Two dead and one injured are reported in an ambush Nov. 14 at the community of La Conchuda in the municipality of San Agustín Loxicha, in the southern mountains of Oaxaca, known as a bastion of the Popular Revolutionary Army… Read moreCycle of vengeance killings in Oaxaca mountains
Widespread reports (e.g. in Turkish Press Nov. 18) indicate an arrest warrant has been issued by Iraq’s Interior Ministry for Sheikh Harith al-Dhari, the leading Sunni religious figure in the country and head of the Muslim Scholars Association. This Nov…. Read moreNext in Iraq: Sunni civil war?
Afghanistan’s “official” security forces rape with impunity and engage in sale and trafficking of women, while the Taliban reap the backlash, imposing harsh vigilante “justice” over growing swaths of the country. Freedom’s on the march, eh? First this, from the… Read moreHuman trafficking in Afghanistan; Taliban reap backlash
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned it does not have enough money to feed more than 3 million Afghans who will depend on aid in the coming winter. A WFP spokesperson says a further 3 million Afghans… Read moreHunger, chaos loom in Afghanistan
From AP, Nov. 16: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from detainees and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined that hundreds of men detained at Guantanamo Bay were “enemy… Read moreLegal proceedings on Gitmo detainees called “sham”
From the Committee to Protect Journalists, Nov. 17: José Manuel Nava Sánchez, former director of the Mexico City-based daily Excélsior and columnist for the national daily El Sol de México, was found murdered yesterday in his apartment. The Committee to… Read moreAnother newsman murdered in Mexico
From El Universal, Nov. 16 via Chiapas95: Enough evidence exists to put Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz and three top federal officials on trial for rights abuses, according to a report released Wednesday by the president of the Senate Human Rights… Read moreOaxaca: Ruiz to face federal charges?
From El Universal, Nov. 14 via Chiapas95 (our translation): Mexican police officials on Monday rejected a critical report from the National Human Rights Commission, saying it relied on false information to accuse federal police of brutality during May protests in… Read moreMexico: controversy grows over Atenco torture case
In a communique, the Democratic Revolutionary Tendency-Army of the People (TDR-EP) denied that the Nov. 6 bomb attacks in Mexico City were “terrorist acts,” saying instead “They were a cry of protest and indignation before the…abuse of the lords of… Read moreMexico: TDR-EP guerillas deny “terrorism”
Follwing the conclusion of its “constitutive congress,” the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) announced through its spokesman Flavio Sosa Villavicencio its intention to convert “the popular revolt into a peaceful, democratic and humanist revolution,” on the model of the… Read moreOaxaca: APPO calls for “peaceful revolution”
Media accounts have failed to emphasize that the folks cynically exploited by the sneering faux journalist are not only Romanian but Roma (Gypsy)—as if they don’t have enough problems already. From The Guardian, Nov. 15: The residents of a remote… Read moreBorat screws Roma
From the AP, Nov. 15: Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming’s impact on the country’s environment, economy and public health. The lawsuit seeks to compel the U.S. Climate Change Science Program… Read moreEnviros sue Bush for supressing climate data
