Year: 2009
Throwing Bullets at Failed Policies: US Plans For New Bases in Colombia
It was a winter day in the Argentine city of Bariloche when 12 South American presidents gathered there on August 28. It was so cold that Hugo Chavez wore a red scarf and Evo Morales put on a sweater. The presidents arrived at the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting to discuss a US plan to establish seven new military bases in Colombia. Though officials in Colombia and the US say the bases would be aimed at combating terrorism and the drug trade, US military and air force documents point to other objectives.
Guatemalan Court Sets Precendent in the Case of Israel Carías
Carías’ Widow
June 22, 2009, was an historic day for the family of Israel Carías Ortiz, and for the people of Guatemala. The Sentencing Tribunal in Zacapa, Guatemala found two men guilty of the 2007 murder of Ortiz and his two sons Ledwin Anilson (age 9) and Ronald Aroldo (age 11). The precedent-setting sentence recognizes Carías was killed because of his leadership in the struggle to reassert legal rights to community land.
Honduras: Vote to Go Ahead Despite Int’l Refusal to Recognize
(IPS) – Although the international community has warned that it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the Jun. 28 coup d’etat says the […]
Rerun in Honduras: Coup pretext recycled from Brazil ’64
Source: Extra! September 2009 Issue The pretext for the Honduran coup d’état is nothing new. In a remarkable replay, bogus charges that the corporate media in the U.S. and Europe have repeated endlessly without attempting […]
Rural Revolution in Colombia Goes Digital
The mountain went dark. Flicking on a light switch or turning the bathroom faucets did nothing, and even the telephone lines had gone silent. Tacueyó is one of the fourteen indigenous reservations in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, a thickly forested region dominated both by small-scale coffee farmers and roving bands of Colombia’s Marxist revolutionary group, the FARC. […]
Video: Honduras – Mr. Zelaya Goes to Washington
Source: The Real News The resistance to the military coup in Honduras has entered its 71st straight day of direct action in the streets of that country. Meanwhile, the United States Department of State still […]
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Honduras: US State Dept Condemns “Coup d’Etat”, Curtails Aid
(IPS) – Frustrated by the continued intransigence of the Honduran regime that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. State Department followed through Wednesday on threats to cut off aid to Honduras. "Restoration of the terminated […]
Playing the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Card Against Venezuela
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas In the early morning hours of January 31, vandals broke into Tiferet Israel, a Sephardic synagogue in Caracas. They strewed sacred scrolls on the floor and scribbled “Death to […]