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Severe problems loom after Honduras elections Monday, December 7, 2009 : The door appears to be closed to even a symbolic return to power of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. But many problems face both Honduras and the Obama administration, in spite of claims that the election somehow resolves things....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 7:09am PST
Bolivia: Morales wins landslide re-election Tuesday, December 8, 2009 : Bolivian President Evo Morales won re-election by a landslide Monday, receiving at least 62 percent of the vote compared to 23 percent for his nearest rival. The results of the balloting gave Morales a second five-year term, while his Movement Towards Socialism party, or MAS, gained a two-thirds majority in the upper house of the Bolivian congress and a substantial majority in the lower house....
Posted: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 7:06am PST
WNU #1015: Honduran Resistance Plans New Strategies One of the causes of the Honduran coup was reportedly President Zelaya’s veto in May of a law Congress passed to ban the “morning after” contraceptive pill. The coup wasn’t really to fight the influence of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, said journalist Manuel Torres: “The coup responds to very conservative tendencies which are seeking to go backwards, not only in civil and political rights, but also in social rights.”...
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 2:18pm PST
Sacramento Peace Calendar Update: Annual Candlelight Vigil on Dec. 8 Below is the Sacramento Peace and Justice Calendar Update, courtesy of Sacramento Area Peace Action, www.sacpeace.org....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 6:48am PST
Ex-guerrilla easily wins Uruguay presidency MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A former guerrilla fighter has achieved through the ballot box what he could never earn by bombing, kidnapping and attacking his political enemies — the power to legitimately lead an entire nation.
Jose Mujica won 53 percent of the vote, to 43 percent for Luis A. Lacalle, with 97 percent of the vote counted, the electoral court announced Monday.
Mujica seemed like he could hardly believe it himself in his rousing victory speech, delivered as rain drenched thousands...
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 3:22pm PST
ICE Agent Fired for Not Reporting US Informant’s Role in Juarez Murders Saturday, December 5, 2009
If we are to believe the U.S. government, then justice was served in the House of Death homicides in February of this year when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agent Raul Bencomo was fired from his job.
But then, just because Lady Justice is blind doesn’t mean she’s stupid....
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 9:42am PST
Venezuela: A country in transition Saturday, December 5, 2009 : CARACAS - I traveled to Caracas, Venezuela over the Thanksgiving holidays. What I observed was pretty amazing. Caracas is a beautiful, vibrant city in an amazing transitional period....
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 9:40am PST
To defend the right of social protest! 
* From Venezuela, a group of social organizations and human rights, students and academic groups as well as different individuals, launch this call for a campaign to defend the right to protest, which today is being systematically violated by the government of Hugo Chávez. This document was originally published in Spanish in El Libertario newspaper, # 57 (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario)....
Posted: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 12:01pm PST
The Real News Network on the Honduran election "An election validated by blood and repression"...
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 12:24pm PST
The Significance of Chavez' Call for a Fifth Socialist International 
Recently a conference was held in Caracas, Venezuela that included representatives from socialist and left parties from around the world and that culminated in an official statement, referred to as The Commitment of Caracas. As reported by Venezuela Analysis, one of the points included in this statement was reference to a call by Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, for the formation of a Fifth International in order to promote the defeat of capitalism and the creation of “Socialism of the 2...
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 8:49am PST
Larkspur:MTFoA Role of international observer missions in Colombia(Ted Lewis:Global Excha. PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Task Force on the Americas
Dale Sorensen · 415/924-3227 · mitf@igc.org
Bay Area group to organize observers for 2010 Colombia elections
Ted Lewis, director of human rights programs at Global Exchange, will discuss the role of international observer missions in Colombia in the context of violence, mass displacement, and the presence of armed illegal actors. He will speak at the Redwoods Presbyterian Church, 110 Magnolia Avenue,...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 7:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 3:25pm PST
WNU #1014: Former Rebel Wins Uruguayan Presidency “Abstention won [in Honduran elections], even counting the votes of all the candidates; abstention was more than 60% in the country,” President Zelaya said on Nov. 30....
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 8:43am PST
Hondurans Divided After Coup Backer Wins Presidential Election Boycotted by Zelaya Supporters Tuesday, December 1, 2009 :The Obama administration is moving further away from its stated support for the reinstatement of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. On Monday, the State Department praised this weekend's Honduran elections, which saw coup backer and wealthy landowner Porfirio Lobo emerge victorious with 55 percent of the vote. Zelaya's supporters boycotted the election, and many Latin American countries have refused to recognize its outcome....
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 7:40am PST
Two days of Film and Discussion on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Humanities 1, room 210 UCSC...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 3:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 10:02pm PST
Two days of Film and Discussion on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Humanities 1, room 210 UCSC
(google a map ;-)...
Event Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 5:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 9:59pm PST
2009 Cuba Caravan report back in Seaside. 
Peace Resource Center
1364 Fremont Blvd.
Seaside, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 3:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 2:37pm PST
World socialists gather in Caracas Saturday, November 28, 2009 : If nothing else, the "First International Meeting of Parties of the Left" in Caracas last week was ambitious. Heeding the call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for a fifth socialist international, participants set in motion planning for a founding session next April in Caracas....
Posted: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 6:45am PST
Pickets Protest Election at Honduran Consulate in S. F. 
Protesters called for "no recognition of the coup regime and its election."...
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 10:40pm PST
Memo: Honduras State Employees Forced to Attend Santos Campaign Rally Sunday, November 29, 2009 While today's coup-sponsored "election" in Honduras won't settle the country's crisis created by the June 28 coup d'etat, it continues to provide a showcase for the profoundly anti-democratic nature of the regime....
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 10:24am PST
Letter on Honduras urges U.S. to stand firm vs. coup Friday, November 27, 2009 : The following is an open letter sent by peace and social activist Tom Hayden to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on the situation in Honduras. Nov. 2, 2009...
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 10:20am PST
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