Obama’s Mexicogate?
A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration. The operation, called “Fast and Furious,” was run out of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) office in Phoenix, Arizona. ATF sanctioned the purchase of weapons in U.S. gun shops and tracked the smuggling route to the Mexican border. Reportedly, more than 2,500 firearms were sold to straw buyers who then handed off the weapons to gunrunners under the nose of ATF.
Read more →Beyond Solidarity
In this speech given to this year’s Latin American Solidarity Coalition/School of the Americas Watch Conference, Americas Program Director Laura Carlsen lays out the challenge the drug war and militarization pose to justice movements in the hemisphere, but also highlights points of hope, successful resistance, emerging strategies and the lessons they hold for 21st social movements.
Read more →Mexicans Reject Calderón’s War
The clock on the Torre Latinoamericana strikes 5:00 on April 6 as the ragtag group that fills the esplanade of the Bellas Artes museum yells ‘No more blood!’ and ‘Down with Felipe Calderon!’. This is not a common place to begin a protest, but this march was called by poets and artists, friends, followers, and men and women who read the poems and articles of Javier Sicilia, who lost his son Juan Francisco Sicilia Ortega on March 28 in a shooting in Cuernavaca.
Read more →Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon
By Raúl Zibechi
During the month of March 2011 the biggest social protest by workers in many years erupted in Brazil. More than 80,000 workers all over the country paralyzed the work of “progress” in the form of hydroelectric plants, refineries, and thermoelectric generating facilities. The spark of the protest was lit in Jirau, in the Amazon jungle, provoked by arbitrary action, violence, and authoritarianism.
Read more →How Ending the Drug War Would Support Human Rights in Mexico
Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets last week to protest violence related to drug trafficking and the Mexican government’s inability or unwillingness to prevent it. U.S. and international activists who want to show solidarity with the people of Mexico must recognize that the most effective step we can take is to bring the war on drugs to an end.
Read more →El Paso Jury Acquits Arch-Terrorist Posada Carriles of all Charges
U.S.-Cuban relations – and the Obama administration’s standing — received a painful and embarrassing blow on April 9 when an El Paso jury acquitted arch-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles of all charges, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.
Read more →CHINA SYNDROME: China’s Growing Presence in Latin America
China is fast overtaking and displacing both the United States and Europe in Latin American trade. Latin American business elites and governments on the left and the right, hungry for foreign investment and exchange, welcome the opportunity to do business with the Chinese. But environmentalists and progressives in the region are concerned about China’s growing influence, decrying that much of its investment is going into environmentally unsustainable activities and is putting local and national sovereignty into question.
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