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Colombian Army Units Accused of Killing Peasants Monday, April 14, 2008 : Human rights groups say nearly a thousand Colombian civilians have been executed during the army's six-year offensive against FARC rebels. Some rogue army units are accused of executing civilians and dressing them up in rebel uniforms so they can be counted as rebels killed in battle....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 8:03am PDT
WNU #943: Colombian Campesino Murdered, Haitian Protests Spread In February 2006 the Corporación Jurídica Libertad (Legal Freedom Corporation) asked the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to step in and seek guarantees from the Colombian government for the protection of threatened community leaders and residents of eastern Antioquia, including Ciro....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 9:44pm PDT
1914 Ludlow Massacre & Colombia's labor crisis today The April 20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre in the Colorado coal fields was perpetrated by the same capitalist class that today that allows the massacres of 2500 Colombian trade union leaders in the last 20 years, aided by Democrats and Republicans together....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 6:12am PDT
House Takes Colombia Trade Deal Out of Fast Track Friday, April 11, 2008 : The U.S. House of Representatives, this afternoon, told President Bush there will be no Fast Track for his flawed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). By a 224?195 vote, the House removed Fast Track's 90-day deadline for an up or down vote on the deal....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 7:51am PDT
House Set to Vote on Removing Fast Track Timetable from Colombia Trade Deal Thursday, April 10, 2008 : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that tomorrow the House will vote to lift the 90-day Fast Track time limit for the House to vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 8:26am PDT
Africanized Bees Attack Mexican Police At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 5:22pm PDT
S. F. event and national symposium in D. C. to counter mis-information on Venezuela "The level of openness and participation in the community media in an inspiration. From what I witnessed, the democratization of the media in Venezuela flies in the face of practically everything I read about Venezuela in U. S. corporate media."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:30am PDT
AFL-CIO Urges Congress to ‘Stop the Colombia Free Trade Agreement’ Wednesday, April 9, 2008 : As the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is being introduced on Capitol Hill, working families are launching an advertising campaign to get Congress to reject the deal.An ad sponsored by the AFL-CIO will run in three Capitol Hill newspapers tomorrow. The ad urges lawmakers "Don't Reward Murder"....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:22am PDT
Fight Over Colombia Trade Deal Is On Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Although the Democratic Party has made it clear that it will oppose the free trade agreement with Colombia, President George W. Bush sent the trade deal Tuesday to the U.S. Congress, which now has 90 working days to vote on it....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:20am PDT
Palestine refugees from Iraq resettled in Chile DAMASCUS, 7 April (IRIN) - Thirty-nine Palestinian refugees from Iraq -- stuck at al-Tanf refugee camp in no-man's land on the Iraq-Syria border -- have been resettled in Chile. "Until last year it felt like the doors were closed for moving the Palestinian refugees. The desert conditions at al-Tanf are extremely inappropriate for the refugees to live in....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 8:31am PDT
Colombia: ¿Nos están preparando para la muerte de Ingrid? Una muy extraña situación esta configurando la oligarquía colombiana en torno a los prisioneros en poder de las Farc-EP y especialmente en torno a Ingrid Betancourt, que deja la sensación de que Uribe esta ambientando al pueblo colombiano y al mundo para la muerte de Ingrid Betancourt......
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 12:31am PDT
WNU #942: Haitian Protesters Demand Food As in other parts of the world, food prices have been rising sharply in Haiti, where 80% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. In Port-au-Prince the cost of rice, beans, condensed milk and fruit has gone up some 50% from a year ago, while the cost of spaghetti has doubled....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:07pm PDT
Chilean Writer Isabel Alllende on Her Memoir, Her Family, Michelle Bachelet, Torture and Immigration Monday, April 7, 2008 :Bestselling Chilean writer Isabel Allende is world renowned for her narrative craft and gripping stories that blend the mythical with the personal. She has written over a dozen books that have sold 51 million copies. Her debut novel in 1982, "The House of the Spirits," chronicled four generations of a Chilean family through the tumult of that country?s political history. It is a history that is intertwined with Allende?s own. Her latest book is a memoir titled "The Sum ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:43am PDT
Mexico readies for battle on oil privatization Saturday, April 5, 2008 : The right-wing government of President Felipe Calderon is about to present a plan which opponents fear will entail the privatization of Mexico’s government-owned petroleum industry. Battles are already developing within and between the major political parties about how to respond to this governmental plan....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:26am PDT
Argentina: Truce in three-week agricultural strike Thursday, April 3, 2008 :Leaders of Argentina’s four major agricultural producers’ organizations announced a 30-day truce in the three-week-old strike and road blockades that have shaken the country for the past three weeks, leading to widespread food shortages and a growing atmosphere of political crisis. At the same time, however, they threatened to resume their actions if the government fails to meet their demands....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:31am PDT
Hundreds being rounded-up and many Arrested in Juarez Mexico A fierce gun battle between some members of the Mexican Army and Juarez police officers exploded in the streets because officers refused to co-operate and take part in the operation to check for illegal arms and drugs....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 2:30pm PDT
la paz de los pocos... La paz en la que existen ustedes es una virtualidad. Ustedes piensan que tienen paz, tranquilidad, y comodidad. Pero esa paz es una mentira, por que la paz no puede existir sin dignidad, justicia, y libertad para todo@s en todo el mundo. Es mas, por mas que ustedes crean en esta paz falsa, justifican, valifican, y legitimizan su medio: el terror. Su paz es nuestro terror. Un mochachino latte organico y de comercio justo no es, y nunca sera suficiente para una paz verdadera; ni un carro eficie...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:08am PDT
The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez NYT vilification of Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 11:18am PDT
Piden a gobiernos votar en ONU por independencia puertorriqueña El Comité Permanente de Trabajo por la Independencia de Puerto Rico clausuró hoy el Encuentro Internacional efectuado aquí llamando a los gobiernos latinoamericanos y caribeños a apoyar esa causa en las Naciones Unidas....
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 7:31am PDT
WNU #941: Crackdown on Peruvian Leftists Former interior minister Fernando Rospigliosi said García's government was exaggerating the influence of the ALBA centers and the CCB "to make the public believe that the social movements which are being created by other causes are coming from a foreign influence."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 9:28pm PDT
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