Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shot dead fugitive Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios on Sept. 23 in the western town of Hormigueros at a farmhouse where he had been staying secretly with his wife,… Read morePuerto Rico: FBI kills Machetero leader
Ecuadoran troops destroyed a suspected Colombian guerilla camp near the jungle border between the two countries, Ecuador’s defense ministry said Sept. 23. The camp was “probably used by irregular groups” from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the ministry… Read moreEcuador targets Colombian guerillas
Army Pfc. Lynndie England, whose smiling poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted Sept. 26 by a military jury at Ft. Hood, TX. England, 22, was convicted… Read morePfc. England convicted in Abu Ghraib abuse case —scapegoat?
Chris Thompson writes for East Bay Express in Oakland, CA, Sept. 21: War Pornography US soldiers trade grisly photos of dead and mutilated Iraqis for access to amateur porn. The press is strangely silent. If you want to see the… Read moreSnuff porn from Iraq
A reference in a recent post on ethnic politics in eastern Anatolia to “the two Kurdish dialects of zaza and kurmanci” prompted the following letter from a reader, which we produce verbatim: Zaza(Sassaniden)’s are not Kurds and not Turks We… Read moreNext: Free Zazaistan?
Reports Sarah Ferguson in the Village Voice Sept. 25: Organizers with the dueling anti-war groups United for Peace and Justice and International ANSWER estimated the crowd size for Saturday’s march on Washington, D.C., at 300,000—making it the largest demonstration since… Read moreVets, grieving families strike somber tone at Iraq war protest
Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the U.S. military is conducting secretive operations. 500 U.S. troops arrived in the country on July 1st with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which… Read moreUS military presence in Paraguay worries Bolivian left
Citing a new report concluding that global warming threatens New Mexico’s water supply, state and local officials are joining with environmentalists in demanding immediate steps to address the issue. The report, Less Snow, Less Water, was released Friday by the… Read moreAs planet warms, US West loses water: report
Violence—generally held to be drug-related—is spreading across Mexico at an alarming pace. The Pacific resort of Acapulco, in the conflicted southern state of Guerrero, has seen some 30 killings this year—many in the disco and restaurant zone frequented by tourists…. Read moreViolence grows across Mexico
On Sept. 15 a state judge in Zihuatanejo in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero ordered the release of Felipe Arreaga Sanchez, a leader in the campesino environmental movement who had been held in prison since November 2004. Judge Ricardo… Read moreMexico: peasant ecologist freed
Activists from Mexico’s east-central indigenous region of La Huasteca held a press conference in the national capital Sept. 21 to protest a growing presence of soldiers and paramilitaries in the the zone, citing a wave of assassinations of peasant leaders…. Read moreMilitarization in Mexico’s La Huasteca
In a new two-part communique published in the newsweekly Proceso, southern Mexico’s mysterious Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), both admits to errors and reproaches the rival Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The communique, “A little more about the history of the… Read moreMexico’s EPR rebels admit errors, reveal history
