Late on Oct. 4, Julian Andres Hurtado Castillo was shot to death outside his home in the Las Granjas neighborhood of the Colombian city of Cali, in Valle del Cauca department. The killers–apparently paid professionals–were a man and a woman… Read moreColombia: student leader murdered
In a class-action lawsuit filed on Sept. 25, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project and the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic charged that ICE routinely holds immigrants longer than six months… Read moreImmigrants’ lawsuit challenges detention
After a heated all-night assembly, on the morning of Oct. 22 delegates of 70,000 teachers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca voted down a proposal to end a strike that has paralyzed the capital city, also named Oaxaca, for… Read moreOaxaca: vote to end strike overturned
On Oct. 20 Raul Ojeda Zubieta, center-left candidate for governor of the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, charged in a press conference that Andres Granier Melo, candidate for the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had won in the Oct. 14… Read moreMexico: violence in Tabasco vote
The Permanent Human Rights Assembly (APDH) of Ecuador is protesting the Oct. 15 killing of two Ecuadoran campesinos by the Colombian armed forces. Blanca Vega and her son Hector Monar were traveling by boat along the San Miguel river en… Read moreColombia war spills into Ecuador
Could someone possibly please explain what this one is all about? A rather opinionated report from the right-libertarian Liberty Forum, Oct. 20: Thessalonica – The Greek Government will move, as early as this weekend, to have armed police forcibly remove… Read moreRebel monks pledge to resist police at Greek abbey eviction
Our friend Ivo Skoric of the Balkans Pages interviewed WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg via e-mail last weekend for the Croatian alternative e-zine H-Alter, as the first in a series of interviews with American left-wing bloggers. The interveiw appears in… Read moreWW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg interviewed by Croatian alterno-zine
From the Washington Post, Oct. 20: Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S…. Read moreWhite House seizes power from judiciary under Military Commissions Act
The recently created Honduran anti-delinquency task force Operación Trueno [Operation Thunder] proved critics fears on October 12, when a member of the force shot and killed an innocent citizen Henry Esaú García Fuentes, 25 years old. Fuentes ran away from… Read more“Social cleansing” in Honduras
Two thousand people from the National Forum for the Defense of the Sustainability and Right to Water marched in El Salvador’s capital Oct. 18 against privatization and for universal access to quality water. Members of labor, environmental, women’s, religious and… Read moreSalvadorans march for water rights
The state leader of the Chiapas branch of the Independent Center of Campesinos and Rural Workers (CIOAC), Luis Hernandez Cruz, told a march of some 15,000 followers in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, that if the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE)… Read moreChiapas: campesinos pledge resistance if election overturned
Tens of thousands of indigenous people and their allies focused on neoliberal economic programs, US foreign policies and local issues in protests throughout the Americas on Oct. 12, the 514th anniversary of the arrival of European colonizer Christopher Columbus in… Read more“Indigenous resistance” protests held throughout Americas
