from Weekly News Update on the Americas Residents of the Machiguenga and other indigenous communities of the lower Urubamba river area in Peru’s Ucayali region began a 72-hour strike on Dec. 2 to protest the government’s failure to address the… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS PROTEST GAS SPILLS
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS PROTEST GAS SPILLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas The 31 new judges of Ecuador’s Supreme Court of Justice were sworn in, along with 21 alternate judges, on Nov. 30 by Carlos Estarellas, president of a four-member commission appointed to choose the… Read moreECUADOR: MOVES TOWARDS NEW CONSTITUTION
Continue ReadingECUADOR: MOVES TOWARDS NEW CONSTITUTIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas With 79% of the votes counted on the evening of Dec. 4, the six parties supporting left-populist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias had won all 167 seats in the National Assembly in national… Read moreVENEZUELA: CHAVISTAS SWEEP ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CHAVISTAS SWEEP ELECTIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CESAR: PARAMILITARIES MASSACRE 22 According to a report from the Minga Association for Alternative Social Promotion, on Dec. 4 and 5 a group of about 200 armed and uniformed paramilitaries entered the rural… Read moreCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS IN NEW MASSACRE
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS IN NEW MASSACREfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Dec. 23, with 99.7% of the votes counted from the Dec. 18 general elections, Bolivia’s National Electoral Court (CNE) announced that Evo Morales Ayma of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) had won… Read moreBOLIVIA: EVO MORALES VICTORY CONFIRMED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: EVO MORALES VICTORY CONFIRMEDby Kathryn Ledebur and Julia Dietz Over two years have passed since Bolivian security forces killed 59 and left over 200 people seriously injured during widespread demonstrations protesting the management of Bolivia’s gas reserves in September and October of 2003…. Read moreBOLIVIA: “GAS WAR” IMPUNITY AGGRAVATES TENSIONS
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: “GAS WAR” IMPUNITY AGGRAVATES TENSIONSPart Three in a Troubling Series by Michael I. Niman Remember Fallujah? It’s the Iraqi city of 300,000 that we had to destroy in order to save back in April of 2004. Over 30 Americans died and over 400 American… Read moreYES, THE PENTAGON MURDERS JOURNALISTS
Continue ReadingYES, THE PENTAGON MURDERS JOURNALISTSAn Interview with Gilbert Achcar by Bill Weinberg Gilbert Achcar is the author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (Monthly Review Press, 2002) and Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq… Read moreIRAQ: THE CASE FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
Continue ReadingIRAQ: THE CASE FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWALfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas COSTA RICA: MARCH AGAINST DR-CAFTA Some 25,000 Costa Ricans marched in San Jose on Nov. 17 in what organizers said would be the first of several mobilizations against the Central America-Dominican Republic Free… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS MARCH AGAINST CAFTA
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS MARCH AGAINST CAFTAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 10,000 indigenous people from throughout Ecuador gathered in the capital, Quito, Nov. 16-18 to demand that President Alfredo Palacio not sign a free trade treaty (TLC) with the US. The protesters are… Read moreECUADOR: TEN THOUSAND PROTEST TRADE PACT
Continue ReadingECUADOR: TEN THOUSAND PROTEST TRADE PACTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL DEAL FOR U.S. POOR The Houston-based oil company CITGO, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), is set to supply 9 million gallons of… Read moreVENEZUELA: OIL FOR U.S. POOR; “HOLOCAUST” IN PRISONS?
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: OIL FOR U.S. POOR; “HOLOCAUST” IN PRISONS?from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ONE KILLED IN EVICTION On the morning of Nov. 9 some 500 Colombian police agents attempted the forcible removal of 400 members of Paez (Nasa) indigenous communities from the El Japio farm,… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, PEACE COMMUNITIES UNDER ATTACK
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