Irene Khan, general secretary of the UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), is scheduled to visit Mexico July 30-Aug. 5 for what AI calls a “high-level working visit” to address its concerns about human rights violations in Mexico. The… Read moreMexico: human rights groups investigate
In the early morning of July 28 people thought to be members of the rebel Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) assaulted a site in Chiapa de Corzo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a federal prison is being built…. Read moreMexico: guerillas attack Chiapas prison
Early on July 15, a man waved down agents from the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector patrolling near Arizona highway 289 and told them his brother was sick and convulsing. Agents found the man nearby, unresponsive; they called paramedics, but the… Read moreMore border deaths in Arizona
From July 16 to 20, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 274 immigrants in the area of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Those arrested included 233 men, 28 women and 13 children, said ICE spokesperson Carl Rusnok. Of the 274, 99… Read moreHundreds arrested in Dallas area ICE raids
Our July issue featured the stories “No Green Zone for Ethnic Minorities in Iraq” by Bill Weinberg, arguing that the ethnic and sectarian warfare is approaching a “genocidal threshold”; “Israel & Palestine: One State or Two?,” excerpts from the debate… Read moreGenocide in Iraq, Palestine’s future, free speech in Venezuela: one reader writes
Colombia has offered to host US military operations currently run out of Ecuador, once the lease for the base there expires in two years, according to a senior Pentagon official who spoke to reporters in July. Such a change would… Read moreNew US military base slated for Colombia?
Human bones, organs and tissues will be considered commodities if the pending Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is ratified, Costa Rica’s Foreign Trade Ministry has acknowledged. The admission came in a statement released from Minister Marco Vinicio Ruiz to… Read moreCAFTA to make human organs commodities
The Wayuu indigenous people of Venezuela sent a message saluting the "Encuentro of the Pueblos Zapatistas with the Peoples of the World," which has just opened at the village of Oventic in Chiapas, Mexico. The message was harshly critical of… Read moreVenezuela: indigenous people salute Zapatistas
Labor unrest, infrastructure problems and charges of corruption at Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA have reached the point of a “significant operational emergency,” PDVSA vice president for exploration and production Luis Vierma told the National Assembly’s comptroller committee July 18…. Read moreVenezuela: “operational emergency” in oil sector?
Italian anti-terrorism police arrested three Moroccans—an imam and two of his aides—at a mosque in Perugia, capital of Umbria region, July 22, saying it served as a base for an extremist cell that ran courses in hand-to-hand combat, making bombs… Read moreSalafists target Italy?
On July 10, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 25 current or former employees of the Swift & Company meat processing firm. Twenty of those arrested were sought on federal and state warrants; most were picked up on… Read moreUnion rep arrested in Swift immigration sweeps
Some 5,000 campesinos, students and activists marched in the eastern Salvadoran port city of La Union on July 15 to protest plans to build two electric plants near the Conchagua Volcano. The Virginia-based AES Corporation, which controls most of the… Read moreSalvadorans march against power plant development
