New York City
From Tompkins Square to the Redwoods
Bill Weinberg's Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade brings Northern California's veteran eco-activist Darryl Cherney to the Lower East Side's Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
Day: December 4, 2012
North Africa
Mali: final bid to avoid intervention?
Mali’s government is in talks with Islamist rebels who control the country’s north, while Gen. Carter Ham in Washington warned that al-Qaeda has established a haven in the country.
Greater Middle East
Amnesty: human rights ‘catastrophe’ in Yemen
A report by Amnesty International documents a "raft of gross and deeply disturbing abuses" committed by both Islamist rebels and government forces in the battle for southern Yemen.
Honduras: Drug War as counterinsurgency?
A DEA Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Team (FAST) on the ground in Honduras. Residents of Ahuas village, on the remote Miskito Coast, took to the streets in May to protest a deadly military-style drug raid, demanding the DEA leave their… Read moreHonduras: Drug War as counterinsurgency?
HONDURAS: DRUG WAR AS COUNTERINSURGENCY?
by Bill Weinberg, High Times
Recent headlines from Honduras give an uneasy sense of deja vu for the bad old days of the 1980s, when the US and its local proxy forces waged brutal counter-insurgency wars across Central America.
Residents of Ahuas village, on the remote Miskito Coast, took to the streets May 11 to protest a deadly military-style drug raid, demanding the US DEA leave their territory—and putting government offices to the torch to make their point. Miskito Indian leaders issued a statement declaring the DEA persona non grata in the territory.
The Caribbean
Haiti: one killed in infrastructure protest
One resident was killed by police and three were wounded in protests that broke out in the city of Jérémie after a Brazilian company pulled out of a highway repair project.
Central America
Honduras: another campesino murdered in Aguán
The number of dead in the violence over the three years since the land disputes broke out in the Aguán region of Honduras is now about 90, the great majority of them campesinos.
Mexico
Mexico: Peña Nieto takes office as youths riot
Protests against Enrique Peña Nieto during his inauguration quickly turned into violent clashes between police and demonstrators that disrupted much of downtown Mexico City.
Southern Cone
Argentina: anti-mining activists assaulted in Chubut
Dozens of opponents of large-scale mining projects were injured when hundreds of construction workers attacked them at the provincial legislature building in Chubut.
The Andes
Peru’s cabinet in bid to save Conga project
Peru’s government urged opponents of the Conga minig project to return to the dialogue table, as protesters set up an encampment at the Lima offices of Newmont Mining.
The Amazon
Ecuador: indigenous protests as oil blocs sold
Indigenous protesters blocked Quito’s Marriott Hotel, where a major sale of Amazon oil blocs was underway. Riot police and military troops were brought in to clear the blockade.