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VENEZUELA: Army chief warns of US 'war threat’ Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas...

El gobierno de Venezuela ha regalado $100 mil a California Coalición de Barrios Unidos que tiene cede en Santa Cruz, California....

Mexico´s three major candidates ended their campaigns Wednesday in emotional rallies throughout the country. During the few days left before the July 2 elections all campaigning is prohibited. With the proposals on the table, the test now will be to see if voters can cut through the media hype and mud-slinging to choose a direction for the next six years of the nation's future....

The furious mob lays siege to the Senate building here. Rocks fly and riot police wielding truncheons wade into the boiling crowd. Sirens scream throughout the old quarter of this conflictive capital. An army tank positions itself above the esplanade and turns its cannon towards the protestors. Special Forces troops in camou wave snub-nosed machine guns at frightened onlookers, warning them to get back. A man in a beret with a bullhorn assures the bystanders that there is no cause for panic. ...

On Sunday, July 2, Mexicans will be voting for their next president. After the historic vote of 2000, unseating the ruling party of more than seventy years, the question remains whether the country will be lead by free-trade, neo-liberal elites or will it move in a more populist direction. The top two contender’s are Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (known as AMLO) of the PRD (Democratic Revolutionary Party) and Felipe Calderon, current president Vicente Fox’s protégé, representing the right-wing ...

The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) called for the June 21 action. "The TLC [creates] the cruelest unfair competition between our Andean products and highly subsidized US products; it will plunge us into poverty, destroying our agriculture and our national manufacturing sector in its early stages."...

In two days Mexico will join the process of political change underway in Latin America. On 2 July voters will cast their ballots in the presidential elections. There are three main candidates, each representing a different political vision. One is seeking to implement a radical agenda through appealing to the masses, particularly those worst hit by globalisation -- peasant farmers, the indigenous population and the inhabitants of shanty towns. The second, while shying away from the kind of po...

Though the progressive media and bloggers are paying scant attention, a progressive populist is the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 election, a man who would demand a revision of NAFTA, add a powerful workers' voice to the roiling U.S. debate on immigration, and foster the new nationalism spreading in Latin America....

The Preliminary Report Concerning Atenco presented by the International Civil Commission for Human Rights Observation is an exceptional document. We Mexicans must thank the Commission for its commitment, its objectivity, its professionalism and its invaluable support in this difficult moment for the country and for our rights....

Two workers rebuilding New Orleans describe the long hours and lack of job security of contract labor -- conditions familiar to one young California reporter....