PERU: COCALEROS PROTEST SPRAYING, SHINING PATH ATTACKS
…scene, the attackers reportedly painted a hammer and sickle on the asphalt and left a red flag marked with the initials SL. They also apparently left a sign reading “We…
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1954 REVISITED
…during the civil war to the Guatemalan military and only 3% to left-wing guerrillas. The conflict left around 200,000 people dead and over 40,000 missing as well as creating some…
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
…power vacuum left by the decline of Rome allowed Croatia and Slovenia in the north and west to attain a degree of independence and sovereignty—though pressure from the Magyars in…
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST CONFRONTS A DIVIDED BANGLADESH
…has caused considerable resentment among the local Bangladeshi population. One of the main complaints of the local people is that they have been left out of any discussions regarding the…
IT’S NOT ABOUT ‘REGIME CHANGE’
…so many on the left accused Syrian Arab rebels of being US proxies, while either supporting or remaining silent on the far more consistent US support of the Kurdish-led Syrian…
Iraq: Christians face sectarian cleansing
…Christians who remain is also uncertain. The last Iraqi census, in 1987, counted 1.4 million Christians, but many left during the 1990s when sanctions squeezed the country. Yonadam Kanna, the…
Panama: right takes the presidency
…governments with left or center-left governments. The PRD had been losing support from the left; at Panama’s May Day celebrations, labor and activist organizations urged the thousands of participants to…
Colombia: inactive guerillas join active paras off US terror list
…(Contagio Radio, Oct. 13) And left-wing politicians Highly visible figures in Colombia’s left-opposition political parties are also apparently marked for death. Pamphlets signed by the “Capital Bloc” of the Águilas…
India: strange bedfellows in Bharat Bandh
Much of India was shut down Sept. 20 in a Bharat Bandh—an all-India general strike—called by opposition parties to protest new neoliberal economic measures by the center-left United Progressive Alliance (UPA)…
Mexico: unions hold “last May Day of the PAN era”
Left-leaning independent unions dominated celebrations of International Workers Day in Mexico on May 1, while some centrist labor federations decided not to hold marches, reportedly because of concern over security….
Mexico: protests growing in ‘failed state’
…their supporters. The left-leaning daily La Jornada put participation at “hundreds of thousands” and reported that marchers were still entering the Zócalo when the main rally ended. (LJ, Nov. 21,…
Gaza ceasefire: the sobering reality
…been on the verge of starvation for months–is just one of the questions left unanswered, or only partially answered, by the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The three-phase deal…