from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Feb. 27 Colombia and the US concluded a trade pact after two years of negotiations. Peru signed a similar accord in December, and the US is seeking an agreement with Ecuador. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL STRIKE IN AMAZON The Ecuadoran government decreed a state of emergency in the Amazon provinces of Napo, Orellana and Sucumbios on March 8, two days into a strike that shut down oil… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRYAIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism by Joseph Massad In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the United States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power of the US pro-Israel… Read moreBLAMING “THE LOBBY”
Continue ReadingBLAMING “THE LOBBY”No Business as Usual as CAFTA Takes Effect by Paul Pollack SAN SALVADOR, March 1 — There was little fanfare and much protest today as the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) went into effect in El Salvador. The country… Read moreEL SALVADOR:
Continue ReadingEL SALVADOR:Stalin’s Shadow Looms Over Trans-Caucasus Pipeline by Rene Wadlow The president of Azerbaijan, Ilhan Aliyev (son of the long-time president Heydar Aliyev), and Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia, met outside Paris, in Rambouillet Feb. 10-11, to discuss the stalemated conflict… Read moreNAGORNO-KARABAKH:
Continue ReadingNAGORNO-KARABAKH:The Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg Houzan Mahmoud is a co-founder of the Iraqi Freedom Congress (IFC), a new initiative to build a democratic, secular and progressive alternative to both the US occupation and political… Read moreHOUZAN MAHMOUD INTERVIEW
Continue ReadingHOUZAN MAHMOUD INTERVIEWThe New Corporate Agenda for Central America by Tom Ricker and Burke Stansbury What does tightening intellectual property laws have to do with “free” trade? That’s the question many people in Central American and the Dominican Republic are asking as… Read moreCAFTA’S ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACY
Continue ReadingCAFTA’S ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACYCoca Eradication Brings War to Endangered National Parks by Memo Montevino Last June, following months of political contest between the administration of President Alvaro Uribe and environmentalists, Colombia’s government announced that the aerial spraying of glyphosate to wipe out coca… Read more“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”
Continue Reading“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ARMY KILLS CIVILIANS On Jan. 8, Colombian army troops from the No. 26 Cacique Piguanza Infantry Battalion, headed by Lt. Hoyos, shot to death 17-year-old Hortensia Neyid Tunja Cuchumbe and Manuel Antonio… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRA
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas ENTRE RIOS: PAPER MILL PROTESTS CONTINUE On Dec. 30, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic along three bridges which span the Uruguay River, linking Argentina’s Entre Rios province with Uruguay, to protest the Uruguayan… Read moreARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDER
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDERUS, Israeli and Palestinian Artists Unite Across Borders by Robert Hirschfield Transposed upon the face of the famous Wall, in the photo-shop print by Suleiman Mansour, is Michaelangelo’s hand of God and hand of Adam reaching toward one another—only separated… Read moreTHREE CITIES AGAINST THE WALL
Continue ReadingTHREE CITIES AGAINST THE WALLfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. DELAYS CAFTA On Dec. 30 Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) spokesperson Stephen Norton announced that the US was postponing implementation of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), which… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA DELAYED; REPRESSION CONTINUES
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA DELAYED; REPRESSION CONTINUES
