Police and striking miners clashed at Grupo Mexico’s Cananea copper mine in Sonora state Jan. 11 after Mexico’s Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board (JFCA) declared a five-month-long strike there “non-existent” (illegal) and announced a provisional suspension of the National Syndicate… Read moreMexico: miners, police clash at Cananea
On Jan. 7, some 100 campesinos successfully blocked the spraying of pesticides on soy fields in Ybypé community, Lima district, San Pedro department, Paraguay. Although riot police were mobilized to protect the fumigation tractors, the protesters convinced the officers of… Read moreParaguay: peasants protest pesticides
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Jan. 11: FMLN mayor assassinated in Usulután Wilber Moises Funes, mayor of Alegria, Usulután, was assassinated on January 9 while visiting community projects in the Las Casistas area… Read moreEl Salvador: FMLN mayor assassinated
Salvos of missiles fell on southern Israel Jan. 9 and Israeli aircraft hit a location in the north of Gaza Strip in response. Al-Quds Brigades, military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the new missile strikes, saying they were… Read moreBush brings war to Israel, Palestine
On Dec. 31, Latino groups in Oregon turned in over 5,000 petition signatures to the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division in Salem, asking for a one-year delay in implementation of new rules that will require driver’s license applicants… Read moreOregon: immigrants protest license plan
In a Dec. 17 press release, Colorado’s Park County announced it would pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought in February 2005 by Moises Carranza-Reyes, who was held in federal immigration custody at the county’s Fairplay jail for seven… Read moreColorado: ex-ICE detainee wins settlement
On the morning of Jan. 3 a unit of 15 masked people armed with AK-47 rifles set fire to three backhoes belonging to the Constructora Torreblanca, a construction company building a highway in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. “No… Read moreGuerilla attack, anti-NAFTA actions in Mexico
On Dec. 23 Italian authorities arrested former Uruguayan navy captain Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli in Salerno. Fernandez Troccoli, who headed Uruguay’s secret services for the 1973-1985 military dictatorship, had been ordered arrested on Dec. 17 by an Uruguayan judge investigating… Read moreItaly seeks 140 in “Operation Condor” crimes
On Jan. 4 Argentine federal judge Sandra Arroyo charged two coast guard officers, Angel Volpi and Ruben Iglesias, with homicide in connection with the death of former navy officer Hector Febres. Febres, who was 66, was found dead on Dec…. Read moreArgentina: charges in death of ex-officer linked to “dity war” case
Chilean agronomy student Matias Catrileo Quezada, an indigenous Mapuche, was shot dead early on the morning of Jan. 3 at the Fundo Santa Margarita estate, in Vilcun in the southern region of Araucania, presumably by police agents. He and other… Read moreChile: Mapuche student killed in land conflict
A petition from the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Jan. 5: The southern cities of Iraq which are totally under the grip of Islamist parties have turned into no-woman zones. Female physical appearance is not acceptable in the… Read moreEnd the genocide of women in Iraq
Kenyan police sealed Nairobi and broke up protests with water cannons and baton charges Jan. 3, barring supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga from holding a planned rally in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. Odinga made his own accusations of “genocide” against… Read moreMungiki vs. “Taliban” in Kenya’s “Kosovo”
