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El gobierno estatal y federal Mexicano agreden a periodista de Acapulco El gobernador de Guerrero, los Ministerios Publicos, la Comision de Derechos Humanos de Acapulco y ahora la PGR agreden al director del Noticiero de Acapulco....
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2008 10:57am PDT
WNU #962: Latin American Leaders React to "Giant's Toppling" Hugo Chávez had remarked on Sept. 21 that the "financial collapse of global capitalism" was affecting those countries "that are strongly hitched up to the US economy. We've started to unhitch ourselves." He added: "This doesn't mean we're invulnerable, because this is about the toppling of a giant."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 5:36pm PDT
Washington imposes sanctions on Bolivia Tuesday, September 30, 2008 :The Bush administration has imposed fresh sanctions on Bolivia in retaliation for the decision of the countrys president Evo Morales to expel the US ambasssador and close down US programs in the country....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 10:21pm PDT
PERU: Interview with Political Prisoner Lori Berenson American activist Lori Berenson was pulled off a bus in Peru in November of 1995, detained by anti-terrorist police, and tried for treason against the Peruvian state by a hooded military tribunal. A gun was held to her head as she received her sentence: life in prison. Accused of being a leader of the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement), Lori was one of thousands of people kidnapped, tortured, disappeared, and/or imprisoned during then-president Alberto Fujimori’s campaign to defeat reb...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 8:21pm PDT
Tortured bodies found in Mexico Tuesday, September 30, 2008 : Victims are believed to have been killed by warring drug gangs in Tijuana city....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 7:19am PDT
No somos sombras Una respuesta poética al fascismo boliviano contra los campesinos asesinados por hordas paramilitares organizadas en Santa Cruz, Tarija y El Pando...
Posted: Mon, Sep 29, 2008 10:16am PDT
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo on U.S. Relations in Latin America, the Iraq War, Liberation Theology ... Tuesday, September 23, 2008 :World leaders are gathering in New York this week for the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Their newest member is Fernando Lugo who was inaugurated last month as the president of Paraguay. Fernando Lugo is a former priest and well-versed in liberation theology. He was called the "bishop of the poor" and is known for leading anti-government protests and fighting for peasant rights. After resigning his position as bishop in late 2006, he campaign...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:59am PDT
Cuba Hurricane relief: from the International Committee to Free the Cuban 5 help Cuba recover from the hurricanes and oppose the US blockade of the island...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 10:26pm PDT
WNU #961: Striking Colombian Cane Cutters Attacked The Association of Sugar Cane Growers, ASOCAÑA, has refused to negotiate and instead took out paid ads on local radio and television stations, threatening layoffs in case of a strike and telling the community not to support or participate in the strike....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 9:27pm PDT
OCEZ-RC Member Disappeared in Pujiltic, Chiapas Thursday, September 18, 2008 The Emiliano Zapata Peasant Organization-Carranza Region (OCEZ-RC) claims that thugs working for a local political boss kidnapped one of its members and threatened to kill him if he did not stop supporting a local single mothers' organization....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 7:30am PDT
Evo Morales Accuses Right-Wing Governors of Trying to Stage Violent Coup, U.S. Tells Americans to Evacuate Wednesday, September 17, 2008 :A fragile dialogue between the Bolivian government and its opponents seemed to inch forward Tuesday as President Evo Morales and opposition governors from the country's restive eastern provinces agreed to begin talks. They had previously appeared to breakdown when the Bolivian army arrested one of the opposition governors, Leopoldo Fernandez from the rightist Podemos opposition party. The attorney-general accused the governor of genocide. He had governed the pro...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 7:32am PDT
Is the Bush Administration at War with its Own Weapons in Pakistan? From a Monday, September 15, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 7:52am PDT
Remembering the Horrible Tragedy of September 11, 1973 September 11th is a day which led to horrors in both Chile and the U.S....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 3:55pm PDT
WNU #960: Argentines Set Train on Fire The militants denied any responsibility. "It's a real disgrace that the national government is inventing a conspiracy against us," Argentine filmmaker Pino Solanas said. The MST announced it was planning a defamation suit against Justice Minister Fernández....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 8:32pm PDT
Former Argentine generals sentenced to life Monday, September 8, 2008 :At the end of last month two former Argentine generals were convicted of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a senator three decades ago, during the military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla. Masked thugs broke into the victims home, kidnapping him and taking him to a prison on the very day the Argentine military carried out its infamous coup in March 1976....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 7:41am PDT
Gloria La Riva to Speak on Revolutionary Movements in Latin America Gloria La Riva will speak on "Revolutionary Movements and U.S. Intervention in Latin America" on Sunday, September 7, 2008, at 7pm at 909 12th Street in Sacramento....
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 8:44am PDT
WNU #959: Brazilian Indigenous Win, Argentine Generals Lose An Argentine federal criminal court sentenced former generals Antonio Domingo Bussi and Luciano Benjamín Menéndez to life in prison for the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of ex-senator Guillermo Vargas Aignasse in 1976....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 2:49pm PDT
Mexican Generals Propose a Militarized National Police Force Saturday, August 30, 2008 The Mexican daily El Universal recently obtained an executive summary of a 600-page proposal drafted by Mexican generals that, if adopted, would create a National Police force “with military discipline” that would replace the Army in President Felipe Calderón’s war on drugs and organized crime. The proposal, reportedly delivered to Mexican Secretary of Defense Guillermo Galván in mid-August, also calls for Congress to change the constitution to allow the death penal...
Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 7:25am PDT
¿Bajo el imperio de la nota roja? La saturación del número anestesia la sensibilidad social, sean montos monetarios, secuestros, ejecuciones, migrantes vivos o muertos en el desierto o por crímenes de odio en Estados Unidos. Sumas, restas, doctas opiniones de intelectuales fantoches de la radio masiva y las televisoras para explicar la galopante inflación de cadáveres....
Posted: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 9:06pm PDT
Brazil set for Indian land ruling Wednesday, August 27, 2008 : Brazil's Supreme Court has begun considering the future of one of the country's biggest indigenous reserves....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 7:43am PDT
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