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
The state leader of the Chiapas branch of the Independent Center of Campesinos and Rural Workers (CIOAC), Luis Hernandez Cruz, told a march of some 15,000 followers in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, that if the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE)… Read moreChiapas: campesinos pledge resistance if election overturned
Following an extended debate, a Mexican Senate committee voted 11-3 late Oct. 18 not to dissolve the Oaxaca state government, while demonstrators demanding a solution to the five-month crisis announced plans to escalate protests. In Oaxaca City, a teacher was… Read moreOaxaca: another teacher killed as Senate committee blocks solution
Even Bush appears to be facing the grim music from Iraq. Asked in an ABC News interview Oct. 18 whether he agreed with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s opinion that the violence in Iraq was “the jihadist equivalent of… Read moreIraq: “new caliphate” established?
This marks the first time a church has actually followed through with divesting from companies involved in Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory. Anglican Parish Disinvests from the Central Board of Finance over Caterpillar Shares The Interfaith Group… Read moreAnglican parish disinvests over Caterpillar shares
