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Venezuela bans US military instructors Venezuela has ordered US military instructors to stop working with its armed forces in an abrupt cessation of a 35-year-old bilateral military exchange programme....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 8:31pm PDT
NeoCons Silent on Regime Change in Ecuador After going overtime to "support democractic movements" in Ukraine, Lebanon and even claiming democratic credentials on the manipulated J30 Iraqi election, the White House is eerily silent on a great democraatic movement south of the border. In Ecuador, the masses--by voting with their feet--toppled a "Washington kiss-ass" president Gutierez. But you won't hear W praise the democratic people's power in Ecuador......
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 8:49pm PDT
Sacramento March for Democracy in Mexico Don't miss Sacramento's March for Democracy in Mexico on Sunday, April 24 at 7 p.m....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 1:23am PDT
Ecuador: another President falls As we speak, President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador is wholled up in the Quito airport, trying to flee the country. Meanwhile, the airport is surrounded by the military, who have been ordered by the new authorities to arrest Lucio and not allow him to leave the country. It seems his airplane is going to escape...it is absolute deja vu from October, 2003 in Bolivia when President Goni escaped in his helicopter as the people of El Alto surrounded the airport to try to stop him....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 1:55pm PDT
Democrats back Negroponte nomination as new documents detail role in contra war The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted on April 14 to approve John Negroponte to fill the new post of director of national intelligence. He is expected to have no trouble passing a full Senate vote this week....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 6:36am PDT
The Mexican Elections, the Zapatistas and President Bush In Mexico, turmoil and confusion continue to surround the upcoming presidential election. Last week, the Mexican federal Congress voted to impeach one of the leading candidates from his job as mayor of Mexico City. The politician –– Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador –– is now facing arrest over a minor four-year-old infraction. Once an arrest warrant is issued, he could lose his political rights and be barred from running for the presidency. Lopez Obrador has been comfortably leading opinion polls ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 6:34am PDT
BTL:As Colombian Army's Human Rights Record Deteriorates... ...Civilians are Caught in Crossfire of 40-year Civil War ~ Interview with Lisa Haugaard, of the Latin America Working Group, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 8:32am PDT
April 13th is CAFTA National Call-in Day April 13th is CAFTA National Call-in Day - Be part of
the Global Week of Action on Trade - Demand that Your
Representative take a stand Against CAFTA!
(www.stopcafta.org for more info and for call scripts)...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:19pm PDT
Chiapas: support the Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Education System We recived and forward the official request of the Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Education System of National Liberation of the Highlands of Chiapas to spread the existence of the web site www.serazln-altos.org (http://www.serazln-altos.org/eng/index.htm) to support the Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Education System of National Liberation of the Highlands of Chiapas, through the work of the Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Spanish and Maya Languages Center....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 10:22am PDT
Mexico City's mayor Lopez Obrador stripped of immunity Mexico’s “democratic” history is marked by years and years of rule by the PRI, who finally lost the presidency to Vicente Fox. Fox made few, if any, substantial changes in Mexico, and is well loved by the U.S. administration.
A leftist president in Mexico, while unlikely to affect any truly revolutionary change, could help other “progressive” leaders find the will needed to stand up to the U.S., the World Bank, the IMF.
You can be certain that Mexican congresspeople were pressured by Am...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 11:04pm PDT
Ecuador Civil Unrest Grows Amid Public Protests 
The daily drama lived in Ecuador is absent from the news media as civil disobedience erupted this week in this country’s main cities against President General Lucio Gutierrez.
Ecuador is living moments of some its greatest historical political tension as opposing political factions unite to regain power in Congress and the Supreme Court....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 12:01pm PDT
Fri 4/8 ¡ZAPATA VIVE! John Ross speaks on Living Zapatismo & Film: The Last Zapatista Friday April 8th - John Ross speaks on Living Zapatismo * Film: The Last Zapatista * Celebration with music & tomales. New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, SF...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 9:05pm PDT
Frank Sinatra and Venezuela's 100,000 AK-47s Article includes excerpt of an interview with a Venezuelan storekeeper who swears to defend Venezuela. Continues to look at a history of the U.S. method of warfare and concludes that the guns Venezuela is importing will be needed to defend itself from the U.S....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 10:15am PDT
US Soldiers 'smuggled' cocaine from Colombia Bogota - Five United States army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly trying to smuggle 16kg of cocaine from Colombia aboard a US military aircraft, US and Colombian officials said on Thursday....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 11:41pm PST
Venezuela, Frustrated by the U.S., Turns to Containment After years of vitriolic rhetoric on the part of United States leaders, the government of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has decided on a policy of containment of the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 4:36pm PST
An account from the heart of the Guatemalan anti CAFTA protests An account from the protest en Huehuetenango, Guatemala anti CAFTA protests from:http://www.freedomsojourn.com/Naranjales.htm...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 12:29pm PST
¡ZAPATA VIVE! John Ross speaks on Living Zapatismo & Film: The Last Zapatista Friday April 8th - John Ross speaks on Living Zapatismo / Film: The Last Zapatista / celebration with music & tomales /
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, SF...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 10:03pm PST
Santa Rosa El Salvadorans Oppose CAFTA Local Santa Rosa activists from El Salvador are organizing to make people aware of the destructive effects of free trade both here and in the south....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 11:28am PST
Pentagon chief escalates threats against Venezuela US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used his brief three-nation tour of Latin America this week to step up US threats against Venezuela and pressure the region’s governments into joining Washington’s campaign to isolate the government of President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 8:45am PST
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