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Posted: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 12:48pm PDT
Thursday, July 31, 2008 :We broadcast a report from Mexico produced by Inside USA (Al Jazeera English) on the US role in Mexico's growing drug war. And we speak about the Plan Mexico initiative with Avi Lewis, Laura Carlsen and John Gibler....
Posted: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 7:55am PDT
Officially, 70 congressmen have gone public about supporting the paramilitary. In 20 years, human rights organizations have recorded over 30,000 forced disappearances, 3,000 extrajudicial assassinations of Union leaders alone, and a series of illegal arrests of Human Rights Defenders. However, key actors in the financial sector cemented their relations with the mass media in order to produce a caricature of the national reality, in spite of their role in the violations already mentioned. The ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 3:11pm PDT
"[T]he facts demonstrate that, contrary to the official propaganda, there still aren't sufficient guarantees on the part of the state" for leftists in Colombia "to exercise constitutional rights to life, liberty and union organizing and participation."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2008 7:37pm PDT
Saturday, July 26, 2008 : President Raul Castro does not unveil major policy changes in anniversary address....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 1:24pm PDT
La jornada de censura a Alan García Pérez realizada a través de un paro nacional de incalculable magnitud no puede ser ignorada. El pueblo en todas las regiones del sur, centro y oriente se volcó a las calles en un noventa por ciento marcando un hito histórico de lo que vendrá a ser el poder popular de la democracia participativa; en las regiones del norte y Lima la contundencia de la paralización se hizo sentir fuertemente, sin embargo, es necesario mencionarlo, más como protesta que como ce...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 12:37pm PDT
A seven part series of why the United States will lose super power status...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 10:03am PDT
Friday, July 25, 2008 The first half of 2008 produced a sharp political change that allowed the local and global right-wing, as well as the multinationals, to recuperate their positions and retake the offensive. The change is not confined to Colombia—although it has its epicenter there—but extends to countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and affects the entire region....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 9:01pm PDT
This is a response to an editoral in the Richmond Times Dispatch of July 7, 2007 concerning the direction of HOPE offered by Barack Obama....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 7:07pm PDT
Thursday, July 24, 2008 : Colombia's Farc rebel group has released eight of the 10 hostages it kidnapped last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:55am PDT
Thursday, July 24, 2008 : Ex-army chief gets life term for 1977 kidnap, torture and murder of four activists....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:49am PDT
Friday, July 25, 2008 : Trip is Venezulean leader's first after being told to "shut up" by monarch last year....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:48am PDT
There is a swell of national sentiment spreading across the country as the majority of Mexicans wish to retain control of one of their last symbols of sovereignty....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 12:45pm PDT
Activist Chilean videographer of the Eye Film Production Company was arrested and her video was seized by the Chilean police for covering the struggle of the New Machuche....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 10:48am PDT
The Brazilian daily O Estado de Sao Paulo had reported before Lula's visit to Colombia that he would give Uribe "explicit support" in the fight against the FARC....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 9:14pm PDT
Pronunciamiento de la Organización Popular Anarquista Revolucionaria ante la avanzada represiva del estado mexicano y por la liberación de los presos politicos de nueva castilla, en monterrey, nuevo león, méxico...
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 9:28am PDT
If police agencies’ allegations against Hugo Chavez are proven true, shouldn’t Hugo Chavez and/or the Venezuelan Government reimburse the U.S. Government and its states for past and current costs of treating/rehabilitating American Cocaine Addicts?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 11:58pm PDT
Mexico's dirty war - in which political dissenters "disappeared" - was much less publicised than similiar events in other Latin American countries. But the first attempts are now being made to find some of those who were buried in mass graves in the 1960s and 70s....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 4:16pm PDT
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 : President Uribe regrets that a Betancourt rescuer displayed emblem on his vest....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 7:20am PDT
You are Invited to Burners without Borders Celebration and Fundraiser!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 9:03pm PDT