Dole and Chiquita paid Colombian paramilitaries to perform protection services that included murdering trade unionists, demobilized para José Gregorio Mongones said in an affidavit.
In a statement released on the Internet, Colombia’s two guerilla armies, the FARC and ELN, announced they intend to unite, saying “Our only enemy is North American Imperialism.”
Colombian human rights attorney Jorge Eliécer Molano-Rodríguez and labor leader Luis Javier Correa Suárez have both received threats in recent weeks. Solidarity groups call for urgent action.
CITGO, subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil monopoly, reportedly attempted to buy a Bronx cookie plant to save the jobs of 136 unionized workers—but the company’s owners ignored the offer.
The DEA claims evidence of a massive drug smuggling operation out of Venezuela, linking a powerful trafficker to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas and a fugitive Venezuelan businessman.
Washington’s embassy in Ecuador denied official charges of US involvement in the Colombian army’s 2008 raid against a FARC camp in the Ecuadoran territory.
Peasant leaders marched on the offices of the judicial authorities in Piura in northwest Peru to demand justice in the police slaying of two opponents of a disputed copper mining project.
Colombian officials are continuing to investigate three Chiquita Brands officials suspected of involvement in the payment of paramilitary death squads in the name of the banana company.
Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to have won a second five-year term in general elections with 61-63.2% of the vote.
Our November issue featured the stories “Venezuelan Labor Between Chávez and the Golpistas” by Venezuelan journalist Rafael Uzcategui writing for the Spanish anarchist journal Tierra y Libertad, and “Venezuela: Demarcation Without Land” by José Quintero Weir writing for the Caracas… Read moreIndigenous and labor rights in Venezuela: do our readers care?
Tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have deepened after Colombian ministers failed to attend a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting in Quito intended to defuse the crisis.
Mijail Martinez, an activist with the Victims’ Committee Against Impunity in Venezuela’s Lara state (CVCI-Lara), was assassinated in a drive-by shooting at his home.
