From CISPES, July 3: On July 2, various organizations and communities in the municipality of Suchitoto gathered for a protest against the official announcement of the “National Policy of Water Decentralization” by President Antonio Saca. The peaceful protest was brutally… Read moreProtests against water privatization repressed in El Salvador
Security forces arrested Maulana Abdul Aziz, imam of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, as he attempted to escape covered in a burqa with a group of similarly clad women July 4. More than 1,000 of his followers surrendered… Read morePakistan: Red Mosque imam escapes in drag —almost
WW4 REPORT has received the following letter from David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research (link added): You may wish to remove the article, “The Gas-Guzzling Lobby Stops Time” from your site, as it is… Read moreGas-Guzzler Lobby strikes back
From the Nobel Women’s Initiative, June 19: While the Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that the war in Iraq is not about oil, U.S. oil corporations are poised to take control over the 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves… Read moreIraq: Nobel laureates oppose oil law
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said initial investigations into the July 2 suicide-bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists indicate that al-Qaeda was behind the attack. Moratinos said the information was provided by his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr Abduallah al… Read moreAl-Qaeda behind Yemen suicide blast?
First Nations activists held protests across Canada over the Canada Day holiday weekend in a National Day of Action against the Conservative government emphasizing land claims and other disputes. In Ontario, camouflage-clad Mohawks, some reportedly armed, blocked Highway 401 between… Read moreCanada: Mohawks block roads, rail lines in National Day of Action
On June 19 US District Judge Leonard Sand of the Southern District of New York ruled against Chevron Corp.‘s efforts to have the American Arbitration Association settle its dispute with Ecuador and the Ecuadoran state oil company Petroecuador. This was a… Read moreSetback for Chevron in Ecuador suit
On June 28, the US and Panamanian governments signed a free trade treaty (TLC) at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington. The treaty must still be ratified by the legislatures of the two countries. Panamanian grassroots… Read morePanama: trade pact signed amid protests
On the evening of June 26, hundreds of people vigiled in Lima, Peru, to protest the efforts of the ruling Aprista party majority in Congress to push through the “addenda” of a free trade treaty between the US and Peruvian… Read morePeru: trade pact approved amid protests
On June 27, hundreds of police agents used tear gas in an effort to break up a blockade of Peru’s central highway by miners carrying out a regional strike. The miners struck back with rocks, and one police agent was… Read morePeru: deadly violence at miners’ protest
On June 26, nearly 1,200 people camped out on the BR 428 highway between Cabrobo and Oroco municipalities in Brazil’s Pernambuco state to block national army engineering battalions from proceeding with the construction of a canal project on the Sao… Read moreBrazil: protests block canal project
The Agrarian and Popular Movement (MAP) of Paraguay reported in a June 26 statement that base-level MAP leader Perfecto Irala was abducted and disappeared by police on June 25 from Pariri, in Vaqueria district, Caaguazu department. Since last Feb. 26,… Read moreParaguay: campesinos disappeared, killed
