From AP, Dec. 2: CARACAS — A Navy captain arrested this week was allegedly about to deliver to opponents of President Hugo Chavez a list of officers disposed to help topple the government, according to a high-ranking military official. The… Read moreVenezuela: coup rumblings on election eve
from Weekly News Update on the Americas: The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Ayma met on Nov. 25 with right-wing opposition forces to try to resolve a political crisis that came to a head when the rightwing Democratic and… Read moreBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23, after a weekend of intense negotiations, the Achuar indigenous nation reached an agreement with the Peruvian government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol, bringing an end to a nearly two-week… Read morePERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHT
Continue ReadingPERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHTInterventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement by Nikolas Kozloff, WW4 REPORT With the Venezuelan presidential election fast approaching on December 3, political tensions have reached a new high. Recently, the Venezuelan Attorney General initiated an investigation to determine whether a… Read moreVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITOn Nov. 19 and 20, some 22,000 people gathered outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to demand the closure of the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly called the US Army School of the… Read moreSOA protests at Ft. Benning —and throughout Americas
International Conscientious Objectors Meet in Bogota by Yeidy Rosa, War Resisters League From July 18-20, 2006, Colombia’s National Assembly of Conscientious Objectors, (Asamblea Nacional de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia de Colombia-ANOOC), held its International Meeting in Solidarity with Conscientious… Read moreDEMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingDEMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICAStill Waiting for Public Control of Hydrocarbons by Gretchen Gordon, Upside Down World On May 1, the day the Bolivian government announced the “nationalization” of the country’s vast oil and gas reserves, I went out to witness the symbolic takeover… Read moreBOLIVIA: WHITHER NATIONALIZATION?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: WHITHER NATIONALIZATION?Simón Trinidad Prosecution as Terror War Test Case by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT Ricardo Palmera, a Colombian guerrilla better known as Simón Trinidad, is on trial in Washington D.C. for hostage-taking and related charges of conspiracy, aiding and abetting, and… Read moreTHE FARC ON TRIAL
Continue ReadingTHE FARC ON TRIALCampesino Movement Meets the New Boss? by April Howard, Upside Down World A conflict between the Bolivian military and coca growers led to the death of two coca growers on the morning of September 29. The confrontation marks an unanticipated… Read moreBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUEBut, 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
from Weekly News Update on the Americas On the evening of Sept. 19, in front of an overflow crowd of public spectators, the No. 1 Federal Oral Court in the Argentine city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province, sentenced former… Read moreARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”
