If this turns out to be true, we wager the beneficiary will be Iyad Allawi. From UPI, Oct. 23: CAIRO — Iraqi army officers are reportedly planning to stage a military coup with U.S. help to oust the government of… Read moreUS planning Iraq coup d’etat?
Continuing on his tour of Mexico’s north, Zapatista Subcommander Marcos stopped in Sonoyta (the Sonora border town across from Lukeville, AZ), where his caravan drove into the desert and stopped at the fence demarcating the international border, where signs warned… Read moreSubcommander Marcos crosses into USA!
Even Donald Rumsfeld is starting to make cut-and-run noises. As the Bush White House holds a high-level strategy session on Iraq Oct. 21, the Defense Secretary told reporters: “It’s their country, they’re going to have to govern it, they’re going… Read moreIraq: clerics unite against sectarian terror
Uribe uses this as an excuse to call for a military rather than negotiated solution to the hostage crisis. But the families and supporters of some of the FARC’s hostages aren’t buying it. From Merco Press, Oct. 21: Colombian President… Read moreColombia: car bomb scotches prisoner exchange
But, as we noted as long ago as 2003, the Shining Path guerilla movement has fractured, with a new ultra-hardline element refusing to accept the ceasefire call issued (whether under coercion or not) by Abimael “Chariman Gonzalo” Guzmán upon his… Read morePeru: “Chairman Gonzalo” gets life —again
Fred Rosen writes for Mexico’s El Universal, Oct. 15: NAFTA: An interim assessment Because the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a prototype for Washington´s larger plans for the Americas, the nearly 13-year-old trade pact among the United States,… Read moreNAFTA at 13: still not working for workers
Subcommander Marcos (now known as “Delegate Zero”) and other members of the Zapatista delegation arrived in Tijuana Oct. 18 after traveling up the Baja California peninsula, with stops in Ensenada and other communities where they met with Mixtec migrant laborers… Read moreSubcommander Marcos arrives in Tijuana
Following an extended debate, a Mexican Senate committee voted 11-3 late Oct. 18 not to dissolve the Oaxaca state government, while demonstrators demanding a solution to the five-month crisis announced plans to escalate protests. In Oaxaca City, a teacher was… Read moreOaxaca: another teacher killed as Senate committee blocks solution
Even Bush appears to be facing the grim music from Iraq. Asked in an ABC News interview Oct. 18 whether he agreed with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s opinion that the violence in Iraq was “the jihadist equivalent of… Read moreIraq: “new caliphate” established?
Chiapas is now the third Mexican state to adopt a statewide alliance of popular organization with the aim of establishing parallel power on the model of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, following Guerrero and Oaxaca itself. The… Read more“Popular Assembly of the People of Chiapas” proclaimed
An official investigation by Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has confirmed the participation of military troops in May’s deadly police operation at the village of San Salvador Atenco. The CNDH reports it has uncovered a document in which the… Read moreMilitary role in Atenco repression: Mexican rights commission
As odds for the legal removal of Gov. Ulises Ruiz seemed to narrow Oct. 16, Oaxaca activists camped out in Mexico City’s historic center began a hunger strike aimed at pressuring the federal government to find a solution to the… Read moreOaxaca activists on hunger strike as Senate mulls solution
