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Colombia offers Farc hostage deal Friday, March 28, 2008 : Colombia offers to suspend jail terms of Farc rebels if they release Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 8:00am PDT
Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation Friday, March 28, 2008 :In Ecuador, it is clear that inflation for the first quarter of this year is going to surpass the rate projected by the government for all of 2008, according to statistics from the country’s Central Bank. The principal causes of the inflationary surge are the financial crisis gripping Wall Street and climactic events, which have both served to expose the weaknesses of the Ecuadoran economy....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:42am PDT
House Cleaning in Colombia Thursday, March 27, 2008 Today I swept and mopped the floor. I used scouring powder to clean the bathroom sink, toilet and shower. I did what is called in Spanish “limpieza” or “cleaning.” But when I heard the word “limpieza” yesterday I shuddered. The person saying the word was coming from Colombia and was speaking about what he felt was necessary to bring peace to the country....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:31am PDT
New pamphlet on Oaxaca Rebellion now available on line New pamphlet on Oaxaca Rebellion now available on line....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 6:24am PDT
Colombia: “Operación Blancanieves”, Ingrid Betancourt en la mira. Al momento de redactar estas líneas, continúan realizándose esfuerzos tendientes a retomar el tema del intercambio humanitario y superar el peligroso momento generado con la masacre de Raúl Reyes y sus compañeros. Entre otras acciones, el ex congresista Luis Eladio Pérez, uno de los recientemente liberados, ha presentado un programa concreto al gobierno francés así como a los de Venezuela y Colombia...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 3:24pm PDT
Colombia: “Operación Blancanieves”, Ingrid Betancourt en la mira. Al momento de redactar estas líneas, continúan realizándose esfuerzos tendientes a retomar el tema del intercambio humanitario y superar el peligroso momento generado con la masacre de Raúl Reyes y sus compañeros. Entre otras acciones, el ex congresista Luis Eladio Pérez, uno de los recientemente liberados, ha presentado un programa concreto al gobierno francés así como a los de Venezuela y Colombia...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 3:34am PDT
WNU #940: Peruvian Indigenous Seize Oil Field, Ecuador IDs Colombian Bombs Citing unnamed sources in the Ecuadoran Air Force (FAE), on Mar. 21 the Quito daily El Comercio reported that US "smart bombs" of the sort the US fired at Iraqi targets during the 1991 Gulf War were the ones the Colombian military used in a Mar. 1 attack on a camp of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuadoran territory....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 6:20pm PDT
Laura Carlsen: From Bombs to Markets: The Andean Crisis and the Geopolitics of Trade Sunday, March 23, 2008 :Day One: the Colombian military and police forces launched an attack on an encampment of the Colombian guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in Ecuadorian territory, killing over 20 people. Day Two: Ecuador's President Rafael Correa denounced the violation of his country's sovereignty and called the Colombian president a liar....
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:29pm PDT
Isabella Kenfield: Monsanto's Raid on Brazil Sunday, March 23, 2008 :On March 7th-International Women's Day-dozens of Brazilian women occupied a research site of the U.S.-based agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, destroying the greenhouse and experimental plots of genetically-modified (GM) corn. Participants, members of the international farmers' organization La Vía Campesina, stated in a note that the act was to protest the Brazilian government's decision in February to legalize Monsanto'...
Posted: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 9:24pm PDT
Narcogobierno colombiano perpetra siniestra masacre en Ecuador En la madrugada del 1° de marzo, aviones de guerra de la Fuerza Aérea colombiana lanzaron un ataque contra un campamento de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) ubicado dentro de territorio ecuatoriano. El propósito: asesinar al principal portavoz de las FARC para el exterior, Raúl Reyes. Las huellas digitales del imperialismo norteamericano se ven claramente en este macabro incidente. Ante semejante crimen, la respuesta debe consistir en movilizar a los trabajadores en una ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 9:18am PDT
Fri 3/21, Oakland -- Maquiladora Workers Speak Out! Then don't miss an opportunity to hear first-hand from two maquiladora workers on their struggle for justice against Key Safety Systems....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 6:58pm PDT
Virtual Sit-In Against Nano/Bio War Profiteers! To join the action, and to learn more, go to http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2008 11:31am PDT
Bush v. Chavez - An Update Continued Bush administration efforts to destabilize Venezuela....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 12:26pm PDT
WNU #939: Women's Day Protests, Ecuador Probes US Role in Attack On Mar. 6 Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa indicated that the attack was carried out with "smart bombs."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 10:03pm PDT
Colombia: Story of a massacre Saturday, March 15, 2008 : Colombian troops attacked inside Ecuador on March 1, destroying a camp occupied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Ecuadorian soldiers later found 23 bodies, including those of five Mexican young people visiting the site. The dead included FARC leader and negotiator Raul Reyes. To release bombs, Colombian planes had to violate six miles of Ecuadorian airspace....
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 9:49am PDT
COMUNICADO - NO A LAS REPRESAS Hoy, 14 de marzo, Día Internacional contra Represas, manifestamos públicamente nuestra resistencia ante los proyectos hidroeléctricos impulsados por el gobierno y la iniciativa privada. Estas represas solo benefician económicamente a un reducido grupo de empresas nacionales y transnacionales, mientras nuestro país y nuestros pueblos se ven gravemente afectados por el desplazamiento y desarraigo, las inundaciones de nuestras comunidades y tierras, así como los daños ecológicos irreparables....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 6:22pm PDT
Mexican Animal Liberation Front On A Roll: 24 Raids in 3 Months Received Anonymously
March 6-11, 2008...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 9:27pm PDT
Juan's case is resolved/El caso de Juan ha sido resuelto, No Borders Camp Update, March 13 Juan Esteban Ruiz was arrested during the No Borders Camp at the U.S./Mexican border on November 11, 2007, while playing the drum, in other words, using his rights to free speech, peaceful assembly, and redress of grievances specified by the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He was charged with two counts of assaulting a federal officer. The charge was reduced to "interfering" with a federal officer. The case is now closed, as detailed below....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 8:19pm PDT
Rechazar el asedio del narco-estado colombiano y la CIA Se amistaron en la cumbre del Grupo de Río, celebrada en Santo Domingo, los presidentes de Venezuela, Ecuador y Nicaragua con el provocador de la guerra, Álvaro Uribe, única y exclusivamente, porque los revolucionarios somos hombres de paz. “Con el compromiso de no agredir nunca más a un país hermano y el pedido de perdón, podemos dar por superado este gravísimo incidente" manifestó el ecuatoriano Rafael Correa, luego de un intenso debate conceptual que aplastó las pretensiones e iniciativas ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 3:16pm PDT
Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to "new left" faction Tuesday, March 11, 2008 :The Mexican opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), one of the three major Mexican bourgeois parties, will hold intra-party elections March 16. An ascendant “new left” faction (NL) led by Jesús Ortega—candidate for party president—is poised to assume control from forces loyal to former PRD presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 7:37am PDT
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