On Aug. 29 Guatemalan interior minister Francisco Jimenez announced the capture of former legislative deputy Manuel Castillo at a luxurious residence he owned near the border with El Salvador. Castillo is accused of masterminding the murder of three Salvadoran deputies… Read moreGuatemalan legislator arrested in murder of Salvadoran delegates
As of Sept. 6 more than 500 people had reportedly died in Gonaives, Haiti’s third largest city, following the passage of tropical storm Hanna; deforestation has left the Gonaives area vulnerable to flooding, and as many as 3,000 people died… Read moreHanna takes deadly toll in Haiti; Cuba weathers Gustav
Tens of thousands of Mexican workers, tradespeople, doctors and nurses, oil workers, telephone workers, miners, teachers, parents, students and campesinos demonstrated on Sept. 1 to protest the economic policies of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as he presented Congress with the… Read moreMexico: mass protests meet state of union address
Infuriated by a delay in service, hundreds of Argentines attacked trains and facilities of the TCB company in two stations outside Buenos Aires on Sept. 4. Protests started when a commuter train broke down near the Castelar station west of… Read moreArgentina: irate passengers torch commuter train
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales ordered the expulsion of the US ambassador Sept. 10, charging him with inciting violent opposition protests. “The ambassador of the United States is conspiring against democracy and wants Bolivia to break apart,” Morales said at the… Read moreBolivia: US ambassador expelled amid “civil war” fears
Four protesters descended from a redwood at UC Berkeley Sept. 9, after 21 months—648 days—of occupying a contested campus grove. Protesters sought to stop construction of a $124-million athletic center, but a court injunction on the construction was recently lifted…. Read moreBerkeley tree-sit ends after 21 months
When Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev formally recognized Georgia’s separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, activists in the Russian autonomous region of Tatarstan reacted quickly. The All-Tatar Civic Center published an appeal for Moscow’s recognition of Tatarstan’s independence. Rashit Akhmetov,… Read moreNext: Free Tatarstan?
Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzón has ordered government and religious authorities across Spain to turn over information about those killed at the hands of Francisco Franco’s fascist forces following his 1936 military uprising. Garzón hopes to draw up a comprehensive list… Read moreSpanish Civil War “truth commission”?
A NATO air-strike in Afghanistan’s Khost province missed its target Sept. 9, striking a house, killing two civilians and wounding 10. NATO said their forces were targeting an insurgent position when a weapon accidentally misfired, veering one and a half… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO air-strike wipes out more civilians
Iraqi state employees affiliated with the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI), following a campaign of demonstrations in central Baghdad that began Aug. 24, won an agreement from the Ministry of Finance to meet demands for… Read moreIraq: Baghdad workers win —despite death threats
Just in time for the elections, Bush orchestrates some “good news” in Iraq—the announcement of a pull-out of 8,000 troops early in ’09 (NYT, Sept. 9), and the beginning of a turn-over of control of Anbar province and responsibility for… Read moreBogus “progress” in Iraq
Thank goodness Rome’s Jews have got the cogliones to protest this! From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Sept. 8: Roman Jews criticize mayor over Fascist remarks Jewish leaders criticized Rome’s right-wing mayor for declaring that Italy’s Fascist-era anti-Semitic laws, not Fascism… Read moreRome’s mayor: Fascism wasn’t so bad after all
