From the Colombia Support Network (CSN), July 14: On July 13, 2007 at 12:15 PM two men who had the previous day identified themselves as members of the “Black Eagles” paramilitary organization, stopped a public transport vehicle, forced Peace Community… Read moreColombia: another killing at San Josecito Peace Community
Chile’s Codelco suspended copper production for an entire day at one of its four mining divisions July 10 and cut back operations at another plant following violent protests by striking workers, in the most serious flare-up yet in a two-week… Read moreChile: strikes paralyze copper mines
Charges of “Acts of Terrorism” will stand against thirteen of fourteen defendants arrested at a July 2nd protest against water privatization in Suchitoto, El Salvador, a judge ruled July 6. Judge Ana Lucila Fuentes de Paz of the Special Tribunal… Read moreEl Salvador: “terrorism” charges against Suchitoto 13
From the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), July 10: Mansour Osanloo, the president of the board of directors of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, was kidnapped by plain clothes agents in… Read moreIran: transport union leader “kidnapped”
From The Economist, July 5: Don’t mention the GWOT A new vocabulary is needed to confront terrorism The “global war on terror” is what America calls its response to the September 11th attacks. Never mind the clichĂ©, or the fact… Read moreUK to ditch GWOT nomenclature?
Some 800 members of the Awá indigenous people, who inhabit northern Ecuador on the border with Colombia, arrived July 11 in Quito after marching cross-country to demand the government recognize their rights to “ancestral lands.” Awá leader Byron Chuquisán said… Read moreEcuador: indigenous march for land rights
The Iranian government confirmed July 11 that a man was executed by stoning last week for adultery, and that 20 more men would be executed in the coming days on morality violations. The stoning of Jaffar Kiani, 47, was carried… Read moreIran: execution by stoning for adultery
From Reporters Without Borders (RSF), via the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), July 6: Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrests of two journalists by intelligence officers in the past six days. Both Mohammad Asif Nang, editor of the… Read moreAfghanistan: dissident journalists arrested
At the recent African Union summit in Accra, Senegalese music star Youssou N’Dour—recently selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the world—voiced support for the idea of a United States of Africa, and said… Read moreYoussou N’Dour: president of Africa?
From Reporters Without Borders (RSF), via the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), July 6: RSF deplores President Rafael Correa’s verbal attacks on the press and above all his decision not to give any more news conferences. The aggressivity of… Read moreEcuador: media under attack?
On June 14, the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization approved by consensus a resolution calling on the US government "to assume its responsibility to expedite a process that will allow the Puerto Rican people fully to exercise their inalienable… Read morePuerto Rico: UN vote on decolonization
More than 100,000 people filled the giant Zocalo plaza in downtown Mexico City on July 1 for the third National Democratic Convention (CND) called by former mayor and center-left 2006 presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Current president Felipe Calderon… Read moreMexico: 2006 vote protested again
