The anti-immigration blog VDare (who get creds for being bilingual) approvingly note from a persual of Monterrey’s daily El Porvenir that the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas is planning to build a security fence on its border with the neighboring… Read moreSecurity fences go up —within Mexico
The high-tech Project 28 “virtual fence” on a 28-mile stretch of the US-Mexico border near Nogales, AZ, is ready for operation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Feb. 22. The $20 million project of sensor towers and advanced mobile communications,… Read moreHomeland Security approves “virtual” border fence
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 21: On Tuesday, February 19, 13 political activists arrested last July in the town of Suchitoto were set free, and all charges against them were dismissed. This… Read moreAll charges dropped against “Suchitoto 13”
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 21: In a recent visit to the United States, Salvadoran president Antonio Saca expressed concern about the findings of a recent US intelligence report, which predicts that… Read moreNational Intelligence Director: Venezuela to intervene in Salvadoran elections
On Feb. 11, the Nicaraguan navy captured the Honduran-flagged fishing boat Seas Star just east of the 82nd meridian in the Caribbean Sea. The 82nd meridian is claimed by Colombia as the border between its territorial waters and those of… Read moreNicaragua’s maritime dispute with Colombia heats up
Just as oil is hitting $100 a barrel, come warnings of an impending global food shortage. In an article based on a study by Goldman Sachs, the UK’s Telegraph Feb. 9 argues that “peak oil” is morphing into “peak food”… Read moreNext: “peak food”?
Three bombings in as many days have left 140 dead in Afghanistan’s Canadian-occupied Kandahar province. More than 100 were killed in a suicide attack on a dog-fighting competition on the outskirts of Kandahar city attended by local luminaries Feb. 17…. Read moreKandahar carnage; Canada sends in the drones
Henry Okah, a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), is rumored to have been killed Feb. 18 upon being extradited from Angola to Nigeria. A MEND communique, signed by Jomo Gbomo, said: “Disturbing reports… Read moreOil prices hit new peak on Niger Delta tensions
Airomi Smith, a university student and a leader in Panama’s largest union, the Only Union of Construction and Similar Workers (SUNTRACS), was killed in Colón on Feb. 12 by a gunshot to the abdomen from a police weapon. Smith’s death… Read morePanama: uprising after unionist killed
A delegation of striking miners from Grupo Mexico’s Cananea copper mine in Sonora, Mexico, and of leaders from the US-based United Steelworkers (USW) visited the Capitol in Washington, DC on Feb. 13, to ask the US Congress to withhold a… Read moreMexico: Cananea strikers take message to Capitol Hill
Some 70,000 teachers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca suspended classes on Feb. 14 to participate in rallies in Oaxaca city and other cities; the rallies were organized by Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE)… Read moreMexico: Oaxaca teachers protest
Techniques that Peruvian military officers learned at the Georgia-based US Army School of the Americas were used in massacres carried out by the Colina Group paramilitary commando in the early 1990s, several former Colina members have confirmed at the trial… Read morePeru: Colina death squad used techniques from SOA curriculum
