Ecologists 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 PERUMoral Imperative or “Regime Change” Strategy? by Wynde Priddy After two years of violence in western Sudan, in late April the African Union (AU) moved to triple its peacekeeping troops in Darfur to 7,700–and asked NATO for logistical support. NATO… Read moreDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTION
Continue ReadingDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTIONGlobal Activists Gather in New York to Revive Nuclear Disarmament Call by Sarah Ferguson Sometimes peace needs a good enemy. It was President Reagan who really jump-started the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s with his roughhouse talk about… Read moreBOMBS AWAY
Continue ReadingBOMBS AWAYIs the CIA Behind the Iraqi “Insurgents”—and Global Terrorism? by Frank Morales The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable “anti-terrorist complex” is the essence of the new US… Read moreTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE
Continue ReadingTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE(And Can the U.S. Anti-War Movement Help?) by Bill Weinberg The anti-war movement in the U.S. is at its lowest ebb since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Two broad, mutually hostile tendencies have emerged: one increasingly supportive of the… Read moreCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
Continue ReadingCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?from 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 RICEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas NOTE: Nearly a year has passed since the leaders of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica met in Washington DC May 28, 2004 to sign the Central America Free Trade Agreement… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCE AND REPRESSION
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCE AND REPRESSIONby Sarah Ferguson The March 19 demonstrations in New York to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq were a good deal smaller than last year’s 100,000-strong march through Midtown, let alone the impassioned outpouring of dissent… Read moreTWO YEARS LATER: NYC Anti-War Protests Smaller—and Tilting to the Hard Left
Continue ReadingTWO YEARS LATER: NYC Anti-War Protests Smaller—and Tilting to the Hard Leftby Weekly News Update on the Americas DEPUTIES PASS GAS BILL On March 15, with virtually all of Bolivia’s cities shut down by road blockades on the first day of a 48-hour national strike, Bolivian president Carlos Mesa Gisbert announced… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
