Social Tensions Erupt in Bolivia
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Honduran Peasant Leader Assassinated
The peasant leader Maria Teresa Flores, who was missing since August 7, was found dead with signs of having been tortured and then executed with shots from a firearm. Flores, mother of 14 children, was part of the Coordinating Council of Peasant Organizations of Honduras (COCOCH) and she used to head the Peasant Organization of Honduras (OCH).
Chile: Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks
The families of 32 Mapuche prisoners on a hunger strike for a month in different prisons in southern Chile have come to the capital to denounce irregularities in their trials and push for dialogue with the authorities.
Americas Social Forum Celebrates Change in Paraguay
(IPS) – The Fourth Americas Social Forum kicks off Wednesday in the Paraguayan capital with a colourful march through the streets, as some 12,000 people prepare to take part in the activities organised by 50 […]
Uribe Appointment Undermines U.N. Flotilla Investigation
Source: Mondoweiss It was announced yesterday, August 2nd, that outgoing Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez will be the Vice Chairman of the U.N.’s four-member international committee tasked with investigating the Israeli commando attack on the […]
Honduras Down the Memory Hole
U.S. media ignore the aftermath of dubious elections they praised Source: Extra! A year after a military coup removed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from office, Hondurans are still living under a repressive government—but the […]
Uribe to Teach at Georgetown University
Source: Colombia Reports Washington D.C.’s Georgetown University confirmed Wednesday that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been named a “distinguished scholar in the practice of global leadership” by the university, where he will keep himself […]
Colombian Indigenous Leader Shot Dead by Hitman
A Colombian indigenous leader has been shot dead outside his family home in the Colombian city of Riohacha, in the northern province of la Guajira. Luis Alfredo Socarrás Pimienta of the Wayúu tribe was allegedly […]
Oil, Gas, and Canada-Colombia Free Trade
Source: NACLA Canada has been involved in oil and gas in Colombia since the 1920s, when the Canadian-based International Petroleum Corporation (IPC), then a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned Tropical Oil and […]