Year: 2009
Peru and Ecuador: A Common Enemy
They had been at war twice in the last century, but today they’ve found a common enemy: the governments of Peru and Ecuador have singled out their own citizens who resist extractive industry expansion. […]
O Canada: What Are You Doing in Honduras?
Source: VUE Weekly – From Week of July 23, 2009, Issue #718 Yves Engler / blackbook.foreignpolicy.ca Three weeks ago the Honduran military forcibly removed elected President Manuel Zelaya and dumped him in Costa Rica. The […]
Event: Community Media in Times of Popular Struggle- from Venezuela to Oaxaca to Honduras
Philadelphia, PA-Social movements throughout the hemisphere are fighting for a better future; one where land & indigenous rights are recognized and communities have control over their resources. But, how do they tell this story when the corporate media is controlled by those they are fighting against: a powerful few who exploit resources for profit and repress the movements that challenge their greed.
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The Honduran Coup: Fiction and Fact
On June 28, the entire hemisphere suffered a blow to democracy with the military ouster of the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. Since then, business groups behind the coup have waged an all-out PR war in Washington. As a result, there have been fabrications and distortions peddled by politicians and pundits which have aided in replacing facts with fiction. […]
Obama Stays the Course in Latin America
On June 23 while hosting Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, President Barack Obama was asked by a Chilean journalist whether he would apologize for Washington’s role in that country’s 1973 military coup which overthrew the democratically elected government and replaced it with a dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. […]