nov. 25 with right-wing opposition forces to try to resolve a political crisis that came to a head when the rightwing Democratic and… Read moreBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23, after a weekend of intense negotiations, the Achuar indigenous nation reached an agreement with the Peruvian government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol, bringing an end to a nearly two-week… Read morePERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHT
Continue ReadingPERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITInterventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement by Nikolas Kozloff, WW4 REPORT With the Venezuelan presidential election fast approaching on December 3, political tensions have reached a new high. Recently, the Venezuelan Attorney General initiated an investigation to determine whether a… Read moreVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Nicaragua: Ortega wins WIth 91.6% of the ballots counted from Nicaragua’s Nov. 5 elections, former president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won the presidency with 38.07%, compared to 29%… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: SANDINISTAS TAKE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY, GUATEMELAN GENERALS ORDERED ARRESTED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: SANDINISTAS TAKE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY, GUATEMELAN GENERALS ORDERED ARRESTEDFrom Agencia Proceso (APRO), Nov. 25 via Chiapas95 (our translation): OAXACA — The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) has announced the “forced disappearance” of the movement’s spokesperson, Cesar Mateos Benitez, and of Jorge Sosa, cousin of its… Read moreOaxaca: APPO leaders “disappeared”
