MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 - IPS - The Mexican government announced Saturday that it was sending federal police to the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca to restore law and order, after four people were killed and 23 injured there Friday.
Striking teachers and hundreds of local residents living in camps have occupied downtown Oaxaca City for five months to demand the resignation of Governor Ulises Ruiz. Ten protesters had been killed so far, but Friday was the most violent day since the (…)
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MEXICO - Killings in Oaxaca Prompt Fox to Send in Federal Forces
Diego Cevallos, IPS
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ARGENTINA - Gold Mine in Suspense (by Marcela Valente, IPS)
25 October 2006, posted by Manuela Garza Ascencio
IPS - Officials in the Argentine government have thrown their support behind local residents and environmentalists in the western province of San Juan who are opposed to a mega-gold mining project in the Andes Mountains along the border with Chile due to the environmental risks it poses.
Because of that support, progress on the project has been temporarily suspended. President Néstor Kirchner himself traveled to San Juan this month, where he called for the continued development of the (…) -
MEXICO - Politics Stands in the Way of Solution to Oaxaca Crisis
Diego Cevallos, IPS
24 October 2006, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - Out of incapacity or due to political commitments, the government of Vicente Fox and the Senate have failed to put an end to the five-month crisis in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where 10 people — mainly protesters — have been killed and hundreds of demonstrators are still camped out on the streets and squares of the state capital.
There is no solution in sight to the conflict, which has dragged on for 151 days. Observers blame the government’s political weakness and the (…) -
VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Accuses Bush Administration of Blackmailing Other Countries Over Contested UN Seat
Francisco Arias Cardenas, Amy Goodman & Linda Golindano, Democracy Now!
23 October 2006, posted by DialFriday, October 20th, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - On Thursday the Bush administration urged Venezuela to give up its campaign to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Over the past four days, the UN General Assembly has conducted 30 rounds of votes to decide whether Venezuela or Guatemala should represent Latin America on the Security Council. Guatemala has won every round of voting but has failed to secure the needed two-thirds majority.
Venezuelan President Hugo (…) -
LATIN AMERICA - Tariq Ali on Hugo Chávez, the Axis of Hope and His New Book ’Pirates of the Caribbean’
Tariq Ali & Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
19 October 2006, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioTuesday, October 17th, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - Voting in the race for Latin America’s open seat on the UN Security Council will go into a second day after delegates failed to end a deadlock between frontrunners Venezuela and Guatemala.
Neither country obtained the 125 votes needed to win, but after ten rounds of voting, Guatemala established a wide lead with 110 to Venezuela’s 77. The balloting resumes Tuesday and could last days until one country prevails or the Latin (…) -
MEXICO - Repression of Opposition: Fuse for Oaxaca’s Conflict
Diego Cevallos, IPS
11 October 2006, posted by Manuela Garza AscencioIPS - The social and political conflict that has the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in check, with the local government accused of corruption and human rights violations, reached the streets of the country’s capital city Monday.
Some 3,000 delegates of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) walked for 21 days from Oaxaca to Mexico City, where they are adamant that they will remain until their demands are met.
Simultaneously, representatives of the government of President (…) -
CHILE-UNITED STATES - Thirty Years After the Assassination of Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier, His Son Francisco is Still Seeking Justice
Peter Kornbluh, Francisco Letelier, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, posted by DialThursday, September 21st, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington DC. Letelier was a high-ranking government official in Chile under President Salvador Allende. Following the 1973 US-backed coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier was imprisoned and tortured. After his release, he moved to the United States where we worked for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. (…)
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VENEZUELA - An Analysis of Hugo Chavez United Nations Address on September 20, 2006
Greg Grandin, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, posted by DialAMY GOODMAN: Greg Grandin joins us in the studio now, professor of Latin American history at New York University, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. Welcome to Democracy Now!
GREG GRANDIN: Thanks for having me.
AMY GOODMAN: Your assessment of President Chavez’s speech at the UN and the message he was putting out?
GREG GRANDIN: Well, I think he was speaking on a number of levels. The most immediate level, he was trying to (…) -
BOLIVIA - President Evo Morales on Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia
Evo Morales, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
29 September 2006, posted by DialDemocracy Now! News Program - Friday, September 22nd, 2006 - Ten months ago, Evo Morales made history when he became the country’s first indigenous leader. At his inauguration in January, he declared the end of Bolivia’s colonial and neo-liberal era. Since then he has moved to nationalize parts of the country’s vast energy reserves and strengthen Bolivia’s ties to Venezuela and Cuba.
Morales’ rise to power began with his leadership of the coca growers union and his high-profile opposition (…) -
BOLIVIA - Pro-business ’Strike’ Targets Morales (by Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly)
22 September 2006, posted by Dial
September 20, 2006 - Green Left Weekly - Reporting in La Epoca, Daniela Otero wrote of the September 8 “pro-autonomy” strikes across Bolivia’s four eastern departments (Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando): “The government and the leaderships of the civic committees with the conservative parties confronted each other, in a week that finished as one of the first battles for effective control of power.
“They did it in a day of regional stoppage marked by an elevated participation, as well as (…)