Day: January 2, 2010

PERU’S AMAZON UPRISING

Indigenous Resistance to the Corporate Agenda by Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report In the wake of this past year’s indigenous uprising in the Amazon, Peru is in many ways fundamentally changed. For the first time, indigenous leaders from the… Read morePERU’S AMAZON UPRISING

The Andes

Peru: hostage crisis follows Huancas prison revolt

Some 400 prisoners revolted at Huancas prison in the northeastern Peruvian city of Chachapoyas on New Years Eve, taking several guards hostage and seizing part of the facility.

Iraq

Criminal charges dismissed in Blackwater massacre

On New Years Eve, a federal judge dismissed all criminal charges against five Blackwater guards accused in the massacre of 17 innocent Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisur Square.