On Aug. 3, some 600 demonstrators, including many people of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, marched in Bogota to protest Israel’s military aggression against Lebanon. The march was called by the Platform of Colombians in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon, a… Read moreColombia: police attack march for Lebanon
From Canada Free Press, Aug. 7 (links, annotation and emphasis added by WW4 REPORT): With world attention trained on Israel and Hezbollah, the situation is tense in Bogota, Colombia, today as President Alvaro Uribe prepares for his inauguration for a… Read moreColombia braces for inauguration violence
The Joel Sierra Regional Human Rights Committee Foundation has reported a wave of recent murders in the municipalities of Arauquita, Tame and Saravena in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca. On July 27 in Tame, meat vendor Alberto Tovar Trujillo… Read moreColombia: wave of killings in Arauca
from Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 22,000 residents of the northeastern Ecuadoran province of Orellana began a “progressive strike” on June 28 to protest environmental damage by the French oil company Perenco and repression by the military. The… Read moreECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early morning of June 28 Peru’s Congress voted 79-14 with six abstentions to ratify the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA, known locally as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC), a trade… Read morePERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
Continue ReadingPERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTESTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of Paraguayan campesinos continued to occupy estates and block roads during the week of July 17 to demand that the government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos address the problems they face. The… Read morePARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?from Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 8, Peruvian campesinos held a day of protest against the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known in the region as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC) which Peru’s government signed with the… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADE
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 200 Ecuadoran campesinos occupied the roads leading to the Coca-Payamino installation of the French oil company Perenco on the morning of June 19 to protest the company’s “indifference” to the environmental damage… Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 1, Colombian chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran announced that an army platoon had deliberately killed 10 agents from a US-trained anti-narcotics unit of the Judicial Police Department (DIJIN) on May 22… Read moreCOLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACRE
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACREThe dust is being blown off one of the more bizarre schemes to emerge from Washington’s so-called “War on Drugs”—which is really a war on plants, on biotic life. Jeremy Bigwood writes for In These Times, June 6: On April… Read moreUS revives Colombia bio-war plan
Violent student protests in the historic town of Merida in Venezuela’s high Andes seem to have accrued little international coverage. This very opinionated account from the very pro-Chavez Venezuela News Bulletin, May 31: Riots and ‘guarimbas’ are running wild in… Read moreVenezuela: student protests rock Merida
from Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 5,000 people marched in Quito on May 9 to demand that the government cancel its contract with the US oil company Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) within 15 days, and end all negotiations on… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOT
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOT
