Thousands march in Montevideo Thousands of people protested in the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay on the evening of March 9, just before Bush’s arrival in the country. A march called by Uruguay’s only labor federation, the Inter-Union Workers Plenary-National Workers… Read moreSouth America protests Bush
Here we go again. We noted two years ago that the annual State Department human rights report for the Americas displayed a blatant double standard concerning US client Colombia and Axis of Evil junior affiliate Venezuela. The new report goes… Read moreState Department rights report reveals double standard on Venezuela, Colombia —again
Seven Colombian soldiers and 11 guerillas were killed over the March 3-4 weekend in the heaviest combat in recent months. Gen. Alejandro Navas, commander of the military’s Omega joint task force, said engagements began early March 3 with a large… Read moreColombia: new violence on eastern plains
from Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Jan. 29 residents of Camiri, a city in the southwest of Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department, began a civic strike and blockaded a main highway connecting the country with Argentina and Paraguay…. Read moreBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATION
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATIONJustice Department Scores One Against the FARC by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT February 20, a federal jury in Washington DC found Anayibe Rojas Valderama (Sonia), Antonio Celis and Juan Diego Giraldo guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine into the US,… Read moreAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERA
Continue ReadingAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERAThe Fractious Struggle for South America’s Resources by April Howard, Upside Down World Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was arguably elected on the platform of nationalization. A country-wide protest deposed president Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada in 2003, and then kicked former… Read moreNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELA
Continue ReadingNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELAEcuador’s Economy Minister Ricardo Patiño announced Feb. 28 that the previous day’s congressional vote to reduce debt service assignments in the $9.8 billion national budget by $283.4 million has spurred the government’s debt restructuring plans. Patiño said an auditing commission… Read moreEcuador to reduce debt payments; protests push constitutional reform
Jorge Noguera, former head of Colombia’s Department of Administrative Security (DAS) under President Alvaro Uribe, was arrested Feb. 22. He is accused of handing over a hit list of human rights workers and trade union activists to the right-wing paramilitaries…. Read moreColombia: ex-spy chief arrested
Earlier this month, a delegation from the Bush adminisation met with President Alvaro Uribe in Bogota to evaluate what Uribe is calling “Plan Colombia II.” The delegation was led by assistant secretary of state for hemispheric affairs Tom Shannon and… Read moreUribe boasts “Plan Colombia II”; Bush policy unchanged
We hope. From Reuters, Feb. 16: BOGOTA – A scandal over suspected Colombian government links to illegal right-wing militias could hamper President Alvaro Uribe’s bid to clinch a free-trade deal with the United States. Sen. Alvaro Araujo, the brother of… Read moreColombia: para scandal threatens trade deal
from Weekly News Update on the Americas Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias started his third term—his second full six-year term—on Jan. 10 in a ceremony before the 167-deputy National Assembly. No foreign dignitaries attended the Jan. 10 inauguration. According to… Read moreVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Promising to end “the long night of neoliberalism,” economist Rafael Correa started a four-year term as president of Ecuador in a ceremony in Quito on Jan. 15. Only about 25 of the 100… Read moreECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”
Continue ReadingECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”
