An Interview with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui by Andalusia Knoll, Rustbelt Radio, Pittsburgh The South American nation of Bolivia has filled the headlines of the global press with its fight against water privatization, struggle for nationalization of gas, non-compliance with free… Read moreINDIGENOUS ANARCHISM IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS ANARCHISM IN BOLIVIAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Recent headlines from Colombia tell of imprisoned paramilitary warlords, politicians forced to step down for their links to the paramilitaries—and an unprecedented legal victory, with Chiquita Bananas fined $25 million for underwriting the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAS, ARMY STILL KILLING PEASANTS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAS, ARMY STILL KILLING PEASANTSby Benjamin Dangl, Upside Down World Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of them holds an automatic weapon. John Lennon’s “Imagine” plays in the background. This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a… Read morePARAGUAY: LABORATORY FOR LATIN AMERICA’S NEW MILITARISM
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: LABORATORY FOR LATIN AMERICA’S NEW MILITARISMWe understand why geopolitics practically mandate that Evo and Hugo do this, but it still rubs us the wrong way. We keep feeling like we have to belabor the rather obvious point that Ahmadinejad is no leftist. From AP, Sept…. Read moreAhmadinejad does Bolivia
Milagros Salazar writes for IPS, via Upside Down World, Sept. 20: For the second time in Peru, a mining project was rejected by local communities in a popular referendum. More than 90 percent of those who came out to vote… Read morePeru: communities say “no” to mining
Colombian authorities have decided to hold a top drug lord and a former paramilitary boss, both wanted by the US, in prisons fashioned on navy warships. But authorities were embarrassed Sept. 14 when they picked up the wrong prisoner in… Read moreColombia holds drug lords on floating prisons —but can’t keep ’em straight
A US court in Washington DC Sept. 17 ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay a $25 million fine to settle charges that it underwrote a terrorist organization in Colombia. Chiquita had agreed to the fine when it pleaded guilty in… Read moreChiquita fined $25 million in Colombia terror case
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos announced Sept. 3 army troops have killed Tomas Medina Caracas AKA "Negro Acacio," a top commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges since 2002…. Read moreColombia: FARC leader killed?
Fears of “Civil War” as Constituent Assembly Deadlocks by Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly Having come out of an intense period of political confrontation, including the biggest mobilization in Bolivia’s history, this landlocked country situated in the heart of rebellious… Read moreBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?The Colombian Army’s Third Brigade, based in Cali, was deeply penetrated by drug trafficking mafia, according to a recent criminal investigation. “What the prosecutors’ investigation has shown as it progresses,” reported Bogota’s Semana magazine Aug. 4, “is that ‘Don Diego‘… Read moreColombia: SOA instructors served narco mafia
Israel Corp., one of Israel’s major holding companies, is evaluating the acquisition of Peruvian utility Electroandes’ four hydroelectric plants, the government paper El Peruano quoted the Israeli company’s president Idan Ofer as saying. The US-based Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)… Read moreIsrael buys into Peru’s energy sector
Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced he and his cabinet will donate part of their pay to families left homeless by the devastating earthquake that hit neighboring Peru last week. “Peru has always shown solidarity toward us, and the first… Read moreBolivian solidarity with Peru quake victims
