News Briefs

Source: Guardian Unlimited Am I on a blacklist? I was astonished when the plane I was travelling in was turned out of US airspace because I was on it On Wednesday 20 July 2011 at […]

BOLIVIAGoB found close US embassy contact w/ “human rights” NGO in New York was behind cell planning to kill Morales bit.ly/pUFsKt#cablegate Info on the members of cell accused of bomb & plot to kill Morales, […]

(IPS) – The powerful Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), in southwest Colombia, has called a “minga” or protest march to “curb the militarisation driven by the army and the FARC,” the main guerrilla group, […]

(IPS) – Chess player Roberto Galván, 33, was detained Jan. 25 by the police in the northeast Mexican state of Nuevo León as he sat on a bench in the central square of General Terán, […]

Police have forcibly evicted 114 families, including young children, from a community in northern Honduras. Around 80 people are now living in a nearby community centre in unsanitary conditions that pose a risk to their […]

Source: Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch   Last Thursday, in the Dominican Republic, every westbound bus traveling on the transportation artery Autopista Las Américas (The Americas highway) was stopped upon its arrival in the capital […]

Source: Democracy Now Argentine singer-songwriter, Facundo Cabral, died Saturday after a car he was traveling in was ambushed by gunmen in Guatemala. He was one of Latin America’s most admired folk singers and a man […]

Source: Al Jazeera In Ecuador, protesting for the rights of the Earth and trying to preserve natural resources may make you a “terrorist”. If you thought there was anything romantic about environmental activism or indigenous […]

BRAZIL Lula’s foreign policy advisor admits secret relations with Pepe Lobo in February 2010 bit.ly/pA0PPP #cablegate #Honduras #Brazil Brazil gov’t: “President Morales is more moderate than his words or image indicate” bit.ly/qDafTz #cablegate Global mining […]

Source: Americas Program   “My papa settled here in 1944,” Pablo Sarmiento says in a serene voice and gentle manner, as he looks at the ruins of his home that was torn down by a […]