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Update on "500 Women for the Cuban 5" The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 has initiated the
500 Wonen for the Cuba 5 ampaign....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 6:37pm PDT
WNU #938: "Truce" in Puerto Rican Teachers Strike, NAFTA Under Fire The union and the Education Department continued to disagree on the effectiveness of the 10-day job action. The department insisted that by the strike's conclusion 82% of the teachers were back in the classrooms and student attendance had reached 68%. But FMPR president Feliciano said 50% of the schools had remained paralyzed by the strike....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 6:03pm PDT
Colombian Coca Growers Protest the Forced Eradication of Their Crops In the last week days, thousands of coca growers that had been
occupying town centers in northern Colombia to protest the forced
eradication of their crops have begun returning to their villages
after three weeks of negotiations with local authorities....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 5:37pm PDT
BTL:Colombia's Raid into Ecuador Triggers Regional Tension BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 8:47am PDT
South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 11:03am PST
Colombia's incursion into Ecuador: Who gains? Saturday, March 8, 2008 : In the last few years a political sea-change has swept away most of the U.S.-sponsored, repressive military dictatorships in South America. Democratically elected and in some cases explicitly socialist-oriented governments predominate from Venezuela and Ecuador to Chile and Argentina. The tide of change is even starting to touch Paraguay, long a poster child of absolutist rule and abysmal poverty....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2008 8:36am PST
Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination "Made in the USA" Thursday, March 6, 2008 :Nearly a week after Colombia’s cross-border raid against an encampment of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla movement in neighboring Ecuador, Latin America continues to confront its worst regional diplomatic and military crisis in decades. The US government and mass media have weighed in with unsolicited judgments and advice, attributing the tense standoff between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela to the threat of terrorism to Colombia, the comp...
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 10:21pm PST
Nicaragua breaks off Colombia ties Thursday, March 6, 2008 : Latin American states urged to formally condemn Colombian raid on Farc rebel base....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 5:31pm PST
The Upside-Down World of Bush and Uribe: Slandering Chávez and the FARC Thursday, March 6, 2008 The Upside-Down World of Bush and Uribe: Slandering Chávez and the FARC by Garry Leech President George W. Bush yesterday declared, “America fully supports Colombia’s democracy. We firmly oppose any acts of aggression that could destabilize the region.” He then made clear that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s deployment of troops to the border with Colombia, which Bush labeled as “provocative maneuvers,” were the acts of aggression that the Un...
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 5:27pm PST
Colombian Raid of FARC in Ecuador Escalates Conflict Thursday, March 6, 2008 : Colombia crossed the border into Ecuador to conduct a deadly assault against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel camp over the weekend. Colombia's government says Venezuela and Ecuador have secretly supported Colombian rebels. Ecuador's government is furious over the military raid....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 8:04am PST
A New WOLA Report on the Failure of Anti-Drug Fumigation in Colombia Thursday, March 6, 2008 : Intensive aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia has backfired badly, contributing to the spread of coca cultivation and cocaine production to new areas of the country and threatening human health and the environment, a report released today by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) shows....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 7:48am PST
High Stakes in the Andes: Colombia's Cornered President Thursday, March 6, 2008 :Sadly, the operation on March 1 in which the Colombian Armed Forces shot and killed Luis Edgar Devia Silva, a.k.a. "Raúl Reyes," spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), along with sixteen other guerrillas in a camp across the Putumayo River in Ecuador, was yet another case of the oft-mentioned "death foretold" that characterizes the country's seemingly endless civil war....
Posted: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 7:45am PST
Women, Caciques and Remote Indigenous Towns Wednesday, March 5, 2008 More information is coming out about Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, an indigenous Zapotec woman, and her attempt to be elected mayor of the town of Santa Maria Quiegolani, population 1506 (in the year 2000), of whom 1166 are indigenous Zapoteco or Chontal. There are 94 private homes in the town (according to the government statistics bureau, INEGI), located in the Sierra Sur....
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 7:45am PST
US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war Wednesday, March 5, 2008 :The Colombian military’s massacre last Saturday of 17 members of the guerrilla movement FARC, including its second in command, on Ecuadoran soil has brought tensions in the region to an unprecedented level, raising the serious threat of armed conflict. Both Ecuador and Venezuela have massed thousands of troops on their borders with Colombia, while breaking off diplomatic relations with the right-wing government of President Alvaro Uribe in Bogota and expelling its am...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 7:40am PST
Chavez: “Colombia is the Israel of Latin America.” Monday, March 03, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez labeled Colombia the "Israel of Latin America" on his Sunday talk show Aló Presidente yesterday. Responding to events on Saturday in which the Colombian military made an illegal attack across the border in Ecuadorian territory, the Venezuelan leader called Colombia a "terrorist state," and gave orders to mobilize troops on the Venezuelan-Colombian border.
"The Colombian government has turned into the Israel of...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 12:45pm PST
With U.S. Assistance, Colombian Troops Attack and Kill 20 FARC Rebels Inside Ecuador Tuesday, March 4, 2008 :Tensions are high in the Andes following a Colombian military attack in neighboring Ecuador. A leading commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC - and twenty other fighters were killed Saturday when Colombian troops crossed the Ecuadorian border in a pre-dawn raid. On Monday both Ecuador and Venezuela rushed troops to their borders with Colombia and said they would cut their diplomatic ties with Bogota....
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 7:40am PST
Build-up of troops on Colombia's borders sparks fears of war Monday, March 3, 2008 : Venezuela and Ecuador have moved troops to their respective borders with Colombia in a serious escalation of the worst crisis to hit the region for years. Both nations have frozen diplomatic ties with their neighbour in response to Colombia's killing of a left-wing guerrilla leader on Ecuadorean soil....
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 7:22am PST
Richard Gott: Colombian Deaths in Ecuador Monday, March 3, 2008 :The deaths of Raúl Reyes and Julián Conrado, two senior figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Farc, is clearly a serious blow to the guerrilla organisation. It will also call a halt to the release of hostages held by the Farc in the jungle over many years, a process that had been proceeding slowly under the auspices of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 8:28pm PST
Uruguay: Solidarity action against the Swiss-Uruguayan chamber of commerce in Montevideo On the night of February 29, 2008, the locks of the Swiss-Uruguayan chamber of commerce were sealed....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 4:14pm PST
March 4th in NYC: Picket for the PR Teachers JOIN US IN SUPPORT OF PUERTO RICO'S TEACHERS AND IN DEFENSE
OF PUBLIC EDUCATION!
DEMONSTRATE YOUR SOLIDARITY!!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008...
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 1:24pm PST
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