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Up one levelYouth Organizations Denounce Disappearance of BPJ Member
On January 31, nine young people were arrested after a peaceful youth-led protest the Anti-Terrorism law. The youth, members of the Youth Popular Bloc (BPJ), were released last week, and all the charges against them have been dropped. However, on February 13, members of same youth and student organizations that organized the January 31 protest held a press conference denouncing the disappearance of another BPJ member, 21 year-old Francisco Contreras, who has been missing since the afternoon of Wednesday February 7. His family reports that he had received death threats before from an owner of a local bus company. Many people see the disappearance of Contreras as yet another case of the repression against those who participate in protest and organizing work. Some people believe Contreras has been kidnapped death-squad like structures, which are connected to the state, and they are therefore calling on the ARENA government to release Contreras and calling for a full investigation.
Oregonians caught up in Oaxaca violence
Travel to the Mexican state with Oregon ties is cut off, stranding a Portland medical team
Most Oregon Reps Oppose OFTA
After Wyden "No" Vote and Hundreds of Postcards and Phone Calls, All Oregon Representatives Except for Walden Pledge to Oppose US-Oman Free Trade Agreement
Erasing traces of Argentina’s dictatorship: 30 years later
Argentina recently marked the 30th anniversary of the military coup and the ensuing methods of imaginable terror.
The Danger of Hugo Chávez's Successful Socialism
When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries' treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud's case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when a democratically elected populist president uses Venezuela's oil profits to lift poor people out of poverty, they accuse him of pandering.
US Intervention in Venezuela
by Medea Benjamin. It never ceases to amaze me, in the middle of the massive failure of the war on Iraq, that the Bush administration still has time to mess up our relations with other countries. Yet it seems like that’s exactly what they’re doing with our neighbor Venezuela.
Private Rivers: Will Transnational Water Companies Swallow El Salvador?
El Salvador’s water workers union (SETA, in Spanish) is bracing for a fight against government attempts to privatize that country’s water, and by extension, their jobs. Representatives for SETA say losing the fight could mean the “extinction” of their union and limits on Salvadoran’s access to clean water.
Foes in disarray, Chavez sails into Congress vote
Venezuelans vote Sunday in legislative elections that could lead to populist President Hugo Chavez tightening his grip on power.
4 parties boycott Venezuela vote
The decision by Venezuela's main opposition parties to boycott Sunday's congressional elections is likely to further polarize this oil-rich nation and increase tensions with the United States, experts said.
Latin America faces year of change
Twelve presidential elections are due to take place in Latin America between November 2005 and the end of 2006. They include seven of the region's eight most populous countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile and Ecuador.
Pentagon: Conflict plan unlikely
The Defense Department said it was skeptical of an Internet report that it was drawing up plans for a possible military conflict with Venezuela.
Washington Post Uncovers Pentagon Plan for Venezuela
The Pentagon has begun contingency planning for potential military conflict with Venezuela as part of a broad post-Iraq evaluation of strategic threats to the United States.
Democracy is alive and well in Venezuela. How is it doing in Pakistan?