The Joel Sierra Regional Human Rights Committee Foundation has reported a wave of recent murders in the municipalities of Arauquita, Tame and Saravena in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca. On July 27 in Tame, meat vendor Alberto Tovar Trujillo… Read moreColombia: wave of killings in Arauca
Haiti’s Collective for Mobilization Against the High Cost of Living held a sit-in on July 25 in front of the Hotel Karibe Convention Center in Port-au-Prince to demand cancellation of Haiti’s external debt. The protesters carried signs with such slogans… Read moreHaiti: debt, occupation protested
On Aug. 4, a federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sentenced former federal police officer Julio Simon to 25 years of prison for the 1978 abduction and torture of Chilean citizen Jose Poblete Roa and his Argentine companion, Gertrudis Hlaczik,… Read moreArgentina: ex-agent gets 25 years
Seems like both sides in the Cuban political divide are atempting to co-opt Santeria, which is definitely bad news for the doves and chickens of Miami and Havana. Apparently neither the Fidelistas or the anti-Fidelistas are playing to the animal-rights… Read moreMiami-Havana Santeria wars
This July 30 Chicago Tribune story is suddenly much more relevant, since Fidel ceded executive powers—just one day after it appeared! The existence of groups like Elizardo Sanchez’ Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation (about which more below)… Read moreIndependent Cuban dissidents to Uncle Sam: No, gracias!
A story on new international interest in Cuba’s offshore oil rights made the front page of the New York Times in May. But very interesting that the London Times gives it similar top billing Aug. 5, just as Fidel has… Read more“Scramble” for Cuba’s oil
The undiscriminating nature of aerial warfare is producing some surreal ironies in the Israel-Lebanon mess. As we have noted, Israel appears to be loaning military support to Iraqi Kurds due to mutual enmity for the Arabs, leading Arabs and Turks… Read moreIronies of war: Israel kills Kurds, Hezbollah kills Arabs
From La Jornada, Aug. 1, via Chiapas95 (our translation): Guerilla groups will “not permit the imposition” Chilpancingo, Guerrero, July 31 — The guerilla organizations Revolutionary Workers Command “Mexico Barbaro”; the Comando Jaramillista Morelense “May 23”; the Popular Revolutionary Command “Fatherland… Read moreMexico: guerillas pledge to resist Calderon
A communique in support of prisoners from the village of San Salvador Atenco, being held at Santiaguito prison in Mexico state. Via Chiapas95, Aug. 1 (our translation): SANTIAGUITO PRISONERS DENOUNCE ATTACK BY GUARD AGAINST POLITICAL PRISONER published by Radio Pacheco… Read moreMexico: Atenco prisoners protest attack
From the Spanish news service EFE via Chiapas95, Aug. 1 (our translation): Women of the Popular Assembly of the State of Oaxaca (APPO) today took by force the installations of the [state-owned] Oaxacan Television and Radio Corporation, which operates one… Read moreOaxaca: women seize TV station
Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine. The first here is from the Jews of Lebanon website. Lebanese Jewry goes back to 1000 B.C., and did… Read moreIndigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression
We hate to say it, but we sure called this one. Now to all of you who told us the anti-Semitism in The Passion of Christ was just a product of our paranoid imaginations—how would you like your crow prepared?… Read moreMel Gibson’s Holocaust series pulled
