by Weekly News Update on the Americas REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED TO U.S. On Dec. 31 a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Juvenal Ricardo Ovidio Palmera Pineda (alias Simon Trinidad), was taken from a maximum security Colombian… Read moreCOLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNT
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNTby Weekly News Update on the Americas Investigators probing the Nov. 18 car bomb assassination of Venezuelan state prosecutor Danilo Anderson have found telephone records suggesting that the killing was planned at a meeting in Miami this past September. One… Read moreVENEZUELA: MURDER CASE LEADS TO MIAMI?
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: MURDER CASE LEADS TO MIAMI?by Weekly News Update on the Americas On the evening of Nov. 16, some 2,000 campesinos took over the Buenaventura mining company’s La Zanja camp in the Pulan district of Santa Cruz province, Cajamarca department, in northwestern Peru. The Front… Read morePERU: ONE KILLED IN MINE PROTEST
Continue ReadingPERU: ONE KILLED IN MINE PROTESTby Weekly News Update on the Americas At a meeting of Western Hemisphere defense ministers in Quito, Ecuador, on Nov. 16, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called for increased Latin American action against terrorism, hinting that the region’s militaries should… Read moreECUADOR: RUMSFELD DOES QUITO
Continue ReadingECUADOR: RUMSFELD DOES QUITOby Weekly News Update on the Americas Chilean police arrested some 300 people, mostly students, who were protesting in Santiago on Nov. 17 against the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, scheduled for Nov. 19-21 in Chile, and the participation… Read moreCHILE: MASS PROTESTS AT APEC MEET
Continue ReadingCHILE: MASS PROTESTS AT APEC MEETDid Bush Pledge Support for Colombia’s Top Terrorist and Drug Dealer in his Cartagena Photo-Op with Alvaro Uribe? by Bill Weinberg President Bush’s brief stop in Colombia on his return from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Chile on Nov…. Read moreCOLOMBIA: WHO ARE THE “NARCO-TERRORISTS”?
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: WHO ARE THE “NARCO-TERRORISTS”?by Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 18, some 2,500 campesino coca producers (cocaleros) from San Gaban in Carabaya province, Puno department, began blocking several points of a highway leading to the neighboring department of Madre de Dios…. Read morePERU: POLICE KILL 3 COCALEROS
Continue ReadingPERU: POLICE KILL 3 COCALEROSby Bill Weinberg Colombia makes few headlines in the United States these days. But Washington’s involvement in the western hemisphere’s longest, bloodiest war is rapidly escalating, as the world’s attention is elsewhere. And the latest signal of increased US embroilment… Read moreU.S. TO DOUBLE TROOP PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA; GENERAL STRIKE SAYS NO TO MORE WAR
Continue ReadingU.S. TO DOUBLE TROOP PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA; GENERAL STRIKE SAYS NO TO MORE WARDespite Court Ruling and Peasant Protest by Andrew Epstein, WW3 REPORT Special Correspondent in Colombia According to the United Nations report, Global Illicit Drug Trends 2003, coca production in Colombia has been reduced by an impres sive 37%. However,… Read moreURIBE: “FUMIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE”
Continue ReadingURIBE: “FUMIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE”A Growing Anti-Militarist Movement Demands Right to "Active Neutrality" in Armed Conflict by Bill Weinberg Maria Brigida Gonzalez, with her long gray-streaked braids and nurturing smile, comes across as the kindly grandmother that she is, even if she is… Read moreNONVIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA
Continue ReadingNONVIOLENCE IN COLOMBIAby Bill Weinberg Leaving Barrancabermeja in a canoa — a small launch with an outboard motor — the perilous patchwork of armed groups that vie for control of Colombia’s Medio Magdalena region becomes immediately obvious. Navy gunboats painted in camo… Read moreBETWEEN DYNCORP AND THE A.U.C: Glyphosate and Paramilitary Terror in Colombia’s Cimitarra Valley
Continue ReadingBETWEEN DYNCORP AND THE A.U.C: Glyphosate and Paramilitary Terror in Colombia’s Cimitarra ValleyIndigenous Peoples, Civil Society Under Attack in Colombia’s Oil Zone by Bill Weinberg "When there was no petroleum, there was no war," says Dario Tulivila, a traditional Guahibo Indian leader from Colombia’s bloodily conflicted department of Arauca. "When the oil… Read moreSTATE OF SIEGE IN ARAUCA
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