by Daniel Leal Diaz The Bogota daily El Tiempo recently reported that the US military contractor Halliburton has recruited 25 retired Colombian police and army officers to provide security for oil infrastructure in Iraq. One of the men, speaking on… Read moreCOLOMBIA & IRAQ: HALLIBURTON MAKES THE CONNECTION
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA & IRAQ: HALLIBURTON MAKES THE CONNECTIONby Weekly News Update on the Americas REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED TO U.S. On Dec. 31 a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Juvenal Ricardo Ovidio Palmera Pineda (alias Simon Trinidad), was taken from a maximum security Colombian… Read moreCOLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNT
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNTby Weekly News Update on the Americas EL ALTO: PROTESTS OUST WATER COMPANY On Jan. 10, members of more than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an open-ended peaceful civic strike to press a… Read moreBOLIVIA: NEW “WATER WAR,” VIOLENT LAND CONFLICTS
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: NEW “WATER WAR,” VIOLENT LAND CONFLICTS
