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Today's Combat in La Paz
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again, we have to write about thousands of marchers who shut down La
Paz and clash with the police as they try to take Plaza Murillo."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 10:17pm PDT
HARBORING TERRORISTS AND OTHER CONTRADICTIONS: The U.S. and Luis Posada Carriles
Why would the United States give asylum to a man who has placed explosives in foreign embassies, companies and public facilities; acknowledged masterminding hotel explosions with the financial and logistical aid of an influential mobster; aided in the 1976 mid-air explosion of a civilian aircraft that killed 73 people and much, much more? Besides the fact that the CIA trained him, the man has always targeted Cuba, something fully justified in extreme right-wing and paramilitary circles.
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Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:21pm PDT
Mexican Electoral Politics: the more things change, the more they stay the same
More than a year before the presidential elections, Mexican political parties are using new forms of propaganda based on the manipulation of social discontent. This is an attempt to justify the sliver of democratic credibility achieved in 2000 when the conservative National Action Party (PAN) was able to put a former Coca-Cola executive in the president's office. Thus began the age of “democratic transition” which was celebrated mostly due to the defeat of the PRI, a party that had held unint...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:55pm PDT
Mass Indigenous-led Rebellion Forces Bolivian President to Resign
For weeks, tens of thousands of indigenous Bolivians have led an uprising against the government, demanding the nationalization of the country's energy resources and an overhaul of the constitution. Last night, President Carlos Mesa went on national television and announced he was stepping down. We go to Cochabamba, Bolivia to speak with Jim Shultz of The Democracy Center....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 7:57am PDT
US shows OAS delegates American democracy in action
In his speech to the Organization of American States (OAS) extolling the benefits of US-style democracy, President George W. Bush declared Monday that Latin Americans “need to see that in a democratic society, people can walk in the streets in safety.”
Unfortunately, for those who traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the OAS general assembly, such democratic comforts were in short supply. Rather, the atmosphere surrounding the inter-American meeting was that of a police state, and thos...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 12:09am PDT
Bush at the OAS: a profile in imperialist hypocrisy
George W. Bush delivered a brief speech before the 35th annual Organization of American States (OAS) general assembly meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Monday, posturing as an apostle of freedom and democracy before a clearly incredulous audience....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 12:08am PDT
Bolivian President Mesa Resigns
President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia has resigned. América once again lives
days of immediate history. Jean Friedsky, reporting from the streets of
La Paz, writes in the Narcosphere:...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Live radio from Bolivia (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB)
Political upheaval continues in Bolivia, with indigenous groups calling for a constitutional assembly, nationalization of the gas industry, and regional autonomy....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 7:33pm PDT
Peru: Cocaleros Clash With Cops
On May 29 in Tocache province, in the Huallaga valley of San Martín in north central Peru, at least 3,500 campesino coca growers (cocaleros) armed with sticks surrounded a group of 230 police agents charged with carrying out coca leaf eradication operations....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 1:42pm PDT
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Film Showing and Eyewitness Account: The 2002 Coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez failed when the people of country rallied against the US backed reactionary forces....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 6:35pm PDT
Conroy Update, More Weekend Reading in The Narcosphere
Bolivia news, US Immigration News, and more...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 1:34am PDT
Interview with spokesperson for "Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada" (audio/x-ms-wma 1.2MB)
Interview with Javad Jahi, local spokesperson for "Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada!" campaign. Jonathan Nack reporting for ESN, Copyright Epicenter News Service. 2005...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 2:38pm PDT
"...Leave Assata Alone..."
Photo: Jonathan Nack
Copyright Epicenter News Service 2005...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 1:10pm PDT
Indigenous Uprising: The Rebellion Grows in Bolivia
Rebellion is in the air in Latin America's poorest country, Bolivia. For weeks, indigenous-led protests have rocked the country and have brought the government to a near shutdown. The protests began as demonstrations calling for nationalization of the country's natural gas resources but that was just the spark for a much bigger war; a war over the rights of the country's majority indigenous population. We go to Cochabamba for a report from human rights activist Jim Shultz of the Democracy Cen...
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 8:27am PDT
Protest Tomorrow: Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada!
Hands Off Assata, Hand Over Posada!
Demo and Press Conference Friday, June 3rd, 12 Noon
Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street, Downtown Oakland.
Educational Program With Clips from "Eyes of the Rainbow" and "Posada's Victims Families Demand Justice" 6 PM Saturday, June 4th, Oaklandish, 411 2nd St. (Near Jack London Square) Oakland. Program Speaker: Walter Turner, Hands Off Assata Campaign and KPFA's "Africa Today"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 4:15pm PDT
A Suspenseful Wednesday in Bolivia
La Paz was paralyzed again this morning, though only partially. The
merchants of El Alto, the rural schoolteachers and the urban
schoolteachers, and, once again, the rural Aymara leadership, have
returned to the streets of downtown La Paz....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 9:44pm PDT
Oct2005 Bolivian Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
The first Bolivian International Working Class Film and Video Festival will be held this coming October in El Alto, Boliva. Films from throughout the hemisphere will be screened...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 7:29pm PDT
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Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 1:04pm PDT
More Marches in Bolivia as Protests Widen, But Still No Advance
This morning they did it again: the steep kilometers that separate La
Paz from EL Alto were completely covered by the biggest march the
Bolivian capital has seen since October 2003....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 12:31am PDT