Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft of the US Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-West claimed evidence that secret laboratories for producing methamphetamine are operating in areas of the Phiilippines where Maoist and Islamic rebels have a strong presence, and that the guerillas are… Read moreNarco-guerillas in the Philippines?
Just hours after the Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed moved in to Mogadishu from the provincial city of Baidoa, insurgents launched a mortar attack on the presidential palace, killing a small boy. The president emerged unscathed from the attack. Ethiopian… Read moreSomalia: president in mortar attack
Eight Thai civilians—all Buddhists—were killed in the troubled south of Thailand when their van was shot upon by suspected Islamist guerrillas March 15. Thai security officials suspect that the attack was meant coincide with the founding of the National Revolutionary… Read moreDeadly separatist attack in southern Thailand
Dozens of police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh were killed when their forest outpost was raided by Maoist [Naxalite] rebels March 14. Fighting has intensified between leftist insurgents and police and paramilitary forces in vast swathes of central… Read moreRural violence in India
At least 22 were arrested and several injured in protests March 13 against the visit of President George Bush in the southern Mexican city of Merida, Yucatan. Hundreds also marched to the US Embassy in Mexico City, battling riot police… Read moreAnti-Bush protests rock Mexico
Brazil will build a two million dollar wall on its border with Paraguay. Reports say that the government of Brazil contracted the construction of the 3 kilometer wall to begin at the end of March and end within six months…. Read moreBrazil to build wall on Paraguay border
Australia’s military adventure in East Timor is starting to smell more like a small counterinsurgency war than a “peacekeeping” mission—if the world were paying any attention. From Catholic News, March 14: Timor priest accuses Aussie troops As fugitive Timorese rebel… Read moreEast Timor: headed towards counter-insurgency?
From the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network, March 14 (as is): Iranian teachers’ leader arrested! According to the latest news from the trade union activists of Tehran province, in the earlier today the security forces arrested a large number of teachers…. Read moreIran: striking teachers arrested
From AP, March 9: GUATEMALA CITY — Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. “That a person like (Bush),… Read moreGuatemala: Maya priests to purify sacred site after Bush visit
Thousands march in Montevideo Thousands of people protested in the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay on the evening of March 9, just before Bush’s arrival in the country. A march called by Uruguay’s only labor federation, the Inter-Union Workers Plenary-National Workers… Read moreSouth America protests Bush
On March 8, thousands of Brazilians marched to celebrate women’s day and protest the visit to Brazil of US president George W. Bush, scheduled to begin that evening. The largest march took place in Sao Paulo, with more than 10,000… Read moreBrazil: thousands protest Bush, “agrofuels”
On Feb. 14, six indigenous Mapuche families (about 25 people) began occupying a plot on the 534-acre Santa Rosa estate in Chubut province, in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina. The Italian clothing company Benetton claims ownership of the Santa… Read moreArgentina: Mapuches reclaim land from Benetton
