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Masked rebels built barricades in the streets and threw paint and fire bombs at riot police today outside of Chilean universities in the cities of Santiago, Concepción and Iquique, on the "Day of the Young Combatant"....

Guatemala's Efrain Rios Montt earned the nickname "the General" after taking power in a 1982 coup d'etat. His sixteen-month rule is considered one of Guatemala's bloodiest periods since the Spanish conquest. Under the General's command, entire villages were massacred in a bloody counterinsurgency campaign, and some 150,000 mostly indigenous Guatemalans were killed. Despite his gruesome history, Rios Montt remained a powerful political figure and in 2003 ran as a presidential candida...

The U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign invites you to hear Luis Primo, a central leader of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT), the new labor federation in Venezuela which has replaced its corrupt predecessor which supported the U.S.-backed attempted coup against President Chavez. Luis Primo will speak at a public meeting on Saturday, March 25....

On Wednesday evening, March 1, in a plaza in the city of Ilobasco, Department of Cabañas, El Salvador, a crowd of over 500 were listening to FMLN party (Frente Faribundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional) candidates and supporters. The 2006 election campaigns for control of municipalities and the National Assembly were in their last week, and emotions were running high. A chant was started from the stage, which the crowd took up, "Se escucha, se escucha, Schafik es en la lucha" (lis...

Baruch Vega claims he was used by multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies simultaneously in the late 1990s to infiltrate and flip key figures in Colombia’s North Valley Cartel narco-trafficking syndicate....

Ecuador has declared a state of emergency in five central provinces to try to control renewed protests by thousands of Indians demanding that the government stop US free-trade talks this week....

Interview about the March for Sacred Sites and Human Rights, March 25th in Flagstaff, Arizona. Evon Peter is chairman of Native Movement and former tribal chief of the Neetsaii Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada. The US senate voted on Thursday March 16 to approve a bill with a provision attached that would allow drilling in the Arctic Refuge, setting the stage for yet another showdown in Congress on the issue....

A new bill supported by powerful media conglomerates could further freeze out small community and educational radio and television broadcasters in Mexico. Diego Cevallos is a contributor to the Global Information Network....

VENEZUELA AT THE CROSSROADS Workers on the Move For pdf of flier: http://www.ushov.org/Primo_SF_English.pdf The U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign invites you to hear Luis Primo, a central leader of the Venezuelan National Union of Workers (UNT), the new labor federation in Venezuela which has replaced its corrupt predecessor which supported the U.S.-backed attempted coup against President Chavez. Luis Primo will address the antiwar rally on Saturday, March 18 and will speak at a publi...

In 1973, when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management came out to Carrie and Mary Dann’s (two Western Shoshone sister's) cattle ranch and asked them to obtain grazing permits and pay grazing fees for their cattle, they argued that the cattle were grazing on Western Shoshone land. The Bureau of Land Management sued them for trespassing and the battle was engaged....