from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ONE KILLED IN EVICTION On the morning of Nov. 9 some 500 Colombian police agents attempted the forcible removal of 400 members of Paez (Nasa) indigenous communities from the El Japio farm,… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, PEACE COMMUNITIES UNDER ATTACK
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, PEACE COMMUNITIES UNDER ATTACKIs the Real Enemy Islamic Terrorism, or Bolivia’s Indigenous Revolution? by Benjamin Dangl The recent shift to the left among Latin American governments has been a cause for concern in the Bush administration. The White House has tried in vain… Read morePARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEADDetainees Launch Non-Violent Resistance Behind Pentagon’s Iron Veil by Tanya Theriault The veil of secrecy at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when tugged at, continues to reveal the inhumane treatment of detainees held there. Since January 2002,… Read moreWAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO
Continue ReadingWAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMOAnd the Intractable Dilemma of International ANSWER by Bill Weinberg The Sept. 24 anti-war protest in Washington DC was hailed as a revival of a movement which had become somewhat moribund even as the quagmire in Iraq deepens with horrifying… Read moreTHE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
Continue ReadingTHE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION? U.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa ALGERIA: THE AMNESTY VOTE AND THE KABYLIA QUESTION Berber Boycott in Restive Region Signals Continued Struggle by Zighen Aym ALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?… Read more#. 115. November 2005
Continue Reading#. 115. November 2005from Weekly News Update on the Americas DEADLY HURRICANE HITS More than a thousand people are feared dead in flooding and mudslides in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas as a result… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas ZULIA: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTACKED On Sept. 15, a group of 15 heavily armed men in olive green military uniforms arrived in two pickup trucks at the Yukpa and Wayuu indigenous campesino community of… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas INDIGENOUS HOLD NATIONWIDE “MINGA,” TWO DIE On Oct. 10, tens of thousands of Colombian indigenous people began marching to various regional capitals in a coordinated Minga (community mobilization) to demand indigenous rights, protest… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERRORfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 30, residents of the districts of Atalaya, Sepahua and Tahuania in the Peruvian Amazon held a 24-hour strike protesting the contamination of the region’s rivers by the Camisea natural gas project…. Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
Continue ReadingEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
Continue ReadingEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINOBerber Boycott in Restive Region Signals Continued Struggle by Zighen Aym After more 200,000 people dead, 10,000 missing and over 100,000 displaced, the North African country of Algeria held a referendum vote on a reconciliation peace plan on Sept. 29,… Read moreALGERIA’S AMNESTY AND THE KABYLIA QUESTION
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