Between Nov. 14 and Nov. 17, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “Fugitive Operations Units” arrested 70 immigrants in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Of the total, 27 had been ordered removed by an… Read more“Return to Sender” hits NYC
From Reuters, Nov. 23: BOGOTA – Colombia’s right-wing militia leaders on Thursday called for the establishment of a truth commission that would allow them to reveal who collaborated in their illegal war against left-wing rebels. More than 30,000 paramilitary fighters… Read moreColombia: paras call for “truth commission”
Is it civil war yet? You tell us. Commentators have weaseled out of calling it that by making an arbitrary litmus test the fracturing of the “unity government”—even if that government has little real power and violence on the ground… Read moreIraq: sectarian slaughter threatens “unity government”
We have noted a growing number of cases in which immigrants are targeted for deportation by the Islamophobic policies of the US immigration authorities, only to face oppression by Islamist thugs who rule in the countries they fled. The Homeland… Read moreDeported to Somalia —despite Islamist rule
A civil jury ruled Nov. 22 that rancher and vigilante Roger Barnett must pay $98,000 in damages to a Mexican-American family that he illegally held and threatened at gunpoint. The family were legal residents hunting on lands near his ranch,… Read moreArizona: border vigilante guilty
Zapatista Subcommander Marcos, continuing his “Other Campaign” tour of northern Mexico, arrived once again on the US border Nov. 22 when he stopped in Nuevo Laredo, Tamualipas, a border town which has been torn by narco-fueled violence in recent months…. Read moreSubcommander Marcos in Nuevo Laredo
Supporters of the Zapatista Naitonal Liberation Army (EZLN) blocked roads at 18 points in Chiapas Nov. 21 in support of the struggle in Oaxaca and to press demands for the resignation of the embattled state’s Gov. Ulises Ruiz. The Chiapas… Read moreChiapas: Zapatistas again block roads for Oaxaca
Traditional indigenous authorities from several communities in Oaxaca’s northern mountains met at Guelatao de Juarez Nov. 21 to formally inaugurate the Assembly of Zapotec, Mixe and Chinanteco Pueblos of the Sierra de Juarez, to support the popular struggle in the… Read moreOaxaca: Zapotecs build popular power in mountains
Approximately 30 armed men in civilian clothes, some with their faces covered, attacked the central camp of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) in the state capital at dawn on Nov. 21. The camp, outside the cathedral of Santo… Read moreOaxaca: more violence in capital, APPO seeks Papal mediation
The PRI-affiliated Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Campesino Rights (OPDDIC), issued a letter demanding the EZLN dismantle its Good Government Juntas in the Lacandon Selva, with a barely-veiled threat of new confrontations if this fails to happen. In… Read moreChiapas: more attacks threatened against Zapatista communities
From Milenio, Nov. 20, via Chiapas95 (our translation): For the first time in more than three centuries, some 300 Lacandones have fled their communities for fear of new confrontations with residents of Viejo Velasco, who sympathize with the Zapatista National… Read moreChiapas: Lacandones flee jungle conflict zone
From El Universal, Nov. 20: The government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blames “the highest command levels” of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the… Read moreMexico: “dirty war” report finds “crimes against humanity”
