Mineworker Reynaldo Hernandez Gonzalez was killed and several workers were injured on Aug. 13 in a violent confrontation between rival groups of miners at Grupo Mexico’s La Caridad mine in Nacozari, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. There were… Read moreMexico: one killed in mining clash
An Aug. 13 statement from the National Lawyers Guild calling for repeal of the “Protect America Act” signed into law by George Bush Aug. 6: Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans by amending the… Read more“Protect America Act” threatens Fourth Amendment
The Iranian military has shelled territory in Iraqi Kurdistan intermittently over the past three days, wounding two women and forcing the evacuation of 200 families, local officials reported Aug. 18. Hussein Ahmed, the mayor of Qal’at Dizah, a town close… Read moreIran shells northern Iraq?
Colombia’s Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that Israeli military advisors are helping his government fight guerillas, the Bogota newsweekly Semana reports. According to Semana, “A group of former Israeli military officials is counseling the military’s top brass on intelligence… Read moreIsraeli advisors fight in Colombia?
After deliberating for less than four hours, on July 26 a 10-member jury in US District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, found the locally based Drummond Co. Inc. coal company not liable in the 2001 murders of three unionists at its… Read moreColombia: US jury lets Drummond off
As of Aug. 11, some 13 union leaders from the US and Canada had arrived in Cananea, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, to show support for striking miners there. According to Sergio Tolano Lizarraga, general secretary of Section… Read moreMexico: US union backs mine strike
With 98.83% of the ballot boxes counted, Mexico’s centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the allied Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) had won all 25 districts in Aug. 5 legislative elections in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Alliance… Read moreMexico: PRI sweeps Oaxaca election
In the three days from Aug. 4 to Aug. 6, unknown assailants carried out three attacks against activists for the leftist Gathering for Guatemala (EG) party and two of its candidates in Sept. 9 national and local elections. The EG’s… Read moreGuatemala: activists killed as vote nears
El Salvador is sending its ninth contingent to join the US-sponsored occupation of Iraq on Aug. 7. The first Salvadoran troops joined the occupation in August 2003. The new contingent will have some 300 members, from the army’s elite Cuscatlan… Read moreEl Salvador sends more troops to Iraq
In a July report, Oxfam warns that while armed violence is the greatest threat facing Iraqis, the population is also experiencing another kind of crisis of an alarming scale and severity. Eight million people are in urgent need of emergency… Read moreOxfam: humanitarian crisis in Iraq
A message from WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg: As you read this, I am flying to Japan at the invitation of the National Assembly for Peace & Democracy (Zenko) to attend a second conference in solidarity with Iraq’s civil resistance,… Read moreWW4 REPORT goes to Japan
Some 1,700 indigenous people participated in a July 23-27 caravan to Bogota from Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca to demand peace, to call for popular unity and to oppose a “free trade” agreement (TLC, from… Read moreColombia: indigenous protest in capital
