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Venezuela marks coup anniversary Venezuelans have been commemorating the fourth anniversary of a failed military coup against President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Peruvians Favor Ollanta Humala for President in First Round of Elections Last year, when he first entered politics, few took Ollanta Humala’s presidential bid seriously. Now, the retired lieutenant colonel who supports coca legalization and speaks of “the progressive forces in the region that are building a great Latin American family,” and of his wish to join “a new generation of leaders that have in common the search for an alternative to the neoliberal model” has come out on top in the first round of Peru’s presidential elections....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 5:40pm PDT
Humala Wins. Be Prepared To Defend This Important Victory! "Humala has pledged a revolution for Peru's poor majority, worrying business leaders and the European-descended upper classes. If elected, the ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would be the latest in a string of Latin American leftists to come to power challenging U.S. policies."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:57am PDT
Women and jobless armed by Chavez to resist 'US invasion' The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is recruiting and training a people's militia to help lead a "war of resistance" against what he claims is the threat of a US invasion. Housewives, students, construction workers and the unemployed are being recruited for the country's Territorial Guard. The first training sessions with firearms have already taken place....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:43am PDT
Peru votes in tight three-way race Peruvians are heading to the polls to decide a tight three-way race to be the country's next president....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:18am PDT
Mexico: Machete-wielding protesters take 5 state officials hostage 
Radical leaders from San Salvador Atenco seized five officials from the Interior Secretariat´s office and blocked a highway after the state secretary of education failed to appear for a scheduled meeting during which residents had hoped to air their grievances....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 4:19pm PDT
US accuses Venezuela over attack The US has accused city officials of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, of complicity in an attack on the car of US Ambassador William Brownfied....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 8:49pm PDT
Peru poised to shift left? The campaign of Peruvian populist Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso appeared to be poised for victory in the April 9 presidential election as the World went to press....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:51am PDT
Mexico's Most Toxic Presidential Race Ever All Against Lopez Obrador...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:43pm PDT
Ex-army officer with a dark past tops poll in Peru When Peru's presidential election campaign kicked off, disillusioned voters fed up with greedy politicians and empty promises complained there was no one to vote for. Bored by the same old faces, they were hoping for a political outsider with fresh vision and bold ideas....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:29pm PDT
Fears for Colombia Indian groups Colombia's civil conflict is posing a growing threat to the survival of some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups, the UN has warned....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:42am PDT
Hugo Chavez declares a new oil order Venezuela officially demands OPEC recognize his nation's reserves as
largest....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 5:00am PDT
Bashing Hugo Chavez 
Independent journalist Dave Lindorff defends Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:46pm PDT
As Elections Loom, Venezuela’s Opposition Won’t Commit to Participation This December, Venezuelans will once again head to the polls to decide the fate of their country. The question remains: will the opposition make a commitment to democracy this time out?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 8:27am PDT
U.S.-Mexico Wall Won't Break Ties That Bind The Senate is studying a proposal to build a double set of steel walls with floodlights and surveillance cameras along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. New America Media editor Sandip Roy says walls have a tricky way of linking opposed sides together. Roy is host of "UpFront, a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 8:36pm PDT
Invading the Falkland Islands was a cowardly act, says Argentine president Argentina's war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was a crime committed by a cowardly military dictatorship, but the South American country will never abandon its claim to sovereignty of the islands, President Nestor Kirchner said....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:56pm PDT
Tonight: Talk and video on workers in Venezuela The Long Haul's Sunday café night will feature a presentation on Venezuelan workers by Berlin-based journalist and videographer Dario Azzellini. The evening will begin, as is the Long Haul custom, with dinner at about 7:30 pm. The program will begin around 8....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 4:33am PDT
Despite 'El Bloqueo,' Americans Go to Cuban Medical School Surviving frogs in the showers, Cuban food and the high-stakes game of U.S.-Cuban relations, a group of young Americans receiving free medical training in Havana may show the First World that it has a thing or two to learn about community health. Patricia Johnson writes for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 6:28pm PST
When Even Water is Not a Human Right "Once upon a time, there was a little orphan girl ('huerfana') who had to walk over many mountains each day to fetch water ('itzu') because the water was very far away" Esperanza Garcia, a Purepecha Indian grandmother in the tiny Michoacan mountain town of Santa Cruz Tanaco tells the story that her mother told her. "One day, the huerfana made friends with a humming bird ("Tzintzun") and he led her to a secret spring right here in the forest. The women were so happy be...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 9:34am PST
Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder The government of Puerto Rico went to federal court last week, accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Justice Department of obstructing justice by stonewalling a local investigation of the FBI’s killing of a leading figure in the island’s independence movement during a raid last September....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 11:21pm PST
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