Coup in Honduras; FASINPAT; Renegotiate NAFTA; UNASUR Nations; Plan Puebla Panama; Swine Flu Cover-Up
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas Efforts to End the Honduran Coup, Border Business Dear Friends, The coup in Honduras, for all the suffering and concern it has caused, has spurred millions to defend democracy in the hemisphere. I write about this in a recent blog post titled "Honduran Coup Squeezed from Above and Below," which [...]
Read more →South American Nations Question U.S.-Colombia Military Base Agreement
By phillips
The member countries of UNASUR met in Bariloche, Argentinaon Aug. 28. Photo: connuestraamerica.blogspot.com. On Aug. 28, 10 South American presidents gathered at the luxurious Llao Llao hotel in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche, Argentina. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the special meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to discuss the [...]
Read more →Plan Puebla-Panama Advances: New Name, Same Game
At the “IX Tuxtla Summit,” held July 24 in Costa Rica, the declaration against the Honduran coup d’etat captured the headlines of regional newspapers. The declaration nearly overshadowed the main purpose of the meeting, which is the advancement of a regional integration plan previously known as Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP). “We Don’t Want Plan Puebla Panama.” [...]
Read more →The Great Swine Flu Cover-Up
Mexico has been considered the laboratory of globalization since it initiated the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. In April of 2009 a deadly virus germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly into a global pandemic. The first outbreaks of the H1N1 virus, or "swine flu," took place in a small [...]
Read more →A Pressing Case for NAFTA Review and Renegotiation
At President Obama’s first North American Summit in August, the leaders of the three nations avoided any mention of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or its offshoot, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, in their joint statement. Although the trade pact was the origin of these annual meetings, the negative results of NAFTA have [...]
Read more →FASINPAT: A Factory that Belongs to the People
The workers at Argentina’s largest worker-controlled factory are celebrating a definitive legal solution to a nine-year struggle for the right to work and workers’ self-determination. The provincial legislature of Neuquén voted in favor of expropriating the Zanon ceramics factory giving the workers’ cooperative FASINPAT the right to manage the plant definitively. Since the workers occupied [...]
Read more →Honduran Women’s Movement; Homeland Security Big Business; U.S. Bases in Colombia; Canadian Visas; Merida Initiative; The "Chilean Miracle"; Biodiversity Report
By CIP Americas
WHAT’S NEW ON AMERICAS PROGRAM BLOGS: Americas Program Blog’s continuous coverage on Honduras: http://americasmexico.blogspot.com/ Honduran Society Faces Contradictions of Illegitimate Institutions Part 1: The Coup’s Version of "Order in the Court" http://americasmexico.blogspot.com/2009/08/honduran-society-faces-contradictions.html An Open Letter to President Obama on "Hypocrisy" http://americasmexico.blogspot.com/2009/08/open-letter-to-president-obama-on.html Border Lines Blog: http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com Bigger and Badder Than Blackwater http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bigger-and-badder-than-blackwater.html Homeland is a Battleground [...]
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