(And Can the U.S. Anti-War Movement Help?) by Bill Weinberg The anti-war movement in the U.S. is at its lowest ebb since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Two broad, mutually hostile tendencies have emerged: one increasingly supportive of the… Read moreCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
Continue ReadingCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: FARC SEIZE INDIGENOUS TOWNS Around 5 AM on April 14, hundreds of rebels from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) simultaneously attacked the neighboring municipalities of Jambalo and Toribio in… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WON
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s brief Latin American visit covered five countries: Brazil on April 26, Colombia on April 27, Chile April 28-29 and El Salvador in the evening of April 29;… Read moreVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas NOTE: Nearly a year has passed since the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica met in Washington DC May 28, 2004 to sign the Central America Free Trade Agreement… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCE AND REPRESSION
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCE AND REPRESSIONby Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s March 24 stop in Guatemala on a tour of Latin America came just in time to announce a restoration of military aid to that country, citing a… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: GUATEMALA UNDER “NATIONAL EMERGENCY”
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: GUATEMALA UNDER “NATIONAL EMERGENCY”by Weekly News Update on the Americas DEPUTIES PASS GAS BILL On March 15, with virtually all of Bolivia’s cities shut down by road blockades on the first day of a 48-hour national strike, Bolivian president Carlos Mesa Gisbert announced… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRYby Weekly News Update on the Americas SOLDIERS KILL MORE CIVILIANS On March 27, relatives found the bodies of Colombian campesinos Javier Alexander Cubillos, Wilder Cubillos and Heriberto Delgado at the morgue in Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca department. The army had apparently… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTEDAssassination of the Rebel President Signals Escalation in North Caucasus by Raven Healing Aslan Maskhadov, the last legitimate president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, elected in independent Chechnya in 1997, was killed on March 8, 2005, in a village… Read moreCHECHNYA: AFTER ASLAN MASKHADOV
Continue ReadingCHECHNYA: AFTER ASLAN MASKHADOVby Bill Weinberg "Oilmen are like cats; you can never tell from the sound of them whether they are fighting or making love." –Calouste Gulbenkian The famous Armenian entrepreneur spoke these words when reflecting on the post-World War I carve-up… Read moreCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?President Uribe Threatens San Jose de Apartado Following Massacre by Virginia McGlone After eight years of existence, the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado in Antioquia, Colombia, continues to stand strong in the midst of a war that they… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATION
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATIONA "Chilling Effect" for Legal Community by Bill Weinberg Newly appointed US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hailed the Feb. 10 conviction of activist attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants, saying the verdicts “send a clear, unmistakable message that this department… Read moreLYNNE STEWART: CONVICTED
Continue ReadingLYNNE STEWART: CONVICTEDby Weekly News Update on the Americas CAFTA PASSES IN HONDURAS; STALLED IN GUATEMALA On March 3, 100 of the 128 deputies in Honduras’ National Congress voted after a long debate to ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA),… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ADVANCES, HUMAN RIGHTS RETREAT
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