Days after a deadly eviction of peasants by paramilitaries, anti-privatization protests are shaking Paraguay. Neither have made any significant international media coverage. Cuba’s Prensa Latina reports June 27 that a national mobilization has coverged on Asuncion, the capital, demanding the… Read moreProtests in Paraguay
A little-reported story from Paraguay on an eviction of peasants from contested lands by the private gunmen of local big land-owners (apparently Brazilians), backed up by the army and police. It is the biotech opponents who are distributing this news,… Read morePeasants killed by Paraguay paramilitaries
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), June 20: The local leader of Hamas was arrested in an often lawless frontier area where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet. Brazilian and Paraguayan news agencies confirmed June 17 that Saiel Bashar Yahya Al… Read moreHamas leader arrested in South America?
There was an old joke back in the ’70s: Getting Nixon for burglary was like getting Hitler for tax evasion. Now it seems life imitates black humor. From the BBC, June 7: Mixed day in court for Pinochet Augusto Pinochet… Read morePinochet to be charged with tax-evasion
On May 27, Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) Paraguay condemned an agreement approved by the Paraguayan Congress which will allow US troops into the country for an 18-month training and advisory mission from June 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006…. Read moreUS troops to Paraguay
While Chilean ex-Minister of the Interior, Jose Miguel Insulza, assumes the post of Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Chile’s indigenous Mapuche bring their case to that same organization, accusing the Chilean government of human rights violations. Having exhausted… Read moreMapuche protest abuse of Chilean terror laws to OAS
Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party rejected a claim by a leading weekly magazine that Colombia’s FARC guerrillas donated $5 million to its candidates for the 2002 elections. In an eight-page cover story, Veja magazine said that it had been given access… Read moreBrazil’s Workers Party denies FARC claim
