Three men were hanged for their supposed involvement in a May 28 bomb attack that killed 25 and injured over 100 at a mosque in Iran’s eastern city of Zahedan, Baluchistan province.
Our May issue featured “The Voice of Free Somaliland,” an interview with Dr. Saad Noor, North American representative of the Republic of Somaliland—a stable, secular de facto independent country in what is known in the media (none too accurately) as… Read moreFree Somaliland: Our readers write
Electronic Journal & Daily Report THE “COLOMBIANIZATION” OF CHIHUAHUA Bogotá Trains Anti-Narco Forces on Mexican Border from Frontera NorteSur KIDNAP, NO RANSOM Drug Cartel Slave Labor in Northern Mexico? by Peter Gorman, Fort Worth Weekly MEXICO’S RESURGENT GUERILLAS Washington’s Drug… Read moreIssue #158, June 2009
A Perfect Storm in Mexico by Todd Miller, NACLA News The 40-day blockade of the Trinidad mine in the Oaxacan community of San José del Progreso came to a sudden and violent halt on May 6. Mine representatives and municipal… Read moreMEGAPROJECTS AND MILITARIZATION
Continue ReadingMEGAPROJECTS AND MILITARIZATIONWashington’s Drug War and the Ghosts of 1910 from Frontera NorteSur A new twist with unpredictable political consequences has emerged amid the shifting battle fronts of Mexico’s narco war. Sometime the weekend of May 9-10 and somewhere in the mountains… Read moreMEXICO’S RESURGENT GUERILLAS
Continue ReadingMEXICO’S RESURGENT GUERILLASby Peter Gorman, Fort Worth Weekly The drug war raging along the US-Mexico border might seem distant to many in North Texas, but it landed squarely in one Fort Worth woman’s living room in late February, when her grown son,… Read moreKIDNAP, NO RANSOM
Continue ReadingKIDNAP, NO RANSOMfrom Frontera NorteSur A high-ranking delegation of political, business and legal leaders from Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua returned to Mexico late last month after completing a May 21 trip to Colombia. The visit netted commitments by the… Read moreTHE “COLOMBIANIZATION” OF CHIHUAHUA
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