Under the happy headline “Space Probe Slams Into Moon,” the shameless techno-boosters at Space.com note Sept. 4: A European lunar orbiter was purposely slammed into the Moon today. The high-tech spacecraft—Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology—belongs to the European… Read moreEuro-imperialist aggression against the Moon
Carlos Castaño, patriarch of Colombia’s far-right paramilitary movement, is confirmed dead at the age of 39. Mario Iguaran, Colombia’s chief prosecutor, said a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave was that of Castaño, the long-missing leader of the feared Self-Defense… Read moreColombia: paramilitary patriarch killed on brother’s orders
The Popular Peoples Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) has officially announced the replacement of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz with an alternative government. The organization said the only government they consider legitimate, after 106 days of political crisis which has paralyzed the… Read moreOaxaca: opposition declares parallel government
Masked gunmen burst into a nightclub in the west-central Mexican state of Michoacan late on the night of Sept. 4 and flung five human heads onto the dance floor. The “Light and Shadow” club in the city of Uruapan was… Read moreMexico: hideous escalation of narco violence
A unanimous decision of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal rejected allegations of systematic fraud and awarded Felipe Calderon the presidency Sept. 5, after two months of uncertainty. But his ability to rule effectively remains in doubt as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador… Read moreMexico: Electoral Tribunal rules for Calderon; Lopez Obrador pledges parallel government
From the Chiapas daily Estesur, Sept. 3 (our translation): PRIista marches against “electoral fraud” Tuxtla Gutierrez – 13 days after the state elections, the candidate of the Alliance for Chiapas, the PRIista Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas, led a march and… Read moreChiapas: electoral crisis heats up
On Aug. 31 about a dozen armed and masked people blocked the highway from Oaxaca city to Guelatao in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and passed out two communiques which according to the Mexican daily La Jornada were from… Read moreOaxaca: guerillas stage armed action
And not a moment too soon. This is sure to bring a smile to followers of the Global Anti-Golf Movement (GAGM). Chris Kraul reports for the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 31: In Caracas, the Poor Shall Inherit the Golf Course… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez cracks down on golf
On Aug. 20, Brazilian landless activists Josias de Barros Ferreira and Samuel Matias Barbosa were murdered at an encampment of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in Pernambuco state. Police claim the two men were murdered by other landless… Read moreBrazil: landless killed, arrested
More than 2,000 workers went on strike Aug. 7 at the Escondida mine in northern Chile, the world’s largest privately owned copper mine. The workers were demanding a contract with an increase in salary and benefits that reflects this year’s… Read moreChile: copper strike ends
On Aug. 28, two agents of Chile’s militarized Carabineros police, acting without a warrant, raided a Mapuche family’s property in the Bollilco Chico sector of the Nueva Imperial commune, Region IX, allegedly to search for stolen livestock. The family refused… Read moreChile: police kill Mapuche elder
From India’s Zee News, Sept. 5: Baluchistan on strike over tribal chief’s killing QUETTA — Parts of the troubled southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan were paralysed today by a strike called by opposition parties to protest the killing of a… Read moreGeneral strike shuts down Baluchistan
