All 44 teachers at a public high school in Colombia’s northern department of Córdoba sought refuge in Montería, the regional capital, after being threatened by a paramilitary group.
The government and the unions representing medical workers for the Social Security Fund signed an agreement ending a strike that the unions had started four days earlier over economic issues.
Activity in the US Congress reflects growing environmentalist opposition to a $450 million pipeline which would carry imported natural gas from the southwest coast to a place near San Juan on the north coast.
Greenpeace charges that operations by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation in the Argentine Andes at the border with Chile have already significantly damaged three small glaciers.
Accused Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik in his manifesto demonizes the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia as a jihadist menace—as do professional conspiranoids like Wayne Madsen who accuse him of being a Mossad agent.
Gee, that didn’t take long. Conspiranoid cranks claim (on no evidence) that Mossad was behind the Oslo terror attacks, providing an opportunity for the right-wing Israeli press to tar “anti-Zionists” as conspiranoid cranks.
Europe’s right-wing media voices all jumped to the al-Qaeda thesis in the Oslo terror attack—but it now emerges the perpetrator is a lone right-wing extremist who evidences the predictable Islamophobic rhetoric in his Internet footprint.
A memo leaked by the hacker group LulzSec from the Tucson police on a supposed emerging collaboration between Hezbollah and the Mexican drug cartels sparked hearings on Capitol Hill. But the memo itself was mostly empty speculation.
The Mexican attorney general’s office has charged 111 officials with corruption, fired 140 police officers, and revealed that 280 more are under investigation for ties to kidnapping, murder, extortion and organized crime.
One year after the announced “easing” of the Gaza siege, the IDF releases a report boasting of improved conditions in the Strip. But the Israeli rights group Gisha crunches the numbers to reveal that the “easing” is more illusory than real.
Peru’s populist president-elect Ollanta Humala takes office in just one week, and ominous signs are mounting that he will continue his predecessor’s trajectory towards breakneck resource extraction—and attendant bloody social conflicts.
Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales reached a deal with striking workers following a month of labor unrest in Puerto Gaitan, Colombia, that culminated this week in a blockade of the oilfields and riots in which several vehicles were destroyed.
