from Weekly News Update on the Americas MAYDAY ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATION As they did last year, many Central American workers marked May 1 with demonstrations protesting the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a US-sponsored trade bloc composed of Costa… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATION
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 5,000 people marched in Quito on May 9 to demand that the government cancel its contract with the US oil company Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) within 15 days, and end all negotiations on… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOT
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 1, in a ceremony at the San Alberto oilfield in Carapari, Tarija department, Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma signed supreme decree 28.701, ordering the nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources. “The… Read moreBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Right-wing Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez was re-elected in the country’s first round of elections on May 28, eliminating the need for a second round. With 80% of the vote counted, Uribe had… Read moreCOLOMBIA: URIBE RE-ELECTED, REPRESSION ESCALATES
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: URIBE RE-ELECTED, REPRESSION ESCALATESA “Secret Formula” Against Colombia’s Guerillas? by Paul Wolf The US State Department has developed the secret formula to dismantle the armed groups of Colombia’s war. Or so it believes. It is believed that the demobilization of 28,000 members of… Read moreTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENT
Continue ReadingTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENTBolivian Gas in State and Corporate Hands by Benjamin Dangl Years before the arrival of the Spanish, Bolivia’s indigenous people used “magic water” to cure wounds and keep fires going. With the invention of the automobile in the 1880s this… Read moreTHE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:
Continue ReadingTHE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:Bolivia’s Nationalization by Decree by Gretchen Gordon The smell of gas hangs strongly in the air as a crowd of flag-waving Bolivians celebrate outside the Petrobras Gualberto Villaroel oil and gas refinery. A state worker clad in a tan work… Read moreEVO SEIZES THE GAS
Continue ReadingEVO SEIZES THE GASNew York’s Hero Rescue Workers Face Kafkaesque Nightmare by Joe Flood An hour after Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the men of FDNY Engine Company 240 received orders at… Read more9-11’s HIDDEN VICTIMS
Continue Reading9-11’s HIDDEN VICTIMSPresident of the Iraqi Freedom Congress by Bill Weinberg Samir Adil is president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress (IFC), a new initiative to build a democratic, secular and progressive alternative to both the US occupation and political Islam in Iraq…. Read moreINTERVIEW: SAMIR ADIL
Continue ReadingINTERVIEW: SAMIR ADILStrategic Pull-Back to Perpetuate Occupation by David Bloom The US government, with European urging, has requested that Israel give negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority one last shot. If by the end of the year the US… Read moreANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT”
Continue ReadingANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Ecuadoran secondary school student Jhonny Montesdeoca was killed on April 6 during demonstrations in Cuenca to oppose signing the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known as TLC in Spanish) with the US and to… Read moreECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas RIO GRANDE DO SUL: MST SEIZES ESTATE On Feb. 28, more than 2,000 members of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) from 14 encampments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul… Read moreBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
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