from Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 1, in a ceremony at the San Alberto oilfield in Carapari, Tarija department, Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma signed supreme decree 28.701, ordering the nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources. “The… Read moreBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZEDA “Secret Formula” Against Colombia’s Guerillas? by Paul Wolf The US State Department has developed the secret formula to dismantle the armed groups of Colombia’s war. Or so it believes. It is believed that the demobilization of 28,000 members of… Read moreTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENT
Continue ReadingTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENTBolivian Gas in State and Corporate Hands by Benjamin Dangl Years before the arrival of the Spanish, Bolivia’s indigenous people used “magic water” to cure wounds and keep fires going. With the invention of the automobile in the 1880s this… Read moreTHE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:
Continue ReadingTHE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:Bolivia’s Nationalization by Decree by Gretchen Gordon The smell of gas hangs strongly in the air as a crowd of flag-waving Bolivians celebrate outside the Petrobras Gualberto Villaroel oil and gas refinery. A state worker clad in a tan work… Read moreEVO SEIZES THE GAS
Continue ReadingEVO SEIZES THE GASOn May 19, four Mapuche rights activists resumed their open-ended hunger strike at the Hernan Enriquez hospital in Temuco, in southern Chile’s Region IX (Araucania). Mapuche activists Juan Patricio Marileo Saravia, Florencio Jaime Marileo Saravia and Juan Carlos Huenulao Lienmil… Read moreChile: Mapuche resume hunger strike
Boogie for your right to defy gringo imperialism, y’all. From Reuters, May 23: CARACAS – Among the shabby high-rise tenements overlooking Venezuela’s capital, hip-hop beats rather than the usual gunfire kept the Caracas neighborhood of Pinto Salinas awake one night… Read moreVenezuela: the hip-hop revolution
Colombia is the worst humanitarian disaster in the western hemisphere, and the worst on the planet after Congo and Darfur. But the world is paying very little attention—even as Ecuador is starting to look more and more like the next… Read moreEcuador: UN seeks aid for Colombian refugees
from Weekly News Update on the Americas Ecuadoran secondary school student Jhonny Montesdeoca was killed on April 6 during demonstrations in Cuenca to oppose signing the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known as TLC in Spanish) with the US and to… Read moreECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTSThe Colombian Attorney General’s office suspended for 90 days retired army general Pablo A. Rodriguez and Col. Javier V. Hernández for failing to provide security for the village of San José de Apartadó, the self-declared “peace community” in the wartorn… Read moreColombia: army commanders censured for terror at “peace community”
We sure hope this is just a couple of lone wackos and not the beginning of a destabilization campaign against Evo Morales. An AP report indicates suspect Triston Jay Amero of California “has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals… Read moreBolivia: bombing kills two
from Weekly News Update on the Americas RIO GRANDE DO SUL: MST SEIZES ESTATE On Feb. 28, more than 2,000 members of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) from 14 encampments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul… Read moreBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
Continue ReadingBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL STRIKE IN AMAZON The Ecuadoran government decreed a state of emergency in the Amazon provinces of Napo, Orellana and Sucumbios on March 8, two days into a strike that shut down oil… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
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