Latin America
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Honduras: The Wolf Report By S. Artesian
Taking the lessons learned at the feet of the US military to heart, the Republic of Honduras’ Cobra squadron woke the president of that country to tell him the bad news: 1) he was no longer president; 2) he never really was president; 3) there really isn’t a republic of Honduras; 4) a plane was… Continue reading
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Honduras: Attack on Peaceful Protestors Escalates By Jenny Atlee, Quixote Center
The repression is escalating. Crackdowns are occurring in San Pedro Sula as well as Tegucigalpa. Our delegation is accounted for and unharmed. They are now accompanying Honduran human rights workers and sending alarming reports. Police and military are rounding up people and taking them to places used for torture in the 1980s. Ambulances full of… Continue reading
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Fact Checking Lanny Davis on Honduras By Greg Grandin
Last Friday, I debated lawyer-turned-lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! It actually wasn’t much of a debate — in the way that word means an exchange of ideas — as Davis was fast out of the box, preemptively trying to taint host Amy Goodman… Continue reading
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Obama and the Honduran Crisis: Friend or Foe of Enlightened Change?
The United States, in line with President Barack Obama’s stated commitment to adopt more of an equal partnership in regional affairs, took a back seat – almost to a fault – putatively encouraging all of Latin America to share responsibility. But the U.S.’ failure to share authentic solidarity with the rest of the Americas, and… Continue reading
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Ad Hoc Memorandum by Honduran Human Rights Activists
As the fourth consecutive International Human Rights delegation present in the country since the coup d’état, we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the grave and rapidly deteriorating situation of human rights in Honduras, beginning with the events which occurred early in the morning of June 28th. In the name of the human… Continue reading
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Video: Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government Pt.1
Video: The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt. 1 Continue reading
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Video: Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador
A 37-year-old teacher, community center founder, and anti-mining activist is found tortured and assassinated in Northern El Salvador. Authorities, despite all evidence to the contrary, attribute the death to common gang violence. In the following weeks, other critics of mining are victims of death threats, attempted kidnappings and shootings. Communities plunged into fear not seen… Continue reading
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Obama Continues Bush Policies in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot
There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected. U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere’s left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a different direction. These hopes have been dashed. President Obama has continued the Bush policies… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Honduras political crisis unleashes media wars
Video: President Micheletti’s coup government cracks down on media and limits access to news about elected Pres? Honduras’ deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, continues to negotiate for a return to power after being ousted in a military-backed coup. But President Micheletti’s defacto government has been cracking down on media and limiting access to news about the… Continue reading
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Honduras Coup: A Template for Hemispheric Assault on Democracy By Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
The people of Honduras have now suffered more than 40 days of military rule. The generals’ June 28 coup, crudely re-packaged in constitutional guise, ousted the country’s elected government and unleashed severe, targeted, and relentless repression. Continue reading
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A Month Without Zelaya: The Honduran Crisis Deepens, No Quick Solutions on the Horizon
Although the de facto Micheletti regime has stated that it supports the San Jose Accord, events on the ground indicate that it is not pushing for the reinstatement of Zelaya. -Zelaya’s return is complicated by an entrenched interim government; a restoration of the deposed leader would only be possible through extreme international pressure. Zelaya’s border… Continue reading
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How Calderon Lost 15% of the Plan Mexico Funds . . . and Why He Must Lose the Rest By Scott Campbell
It’s been a busy and interesting week regarding developments in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the U.S. First, there were reports in the Mexican media on July 29 that an investigation by officials from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police into the murder of U.S. independent journalist Brad Will affirmed the conclusions drawn by the Mexican Federal Attorney… Continue reading
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Via Campesina, "August 11, 2009: Global Action Day for Honduras"
Since the military coup — after more than 38 days of untiring efforts by thousands of farmers, women, indigenous people, teachers, students, unionists, and ordinary citizens of the cities and the countryside to reverse it and to recover democracy and dignity — the repression by the coup participants has not notched the fighting spirit of… Continue reading
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Bolivia: Morales: Economic liberation is necessary in order to have political power
‘We have to liberate ourselves economically in order to have political power’ Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma told representatives of the indigenous originary campesino peoples and social movements that had congregated at a mass event in Camiri last Sunday to receive the Law of Indigenous Autonomies. Continue reading
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Ten Years of ‘Plan Colombia’: Bogotá Leases Military Real Estate to the Obama Administration
Colombia is likely to become the regional hub for the Pentagon’s Latin American activities and its Fort Apache as U.S. and Colombia near a cooperation agreement that would expand U.S. military presence in the country. The U.S. seeks to increase its influence in Colombia as it counts down the days until its lease expires on… Continue reading
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Public meeting London: Eyewitness report from Honduras
In London on Monday 10th August, 21st Century Socialism editors Calvin Tucker and Noah Tucker will present a multi-media report from the front line of the struggle against the coup in Honduras. Continue reading
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Honduras: Friends of the coup makers By Alan Maass
THE OFFICIAL position of the U.S. government is that it opposes the coup in Honduras that drove President Manuel Zelaya into forced exile over a month ago, and put in power the right-wing head of the congress, backed by the military. But if Lanny Davis gets his way, that will change–and Davis has the friends… Continue reading
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Thinking Left in Bolivia: Interview with Alvaro Garcia Linera By Linda Farthing
Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera first became passionate about politics during the widespread resistance to the Hugo Banzer dictatorship in 1979. Soon after, he left Bolivia to train as a mathematician at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, where he was active in the Central American solidarity Movement. Drawn to sociology, he began reading everything he… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Honduras: Where does Washington stand?
Video: The silence from Washington over the past month of human rights abuses from the de facto Honduran government becomes deafening when one considers that the US government holds both the ability to bring that regime down as well as a recent history of criticizing similar abuses in Iran. Groups inside the US have taken… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SIDING WITH THE GENERALS – THE INDEPENDENT ON HONDURAS
The BBC Q&A noted: “The role of the US is key, as it is Honduras’s biggest trading partner.” Curiously, the article failed to mention that the US has its only Central American military base in Honduras. In fact the Honduran military is armed, trained and advised by Washington in a relationship that is deep and… Continue reading
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