Peru’s President Alan Garcia, “afraid of foreign investors,” is sitting idly by as a U.S. corporation devastates the city of La Oroya. Missouri-based Doe Run’s toxic lead smelting operation has children breathing sulfur dioxide pollution up to 300 times the… Read morePeru: toxic pollution linked to US corporation
After last month’s deadly Con Ed blast, another eerie sense of deja vu for jittery New Yorkers—this one cutting even closer to home. From AP via Newsday, Aug. 20: Investigators probe cause in fire that killed 2 NYC firefighters NEW… Read moreNYC: new health threat at Ground Zero
About 50 demonstrators gathered outside the Mexican consulate in New York City on Aug. 18 in an attempt to prevent Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz from participating in a press conference and a meeting with local Mexican community leaders. Ruiz… Read moreNYC too hot for Oaxaca gov?
Mineworker Reynaldo Hernandez Gonzalez was killed and several workers were injured on Aug. 13 in a violent confrontation between rival groups of miners at Grupo Mexico’s La Caridad mine in Nacozari, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. There were… Read moreMexico: one killed in mining clash
An Aug. 13 statement from the National Lawyers Guild calling for repeal of the “Protect America Act” signed into law by George Bush Aug. 6: Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans by amending the… Read more“Protect America Act” threatens Fourth Amendment
Freedom’s on the march. From Reuters, Aug. 18: BAGHDAD — Rare footage from inside a Baghdad prison camp shows hundreds of inmates packed into wire-mesh tents, protesting their innocence. “I have been jailed for two years and have never been… Read moreImages show pleading inmates at Iraq prison camp
The Iranian military has shelled territory in Iraqi Kurdistan intermittently over the past three days, wounding two women and forcing the evacuation of 200 families, local officials reported Aug. 18. Hussein Ahmed, the mayor of Qal’at Dizah, a town close… Read moreIran shells northern Iraq?
On Aug. 16, a Miami federal jury convicted Jose Padilla on charges of aiding terrorist operations abroad, together with co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi. “We are so pleased with the verdict,” said acting Deputy Attorney General Craig… Read morePadilla convicted —Bush justice system indicted
Colombia’s Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that Israeli military advisors are helping his government fight guerillas, the Bogota newsweekly Semana reports. According to Semana, “A group of former Israeli military officials is counseling the military’s top brass on intelligence… Read moreIsraeli advisors fight in Colombia?
After deliberating for less than four hours, on July 26 a 10-member jury in US District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, found the locally based Drummond Co. Inc. coal company not liable in the 2001 murders of three unionists at its… Read moreColombia: US jury lets Drummond off
As of Aug. 11, some 13 union leaders from the US and Canada had arrived in Cananea, in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, to show support for striking miners there. According to Sergio Tolano Lizarraga, general secretary of Section… Read moreMexico: US union backs mine strike
With 98.83% of the ballot boxes counted, Mexico’s centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the allied Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM) had won all 25 districts in Aug. 5 legislative elections in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Alliance… Read moreMexico: PRI sweeps Oaxaca election
