From Knight-Ridder, March 21: BOGOTA, Colombia – It’s pretty easy to tell when Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is angry. The bespectacled president usually airs his grievances in public, particularly against errant generals in his army. Since taking office in 2002,… Read moreColombia: Uribe rift with military?
From EFE, March 16: Bolivia’s attorney general filed charges Thursday against three ex-presidents and eight former energy ministers for signing contracts with foreign petroleum firms that violated the laws of the Andean nation. The accusations are directed against Gonzalo Sanchez… Read moreBolivia: three ex-presidents charged in foreign oil deals
Paula Palmer writes for Global Response Action Alerts: In late January at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuelan indigenous leaders asked Global Response to support them in their struggle to stop construction of open-pit coal mines in their territories…. Read moreAction alert: Venezuelan indigenous oppose coal project
From Prensa Latina, March 8: A call to return illegally owned lands was launched by Bolivia´s President Evo Morales, while warning his administration will put an end to unproductive large landed estates. On his Tuesday statement after assigning Saul Salazar… Read moreBolivia: Evo to free the land?
Coca Eradication Brings War to Endangered National Parks by Memo Montevino Last June, following months of political contest between the administration of President Alvaro Uribe and environmentalists, Colombia’s government announced that the aerial spraying of glyphosate to wipe out coca… Read more“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”
Continue Reading“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ARMY KILLS CIVILIANS On Jan. 8, Colombian army troops from the No. 26 Cacique Piguanza Infantry Battalion, headed by Lt. Hoyos, shot to death 17-year-old Hortensia Neyid Tunja Cuchumbe and Manuel Antonio… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRA
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRAHugo Chavez threatens to cut oil to the US at the same time that he makes it available at a subsidized rate to low-income US consumers. Capitol Hill Republicans go apoplectic that a developing country could stand up to Uncle… Read moreChavez threatens to cut off oil to US
A very interesting piece from the Feb. 6 Christian Science Monitor, online at RethinkVenezuela. Smells like the usual “regime change” recipe, doesn’t it? Democracy’s ‘special forces’ face heat CARACAS, VENEZUELA — A diplomatic row between the United States and Venezuela… Read moreVenezuela: US funds opposition
from Weekly News Update on the Americas ENTRE RIOS: PAPER MILL PROTESTS CONTINUE On Dec. 30, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic along three bridges which span the Uruguay River, linking Argentina’s Entre Rios province with Uruguay, to protest the Uruguayan… Read moreARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDER
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDERfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Jan. 5, paramilitaries who identified themselves as members of the “Autodefensas del Llano” (Plains Self-Defense) group murdered four people in the community of Matabambu, in Puerto Lleras municipality, in the southern Colombian… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY ATTACKS IN META
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY ATTACKS IN METAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Dec. 20, a group of about 20 guerrillas from the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebel group ambushed a police contingent and killed eight agents in Aucayacu, Leoncio Prado province, in the… Read morePERU: SENDERO RESURGENT?
Continue ReadingPERU: SENDERO RESURGENT?by Benjamin Dangl After winning a landslide victory on Dec. 18th, Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize the country’s gas reserves, rewrite the constitution in a popular assembly, redistribute land to poor farmers and change the rules of… Read moreBOLIVIA: A COMING TRIAL BY FIRE?
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