Planet Watch
Gulf of Mexico oil spill endangers birds throughout Americas
Conservationists fear the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will affect migratory bird populations from Alaska to South America.
Author: CounterVortex
Mexico
Oaxaca: two dead as paras attack human rights caravan
Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Andes
Cochabamba: will climate conference recognize “Table 18”?
As the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth opens in Cochabamba, Aymara indigenous leaders are demanding an “eighteenth table” on Bolivia’s social conflicts.
The Andes
Bolivia: Santa Cruz authorities won’t seat indigenous lawmakers
The conservative opposition government in Bolivia’s lowland department of Santa Cruz is refusing to recognize the election of two indigenous lawmakers to the local assembly
The Andes
World War 4 Report to blog Bolivia climate confab
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg is in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to cover the alternative conference on climate change that President Evo Morales has called. The conference opens tomorrow, and we hope to be posting daily on-the-scene reports.
The Andes
Peru: campesinos block roads to protest mining operation
Residents of Islay, Peru, blocked the Panamerican Highway to protest a proposed copper project, which they charge places local water sources and agriculture at risk.
The Andes
Bolivia: remains of “disappeared” guerilla exhumed
Bolivia’s Justice Ministry announced that the remains of a presumed “disappeared” follower of Che Guevara’s guerilla movement were exhumed in the General Cemetary of La Paz.
The Andes
Masonic connection seen in Bolivian separatist plot
The government of Evo Morales charges that elite Masonic lodges helped organize and finance the “terrorist” conspiracy to launch a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz department.
The Andes
Campesino, squatter actions rock Bolivia
One was killed as police evicted squatters in Santa Cruz, while campesinos ransacked the intallations of a Sumitomo-owned mining company in Potosi to protest water pollution.
Iraq
WikiLeaks video on Iraq killings sparks furor
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
Inner Asia
China: Tibetan nomads hard hit in Qinghai earthquake
Tibetan nomads who have been forced into shoddy government housing in recent years have been hard hit in the Qinghai earthquake, the Free Tibet Campaign warns.
Greater Middle East
Concerns raised on Yemen war crimes
The Yemeni government and Huthi rebels should investigate alleged violations of the laws of war in the recent conflict and hold all those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said.