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US - In Case I Disappear (by William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)

Aurora Scott — 2006-10-02T21:01:51Z

Truthout - I have been told a thousand times at least, in the years I have spent reporting on the astonishing and repugnant abuses, lies and failures of the Bush administration, to watch my back. "Be careful," people always tell me. "These people are capable of anything. Stay off small planes, make sure you aren't being followed." A running joke between my mother and me is that she has a "safe room" set up for me in her cabin in the woods, in the event I have to flee because of something I (…)

- United States / droits humains / derechos humanos, politiques répressives / políticas represivas, United States of America

US - Hegemony or Global Good Neighbor Policy? (Laura Carlsen & Tom Barry, IRC)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-23T05:20:00Z

IRC - Over the past few years we have faced two major challenges in conceiving of a new foreign policy in Latin America. The first is the relative lack of attention to the region, by both the U.S. government and public. The second is the increasing friction between the current U.S. administration's strategies for global U.S. hegemony and Latin American elected governments and grassroots trends toward greater independence and new models.
The following policy review of U.S.-Latin American (…)

- United States / relations internationales / relaciones internacionales, United States of America

ESTADOS UNIDOS - Qué me Ocurrió Realmente: la versión de Cindy Sheehan sobre su Detención en el Capitolio (Rebelión)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-08T04:13:34Z

08/02/06 - Rebelión - Como probablemente sepáis, anoche me arrestaron antes de que comenzara el discurso del Estado de la Nación. La furia que he sentido por lo ocurrido y el dolor que me produce ver lo que hemos perdido en nuestro país me dejan sin palabras.
La policía ha contado mentiras y la prensa ha distorsionado los hechos (¡oh sorpresa!). Así que os voy a contar lo que realmente ocurrió.
Por la tarde asistí al acto popular previo al discurso del Estado de la Nación donde me (…)

- Estados Unidos / politique / política, politiques répressives / políticas represivas, United States of America

MEXICO - Reporters Targeted by Drug Related Violence in Nuevo Laredo (Diego Cevallos, IPS)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-08T02:18:18Z

07/02/06- IPS - The most dangerous place in Latin America to work as a journalist is northern Mexico, along the U.S. border, where drug traffickers threaten, kidnap and even murder reporters with impunity, according to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).
The latest incident occurred Monday evening, when several masked gunmen stormed the offices of the El Mañana newspaper in the city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, firing assault rifles and tossing a grenade. (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / médias / medios de comunicación, violence / violencia, México

US - Guns Over Butter Abroad and at Home (by Jim Loeb, IPS)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-07T00:54:03Z

Despite his administration's growing concerns about preventing the collapse of states in strategic parts of the world, U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed cuts in development and disaster assistance while increasing the defence budget by almost seven percent.
Under his 2007 budget request submitted to Congress Monday, Pentagon spending next year would rise to some 440 billion dollars, not including another 120 billion dollars that the administration is expected to ask for as a (…)

- United States / relations internationales / relaciones internacionales, United States of America, budget / presupuesto público

PERU - El Curioso Escenario Electoral Peruano II (Ricardo Jiménez, PORLALIBRE)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-05T05:10:04Z

03/02/06 - PORLALIBRE - 23 candidatos/as presidenciales; uno -el del gobierno- acaba de renunciar (con sus respectivos 5 candidatos a vicepresidentes cada uno/a) y alrededor de 1.500 pre candidatos (aún no se cierran las inscripciones) para el Congreso (120 cupos) y, por primera vez, para el Parlamento Andino (5 cupos).
Ciertamente, entre los/as presidenciables sólo algunos pocos parecen tener posibilidades; y esto a pesar que la experiencia de las últimas dos décadas muestran que el (…)

- Latinoamérica y Caribe / élections / elecciones, Perú

UNITED STATES - Bush's Energy Proposals (Jim Lobe, IPS)

Aurora Scott — 2006-02-05T04:59:45Z

03/02/06 - IPS - U.S. President George W. Bush's proposals to boost government spending on clean energy technologies, like much of the rest of his State of the Union Address, received a tepid reaction from analysts here Wednesday who described the speech as uncharacteristically timid.
While energy and environmental activists applauded his portrayal of the energy problem faced by the U.S. as an "addiction to oil", they said his solution — a 22 percent increase in clean energy research — (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean