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Bolivia nationalizes Spanish-run electrical grid | Simeon Tegel, May 1, GlobalPost
from the page: "Bolivia's army occupied the installations of the country's electricity grid Tuesday after President Evo Morales nationalized the Spanish-owned company that runs it. The president..ordered the seizure of the assets of Madrid-based firm Red Electrica in Bolivia... Until Tuesday, the Spanish utility owned 99.94 percent of Transportadora de Electricidad (TDE), the company that has run Bolivia's creaking transmission grid since 1997 when the electricity sector was privatized. "As a just homage to the entire Bolivian people, which has struggled for the recovery of its natural resources, its basic services..," He went on to accuse the Spanish company of investing just $81 million in Bolivia's transmission grid in the last 16 years... It also comes just two weeks after..Argentina President..sparked a major international outcry by nationalizing YPF, the local subsidiary of Spanish oil company Repsol. The news comes as yet another blow to Spain’s stalled economy.
compensation  sovereignty  empire  military  spain  europe  socialism  oil  energy  natural-resources  infrastructure  nationalization  privatization  argentina  bolivia  latin-america  from delicious
4 weeks ago by willowtrees
Why Haiti Wasn’t “Built Back Better” | by David L. Wilson, 17 April 2012, Upside Down World
from the page: "..With the help of the Haitian elite, the "international community" has imposed a series of neoliberal economic policies on the country since the 1970s. ..86 percent of the houses destroyed by the quake had been built since 1990... Chavannes Jean-Baptiste aptly summed up the foreign powers' view of post-earthquake Haiti. "Haiti is essentially roadkill.. Companies like Monsanto are devouring what is left of us at this point." Most Haitians are of course excluded from discussion... We want houses that respect our local architectural style and that use as much local materials as possible… We want beautiful houses that represent our culture, houses that give the community life, and that help us maintain dialogue between ourselves; houses that have yards and gardens where we can grow vegetables and medicinal plants…houses that provide space for us to live as families with neighbors in the lakou [traditional communal courtyard], where we can share food and daily activities.
journalism  monsanto  apparel  farmers  homeless  social-services  colonialism  exploitation  earthquake  poverty  food  agriculture  housing  capitalism  neoliberalism  NGO  usa  international-community  latin-america  haiti  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
Dumping the Dollar? Towards a Regional Currency in Latin America? ALBA Bloc Advances towards “Alternative Economic Model” | by Rachael Boothroyd. Global Research, February 13, 2012, Socialist Project and Venezuela Analysis
from the page: "..At the end of the summit's first day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that member countries had agreed to contribute 1% of their international reserves toward the bloc's main bank in order to create a reserve fund. The Bank of the Alba was established in 2008 with the intention of providing economic support to people-centred regional projects and to contribute to sustainable social and economic development across the region. The Bank is also cited as acting as a continental alternative to the International Monetary Fund... The heads of state also discussed the possibility of increasing the commercial use of the sucre, the bloc's virtual currency. The sucre is currently used for direct trading between the ALBA countries, allowing them to circumvent the U.S dollar and minimise the foreign-exchange risk.
falklands  tppa  fta  social-services  uk  usa  argentina  haiti  venezuela  bank  imf  currency  localization  latin-america  from delicious
february 2012 by willowtrees
Essays for Exchange | South South Forum
reconstruction  :opinion  agriculture  farmers  human-rights  indigenous-people  poverty  capitalism  environment  sustainability  women  society  movemenets  culture  economy  neoliberalism  religion  subsistence  colonialism  globalization  latin-america  asia  pdf  reports  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Remembering the Social Movements that Reimagined Argentina: 2002 - 2012 2 | by Francesca Fiorentini, 17 January 2012 | Upside Down World
from the page: ".. Through Argentines’ experiences in these “horizontal” projects, new forms of social relationships and new identities emerged based on values of mutual support and solidarity over individualism and exploitation... “Nestor Kirchner’s policy consisted of simultaneously enacting strategies to integrate, co-opt, and discipline the piquetero organizations,” writes Svampa... While not all piquetero groups could be co-opted, those that have chosen to ally with the government have been rewarded with economic and organizational resources... “We were neighbors. We didn’t have anything else in common other than our neighborhood, no kind of ideology,” says Eva Sinchecay of the Villa Puerrydon assembly. It was something that turned out to be both a strength and a weakness as assemblies were more independent but became susceptible to the agendas of left groups that used them as a means of recruitment. “It began to dissolve,”...
ideology  localization  class  corruption  money  cooperatives  capitalism  solidarity  movements  socialism  history  latin-america  argentina  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Remembering the Social Movements that Reimagined Argentina: 2002 - 2012 | by Francesca Fiorentini, 17 January 2012 | Upside Down World
from the page: "...From a vacuum of political power and severe economic necessity, grew new political formations outside of traditional party politics. Hundreds of neighborhood assemblies came together to meet peoples’ most basic needs and create a space for local dialogue. Bartering clubs (with their own forms of currency) experimented in alternative economics, and workers of bankrupt businesses began to occupy and run enterprises on their own... Neighborhood assemblies referred to themselves as “autoconvocados” (self-convoked) and made decisions using a consensus model in which all had equal say and majority voting was often a last resource. There was also a renewed sense of solidarity between classes, as assemblies in middle-class neighborhoods directed many programs to the poor and unemployed... In a country where inequity often pits the poor against the middle class, this kind of solidarity was unique and critical..."
corruption  economy  ideology  money  capitalism  cooperatives  poverty  movements  solidarity  consensus  class  currency  localization  neoliberalism  socialism  history  latin-america  argentina  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Stop the Occupation of Haiti! Money for Reconstruction not Militarization! | Global Research, January 17, 2012, School of the Americas Watch
from the page: "..Fully 33 cents of each US dollar for Haiti was used to reimburse the US itself for sending 5,000 soldiers... In addition to funding its own soldiers in Haiti under the guise of earthquake recovery, the US government has contributed 40% of the 1.5 billion spent by the UN to maintain another force of 12,000 soldiers and police, known as MINUSTAH. While the name MINUSTAH is a French acronym for stabilization force, most Haitians view them as an occupation force... Unfortunately, impunity rules and no troops have been prosecuted for the widespread sexual abuse of Haitian women and children. Only days ago the UN Peacekeepers caught on tape raping a Haitian teenager last summer were freed... Last Thursday Theresa Cusimano took the SOA to trial and will be spending 6 months in prison for speaking truth about US militarization. The people of Haiti are standing up to the enormous power of the UN to demand respect for their rights.
cholera  money  aid  immunity  children  rape  usa  militarization  UN  peacekeeping-mission  occupation  earthquake  earth  latin-america  haiti  activism  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Open Letter to World Bank Officials on Pacific Rim-El Salvador Case | December 12, 2011 · By Manuel Perez-Rocha, IPS
from the page: "Pacific Rim is suing El Salvador for up to hundreds of millions of dollars under the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement for not approving a mining license. Since Canada isn't part of this agreement, Pacific Rim opened a subsidiary in Reno, Nevada... Rather than complying with the environmental permitting process of El Salvador, Pacific Rim launched an attack under the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). They are demanding compensation from the government of El Salvador that could rise to hundreds of millions of dollars. In an abuse of process designed to attract jurisdiction under DR-CAFTA, Pacific Rim moved its subsidiary from the Cayman Islands to Nevada in the United States. The case will be decided by a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), associated with the World Bank..."
letter  corporations  latin-america  sovereignty  environment  mining  Investor-State-Dispute-settlement  tppa  fta  El-Salvador  canada  from delicious
december 2011 by willowtrees
Poetry and Political Imagination: Aimé Césaire, Negritude and the application of Surrealism | by R.C, March 9, 2010, Posthuman Destinies
from the page: "..Cesaire argues that colonialism works to "decivilize" the colonizer: Torture, violence, race hatred, and immorality constitute a dead weight on the so-called civilized, pulling the master class deeper and deeper into the abyss of barbarism. The instruments of colonial power rely on barbaric, brutal violence and intimidation, and the end result is the degradation of Europe itself... Racism..cannot be subordinate to the class struggle... His 1969 adaptation of The Tempest (Une Tempête) explored the relationship between Prospero the colonizer and his colonial subjects..

Prospero, you are the master of illusion.
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(lied about the world, lied about me)
that you have ended by imposing on me
an image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
that's the way you have forced me to see myself.
I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
and I know myself as well."
poetry  literature  colonialism  racism  france  west  fascism  haiti  latin-america  marxism  class-war  barbarism  nationalism  universalism  ideology  aime-cesaire  africa  nazis  from delicious
november 2011 by willowtrees
Q&A;: "Food Is Not a Business, But a Human Right" |Tressia Boukhors interviews JANAINA STRONZAKE, Nov 2, 2011, IPS ipsnews.net
from the page:"..we have a public policy that guarantees food security to the population so people have reasonable access to food. But that doesn't necessarily mean that there is food sovereignty. At the same time that we have such programs as Zero Hunger, multinational corporations are appropriating land, cultural knowledge and Brazilian biodiversity. These types [GM seeds] of biotech packages..promote dependence on the part of the population. So even if the population has access to food, it is not going to be healthy food – it is not local production and does not promote local empowerment of population... Fair trade is one of the components that can help cure the world's hunger. Nevertheless, some data from 2009 pointed to a large concentration of commerce in cacao, coffee and tea, so seeing fair trade without seeing food sovereignty in these countries can also bring a problem of monocultures and the concentration of leadership of one or a few NGOs that rule over these fair trades.
agriculture  brazil  latin-america  sovereignty  food-security  ngo  activism  women  seed  fair-trade  culture  farmers  agribusiness  contamination  gm-foods  empowerment  sustainability  food  from delicious
november 2011 by willowtrees
History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America
usa  latin-america  military  intervention  hisory  data  from delicious
november 2011 by willowtrees
Why People Around the World are Protesting Three New Trade Agreements in Congress this Week by Kristen Beifus and Christa Hillstrom | by Kristen Beifus, Christa Hillstrom, Oct 11, 2011, YES! Magazine
from the page: "..In the last 15 years there is abundant evidence that this trade [NAFTA] deal has failed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics some 900,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. alone, and millions of Mexican farmers' livelihoods were devastated when they failed to compete with the influx of tariff-free, subsidized crops from the U.S. As with NAFTA, the U.S.-Korea FTA will likely offshore thousands of jobs from an already flailing economy. A large number of the endangered jobs pay around 40.5 percent more than the average wage in the U.S. Of the 159,000 lost jobs projected by the Economic Policy Institute, high tech and green jobs, along with manufacturing, are most at risk... Trade policy has the ugly effect of pitting workers around the world against one another. But when we talk to each other and see that neither side is actually benefiting, we start to wonder, who is? After all, if it's not working for you, and it's not working for me, it must be working for someone...
fta  tppa  neoliberalism  usa  nafta  mexico  south-korea  unemployment  peru  latin-america  subsistence  contamination  exploitation  north-korea  asia  china  demonstration  from delicious
november 2011 by willowtrees
Caribbean objecting to nuclear waste shipment | The Associated Press July 21, 2011, BusinessWeek
from the page: "Caribbean officials are calling for an immediate halt to a European shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste that will pass near the islands on its way to Japan. They contend the practice poses a major risk. Caribbean Community spokesman Leonard Robertson says regional officials have been told by British authorities that the shipment of radioactive waste will be soon. He says they gave no specifics about the vessel for security reasons. Waste from Japanese nuclear reactors has for years been sent on specially equipped ships to Britain and France for reprocessing, then returned for storage in Japan.
japan  europe  france  uk  nuclear-power  latin-america  nuclear-waste  asia  environment  from delicious
august 2011 by willowtrees
UN: Special Committee on Decolonization Adopts Draft on Falkland Islands, Amid Petitioners’ Concern that Text Ignores Islanders’ Self-Determination Wish / Hears Petitioners from Guam
from the page: "...'Committee of 24' Also Forwards Three Traditional Texts in Support Of Decolonization Declaration to General Assembly; Hears Petitioners from Guam... Today, the militarization of Guam was tied to the building of new military bases and the transfer of more than 8,000 United States Marines from Okinawa to Guam. With that movement, the Chamorro people would face many of the same problems that the Okinawan people had faced, including field fires and bomb accidents caused by live ammunition, plane and helicopter crashes, as well as noise pollution, traffic accidents, the destruction of environmental and historical sites and the loss of indigenous cultural heritage. The Okinawan people were against the movement of United States Marines to Guam, as well as the construction of new military bases, as they feared that the island’s colonial situation would become “deeply fixed”. They insisted that Guam be demilitarized in accordance with United Nations decolonization..."
argentina  uk  japan  guam  okinawa  oceania  latin-america  history  indigenous-people  colonies  military-bases  usa  military  sovereignty  UN  falklands  non-self-governing-territories  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
Pambazuka - Time to bury the IMF | Horace Campbell 2011-06-02, Issue 532
from the page: "...The IMF has been a front for the lords of finance of Wall Street in the USA, and the linkages between the IMF/Wall Street and the US Treasury ensured that the poor of the world subsidised the US military... The IMF has assisted in granting immunity to Europeans and North Americans for crimes of economic rape against Africans... Many in France who call themselves socialists have been in denial about the rape of Africa. Instead of supporting activists such as Eva Joly who have been exposing the fraud and corruption of France in Africa, these ‘socialists’ are claiming that Strauss-Kahn was set up. A former culture minister Jack Lang described the treatment of Strauss- Kahn as a ‘lynching'... Clearly, these members of the French socialist confraternity do not understand the real lynching that is part of the racist structure of western capitalism... Is it now time for the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Reparations? ...
IMF  usa  europe  africa  latin-america  asia  rape  capitalism  racism  working-class  neoliberalism  imperialism  colonialism  economy  reconstruction  reparation  international-community  france  finance  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
Costa Rica bans depleted uranium weapons | 28 April 2011 - ICBUW
from the page: "On April 27th, the Congress of Costa Rica passed a law prohibiting uranium weapons in its territories, becoming the second country in the world to do so, following the passage of a domestic ban in Belgium in 2007. The law prohibits the use, trade, transit, production, distribution and storage of uranium weapons on Costa Rican territory."
depleted-uranium  latin-america  costa-rica  europe  belgium  ireland  oceania  new-zealand  military  from delicious
may 2011 by willowtrees
The Latin Americanist: Cuba: Prominent dissidents nominated for Nobel honors | March 02, 2011
politics  cuba  latin-america  nobel-prize  eu  usa  wikileaks 
march 2011 by willowtrees
The NATO Plan is to Occupy Libya | By Fidel Castro February 23, 2011 "Escambray", Information Clearing House: ICH
from the page: "Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world. It was their main weapon when they decided to easily liquidate the Cuban Revolution as soon as the first just and sovereign laws were passed in our Homeland: depriving it of oil... The world has been invaded with all kinds of news, especially using the mass media. One has to wait the necessary length of time in order to learn precisely what is the truth and what are lies, or a mixture of events of every kind that, in the midst of chaos, were produced in Libya. For me, what is absolutely clear is that the government of the United States is not in the least worried about peace in Libya and it will not hesitate in giving NATO the order to invade that rich country, perhaps in a matter of hours or a few short days."
africa  libya  usa  nato  oil  energy  occupation  intervention  history  cuba  latin-america  imperialism  military  revolution  r2p 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Genetic Engineering: Scientists warn of link between dangerous new pathogen and Monsanto’s Roundup
from the page: "A plant pathologist experienced in protecting against biological warfare recently warned the USDA of a new, self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-sized organism which may be causing spontaneous abortions in livestock, sudden death syndrome in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy, and wilt in Monsanto’s RR corn... Huber, who has been studying plant pathogens for over 50 years and glyphosate for over 20 years, has noticed an increase in pathogens associated with the herbicide. In an interview with the Organic and Non-GMO Report last May, he discussed his team's conclusions that glyphosate can, “significantly increase the severity of various plant diseases, impair plant defense to pathogens and diseases, and immobilize soil and plant nutrients rendering them unavailable for plant use.”This is because “glyphosate stimulates the growth of fungi and enhances the virulence of pathogens.” In the last 15-18 years, the number of plant pathogens has increased...
monsanto  agriculture  abortion  herbicide  diseases  deformity  usa  latin-america  argentina  gm-foods 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Rising food prices threaten 1 billion with chronic hunger | By Naomi Spencer 21 February 2011, WSWS
from the page: "..Since June 2010, the soaring cost of staple foods has pushed 44 million more of the world’s poor into “extreme poverty,” surviving on less than $1.25 per day, according to the World Bank’s February “Food Price Watch.”This figure reflects 68 million people who fell into extreme poverty, minus 24 million that the organization says were “able to escape” as “net food producers.”... Between June and December of 2010, the global wheat prices soared by 75 percent. Over the past quarter, wheat prices have risen 20 percent... Rising grain prices are partly attributable to a confluence of weather disasters in exporting countries, followed by export restrictions and domestic stockpiling. Poor harvests, low reserves, rising demand for grain-intensive livestock in emerging economies and bio-fuel production all contribute to an upward spiral in prices... The mechanisms behind this rise illustrate the financial anarchy reigning over the world’s food supply...
hunger  price  speculation  biofuel  poverty  food  food-system  demonstration  africa  middle-east  asia  floods  latin-america 
february 2011 by willowtrees
The Egyptian Revolution seen from Venezuela: Some worries about our Arab brothers | Roberto Hernández Montoya,15/02/2011, Tlaxcala
from the page: "..To the end of the ’50s there were in Latin America several military dictatorships, which had been imposed and supported by the Empire... There’s evidence of U.S. intervention in the fall of some of these dictatorships: they killed Trujillo when he refused to abandon office. They didn’t protect Pérez Jiménez. The support they gave Batista against Fidel’s guerrilla was not enough to thwart his fall... When Washington really supports a government it does everything to protect it: financing and training puppet groups of influence, instigating coups d’état, separatist initiatives and eventually direct invasions, to mention only a few items of its political panoply. Or they tolerate or promote an alternative government that’s acceptable for Washington.. It did nothing to prevent the fall of the late ’50s Latin American dictatorships that it had previously instigated and buttressed. Instead it promoted acceptable allied substitutions with a healthier political aura.
egypt  middle-east  latin-america  history  usa  dictatorship  coup  empire  imperialism  venezuela  revolution  puppet 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Haiti message to US Embassy in Haiti: The Will of the People | DECEMBER 9, 2010, Ezili Danto - Open Salon
from the page: "..Listen US Embassy: it's the will of the people to annul the November 28 farce, end the UN occupation, prioritize investing Haiti’s life-force and resources and any reconstruction funds in water treatment plants, sanitation treatment plants, sustainable housing, domestic agriculture and manufacturing, public works jobs, indigenous schooling... If this had been done in the first place, cholera would not have erupted. Instead, you foreigners prioritized your own interests in Haiti. Discounted the will of the people. Forced upon Haiti as "development" and "for our own good" your elections, your promises of aid that never, ever gets to Haiti, your self-serving US sweatshops, your UN soldiers replacing the traditional role of the bloody Haitian army and policies like privatization... Now we must also stop the outbreak and clearly get UN accountability as the source of the cholera, get an apology of substance with wrongful death justice and restitution made...
latin-america  haiti  UN  usa  occupation  peacekeeping-mission  exploitation  elections  corruption  cholera  protest  intervention  responsibility  accountability  development  apology 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Leftist overthrow advisor Lester Kurtz: “I talked with the CIA” « January 6, 2011, By Stephen Gowans, what's left
from the page: "...Nonviolent resistance – also more aptly called nonviolent warfare – is about taking power, not making a point. It’s not pacifism or a principled religious or ethical position based on abhorrence of violence. It’s power politics. Ackerman and other nonviolent warriors believe that mass civil disobedience – the shrewd use of strikes, boycotts, demonstrations, and nonviolent sabotage backed by sanctions and demonization of target governments – can be more effective in taking political power than military intervention... They advocate nonviolence, not because they hate violence, but because they think nonviolence works better than armed revolt or military intervention. With the help of people like Lester Kurtz, the ICNC trains a modern cadre of mercenaries, who travel the world in the pay of NGOs, Western governments, wealthy individuals and corporate foundations, in order to train local groups in regime change through nonviolent warfare...
nonviolence  politics  imperialism  ngo  cia  training  sanctions  demonstration  boycott  democracy  resistance  ethics  think-tank  usa  venezuela  cuba  latin-america  intervention 
january 2011 by willowtrees
The Tyranny of Soy Agribusiness in Paraguay | by Jesse Freeston, 08 December 2010, Source: The Real News Network. Upside Down World
from the page: "Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and a series of Brazilians agribusinesses are flexing their muscles in Paraguay, currently occupying 25% of all arable land for the production of genetically modified soy for export... Small farming communities, small farmers are having to migrate to the cities in a massive exodus from the countryside. They're doing this because of the repression they face from thugs hired by the soy owners, the terrible pesticides that are used in soy production that poison water sources, that kill livestock, that kill anything else but soy, and that create cancer, blindness, birth deformities.. Dozens of campesinos has been murdered outright by paramilitaries hired by soy companies, in collusion with the police and the military of Paraguay. And campesinos have fought against this heroically, with direct action, blockading roads, occupying land... And in this state of emergency..this outlawed any kind of political meeting of any kind..
latin-america  paraguay  agribusiness  brazil  usa  imperialism  monsanto  GM-foods  deformity  environment  contamination  landgrab  slum  dictatorship  resistance  herbicide  poverty  training  pmc 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Africom Unmasked, Unwanted and Vulnerable | 01/04/2011, Mark P. Fancher, Black Agenda Report
from the page: "..Programs like Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA), Africa Partnership Station and the International Military Education and Training Program are all AFRICOM projects that provide African soldiers with military and ideological training, and it is not unreasonable to fear that they will evolve into a "School of the Americas" of sorts for Africa... African governments must simply refuse to allow their soldiers to participate in AFRICOM training programs... a mass movement does have the potential to establish a climate and consensus among the grassroots that the country's young men and women should individually resist military service if it means their direct or indirect participation in AFRICOM's projects. Mass resistance must take place in the U.S. as well because..high ranking representatives of AFRICOM and others traveled to Liberia to establish a "partnership" between that West African country's military and the Michigan National Guard...
africom  usa  germany  africa  military  resistance  training  liberia  latin-america  militarization  military-bases 
january 2011 by willowtrees
GM Soy: Sustainable? Responsible? Reports | 13 September 2010 , GM WATCH
from the page: "A group of international scientists has released a report detailing health and environmental hazards from the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready soy and the use of glyphosate (Roundup®) herbicide. The report, GM Soy: Sustainable? Responsible?,[1] highlights new research by Argentine government scientist, Professor Andrés Carrasco,[2] which found that glyphosate causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying... In Argentina and Paraguay, doctors and residents living in GM soy producing areas have reported serious health effects from glyphosate spraying, including high rates of birth defects as well as infertility, stillbirths, miscarriages, and cancers. Scientific studies collected in the new report confirm links between exposure to glyphosate and premature births, miscarriages, cancer, and damage to DNA and reproductive organ cells...
GM-foods  monsanto  agriculture  greenwash  environment  herbicide  unsustainable  argentina  paraguay  latin-america  deformity  cancer  contamination  toxic-chemical  water-pollution  ngo  WWF  agribusiness 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power | James Petras, 01.02.2011, James Petras website
from the page: "The most basic appeal by imperial policy-makers to the "new ruling class" in emerging client state is the opportunity to participate in an economic system tied to the imperial centers, in which local elites share economic wealth with their imperial benefactors. To secure mass support, the collaborator classes obfuscate the new forms of imperial subservience and economic exploitation by emphasizing political independence, personal freedom, economic opportunity and private consumerism. The mechanisms for the transfer of power to an emerging client state combine imperial propaganda, financing of mass organizations and electoral parties, as well as violent coups or 'popular uprisings'. Authoritarian bureaucratically ossified regimes relying on police controls to limit or oppose imperial expansion are "soft targets". Selective human rights campaigns become the most effective organizational weapon to recruit activists and promote leaders for the imperial-centered new polit...
usa  imperialism  history  history-education  empire  japan  asia  military-bases  capitalism  war-industries  europe  china  middle-east  market  latin-america  human-rights  propaganda  dependency  exploitation 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Venezuelan University Law Creates Student Bill of Rights, “Democratizes” Higher Education | By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
from the page: " As students in the United States and Europe protest against soaring tuition and lack of funding for public higher education, the Venezuelan National Assembly has passed an unprecedented law to include professors, students, workers, and local community members in university decision-making and to eliminate barriers to higher education. The law is based on the principle that the government has the responsibility to provide free, high-quality, public education from childhood through the undergraduate university level. This principle is established in Article 103 of the nation’s constitution. The law says students will have the right to an equal vote in the election of university authorities, evaluate professors and participate in self-evaluation, freely express opinions, access university administrative records, and receive a range of services including housing, transportation, meals, health care, and monthly stipends, among other rights...
latin-america  venezuela  universities  education  law  community  responsibility  vote  freedom  social-services 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Cable Viewer: Viewing cable 09STATE15113, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION:CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES (CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES LOCATED ABROAD)
wikileaks  infrastructure  usa  imperialism  energy  natural-resources  pipelines  cable  asia  europe  middle-east  africa  oceania  latin-america  resources 
december 2010 by willowtrees
In Protest - The Big Picture - Boston.com
activism  protest  demonstration  police  photos  asia  europe  usa  latin-america  middle-east 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000 | By Bill Van Auken 17 November 2010, WSWS
from the page: "Haiti remains tense in the wake of Monday’s violent clashes between protesters and United Nations troops that left at least two dead and 16 wounded in Cap-Haitien, the country’s second largest city... Violence erupted on Monday after thousands of demonstrators took to the city’s streets to protest against the UN occupation force.., which many blame for the cholera epidemic that has now claimed more than 1,000 lives, and to denounce the government of Prime Minister Rene Preval... according to the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, Nigel Fisher, the outbreak has been seen thus far more in the city’s slums, like Cite Soleil, which have even less access to clean water and sanitation than the tent cities... The report [by Partners in Health] indicted the United States and the Democratic administration of President Bill Clinton for sabotaging Inter-American Development Bank loans destined for the country’s water infrastructure and distribution systems.
latin-america  haiti  cholera  UN  peacekeeping-mission  protest  death  usa  water  infrastructure  poverty  nepal  occupation  military  slum 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Haiti Liberte: Hebdomadaire Haitien | by Isabeau Doucet, October 25, 2010, Haitian weekly
from the page: "..a coalition of grassroots and political opposition groups took to the streets to call for an end to the six-year military occupation which cost $612 million last year but undermined, rather than ensured, the general population's security, the protesters said... At one point a UN security officer waded into the crowd sparking pushing and shoving. Blows were traded, followed by shots fired in the air by the Jordanian soldiers forming a cordon around the base. The reckless and possibly vindictive driver of a UN vehicle pushed a handful of journalists.. As UN security chiefs made calls asking for tear gas, reinforcements arrived in full riot gear and dispersed the crowd. Both chiefs covered up their UN identification and refused to call in the UN press officer... Everywhere you go in this city there's evidence of the animosity many feel towards the UN presence. The ubiquitous graffiti slogans of "Down with the Occupation" or "Down with UN Thieves" reflect the population..
haiti  latin-america  occupation  UN  military  protest  demonstration  crackdown  cover-up  elections  animosity  boycott  un-security-council  canada  usa  france 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Chilean workers protest San Jose mine’s closure | By Rafael Azul 22 October 2010, WSWS
from the page: "More than 300 Chilean workers jobless due to the closure of the San Jose mine—made famous by the recent rescue of 33 trapped miners—have threatened to occupy "Camp Hope" near the mine until they receive severance pay... The parent company of the San Jose mine, Grupo San Sebastián, has declared bankruptcy, leaving 300 miners on the street. It now claims it has no money to meet the workers' right to severance pay... After the October 13 rescue of the 33 miners who had been trapped far beneath the earth for 69 days, the international media and politicians have left, while the miners must continue in the dire poverty endemic for the Latin American working class... Many of these shanties [where the miners live] have no running water and no sewage connections... Tuberculosis, once all but wiped out in Chile, is now on the rise, with rates among mining families twice the national average... "We trade health for money," declared a copper miner at a state-owned Codelco copper...
latin-america  chile  labor  exploitation  mining  health  poverty  capitalism  unemployment  journalism  inequality  neoliberalism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
CENTRAL ASIA: U.S. Military Aid Far Outpaces Democracy Assistance | By Jim Lobe, Oct 19, 2010, IPS ipsnews.net
from the page: "..the United States has been spending at least six times more on military aid for the mostly authoritarian states of Central Asia than on efforts to promote political liberalisation and human rights in the region, according to a new report released here by the Open Society Foundations... Six months ago, for example, three Washington-based groups focused on human rights and Latin America policy published a report that found that nearly half of all U.S. aid was being channelled to the region through the Pentagon and that the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) had largely displaced the State Department as the de facto "lead actor and voice" for U.S. policy there. And, although U.S. development aid to Africa still dwarfs military assistance, similar fears have been voiced about the Pentagon's three-year-old African Command.. Despite the lack of improvements in human rights conditions, the restrictions on military aid "are beginning to be relaxed", according to the report."
usa  military  aid  soros  reports  asia  africa  latin-america  war-exporting-state  authoritarianism  militarization 
october 2010 by willowtrees
37 Deaths In Chinese Mine Disaster Contrasted To Chile Rescue | by Rudi Stettner, Oct 21, 2010, Indyposted
from the page: "A massive gas leak at the Pingyu Coal and Electric Company mine at Yuzhou in China has claimed 37 lives,Today On Line has reported. Unlike the Chilean mine disaster in which all trapped miners were rescued, no one survived China’s latest mining disaster. China has managed to have the worst record in mining safety in the world, with over 26oo deaths among coal miners alone in the “people’s republic” of over a billion people. The Beijing News has reported simmering resentments among workers in the mines about mine management sacrificing worker safety for profits... The Chilean mine rescue has highlighted the general issue of mine safety around the world and especially in China, where miners toil under some of the worst conditions for miners in the world. The Chilean mine rescue has raised bar for expending efforts on behalf of trapped miners who in the past would have been declared dead while they were still alive.
labor  mining  china  asia  chile  latin-america  death  safty  conditions  capitalism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti | by Beverly Bell, October 18, 2010, CommonDreams.org
from the page: "...Haitians have been taking to the streets with increasing frequency... about 200 people were marching in front of the U.N. logistics base when MINUSTAH forces fired two bullets in the air and leveled their guns at demonstrators. A MINUSTAH vehicle and a second UN car pushed three foreign journalists and at least two Haitian demonstrators into a ditch. Haitian police then began striking... "There was no provocation at all. The Haitian police and the private UN security guards were so aggressive. They were just looking to do violence,"... Their shelters, usually made of plastic or nylon, are variously sweltering in the daytime heat and wet and muddy in the torrential night rains. Protection against thieves and rapists is non-existent. According to an extensive new study, 40% of camps have no water, 30% have no toilets, and only 20% have access to education, medical care, or psychological support. With near-total unemployment; with food aid suspended since April...
latin-america  haiti  protest  earthquake  poverty  hunger  unemployment  UN  war-industries  pmc  police  violence  health-services  refugees 
october 2010 by willowtrees
t r u t h o u t | Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued | Wednesday 13 October 2010 by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t
chile  history  mining  Mapuche  coup  usa  latin-america  indigenous-people  protest  cover-up  neoliberalism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Mapuche hunger strike in Chile highlights the real problem facing President Sebastián Piñera | by David Mauro - 15 October 2010
from the page: ".. In Angol, the provincial capital of Malleco in the Araucania region, there is a seemingly permanent group of protesters outside the city’s jail. They are protesting the country’s anti-terrorist law... The law dictates Mapuche can be charged as terrorism suspects, detained indefinitely and tried in military tribunal courts... Similar scenes can be found in the cities of Temuco, Los Angeles, Valdivia, Puerto Montt and Osorno. Inside the jail, Mapuche prisoners are being held under the country’s anti-terrorist law... Critics say by labeling the Mapuche prisoners “terrorists,” the government only exacerbates the existing problems and makes it even more difficult for the Mapuche to find a place within Chilean society... For over two months, more than 30 Mapuche prisoners have conducted a hunger strike to seek changes to the anti-terrorist law... within Chile the subject of the striking Mapuche remains one that most people would like to ignore...
latin-america  chile  indigenous-people  protest  terrorist  law  nonviolence  prisons  ignorance  human-rights  Mapuche 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse: Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault? | October 14, 2010, by Juan Cole, Informed Comment
from the page: "The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. It not only avoided asking hard questions about why the near-disaster occurred and why the mine workers could be treated like guinea pigs by their employers, it actively obscured these questions. I saw a psychobabbling guest of Tony Harris on CNN actually talking about how the Chilean government is the father figure for the miners and their supporters and people are turning to it for succor and inspiration. I threw up a little in my mouth... 3. Are the mine owners guilty of criminal negligence? 4. Why did the San Estaban mining company reopen the mine so quickly after an earlier tunnel collapse severed the leg of a mine worker? ..8. Are copper and gold mine owners stronger in relation to workers and have they escaped government regulation because the US engineered a coup in 1973 to destroy the Chilean Left?
latin-america  mining  Chile  responsibility  labor  propaganda  deregulation  coup  usa  capitalism  kissinger  exploitation  cover-up  journalism  human-rights 
october 2010 by willowtrees
The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning | 10.09.2010, The James Petras website
from the page: "...The bulk of the Indian movement (CONAIE) adopted a complex position of denying that a coup was taking place, yet rejecting the police violence and setting forth a series of demands and criticisms of Correa’s policies and methods of governance. No effort was made to either oppose the coup or to support it... The passivity of CONAIE and most of the trade unions has its roots in profound policy disagreements with the Correa regime... facing declining revenues due to the world recession, Correa made a sharp turn to right... The absence of continuous social reforms, while agro-mining elites prosper, opens the door for the return of the right and provokes divisions in the social coalitions supporting the center-left regimes. Most important the implosion of the center-left provides an opportunity for Washington to subvert... The successful coup in Honduras (2009) and the recent failed coup in Ecuador are symptomatic of the deepening crises of "post-neo-liberal" politics.."
ecuador  latin-america  coup  usa  indigenous-people  money  Left  ngo  movements  venezuela  labor-union  police  socialism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
US cover-up exposed in killing of Afghanistan aid worker | By Chris Marsden 12 October 2010, WSWS
from the page: "British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday admitted that British aid worker, Linda Norgrove was killed by United States forces involved in a rescue operation and not by her Afghan captors, as had previously been claimed... The day after, the US began circulating its story attributing Norgrove’s death to her captors. “Tribal elder” Jan Mohammed Khan, from the Norgal district of Kunar, was widely quoted as stating, “The captors killed the British woman as the [NATO troops were] trying to rescue her.” A “suicide vest” was found nearby... Three local staff members working for the aid project were taken hostage alongside Norgrove. They were all released unharmed last week. Tribal elders negotiating her release had asked NATO not to intervene, to give them more time. An Afghan intelligence official was reported as having told the BBC that the US had ignored local police and intelligence recommendations supporting the tribal elders’ stance...
afghanistan  usa  asia  uk  aid  DAI  latin-america  cover-up  lies  cia  usaid  propaganda  abduction 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Bombing at CIA base exposes weakness of U.S. occupation | By John Catalinotto, Jan 7, 2010 , Workers World
from the page: "...On Dec. 15, however, the Afghan resistance hit a USAID base in Gardez, the capital of Paktia Province in the southeast, killing security staff and a guard working for Development Alternatives Inc. DAI is the major supplier of mercenary forces to the occupation. According to a report by North American lawyer and investigative writer Eva Golinger, now in Venezuela, DAI is active throughout Latin America. One of their employees is the captured U.S. agent in Cuba who was handing out illegal materials to anti-revolutionary groups. DAI has a $40 million contract to administer the “Cuba Democracy and Contingency Planning Program.”DAI is running a similar program for USAID in Venezuela. USAID has also been expelled from two cities in Bolivia, accused of intervening. According to Golinger, “A high-level USAID official confirmed two weeks ago that the CIA uses USAID's name to issue contracts and funding to third parties in order to provide cover for clandestine operations..."
aid  usa  cia  USAID  DAI  afghanistan  asia  latin-america  war-industries  pmc  venezuela  bolivia  occupation  Khost 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Behind the Coup in Ecuador | By Eva Golinger Translation: Machetera October 08, 2010, Information Clearing House: ICH
from the page: "..When Bush sent her [Hodges ] to Ecuador, it was with the intention of sowing destabilization against Correa, in case the Ecuadoran president refused to subordinate himself to Washington’s agenda... Not all groups and organizations in opposition to Correa’s policies are imperial agents. But a sector among them does exist which receives financing and guidelines in order to provoke destabilizing situations in the country that go beyond the natural expressions of criticism and opposition to a government. One of the main executors of USAID's programs in Ecuador is the same enterprise that operates with the rightwing in Bolivia: Chemonics, Inc... Organizations in Ecuador such as Participación Ciudadana and Pro-justicia [Citizen Participation and Pro-Justice], as well as members and sectors of CODEMPE, Pachakutik, CONAIE, the Corporación Empresarial Indígena del Ecuador [Indigenous Enterprise Corporation of Ecuador] and Fundación Qellkaj..have had USAID and NED funds..
latin-america  coup  ecuador  usaid  aid  neoliberalism  demonstration  ambassador  cuba  destabilization  indigenous-people  usa  money  ngo  activism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
US agency exploited Guatemalans for lethal medical tests | By Rafael Azul 5 October 2010, WSWS
from the page: "..unethical human experimentation in the United States did not stop... Between 1950 and 1972 mentally disabled children were intentionally infected with hepatitis... Pharmaceutical companies routinely turn to countries such as Nigeria and South Africa for drug trials that would be illegal in the US. Often these populations are left to their own devices at the end of the trial or if things go wrong. According to a study conducted by the Tufts Center for Drug Development, in 1997 the US conducted 5 percent of clinical studies outside of the United States and Western Europe, but by 2007 the share had increased to 29 percent. In 2008 in Argentina..12 children died after they were used in a study of a new flu drug by the GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company that involved thousands of impoverished children across South and Central America. None of the trials took place in Europe or the United States, due to high cost and more stringent standards..."
human-rights  human-experiment  history  usa  latin-america  guatemala  racism  colonialism  children  poverty  argentina  pharmaceutical-industry  GlaxoSmithKline  corporations  United-Fruit-Company 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Report from Ecuador: Democracy Under Threat | by Jennifer Moore, 01 October 2010, Upside Down World
from the page: "...Although indigenous and other social organizations in Ecuador have been in conflict with the Correa administration for the last few years, important groups such as the Confederation of Indigeous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and ECUARUNARI, the large highland affiliate of the CONAIE, made strong statements condemning all threats on Ecuadorian democracy. The CONAIE and ECUARUNARI have led regular protests against various policy reforms taking place under the Correa government during the last year, for which their leaders have recently faced terrorist charges. At the local level, indigenous and non-indigenous communities protesting mining and oil expansion have also faced repeated repression and recent criminalization. Despite, however, calls from at least one political representative of the indigenous Pachakutik party to support opposition to the Correa government, these organizations maintained a firm stance in defense of democracy..."
latin-america  ecuador  indigenous-people  democracy  protest  natural-resources  oil  activism  ngo  coup 
october 2010 by willowtrees
TLAXCALA: A note about the failed coup in Ecuador | Atilio A. Boron, 03/10/2010
from the page: "..It was not a small isolated group within the police trying to carry out a coup, but rather a group of social and political actors at the service of the local oligarchy and imperialism, who will never forgive Correa for having ordered the removal of the US military base at Manta and the audit of Ecuador's foreign debt and its incorporation into ALBA, among many other actions. Incidentally, the Ecuadoran police have for many years, like other forces in the region, been trained and supported by their US counterpart.. Could it happen again? Yes, because the foundations of coups have deep roots in Latin American societies and in the foreign policy of the United States... the rapidity of popular democratic reaction is essential to deactivate the sequence of actions and processes of the coup makers, a sequence which is rarely anything more than the unleashing of initiatives which, in the absence of obstacles placed in their path, are mutually reinforcing...
ecuador  latin-america  coup  democracy  military-bases  imperialism  USA  solidarity  honduras  Haiti  venezuela  bolivia  police  training 
october 2010 by willowtrees
Guatemala: A Test Tube of Repression | By Robert Parry, October 3, 2010. Consortiumnews.com
from the page: "..Despite the tens of thousands of civilian deaths and now-corroborated accounts of massacres and genocide, not a single senior military officer in Central America was given any significant punishment for the bloodshed, nor did any U.S. officials pay even a political price... The concept of management also emerged from the Reagan years as a tested method for manipulating the American people through propaganda and fear. The same tactics were used in 2002-.. The Historical Clarification Commission, an independent human rights body, estimated that the Guatemalan conflict claimed the lives of some 200,000 people with the most savage bloodletting occurring in the 1980s... The report added that the "government of the United States, through various agencies including the CIA, provided direct and indirect support..." The report concluded that the U.S. government also gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed "acts of genocide" against the Mayans.
usa  latin-america  guatemala  human-experiment  genocide  training  accountability  war-crimes  history  cia  military  assassination  abduction  torture  Left  arms-trade  cover-up  propaganda  journalism 
october 2010 by willowtrees
US to apologize for ‘atrocious’ STD experiments in Guatemala | By Ron Brynaert, October 1st, 2010 , Raw Story
from the page: ""US government medical researchers intentionally infected people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago," Robert Bazell, the Chief science and health correspondent for NBC News, reports. "Many of those infected were encouraged to pass the infection onto others as part of the study. About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment."...
human-experiment  usa  racism  Guatemala  latin-america  human-rights  prisons  mental  infection  black  academics  apology 
october 2010 by willowtrees
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:news  latin-america 
september 2010 by willowtrees
CIA's 'Red Cell' Hypocrisy on Terror | By Robert Parry September 4, 2010 Consortiumnews.com
from the page: "The Central Intelligence Agency has scoffed at an internal memo that cites a few terrorist acts by some American citizens as possibly causing foreign nations to see the United States as an "exporter of terrorism." The CIA notes that the paper came from its "red cell" analysts who are assigned to "think outside the box" to "provoke thought." However, what’s most striking about the secret three-page memo, dated Feb. 4 and disclosed by WikiLeaks last month, is how it reflects CIA self-censorship regarding the agency’s own long history of supporting acts of terror and protecting terrorists... Not that self-censorship by the "red cells" is all that surprising. It's been practiced by U.S. government officials and the Washington news media for decades now. Otherwise, the American people would have been confronted with the uncomfortable reality that many esteemed U.S. government officials..had their hands dipped in the blood of innocent victims of terrorism...
usa  cia  terrorism  history  myths  wikileaks  latin-america  censorship  journalism  murders  heroes  double-standard  Cuba  venezuela 
september 2010 by willowtrees
Inside the World’s Deadliest City: Juarez’s anarchy cannot be separated from American policy and addictions, says journalist Charles Bowden | By Jeremy Gantz, August 30, 2010, In These Times
from the page: "..NAFTA produced enormous squatter barrios of people who are fully employed by American factories and couldn't make a living wage... The drug economy in Mexico exists because of U.S. policy—the prohibition of drugs here. It has grown and now injects $30 billion to $50 billion of hard currency into the Mexican economy through criminal organizations... Various clinicians there estimate this city of a little more than a million now has 150,000 to 200,000 addicts. Until the fall of 1997, it was difficult to buy any drug in Juárez, except possibly marijuana. Today, there are 500 to 900 street gangs in Juárez... To say this policy is a failure is to be kind... We are now looking at 28,000 Mexicans executed since President Felipe Calder”n declared war on traffickers in December 2006. There is not a single report by any federal agency of any place in the United States where this war has created a drug shortage, disruption in drug distribution or an increase in price...
drug  mexico  nafta  neoliberalism  poverty  latin-america  usa  addiction  gangs  violence  slum  legalization  exploitation  black-market 
september 2010 by willowtrees
OBAMA'S "NEW DAWN" IN IRAQ | Phyllis Bennis, September 1, 2010, theREALnews
from the page: "..Those 4,500 troops have two jobs. One is horrifying. They go around the country with a list of names, and that list of names are those who they are authorized to, quote, "kill or capture"... Anyone whose name happens to be on that list, regardless of where that information, where that intelligence came from, if it was—well, we know all the ways in which it could be wrong, but they are authorized to kill or capture... Their second job—and they've been doing it for the last year or more, but they will continue now—is training up the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, also about 4,500... these guys are accountable only directly to Prime Minister Maliki. They are not accountable to the military command. The Iraqi Parliament has no control over them. And the American general who's training them..has said that the El Salvador model is something..that the kind of training that the US did in Latin America is very transferable to Iraq. That means he is training up a death squad.
usa  iraq  middle-east  military  training  assassination  latin-america  special-forces  death  puppet  accountability  obama  speech  colombia  El-Salvador  dictatorship  civil-war 
september 2010 by willowtrees
DE-COLONIALITY: HISTORIES OF OPPRESSION AND VOICES OF RESISTANCE: TOWARDS A THEORY OF THE TRANSLOCAL | REARTIKULACIJA #9, 2009, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
from the page: "For Indigenous people who inhabit the region, forests are not just carbon sinks – forests are their food, livelihood, source of medicine, housing, culture, society, polity and economy. Global trade and environmental policies are often made without taking into account the violence and dispossession of Indigenous communities that result from these policies... In the contemporary political economy there are millions of people who experience "democracy without choices" where, as citizens of sovereign states, they can vote to change ruling political parties, but have little or no say in influencing economic policies that diminish or destroy their capabilities and rights... He [Partha Chatterjee] argues that democracy today is not about government by, of and for the people but rather better understood as a politics of the governed. Civil society excludes in many parts of the world a political society that consists of populations who are not "proper" members of civil society..
capitalism  indigenous-people  colonialism  society  community  exploitation  natural-resources  sustenance  resistance  latin-america  peru  mexico  mining  environment  multinationals  india  agriculture  imperialism  democracy 
august 2010 by willowtrees
France24 - US base ruling risks new tensions for Colombia's president | 18 August 2010 , AFP
from the page: "..The verdict handed down by Colombia's constitutional court Tuesday meant Santos..will have to renegotiate the October 2009 deal giving US forces the right to use seven Colombian bases to fight drug gangs. The development risked renewing regional tensions over the deal, which was viewed with outright hostility by neighboring Venezuela and critically by regional powerhouse Brazil and other countries, including Argentina and Bolivia... Colombia's court found the 2009 accord with the United States should have been enshrined in a treaty with Washington subject to congressional approval... The Uribe administration had argued that the bases accord was not new but merely an extension of a 1974 military pact with the United States, and as such required no legislative oversight. The accord provides for the United States to deploy a maximum of 800 uniformed military personnel and 600 civilian contractors to the Colombian bases. All would enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution.
military-bases  court  usa  colombia  latin-america  sofa  war-industries  pmc  constitution  interpretations  immunity 
august 2010 by willowtrees
Cuba’s Raúl Castro unveils plan for massive job cuts | By Bill Van Auken 5 August 2010, WSWS
from the page: "Esteban Morales..wrote an article..entitled “Corruption: the true counterrevolution?”“When we closely observe Cuba’s internal situation today, we can have no doubt that the counter-revolution, little by little, is taking positions at certain levels of the State and Government," Morales wrote. He continued: "Without a doubt, it is becoming evident that there are people in positions of government and state who are girding themselves financially for when the Revolution falls, and others may have everything almost ready to transfer state-owned assets to private hands, as happened in the old USSR.” He stressed that corruption within the ruling elite was far more dangerous than the US-backed "dissidents," which he described as isolated and lacking any program, any leadership and any significant following... While Morales’s article appeared on an officially sanctioned website, he was soon taken off of the television program, and..had been expelled from the ruling party..
latin-america  cuba  recession  unemployment  capitalism  corruption  ruling-class  economy  tourism  inequality  accountability 
august 2010 by willowtrees
Ecuador signs $3.6bn deal not to exploit oil-rich Amazon reserve | John Vidal in Bonn guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 August 2010
from the page: "Ecuador, home of the Galapagos Islands, the Andes mountain range and vast tracts of oil-rich rainforest, yesterday asked the world for $3.6bn not to exploit the Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha oil block in the Yasuni national park. A knockdown price, it said, considering the oil alone is worth more than $7bn at today's prices... But neither the oil block nor the park is for sale, and under the terms of a unique, legally binding trust fund set up yesterday by the government and the UN, the oil and the timber in Yasuni will never be exploited. Instead, donor countries, philanthropists and individuals around the world are being invited to pay the money in return for a non-exploitation guarantee... Any money raised would be administered by the UN Development Programme and would go to protect 4.8m hectares of land in Ecuador's other national parks – including the Galapagos Islands – and to develop renewable energy sources and build schools and hospitals for indigenous groups.
environment  diversity  oil  indigenous-people  UN  fund  latin-america  Ecuador  aid  europe  france  germany  spain  switzerland  poverty 
august 2010 by willowtrees
Letter From The Yukpa People To The Presidents Of Venezuela And Colombia Demanding Rights | 03 August 2010 , Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
from the page: "Indigenous Yukpa Pueblo communities lie in the Sierra de Perija in northwestern Venezuela on the border with Colombia. Despite the constitutional recognition of their right to their own land, their territory has been very poorly demarcated by the Venezuelan Government in deference to farmers and extractive interests. The conflict has affected several communities resulting in deaths. Despite the constitutional recognition of indigenous jurisdiction, the Yukpa people's rights have not been recognized. The Supreme Court has just rejected, with one dissenting vote, the defense brought by indigenous defendants. To make matters worse, the Yukpa people are in the full line of fire between Colombia and Venezuela."
indigenous-people  venezuela  colombia  borders  latin-america 
august 2010 by willowtrees
Tom Stephens: A Chronology of US War Crimes and Torture, 1975-2005: The Crimes of Empire | May 13, 2005
history  usa  war-crimes  imperialism  middle-east  resources  asia  vietnam  iran  latin-america  iraq  torture  rendition  invasion  guantanamo  list 
august 2010 by willowtrees
A Brief History of Terrorism by the USA - HOWARD ZINN 2002 (Excerpted from Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn)
from the page: "...The United States engaged in at least twenty military interventions in the Caribbean in the first twenty years of the last century. And then from World War II through today, we've had an endless succession of wars and military interventions. Just five years after the end of the most disastrous war in world history, after World War II, we are at war in Korea. And then almost immediately we are helping the French in Indochina, supplying 80 percent of their military equipment, and soon we are involved in Southeast Asia. We are bombing not only Vietnam but Cambodia and Laos... If we don't know that history, we won't understand how much animosity we have engendered elsewhere in the world--not just in the Middle East but all over the world. In its foreign policy, the United States has consigned several million people to their deaths and supported terrorist governments in various parts of the world, especially in Latin America and the Middle East..."
history  usa  military  intervention  latin-america  asia  indigenous-people  war-crimes  icc  kissinger  afghanistan  mexico  middle-east  books  howard-zinn  terrorism 
august 2010 by willowtrees
The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Capitalism and U.S. Militarism | 07/06/2010 , Benjamin Woods, Black Agenda Report
from the page: "...the primary problem is not US militarism but imperialism and capitalism. As the global economic situation worsens and the US is bogged down in wars, breaks in the system will occur which allow social movements to arise. To counter this trend, the United States, the military arm of transnational capital, will display more military aggression... Although the US military contends the Fourth fleet’s reactivation is not a fundamental change in policy, governments in the region assert its purpose is to stop the rise of social movements in Latin America. These fears are a product of the US Monroe doctrine ... Furthermore in 2008, the United States established the Africa Command (AFRICOM). While the US military declares that AFRICOM is only a restructuring of their command system due to Africa‘s “renewed importance,” African governments argue AFRICOM was created in response to the fact that the US will soon receive 25% of its oil from the African continent..."
capitalism  colonialism  imperialism  militarism  usa  war  military-bases  movements  latin-america  africa  history  africom  mexico  coup 
july 2010 by willowtrees
Fear, Suspicion as US Military En Route to Costa Rica | by Joseph Shansky, 15 July 2010, Upside Down World
from the page: "...Since 1999, a maritime agreement titled the “Joint Patrol” between the United States and Costa Rica has allowed the U.S. Coast Guard to operate in the waters of Costa Rica for similar purposes. However, this particular agreement goes far beyond previously established boundaries. The Joint Patrol agreement limited U.S. personnel to Coast Guard only, allowing for Costa Rican law enforcement to ride on U.S. ships if they have reason to suspect suspicious activity, and vice versa. Under the new agreement the ships, which can occupy up to 7,000 Navy personnel and 200 helicopters, will join the Coast Guard and according to the Embassy letter, will “enjoy freedom of movement and the right to carry out activities they consider necessary for the fulfillment of their mission, which includes wearing their uniforms while exercising official functions.”In other words, immunity from any actions they deem appropriate in the name of policing the waters..."
costa-rica  latin-america  military-bases  usa  protest  immunity  military 
july 2010 by willowtrees
TLAXCALA: Why are Marines Disembarking in Costa Rica? | Atilio A. Boron, 17/07/2010
from the page: "...on July 1st, the Costa Rican Congress authorized the entry into that country of 46 warships from the U.S. Navy, 200 helicopters and combat aircraft and 7,000 Marines... Nobody should be surprised when Washington resorts to the drug trafficking pretext, since it's what Washington commonly uses when others are lacking, such as an earthquake in oh, say, Haiti - to justify the intrusion of U.S. military personnel... It's not that surprising, actually, since drug trafficking moves at least $400 billion dollars annually, that are later conveniently “laundered” in the numerous tax havens that the main capitalist countries (starting with the United States and Europe) have established... the United States is the number one worldwide producer of marijuana, something that according to a study from the Drug Science Foundation, reaches a sum of more than $35 billion dollars in that country, a figure that surpasses the combined value of wheat and corn production... "
drug  military-bases  usa  costa-rica  imperialism  empire  history  tax-haven  UK  china  opium  japan  okinawa  colombia  sovereignty  latin-america  cuba  iran  laundering 
july 2010 by willowtrees
Poverty in Venezuela fell from 70% in 1996 to 23% in 2009 | by Arturo Rosales, Venezuelan National Statistics Office, Mar 5, 2010 | Axisoflogic.com
from the page: "Thanks to the policies of the Bolivarian Government poverty in Venezuela fell to 23% in 2009 from 70.3% in the second half of 1996 accompanied by 40% of extreme poverty and a record inflation rate of 103%... The contraction of 3.3 percent registered in the Venezuelan Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009 has no direct relation with the social development of the nation, because it is a macroeconomic index referred to the production of the different economic sectors in the country. Jose Rafael Lopez, General Manager of Social Statistics and Environment of the National Statistics Institute (INE) made the explanation and added that the fall registered by the national economy was a consequence of the world's economic crisis produced by he capitalist depression; fall of oil prices; and the cut on oil production established by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)... "Social expenses increased from 12.46 billion dollars in 1999 to 330 billion in 2009," ...
inequality  poverty  statistics  venezuela  latin-america  GDP  social-services 
july 2010 by willowtrees
Noticias de Prensa Latina - Honduran Women Reject US Military Presence | Jul 14, 2010 (Prensa Latina)
from the page: "Honduran women rejected on Wednesday the increased US military presence in the country and the installation of two new bases in the Caribbean. "There are clear intentions by Washington to continue extending its operational range and to demonstrate from our territory its hegemony to wage a war that we, the peoples, do not want," warned the Visitacion Padilla Movement of Women for Peace. According to a communiqué issued by the movement, the coup perpetrated last year was a move envisaged in the Yankee strategy to pave the way for the installation of new bases of the Pentagon in the country. In April this year, Washington and Tegucigalpa inaugurated a base in the Gracias a Dios department, bordering Nicaragua, in which the US government invested $2 million. The installation is coordinated by the Naval Force of Honduras, but advised by officials from the US Southern Command. Another similar facility will be built in Guanaja Island, also in the Honduran Caribbean..."
latin-america  honduras  military-bases  coup  usa  imperialism  women  activism 
july 2010 by willowtrees
War And USA By David Truskoff | 30 December, 2006, Countercurrents.org
from the page: " .. "Blessed are the peacemakers," Jesus said, but his naivete must have been the same as Hamilton's. In the short span of seventy years that followed Hamilton’s plan, residents of the new country saw the slaughter of the natives. and the most idiotic, bloodiest, war of young Americans against other young Americans in a civil war that was supposed to free the slaves. The real reason for the war, however was to gain control of king cotton and save the north’s textile industry which was second only to agriculture in the nation’s economy... 33 years after the depravity of the abominable Civil war the empire building began; the US invaded and occupied the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico... In my book REBIRTH OF A REALIST I ask the question when has the American economy not functioned as a war economy and the answer is never... One could say the so-called Christian Americans are the most war like people this planet has ever produced.
imperialism  usa  war  warlike-nation  economy  history  invasion  latin-america  asia  middle-east  indigenous-people  occupation  military  slavery  resources 
may 2010 by willowtrees
United Fruit Company - Chronology
capitalism  imperialism  history  food  USA  latin-america  military  invasion  resources  war 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Foreign-Led Commission Now Governs Haiti | 16 May 2010 by: Beverly Bell, t r u t h o u t
from the page: " ..the US and Canada came militarily. Notably, 20,000 US soldiers arrived without any authorization, either through the U.N. or the OAS or CARICOM [Caribbean Community]. We didn't need that; we weren't at war. We didn't need tanks; we needed engineers, tractors, nurses, doctors, architects, and psychologists... Now they've developed the CIRH, which has moved the military occupation we had to a new level of economic and political occupation, though we already had an economic occupation... The CIRH only gives power to the Haitian executive branch and the international community. This doesn't respond to constitutional norms; it's illegal... This has made Haiti a rèstavak [child slave] and opens the doors for the dictatorial powers... This is not the path to democracy. The CIRH has no accountability to anyone... The CIRH is only for the rich. All it takes to belong is to give $100 million in cash. It's the commercialization of the country; we've become merchandise...
capitalism  imperialism  occupation  latin-america  haiti  USA  canada  military  international-community  slavery  UN  accomplices  world-bank  accountability  ngo  aid  colonialism 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Behind the Texas Textbook Massacre | By Rosemarie Jackowski May 23, 2010, Consortiumnews.com
from the page: "... Standard U.S. social studies textbooks are based on mythology. Propaganda sells books... Usually there are no mentions of U.S. war crimes. In the 1940s and 1950s, World War II was a big topic, with most students taught the official version of that war... Hating the Japanese was a patriotic duty. Facts about the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima who were slaughtered by the atomic bombs were usually omitted in any classroom discussion. About the fire-bombings of Dresden in Germany and Tokyo in Japan — well that didn't matter either. After all, they were the "enemy." Playing cowboys and Indians was a favorite pastime back then. Kids were taught to hate the Indians. No thought was ever given to the fact that Columbus could not have discovered a country that already had a native population... today, kids are taught to hate Muslims and an assortment of other groups, like “illegal aliens.”"
history-education  usa  children  propaganda  myths  enemy  indigenous-people  muslims  japan  germany  south-korea  black  history  lynch  cia  patriotism  heroes  latin-america  asia  slavery 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Cluster Munition Coalition - News - Ecuador ratifies international treaty banning cluster bombs | 20 May 2010
from the page: "Ecuador ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 11 May 2010, joining the growing number of countries fully on board the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty in over a decade. The Convention now has 106 signatures and 33 ratifications, and will enter into force on 1 August 2010, when all of its provisions become legally binding. “Ecuador has been among the Latin American leaders in the international movement to ban cluster bombs,” said Maria Pia Devoto, director of the Asociación de Políticas Públicas in Argentina, a Cluster Munition Coalition member organisation that has actively promoted the treaty in Latin America. “Latin America and the Carribbean should become a cluster munition-free zone, and Ecuador should now work with other countries in the region to prevent civilian harm by promoting universal adherence to the treaty."..."
treaty  cluster-bombs  ecuador  latin-america  bans  military 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Brazil's Lula: 'Who said Iran is a matter for US?' | 2010-05-21, Middle East Online
from the page: "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hit out at the United States Thursday, challenging its muscular approach on Iran that sidelined diplomatic efforts he made this week to resolve the showdown. Newspaper columnists "say that it was none of Brazil's business to be an intermediary with Iran. But who said it was a matter for the United States?" he asked after returning from an overseas tour that included Tehran. "The blunt truth is, Iran is being presented as if were the devil, that it doesn't want to sit down" to negotiate. To the contrary, said Lula, "Iran decided to sit down at the negotiating table. It wants to see if the others are going to go along with what (it) has done." "There are people who don't know how to do politics without having an enemy," said Lula, in reference to the US administration... "We went to Iran and we succeeded, after 18 hours of meetings...to get Iran to do what the UN Security Council had been asking it to do for the past six month
iran  middle-east  brazil  turkey  nuclear  NPT  USA  latin-america  politics  enemy  sanctions  nonviolence 
may 2010 by willowtrees
TLAXCALA : Honduras: What A Resistance | Ángel GUERRA CABRERA, 29 April 2010, TLAXCALA
from the page: "The popular movement against the coup d’etat in Honduras has, in ten months, consolidated the struggle as a national political force of the first magnitude, capable of aiming for an important social and political transformation of the country. Facing growing repression and the demagogy of [Porfiro] Lobo, the new visible head of the pro-coup tendency imposed by a farcical election, the National Front of Popular Resistance [FNRP in its Spanish acronym] has managed to rope in the most diverse social forces and people, including the indigenous people and the Afro-descendants, appreciably increase the political consciousness of its members and ally its principled positions to tactical flexibility that allows it to advance in very adverse conditions in the political battle facing it. The resistance has grown in the complex and treacherous situation created by the [U.S.] Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in imposing the mediation of her buddy, Óscar Arias...
latin-america  honduras  resistance  coup  repression  usa  journalism  independence  military-bases  democracy 
may 2010 by willowtrees
ei: US hegemony, not "the lobby," behind complicity with Israel | Stephen Maher, The Electronic Intifada, 27 April 2010
from the page: "... US foreign policy in the Middle East is similar to that which is carried out elsewhere in the world, in regions free of "the lobby's" proclaimed corrupting effects. The inflated level of support that the US lends Israel is a rational response to the particular strategic importance of the Middle East, the chief energy-producing region of the world. By building Israel into what Noam Chomsky refers to as an "offshore US military base," it is able to protect its dominance over much of the world's remaining energy resources, a major lever of global power. As we shall see, those blaming the lobby for US policy once again misunderstand US's strategic interests in the Middle East, and Israel's central role in advancing them... Indeed, the US's policy towards Israel and the Palestinians is not to achieve an end to the occupation, nor to bring about respect for Palestinian rights -- in fact, it is the actor primarily responsible for preventing these outcomes..."
israel  israel-lobby  usa  middle-east  palestine  hegemony  energy  indonesia  history  latin-america  honduras  military-bases  natural-resources  iran  asia 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Female sex tourism: for love or money? | By Freya Petersen, April 29, 2010, Globalpost
from the page: "...At resorts, beach communities and tourist attractions from Egypt to Indonesia, women with disposable incomes are negotiating with local men who are in the business of offering the service of convenient coupling for female tourists on holiday... Look, meantime, found the beaches of Senegal to be rich pickings for European women "of a certain age" who proposition young men, invariably trapped in a cycle of relentless poverty, for sex in exchange for "gifts" like electronics and often cold, hard cash. Many of these women claim they're just doing what middle-aged men have been doing for centuries: taking up with someone half their age and giving them an all-expenses-paid ride in exchange for sex. Female sex tourism, though certainly less pronounced than the male equivalent — and arguably more taboo — has provoked ongoing debate as the subject of writers, filmmakers and researchers for decades..."
sex  tourism  women  boys  west  asia  latin-america  africa  cinema  poverty 
may 2010 by willowtrees
BBC News - Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico: in maps and graphics | 30 April 2010
usa  mexico  oil  energy  environment  latin-america  BP  uk  map  leak  marine-pollution 
may 2010 by willowtrees
Welcome to the New Honduras, Where Right-Wing Death Squads Proliferate | By Kari Lydersen, April 27, 2010 , AlterNet
from the page: "The new regime in Honduras is assassinating union leaders, teachers and journalists. Why does the U.S. support it? At least that's the message of right-wing president Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo Sosa and much of the international community. Several U.S. and international agencies are in the process of restoring aid to Honduras. U.S. biofuels, mining and other businesses are ramping up for increased investment in the impoverished Central American country. The massive repression of public protests, curfews and censorship that followed last summer's coup d'etat have abated. But this image ignores a new reality in Honduras: the emergence of what many are calling death squads carrying out targeted assassinations, brutal attacks and threats. They have created an extreme climate of fear for the campesinos (peasants), teachers, union members, journalists and other community leaders involved in the resistance movement that continues to oppose the coup and Lobo's election..."
honduras  latin-america  assassination  journalism  aid  mining  exploitation  torture  abduction  coup 
april 2010 by willowtrees
Eduardo Galeano: I Hate to Bother You | August 13, 2009, Counterpunch
from the page: " ...Who are the guilty ones--the people of Atenco, in Mexico, the indigenous Mapuches of Chile, the Kekchies of Guatemala, the landless peasants of Brazil—all being accused of the crime of terrorism for defending their right to their own land? If the earth is sacred, even if the law does not say so, aren’t its defenders sacred too? ...Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman? Wal-Mart, the most powerful corporation on earth, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. Why do these corporations violate, with criminal impunity, international law? Is it because in this contemporary world of ours, work is valued as lower than trash and workers' rights are valued even less? Who are the righteous and who are the villains? If international justice really exists, why are the powerful never judged? The masterminds of the worst butcheries are never sent to prison. Is it because it is these butchers themselves who hold the prison keys?..."
un-security-council  USA  latin-america  indigenous-people  multinationals  human-rights  immunity  crimes  invasion  drug  justice  terrorist  abortion  somalia  afghanistan 
april 2010 by willowtrees
New documents link Kissinger, Bush senior to Letelier assassination | By Patrick Martin 20 April 2010, World Socialist Web Site
from the page: "The September 21, 1976 murder of Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffitt, was the most spectacular act of international terrorism on US soil up to that time... With the full backing and encouragement of the US government, and with the CIA in particular playing the leading role, right-wing military regimes were established in Brazil (1964), Bolivia (1971), Ecuador (1972), Uruguay (1973), Chile (1973), Peru (1975), Argentina (1976). This period also saw the US invasion and occupation of the Dominican Republic... These dictatorships embarked on a program of extermination of left-wing opponents who were in exile. This program, supported by the Ford administration in the US, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA Director George H. W. Bush, was known as "Operation Condor." ...The new documents reveal..it was Kissinger himself who ordered the note rescinded and thus ended the last effort to hold back Operation Condor. On September 16, 1976, Kissinger sent a cable...
usa  latin-america  chile  assassination  kissinger  cia  terrorism  dictatorship  cuba  history  coup  argentina  uruguay  imperialism 
april 2010 by willowtrees
Venezuela: Cuban Doctors Helping the Poor | by Coral Wynter | Global Research, April 19, 2010, Green Left Weekly - 2010-04-12
from the page: "April 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the Venezuelan government’s health care program, Mission Barrio Adentro, which has used Cuban doctors to bring free health care to millions of the poor... It began with 53 Cuban doctors. In Venezuela now there are 29,255 Cuban health specialists of which a little more than one third are doctors. The rest are nurses, and technicians in radiology, rehabilitation and engineers who repair the equipment. In seven years, 11,500 medical centres have been built. This includes Integrated Diagnostic Centres, with more facilities than the basic clinics. About 97% of the services of Barrio Adentro are avaliable every day. Millions of people now have access to previously unaffordable or inaccessible basic health care. The government’s education policies, which seek to train Venezuelans to replace the Cuban specialists, have resulted in more than 15,000 Venezuelans working in Barrio Adentro..."
health-services  cuba  venezuela  latin-america  training  doctors 
april 2010 by willowtrees
Generation Y
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april 2010 by willowtrees
U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region | By Benjamin Dangl, March 2010 issue, The Progressive
from the page: "...The military base agreement needs to be understood in the context of two other U.S. initiatives in Colombia. First, Plan Colombia, which began under President Clinton, committed billions of dollars ostensibly to fight the war on drugs but also to fighting the guerrillas, intensifying the country’s already brutal conflict in rural areas. This has led to increasing displacement of people from areas that are strategically important for mining multinationals. Second, the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, which was signed in 2006, could pry open the country to more U.S. corporate exploitation. But it has been met with opposition in the United States, delaying its ratification. Daza says the signing of the bases deal is part of “a military strategy that complements the push for the free trade agreement.” The trade accord will serve “transnational corporate investments,” and these investments, he says, “are sustained by a military relationship.”..."
latin-america  colombia  usa  military-bases  exploitation  venezuela  natural-resources  multinationals  FTA  sovereignty  Ecuador 
april 2010 by willowtrees
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