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Alternatives International and the “Massacre” that Wasn’t
North American and European Nonprofits Promote Elitist, Revisionist Vision of 2004 Haiti Coup Aftermath
By Joe Emersberger
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
February 29, 2008
Yet Another Tale of Woe and Intrigue: The Sierra Sur of Oaxaca
Teachers Fight to Maintain Control Over Their Union Amidst Threats and Violence from Political Bosses and Paramilitaries
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
February 26, 2008
Narco News Investigation: Cocaine Planes Cross Paths with Corporate America’s Green Movement
Men Who Sold Three Planes Later Used by Narco-Traffickers Also Run Biofuel Company Together With Government Communications Contractor
By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
February 25, 2008
The Failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti
“Its 2008 World Report Reveals an Underlying Assumption That The U.S. and Its Allies Have The Right to Overthrow Democratic Governments”
By Joe Emersberger
HaitiAnalysis
February 23, 2008
Neglecting the Tough Questions
Press Lets Uribe Off the Hook in Colombia Hostage Rescue
By Justin Delacour
Media Accuracy on Latin America
February 23, 2008
Felipe Calderón’s Lost War
A Good Anti-Drug Strategy Would Result in the Reduction of Violence, but in Mexico, Just the Opposite is Happening
By Erich Moncada
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
en español... La guerra perdida de Felipe Calderón
February 20, 2008
Narco News Reporters Harassed
Mexican Journalists Denounce Possible Early Effects of Country’s Proposed “Gestapo Law”
By Hermann Bellinghausen, Eugene Bermejillo, Gloria Muñoz Ramírez, Ramón Vera Herrera and Yuriria Pantoja Millán
La Jornada
en español... Hostigamiento contra reporteros de Narco News
in italiano... Intimidazioni Contro i Giornalisti di Narco News
February 20, 2008
Holes in the Wall
Homeland Security Won't Say Why the Border Wall is Bypassing the Wealthy and Politically Connected
By Melissa del Bosque
Texas Observer
February 20, 2008
Colombian President Uribe Confirms U.S. Unions' Fears
AFL-CIO Delegation Travels to Colombia, South America – the “Most Dangerous Country in the World for Trade Unionists”
By Dan Kovalik
The Huffington Post
February 19, 2008
Documents Detail Narco-Paramilitary Connection to Anti-Escobar Task Force
Most Definitive Declassified Evidence to Date Linking U.S. Government to a Colombian Paramilitary Group
By Michael Evans
The National Security Archive
February 18, 2008
Lawlessness and the Boomerang Effect in Oaxaca
Status of “Ungovernability” Returns to the Southern Mexican State
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
February 13, 2008
Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to ’Spy’ on Cubans, Venezuelans
U.S. Embassy Official’s ’Spy’ Request Violated Long-Standing U.S. Policy
By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky and Brian Ross
ABC News
en español... Exclusiva: 'Espiar' a Cubanos y Venezolanos fue la tarea que le encomendaron a un miembro del Peace Corps y a un estudiante que recibió la beca 'Fulbright'
February 10, 2008
Mexican Cop, Now in El Paso Hospital, Is a Marked Man
Juárez Law Enforcer Was Shot After Being Fingered as a Snitch, ICE Sources Claim
By Bill Conroy
Via the Narcosphere
February 10, 2008
American Democracy vs. American Dictatorship
Chertoff Sues the University of Texas in Brownsville and Texas Southmost College in Attempt to Place Border Wall Through the “Heart of the Campus”
By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
Inside the Checkpoints: Commentary from the Río Grande
February 9, 2008
Nogales Residents Say US is Building Border Wall on Mexico's Land
Locals Want “Wall of Shame” Construction Halted on Mexico’s Soil, Nearby Multi-Million Dollar Spy Towers Still Don’t Work
By Brenda Norrell
Via the Narcosphere
en español... Habitantes de Nogales Dicen que los EU Construyen Muro en Tierras Mexicanas
February 7, 2008
Hispanic Law Enforcers Demand Apology from Florida Congresswoman
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite Denies Puerto Ricans Access to Stimulus Package, Calling Them “Foreign Citizens… Who Do Not Pay Federal Income Taxes”
By Bill Conroy
Via the Narcosphere
February 7, 2008
Michael Chertoff, You’ve Been Sued
Texas Border Residents Take Homeland Security Chief to Court Over Land Seizures for Border Wall
By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
Inside the Checkpoints: Commentary from the Río Grande
February 6, 2008
St. Pete Company Sold Cessna Used In Drug Case, FBI Says
Connection Found Between the Owner of Skyway and Donna Blue, both Companies Which Sold Airplanes Later Used by Drug Smugglers
By Howard Altman
The Tampa Tribune
February 5, 2008
Senator Ted Kennedy Pushes Immigration Reform and Obama for President on El Piolín Radio Show
“On May 1, 2006, Only Two Senators Marched for Immigrant Rights, One in Washington, the Other in Chicago”
By Al Giordano
The Field
January 31, 2008
Third Cocaine Plane Surfaces and is Tied to Web of Government Connections
Drug War Beginning to Look Like One Giant Cover Story
By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
January 29, 2008
Operation Two-Fold
How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA
By Douglas Valentine
Counterpunch
January 29, 2008
Laughing at the News in Oaxaca
Governor Ruiz Smiles as the Secretary of Government Lays Down New Rules
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
January 28, 2008
Immigration Policy: Will the Real Senator Clinton Please Stand Up?
The US Presidential Candidate that Pandered “No Woman Is Illegal” Thinks Some Are So “Illegal” that They Must Be Deported Without Due Process
By Al Giordano
The Huffington Post
January 28, 2008
Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers
The Narco-Paramilitary Control of the Colombia’s Second City Continues, Despite the Surrender of “Don Berna” and Media-Hyped Drop in Crime
By Forrest Hylton
NACLA Report on the Americas
January 24, 2008
Mireya: “We'll continue to resist; the Blood Spilled by Our Dead Will Not Be Betrayed”
The Zapatista Women’s Conference Ended on January 1, the 14th Anniversary of the Armed Uprising
By Juan Trujillo and Raúl Romero
Reporting from the mountains of Chiapas
en español... “Vamos a seguir resistiendo, la sangre que derramaron nuestros caídos no se puede traicionar”: Mireya
January 21, 2008
El Tiempo: Congressman William Delahunt to Investigate U.S. Corporations’ Support for Colombian Paramilitaries
He Says He Is Concerned Over “the Magnitude of Participation” After Meeting with AUC Bosses Salvatore Mancuso, Jorge 40, Don Berna and Macaco
By Dan Feder
Via The Narcosphere
January 19, 2008
Over Three Thousand People From Five Continents Danced and Partied with the EZLN on its 14th Anniversary
Comandanta Rosalinda: “The reclaimed land was bought with the flesh and blood of compañeros. That blood hasn't disappeared; it sings and cries for joy over the years”
By Raúl Romero
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
en español... Más de tres mil personas de los cinco continentes bailaron y festejaron con el EZLN su aniversario numero catorce
January 17, 2008
A Texas Divided Will Be Broken In Two
South Texas Residents Are Struggling, Together, Like Never Before, to Stop the Border Wall and Militarization Being Imposed from Up North
By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
Inside the Checkpoints: Commentary from the Río Grande
en español... Una Texas dividida se partirá en dos
January 13, 2008
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