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 LeftA children’s story some adults could stand to readby Padraic O’Neil THE LIBRARIAN OF BASRAA True Story from IraqWritten and illustrated by Jeanette WinterHarcourt Books, 2005 With bold, vibrant colors framing dramatic images, and in language direct and unadorned, Jeanette… Read moreSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WAR
Continue ReadingSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WARby 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 COUNTRYby Weekly News Update on the Americas SOLDIERS KILL MORE CIVILIANS On March 27, relatives found the bodies of Colombian campesinos Javier Alexander Cubillos, Wilder Cubillos and Heriberto Delgado at the morgue in Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca department. The army had apparently… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTED"Redevelopment" at Ground Zero Hits New Yorkers With Double-Whammy by Wynde Priddy More than three years after the historic attacks that ushered in a new global conflict and changed the Manhattan skyline forever, local residents still say that concerns about… Read more9-11’s LINGERING TOXIC MENACE
Continue Reading9-11’s LINGERING TOXIC MENACEby Bill Weinberg "Oilmen are like cats; you can never tell from the sound of them whether they are fighting or making love." –Calouste Gulbenkian The famous Armenian entrepreneur spoke these words when reflecting on the post-World War I carve-up… Read moreCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?President Uribe Threatens San Jose de Apartado Following Massacre by Virginia McGlone After eight years of existence, the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado in Antioquia, Colombia, continues to stand strong in the midst of a war that they… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATION
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATIONBush Nominates Terrorist for National Intelligence Director by Frank Morales "He will be a key figure in US counter-terror operations." —BBC News, Feb. 17, 2005 "I think he could have stopped all these assassinations and torture… We’re against this nomination…. Read moreJOHN NEGROPONTE & THE DEATH-SQUAD CONNECTION
Continue ReadingJOHN NEGROPONTE & THE DEATH-SQUAD CONNECTION
