From Weekly News Update on the Americas, July 31: In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the Oral Criminal Court in the Chilean city of Temuco acquitted six Mapuche rights activists in a retrial on charges of “terrorist illicit… Read moreChile: Mapuche acquitted of “terrorist” charges
from Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 29 in Tocache province, in the Huallaga valley of San Martin in north central Peru, at least 3,500 campesino coca growers (cocaleros) armed with sticks surrounded a group of 230 police… Read morePERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPSAnother escalation is reported in the persecution of the Mapuche indigenous people of Chile: the imprisonment of the editor of a Mapuche magazine on six-year-old charges related to a land occupation, effectively preventing him from travelling to Canada for a… Read moreChile: Mapuche editor imprisoned
from Weekly News Update on the Americas AMNESTY LAW PASSES On June 20, the last day of ordinary sessions for the Colombian Congress, the Senate approved the “Justice and Peace” law, which paves the way for a “demobilization” and amnesty… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY AMNESTY PASSES, NEW AID PENDING
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY AMNESTY PASSES, NEW AID PENDINGfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 21, residents of the northern Ecuadoran provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana began an open-ended civic strike to demand improvements to roads, schools, housing and health care in the region, which borders… Read moreECUADOR: STRIKERS SEIZE OIL WELLS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STRIKERS SEIZE OIL WELLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HUALLAGA VALLEY: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS On May 29 in Tocache province, in the Huallaga valley of San Martin in north central Peru, at least 3,500 campesino coca growers (cocaleros) armed with sticks… Read morePERU: COCALEROS, PEASANT ECOLOGISTS STAGE STRIKES
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS, PEASANT ECOLOGISTS STAGE STRIKESEcologists Warn of Disaster as U.S. Sprays Glyphosate in Threatened National Parks by Daniel Leal and combined sources In the past few months, the people of Quibdo, capital city of the Colombian Pacific coast department of Choco, have observed daily… Read moreCOLOMBIA: CHEMICAL WARFARE EXPANDS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: CHEMICAL WARFARE EXPANDSA Father Waits for Justice as Deadly Accident Reveals Air-Interception Exercises A tragic air accident on Peru’s northern coastline in August of 2001 cost the lives of two exemplary pilots, one Peruvian and one American. It received little notice at… Read morePLAN COLOMBIA’S SECRET AIR FORCE PROGRAM IN PERU
Continue ReadingPLAN COLOMBIA’S SECRET AIR FORCE PROGRAM IN PERUfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: FARC SEIZE INDIGENOUS TOWNS Around 5 AM on April 14, hundreds of rebels from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) simultaneously attacked the neighboring municipalities of Jambalo and Toribio in… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WON
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PUBLIC OUSTS PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ On April 19, some 50,000 Ecuadorans–including entire families with children–marched peacefully through the capital, Quito, from La Carolina park to Carondelet, the government palace. They carried Ecuadoran flags, sang… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS OUST PRESIDENT; CONGRESS, JUDICIARY PURGED
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTS OUST PRESIDENT; CONGRESS, JUDICIARY PURGEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s brief Latin American visit covered five countries: Brazil on April 26, Colombia on April 27, Chile April 28-29 and El Salvador in the evening of April 29;… Read moreVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICEKudos to Pacific New Service for picking up our recent commentary on the coordinated propaganda blitz against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Readers of WW4 REPORT are aware that within a week of each other, Otto Reich called in a National Review… Read moreJINSA, National Review in anti-Chavez blitz
