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Security boost after Mexico blasts Friday, July 13, 2007 : Military to protect pipelines and other energy facilities after wave of attacks....
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2007 7:15am PDT
Judge blocks Fujimori extradition Wednesday, July 11, 2007 : A Chilean judge rules that Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 8:20am PDT
Chile: Court's decision not to extradite Fujimori disappointing News FlashAI Index: AMR 22/002/2007 (Public)News Service No: 132 11 July 2007 Chile: Court's decision not to extradite Fujimori disappointingAmnesty International is deeply disappointed at the Chilean Court's decision not to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to Peru where he faces charges for human rights violations and corruption....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:51pm PDT
Chile: Flawed Decision Not to Extradite Fujimori (Washington, DC, July 11, 2007)—The ruling by Chilean Judge Orlando Alvarez denying Peru’s request for the extradition of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is fundamentally flawed, Human Rights Watch said today. The Chilean judge's decision not to extradite Fujimori to Peru makes little sense....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 6:43pm PDT
Mexico Confirms Attacks on Pipelines Mexico's government on Tuesday called a series of gas pipeline explosions a threat to the nation's democratic institutions and vowed to step up security after a guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the blasts....
Posted: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:28am PDT
Guatemala: Garment Plant Signs Accord On July 5, Fribo, P.A. Group, the NLC and the independent Guatemalan NGO CEADEL signed an agreement which the NLC said would "transform the Fribo factory...from an abusive sweatshop into a far better-than-average factory, hopefully on the way to becoming a model operation."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 7:33pm PDT
UN CUENTO SOBRE BAGDAD Escrito el 23-03-2003 y publicado en el sitio Cuentos Globales (Málaga) el 27-04-2003. Publicado en castellano (español), português e italiano....
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 1:06pm PDT
Colombia Union Deaths Challenged In U.S. Court Monday, July 9, 2007 : Here's a quick roundup of some key news. Colombia is the deadliest place for unionists - some 2,300 union leaders have been killed there since 1991 and only 37 people have been convicted in the murders. Now, in a civil trial set to begin today before a federal jury in Birmingham, Ala., union lawyers have presented affidavits from two people who allege that the Drummond Co.ordered the murder of two union leaders who worked at it’s coal mine in Colombia, a charge Drummond...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 10:22pm PDT
Hallan restos de desaparecidos tras masacre en Viejo Velasco, Montes Azules, Chiapas En días recientes se hizo público que en la masacre no solo habría participado un grupo de paramilitares, sino que habrían sido acompañados por 300 policías estatales y agentes de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación . Con lo que se repite el esquema de la Masacre de Acteal y de otras masacres en la región, donde civiles armados paramilitares, respaldados por corporaciones policiacas, masacran a población civil desarmada e indefensa, con el tema de arrebatarles la tierra a beneficio de cacique...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2007 9:39am PDT
Brazil: Government must work with communities to tackle security crisis Amnesty International today called on the Brazilian federal and state authorities to work with local communities, and not against them, to tackle the country's public security crisis....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:52pm PDT
Colombians denounce kidnappings Friday, July 6, 2007 : Hundreds of thousands march to demand release of 3,000 hostages held by guerrillas....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 7:06am PDT
Mexican Newspapers Excoriate U.S. Immigration Vote Thursday, July 5, 2007 : MEXICO CITY – An editorial in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper contends that the U.S. Senate’s vote to block immigration reform goes beyond politics and represents a “severe failure” for the United States in general: “the most powerful country on the planet will have to continue living, for many months, with a scandalous contradiction between its laws and the real needs of its economy, thirsty for cheap labor to guarantee that its exports are internationally competi...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:45pm PDT
New party makes gains in Venezuela Thursday, July 5, 2007 : Venezuelan leaders are preparing to put their Bolivarian Revolution on a more permanent footing. Organizing for a unified socialist party moved into high gear recently, and President Hugo Chavez described proposals for constitutional changes. Both Chavez and Vice President Jorge Rodriguez spoke at a “National Meeting of Candidates for PSUV Militants” in Caracas on June 23-24....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:25pm PDT
The assault on Rio's favelas and the growth of state repression in Brazil Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :The confrontation between police and drug traffickers that broke out last week in the favelas, or shantytowns, of Rio de Janeiro reached a shocking level of violence. With the support of the national government of Workers Party President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral of the opposition PMDB party, ordered civil and military police, together with the National Security Force, into one of the biggest combat operations against the...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 11:09pm PDT
ProLibertad Activist Digest 1. July 21st ProLibertad Cookout 2007.
2. Donate to Isabel Rosado, she needs our support...
3. Message from OScar Lopez Rivera: Check oput the ProLibertad Blog:
http://prolibertad-freepuertorico.blogspot.com...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 10:45am PDT
Chavez issues trade bloc deadline Wednesday, July 4, 2007 : Hugo Chavez sets a September deadline for Brazil and Paraguay to back Venezuela's membership of Mercosur....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:22am PDT
Colombia: Hostage says Betancourt still alive Wednesday, July 4, 2007 : Video is first proof in four years that former Colombian presidential candidate is alive....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:17am PDT
EU-BRAZIL Summit: neglect of poor causing extreme violence (Brussels 4 July) As Portugal hosts its first Summit after taking over the EU Presidency Amnesty International urges it to set a precedent for the next six months by having a frank discussion about human rights with its counterpart, Brazil....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:54am PDT
Colombia Steers Away from U.S. Plan to Kill Coca Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : The Colombian government reportedly has had it with the Bush administration's coca fumigation program. Coca hasn't been cut back, and cocaine trafficking continues unabated. The punitive approach also has driven poor farmers to grow more coca and to help the guerrillas....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:14pm PDT
Taylor: How the rising price of corn made Mexicans take to streets Monday, July 2, 2007 : Mexico was ablaze in late January. Just two months after the election of Felipe Calderon as Mexico's President, protests had broken out across the country....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 6:57pm PDT
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