Both left-populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and right-technocratic Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) continue to claim the victory in Mexico, while the Federal Electoral Institute conitinues to tally the vote… Read moreMexico: electoral crisis deepens
From the Iraq Freedom Congress: To all libertarian forces in the world To organizations and parties that support the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) To people around the world who hope for an independent and prosperous Iraq Despite the dangers, the… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress launches fund drive
From the New York Times, July 4: WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. The… Read moreCIA closes bin Laden unit
From ShortNews, July 4: Iraq’s Justice Minister wants the UN to ensure the US troops who allegedly committed 4 counts of murder and 1 of rape to be punished for their “monstrous and inhuman” attack. Steven D. Green an ex-member… Read moreIraq demands UN supervision of GI rape case
On June 20 legislative deputies of El Salvador’s leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) called on the Legislative Assembly to repeal the decree that authorizes sending troops to support the US occupation of Iraq. El Salvador has deployed… Read moreCentral American dissent on Iraq war
From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 30, via Chiapas95 (our translation): In an unexpected event in the lead-up to the elections this Sunday, the arrest of ex-president Luis Echeverria Alvarez was announced, for the crime of genocide. His lawyer,… Read moreMexico: ex-president arrested on genocide charges
The local Fray Bartoleme de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) issued a statement in the prelude to Mexico’s July 2 presidential election protesting that they are being held in the state of Chiapas under a “state of exception.” The… Read moreChiapas: elections under “state of exception”
The results of the July 2 presidential elections in Mexico are still considered too close to call, but both candidates—former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the populist-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and former energy minister Felipe Calderon… Read moreElectoral crisis in Mexico
On the eve of Mexico’s presidential elections, a dialectic of militant protest and ugly repression is escalating throughout the country’s southern and central regions—although you’d never know it by reading the gringo press. Note the multi-issue nature of this protest… Read moreMexico: pro-Zapatista march attacked in Hidalgo
From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 27, via Chiapas95 (our translation): Toluca- The first penal judge based in Tenang del Valle formally brought charges against 13 of the 21 police detained by the Mexican [state] prosecutor in the Atenco… Read moreMexico: more police arrested in Atenco case; protests continue
With the world’s eyes elsewhere, the still-unresolved status of Kosova is a major crisis just waiting to erupt. Kostunica delivered this speech outside a 14th-century monastery in the town of Gracanica rather than at the Plain of Blackbirds, the site… Read moreKostunica emulates Milosevic on Kosova?
How interesting. The Supremes rule that Congress did not give Bush a “blank check” to tear up the Geneva Conventions when it voted to approve military action after 9-11. Now, Bush uses precisely the same argument to justify the program… Read moreSupreme Court strikes down Gitmo tribunals
