Last Summit of the Americas Without Cuba
(IPS) – “What matters at this summit is not what is on the official agenda,” said Uruguayan analyst Laura Gil, echoing the conventional wisdom in this Colombian port city, where the Sixth Summit of the […]
News Briefs
The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure
Source: Truthout This is the third article in a Truthout series on viewing US immigration and Mexican border policies through a social justice lens, focusing on the lower Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, area. Mark […]
Obama in Cartagena: No Change, Dwindling Hope
In Cartagena, Obama is widely expected to revert to the Bush playbook and extol the virtues of Colombia and Panama FTAs. Source: Al Jazeera When President Obama arrives in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 14 to […]
Canada Deepens Ties with Deadly Regime in Honduras
Source: Montreal Media Co-op In June 2009, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by soldiers and taken to Costa Rica in a military airplane. The Honduran army took control of the streets. Nearly three years […]
Shifting Alliances in Bolivia’s TIPNIS Conflict
Source: NACLA In the run-up to the May-June consulta that will decide the fate of the proposed highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), the Bolivian government is signing agreements with lowland […]
New Low for Obama on Colombia Worker Rights; Reportedly Plans to Throw Away Trade Leverage at Summit
Source: USLEAP President Obama is reportedly planning to give a thumbs up on the Colombian government’s efforts to address worker rights violations, violence and impunity and announce this week that the U.S. will implement the […]
Brazil, U.S. Deepen Ties Ahead of Obama’s Latin America Week
(IPS) – Kicking off what some here have called President Barack Obama’s “Latin America Week”, the president and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, touted a deepening of bilateral ties in her first visit to the […]
Honduran Campesinos in the Crosshairs
The US government and multilateral institutions must demand an end to the human rights abuses surrounding land disputes. Source: Al Jazeera Honduras now claims the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of the world […]
The Southern Command Opens a Base in the Argentine Chaco: Humanitarianism or U.S. Control Center?
Source: Agencia Popular de Comunicación Suramericana When [President] Bush introduced the strategy of “preventative war” against terrorism, the rules established in the post-war world changed fundamentally. The strategic objective of the United States became the […]
Mexico’s Corn Festivals – a Haven from Transgenic Crops
(IPS) – Catalina Salvador, an 87-year-old peasant farmer who grows pumpkins, beans, and above all corn on her small plot of land, was one of the opponents of transgenic crops who took part in the […]