From Cuba’s Prensa Latina, April 19: International terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was released by US authorities on Thursday, despite evidence of his involvement in criminal acts. According to one of the terrorist’s lawyers, Felipe Millan, Posada left the New Mexico… Read moreCuba: US releases “international terrorist”
Nicaragua has arrested 17 people in two days in a crackdown on Mexico’s Sinaloa cocaine cartel, which has established a foothold in the Central American country and reportedly issued death threats against the national police chief, Aminta Granera. The Nicaraguan… Read moreNicaragua cracks down on Mexican cartel
Petroleos de Nicaragua (Petronic) has announced construction of an oil refinery in the Central American nation, with aid from Venezuela as part of Hugo Chavez’s proposed Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Work is to begin on the “Sandino-Bolivar” refinery… Read moreNicaragua tilts to Venezuela —and away from PPP
The recent media coverage of para-politics in Colombia may be the final nail in the coffin for a proposed US-Colombia free trade agreement. Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe, Bush’s strongest ally in the region, not only has an administration filled with… Read moreColombia: para scandal threatens trade deal
Colombia’s government announced April 18 an “experimental” cease-fire with the National Liberation Army (ELN) following talks in Havana. “The president has asked me to accept the ELN’s experimental and temporary cease-fire proposal,” Colombian peace negotiator Luis Carlos Restrepo told reporters…. Read moreColombia: “experimental” ceasefire with ELN
East Timor Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta met with a rebel representative April 19 to discuss an end to a military operations against a fugitive army defector. Leandro Isaac, who abandoned his seat in parliament to join former army major Alfredo… Read moreEast Timor: dialogue with rebels
A court in Urumqi, the capital of China’s restive Xinkiang autonomous region, has sentenced the son of exiled Uighur nationalist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rebiya Kadeer to nine years in prison for secessionist activities. Ablikim Abdiriyim was found guilty… Read moreChina imprisons Uighur dissident
A Darfur rebel group April 17 warned foreign oil firms against exploring oil and minerals in the western Sudan province. “The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) wishes to make clear to foreign investors and the Sudanese government that so long as… Read moreDarfur: guerillas warn off oil companies
President Bush, speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum April 18, pledged to intensify pressure on Sudan, warning of stiff economic sanctions if President Omar Hassan al-Bashir does not bring a quick end to… Read moreSudan burns bridges with White House?
Hundreds of Buddhist monks rallied outside the parliament building in Bangkok April 17 calling for Buddhism to be enshrined in the constitution as Thailand’s national religion. The country’s military-appointed government plans to unveil a new national constitution this month. In… Read moreThailand: Buddhist monks rally for state religion
Despite the early pretense of democracy in drawing up the post-9-11 Lower Manhattan development plans, most New Yorkers were not aware that a special “command center” had been created to oversee the multiple construction projects until a change of leadership… Read moreNYC: Ground Zero “Construction Command Center” chief steps down
The US is planning to use meetings with NATO and Russian ambassadors in Brussels April 19 to defend its plans to build an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying the West needs a defense shield against the… Read morePoles protest US missile plan
