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Move Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo
Move Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo
By Cde. Majdur Travail...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 10:56am PDT
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
The rapid-fire sequence of communiqués in recent days "from somewhere
in the
mountains of the Mexican southeast" by Subcomandante Marcos in the name
of
the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish
initials),
especially the Monday communiqué that announced that the indigenous
rebels
of Chiapas had called a "Red Alert," has placed various actors on all
sides
on tenterhooks....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:52am PDT
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas
By Al Giordano
From The Narcosphere (Narco News)
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/22/124158/124...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:01pm PDT
MPP Demands RIM "Move Heaven and Earth" to Defend Chairman Gonzalo
By Cde. Majdur Travail
UNKNOWN, June 21 — (Al-Masakin) The Peru People’s Movement (MPP)—the generated organism of the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso)—has recently released a communiqué which demands the member parties of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) and the supporters of the RIM, the PCP and Chairman Gonzalo “move heaven and earth” to defend the life of the greatest living Marxist of the face of the Earth—Chairman Gonzalo....
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 6:49pm PDT
Zapatistas: War in Chiapas likely to resume
Last Sunday, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has put her regular army and her militia on red alert. Dozens of members of autonomous regional zapatista governments, the Councils of Good Government, fled to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state. From now on they work in a clandestine and nomadic manner. The offices of the autonomous municipalities and regions have been closed. Members of civil society who are in Chiapas right now are urged to leave rebelious territory,...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:04am PDT
Zapatistas declare RED ALERT fearing military offensive
Zapatistas declare a RED ALERT!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 5:10am PDT
EZLN: RED ALERT
Without mentioning the motives for the red alert, subcomandante Marcos from the EZLN delimits all individuals and organizations in support to the Maya insurgents from Chiapas from "any" of its future actions.......
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 6:51pm PDT
Colombian oil pipeline: 'My partner organised the protests. Six months later he was dead'
Jhon Morales and Fabiola Ochoa Vasquez were respected Colombian farmers making a prosperous living growing oranges, coconuts and avocados and tending to their 60 cows and 120 pigs....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:43am PDT
OAS stands up to U.S., supports Venezuela
“Madam Secretary, democracy cannot be imposed,” said Celso Amorim, Brazil’s foreign minister, in reply to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). “Latin America has its own identity,” he said. “It has recuperated its dignity — not to confront the United States, but to confront imperialist politics.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:22am PDT
Venezuela demands US hand over CIA terrorist for trial
The Venezuelan government Wednesday filed extradition papers with the US State Department demanding that Luis Posada Carriles be handed over to stand trial for the 1976 terrorist bombing of a Cuban airliner in which 73 people lost their lives....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 10:12pm PDT
No Asylum for Luis Posada Carriles
Monday, June 13 was National Day of Action to demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela for trial. On this day, he went before an immigration judge for a hearing in El Paso, Texas. Demonstrations took place outside of his immigration hearing in El Paso, and in cities and towns across the U.S. and Canada, including San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 2:02pm PDT
Nuevo Laredo: Martial Law as Media Stunt in the Failed War on Drugs
The new police chief
of
the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo took office last Wednesday.
Nine
hours later he was gunned down....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:24am PDT
Chávez Hits Back: "Bush Is to Blame for Bolivian Crisis"
a strong response by the Venezuelan
president to the tantrum thrown last week by US Ambassador to the
Organization of American States (OAS) Roger Noriega, in which Noriega,
bombastically, blamed Chávez for the strife in Bolivia....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:32am PDT
Bolivia: Chronology of an Authentic Netwar
In case you blinked – because it all happened so fast – I’ve prepared
this
summary of the action-packed series of breaking news reports from Luis
Gómez
and our entire team in Bolivia, and the considerable helping hand lent
them
from diverse points in our América and around the world....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:30am PDT
Anti-Sweatshop Activist and Chief Nicaragua Negotiator on CAFTA Debate CAFTA
We host a debate on the U.S.-backed Central American Free Trade Agreement between veteran anti-sweatshop activist Charles Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee and Nicaragua's chief negotiator on CAFTA, Carlos Sequeira....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 8:56am PDT
New Bolivian President Sworn in After Weeks of Mass Rebellion
The head of Bolivia's Supreme Court, Eduardo Rodriguez, was sworn in as president after a day marked by massive protest and widespread fears of a bloodbath or a civil war. The situation in the country remains tense but many believe that the worst-case scenario has been avoided. Earlier this week, President Carlos Mesa resigned amid massive protest against his government, giving the right-wing head of the Bolivian Senate, Hormando Vaca Diez an opportunity to take power as his constitutional su...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 8:54am PDT
Vaca Diez Steps Down, Congress About to Meet in Bolivia
A half
hour ago Senator Vaca Diez left the Sucre Battalion military
installation, where he had taken refuge since suspending the session of
Congress scheduled for today. He came it the center of the Bolivian
capital to give a press conference, at which he renounced his right to
presidential succession, but also blamed Carlos Mesa and Evo Morales
for everything that had happened to him......
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Bolivia Has a New President
In these moments, several deputies are in the headquarters of the
Supreme Court to invite the "new constitutional president," as Hormando
Vaca Diez called him, to assume command of the executive....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 9:29pm PDT
Solidaridad con Bolivia; boicot Calpine/Pacific NG consortium
The natural gas in Bolivia is sought after by US corporations like Calpine and Pacific Natural Gas Consortium. Both these corporations are extensions of the petrochemical energy giants British Petroleum and Enron.....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 11:52am PDT