On Oct. 20 Raul Ojeda Zubieta, center-left candidate for governor of the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, charged in a press conference that Andres Granier Melo, candidate for the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had won in the Oct. 14… Read moreMexico: violence in Tabasco vote
The Permanent Human Rights Assembly (APDH) of Ecuador is protesting the Oct. 15 killing of two Ecuadoran campesinos by the Colombian armed forces. Blanca Vega and her son Hector Monar were traveling by boat along the San Miguel river en… Read moreColombia war spills into Ecuador
Could someone possibly please explain what this one is all about? A rather opinionated report from the right-libertarian Liberty Forum, Oct. 20: Thessalonica – The Greek Government will move, as early as this weekend, to have armed police forcibly remove… Read moreRebel monks pledge to resist police at Greek abbey eviction
Even Donald Rumsfeld is starting to make cut-and-run noises. As the Bush White House holds a high-level strategy session on Iraq Oct. 21, the Defense Secretary told reporters: “It’s their country, they’re going to have to govern it, they’re going… Read moreIraq: clerics unite against sectarian terror
Uribe uses this as an excuse to call for a military rather than negotiated solution to the hostage crisis. But the families and supporters of some of the FARC’s hostages aren’t buying it. From Merco Press, Oct. 21: Colombian President… Read moreColombia: car bomb scotches prisoner exchange
But, as we noted as long ago as 2003, the Shining Path guerilla movement has fractured, with a new ultra-hardline element refusing to accept the ceasefire call issued (whether under coercion or not) by Abimael “Chariman Gonzalo” Guzmán upon his… Read morePeru: “Chairman Gonzalo” gets life —again
Our friend Ivo Skoric of the Balkans Pages interviewed WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg via e-mail last weekend for the Croatian alternative e-zine H-Alter, as the first in a series of interviews with American left-wing bloggers. The interveiw appears in… Read moreWW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg interviewed by Croatian alterno-zine
From the Washington Post, Oct. 20: Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S…. Read moreWhite House seizes power from judiciary under Military Commissions Act
Fred Rosen writes for Mexico’s El Universal, Oct. 15: NAFTA: An interim assessment Because the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a prototype for Washington´s larger plans for the Americas, the nearly 13-year-old trade pact among the United States,… Read moreNAFTA at 13: still not working for workers
The recently created Honduran anti-delinquency task force Operación Trueno [Operation Thunder] proved critics fears on October 12, when a member of the force shot and killed an innocent citizen Henry Esaú García Fuentes, 25 years old. Fuentes ran away from… Read more“Social cleansing” in Honduras
Two thousand people from the National Forum for the Defense of the Sustainability and Right to Water marched in El Salvador’s capital Oct. 18 against privatization and for universal access to quality water. Members of labor, environmental, women’s, religious and… Read moreSalvadorans march for water rights
Subcommander Marcos (now known as “Delegate Zero”) and other members of the Zapatista delegation arrived in Tijuana Oct. 18 after traveling up the Baja California peninsula, with stops in Ensenada and other communities where they met with Mixtec migrant laborers… Read moreSubcommander Marcos arrives in Tijuana
