Juan Carlos “El Konan” GarcĂa Cruz, a member of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) was sentenced to three years in prison by a Mexican federal court in Oaxaca City Aug. 26 on arms possession charges. While several APPO… Read moreOaxaca: APPO activist gets prison term
State police in Guerrero, Mexico, announced they had discovered a cache of 14 firearms with home-made bombs and camo uniforms hidden in a corn warehouse (bodega de maiz) in the community of Chamacua de Michelle, Coyuca de Catalán municipality. Authorities… Read moreAnti-guerilla operations in Guerrero, Oaxaca
On Aug. 29, the Tzotzil Maya community of Ejido 28 de Junio in the municipality of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, was occupied by troops of the Mexican federal army, who arrived in two trucks and four armed personnel carriers. Establishing checkpoints… Read moreMexican army searches for EPR guerillas in Chiapas
It seems the US has been inadvertently arming the PKK these past four years since the Iraq invasion—the same quasi-Maoist Kurdish separatist group that is seeking to secede from NATO ally Turkey and is on the State Department “foreign terrorist… Read moreUS arms to Iraqi Kurds slipping through to PKK?
When Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted two years ago, we called her a scapegoat. Now, a military jury at Ft. Meade has found Lt-Col. Steven Jordan—the only officer to be court-martialled over the Abu Ghraib case—guilty of disobeying an order… Read moreAbu Ghraib decision reveals what flows downhill
Two residents, including an 11-year-old boy, are dead following riots at the village of Cubulco in Guatemala’s Baja Verapaz department. Protesters torched the home of the mayor, Rolando Rivera, and the village remains occupied by a large detachment of the… Read moreTwo dead in Guatemala riots
We recently posed the question of whether the relentless bloodshed in Iraq is fundamentally a national liberation struggle or a sectarian civil war. Which does it look like to you? From AP, Aug. 28: 31 killed at Iraqi religious festival… Read moreShi’ites clash in Karbala; Sunni mosque attacked in Fallujah
From the New York Times, Aug. 25: Head-On Collision in Connecticut Kills 4 Teenagers and Injures 3 Adults BRISTOL, Conn. — Four teenagers from nearby towns who had met on MySpace never made it home from an evening swim at… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Two days after launching aerial attacks on Shi’ite enclaves in Baghdad, the US is accused of air raids on police stations in the Kurdish autonomous zone. Jabar Yawer, spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga militia, said a US helicopter attacked two… Read moreIraq: US attacks Kurds?
The president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (CIDH), FlorentĂn MelĂ©ndez, interviewed the brothers Flavio and Horacio Sosa Villavicencio, leaders of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO), at the maximum security prison of Altilplano, in the state of Mexico,… Read moreOaxaca: state government reprimanded on human rights
Mexican federal agents and Chiapas state police evicted several families Aug. 19 from the predios (collective farms) of Nuevo Salvador Allende and El Buen Samaritano, in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve. Six family heads were detained, accused of environmental crimes… Read moreChiapas: more evictions from Montes Azules
The LA Times reports Aug. 25: U.S. forces firing from helicopters Friday pursued militiamen loyal to a radical anti-U.S. Shiite cleric into a west Baghdad district, killing at least 18 people, reportedly including some civilians… U.S.-led forces said Friday’s predawn… Read moreIraq: US bombs Shi’ites, tilts to Sunnis?
