Seven Peruvians—Arminda Valladares Saba, Melissa Rocío Patiño Hinostroza, Guadalupe Alejandrina Hilario Rivas, Maria Gabriel Segura, Carmen Mercedes Asparrent Riveros, Roque Gonzáles La Rosa and Damaris Velasco Huiza—remain in detention following their arrest late last month on the border with Ecuador… Read morePeruvians detained under terror law for attending Bolivarian meeting
Even we are frankly astonished by the depth of cynicism to which the Wall Street Journal has sunk this time. A March 25 editorial, entitled “A FARC Fan’s Notes,” touts (dubious) claims that the computer recovered from Colombia’s (illegal) March… Read moreWSJ terror-baits free trade opponent
On Good Friday, March 21, three New Orleans residents who entered the vacant Lafitte Housing Development in a bid to save it from being razed were arrested and charged under an anti-terrorist “critical structure” law enacted by the Louisiana legislature… Read moreNew Orleans public housing defenders charged under terror law
Saudi Arabia‘s Shoura Council has discussed a national plan to deal with potential radioactive contamination in the Kingdom following warnings of possible attacks on Iran‘s nuclear reactors. “The plan to check radiation hazards was discussed by Shoura members, but it… Read moreSaudi Arabia prepares for nuclear contamination
Egypt‘s President Hosni Mubarak has ordered the army to start baking more bread following a series of clashes breaking out at long lines for government-subsidized loaves. Acute shortages of the flat, round bread which is a staple of the Egyptian… Read moreBread riots in Egypt
Serbia’s minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, has proposed the ethnic division of Kosova to the UN mission in the disputed territory, a Belgrade newspaper reports. The key point of the accord offered to the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is… Read moreSerbia proposes division of Kosova
Newly pseudo-independent Kosova, it seems, is serving as a sort of political Rorschach test, with commentators’ views on its drive for self-determination shaped more by their views on other issues. Days after left-wing Israeli dissident Uri Avnery noted Israeli reluctance… Read moreMissing on Kosova: the sufi voice?
Recent clashes between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and fighters from the nomadic Arab Miserriya community have displaced hundreds of civilians from their homes and raised tension across Abyei, a region lying between the north and South Sudan. Abyei’s… Read moreMiserriya Arab nomads new pawns in struggle for Sudan
Iranian artillery March 23 shelled three border towns in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish militants are believed to be operating, Iraqi Kurdish authorities reported. The shelling of the towns of Marado, Razda and Dolakoka started at 7:00 AM and lasted… Read moreIran shells northern Iraq —again
The death toll of US soldiers in Iraq passed 4,000 March 23 as four troops died in a roadside bomb attack on a patrol in southern Baghdad. More than 29,000 US soldiers have been wounded in five years of conflict… Read moreIraq: US death toll hits 4,000
At least two people were killed and 12 wounded on March 22 in Peru’s northeastern Loreto department in clashes between police and mostly Achuar indigenous workers who had been occupying installations on the Pluspetrol Norte oil company’s lot 1AB since… Read morePeru: indigenous seize oil field
On March 5 US District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami ordered retired Peruvian army major Telmo Ricardo Hurtado to pay $37 million to two survivors of a 1985 massacre in which soldiers under Hurtado’s direct command killed 69 indigenous campesinos,… Read morePeruvian ex-officer to pay in massacre case
