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Fitts: Dillon, Read & Co. & Prison Profits: Part I
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 1:04 pm | narconews.com
Our readers may remember Catherine Austin Fitts' 2001 series for Narco News, "Narco-Dollars for Beginners: How the Money Works in the Illicit Drug Trade." Fitts, a former board member of Dillon, Read & Co. investment firm and Assistant Secretary of Housing under ... More >>
Bolivia's Moment, Part I: Leonilda Zurita's Visa
Monday, 27 February 2006, 9:59 am | narconews.com
This past Monday, February 20, in the Viru Viru International Airport, Leonilida Zurita was informed of the cancellation of her visa. "In the airport they told us that we couldn't fly by order of the ambassador," said Zurita. "Then the consul gave ... More >>
Mexico: "Other Campaign" Organizer Imprisoned
Monday, 27 February 2006, 9:41 am | narconews.com
A campaign of repression against the Zapatistas' Other Campaign in Mexico is now underway. Less than 24 hours ago, well-known San Cristóbal, Chiapas organizer Dámasco Villanueva was arrested as he set up the Zapatista Information Booth in the city's ... More >>
Documents Shed Light on Alleged DEA Corruption
Friday, 24 February 2006, 10:06 am | narconews.com
The next chapter in Bill Conroy's ongoing investigation into claims of massive corruption in the DEA's Bogotá office has now been published. Conroy has obtained a second internal DEA memo along with other related documents - all available scanned for download ... More >>
Rodríguez Santos: The Indocumentados Of Today
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 10:53 am | narconews.com
Oaxacan authentic journalist and professor at the 2003 Narco News School of Authentic Journalism Bertha Rodríguez Santos adds her voice to the Other Journalism with the Other Campaign with two reports in as many days. More >>
Giordano: Subcomandante Marcos Meets The Braceros
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:04 am | narconews.com
From 1942 to 1966, Mexicans known as "Braceros" responded to a labor shortage and came over the border in a guest worker program to harvest crops on U.S. farms. The Mexican government dishonestly skimmed 10 percent off their wages back then, and ... More >>
Narconews: Subcomandante Marcos Goes to Jail
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 12:59 am | narconews.com
The latest newsreel is out from the Other Journalism with the Other Campaign video team. This time, the cameras follow Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos inside the Tehuantepec, Oaxaca jail to visit with political prisoners from the nearby town of San Blas. More >>
Tilting At The Mega-Windmill of Capitalism
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:21 pm | narconews.com
Giordano: Don Marcos of La Selva vs. the Mega-Windmill of Capitalism February 9, 2006 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Narco News Coverage of Elections in Haiti
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 1:20 pm | narconews.com
After two years of brutal rule by a regime installed by a U.S.-backed coup/paramilitary invasion, Haitian voters go to the polls today to elect a new "democratic" government. Narco News' coverage of these events includes two new items – a written analysis ... More >>
Narconews: The Other Campaign Has Reached Oaxaca
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 1:11 pm | narconews.com
The Zapatista "Other Campaign" led by Subcomandante Marcos has reached Mexico's most indigenous state, Oaxaca. New reports are pouring in daily in the pages of The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign: More >>
Narconews' Giordano: Marcos Rips Up the Script
Saturday, 21 January 2006, 11:54 pm | narconews.com
Correspondent Al Giordano, reporting from Yucatán, Mexico for The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, informs us of the following: More >>
The Other Journalism in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:47 pm | narconews.com
Don't miss the latest reports from the Other Journalism with the Other Campaign. Teo Ballvé reports on Zapatista rebel Subcomandante Marcos' reception in Quintana Roo - "a state on the march." Ballvé writes: More >>
AP Story On DEA Corruption Scandal Doubted
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:08 pm | narconews.com
Bill Conroy has posted two new updates to his report last week on allegations of massive corruption in the Bogotá office of the DEA - a story now making headlines across our América. More >>
Narconews: Delegate Zero Nears Quintana Roo
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:47 am | narconews.com
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign continues its journey, reporting the words of the "simple and humble people who fight" as they prepare to receive Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos in his six-month tour across the Mexican republic. This time, ... More >>
Zapatistas Will Not Attend Bolivia Inauguration
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:46 am | narconews.com
Mexican rebel spokesman Subcomandante Marcos said today that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials) will not accept the invitation by Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales to attend his January 22nd inauguration. More >>
DEA Says It Will Investigate Agents in Colombia
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:46 am | narconews.com
The DEA is already feeling the heat from Bill Conroy’s explosive report published in Narco News this week. Conroy received a leaked internal memo written by attorney Thomas M. Kent, an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department. The memo accused Drug ... More >>
Road Team Uncloaks Yucatán with Video & Reports
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:39 am | narconews.com
Today the road team of The Other Journalism With the Other Campaign uncloaks from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula reporting to you the words of the humble and simple people who struggle for a better Mexico and a better world. More >>
Posada Carriles May Soon Hit The Streets
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 10:12 am | narconews.com
The following article, by attorney José Pertierra , was generously sent to Narco News by the online publication CubaDebate, where it originally appeared in Spanish. Pertierra, who represents the Venezuelan government in its extradition request for ... More >>
Mexico - Comandanta Ramona, 1959-2006, Presente!
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 10:08 am | narconews.com
Yesterday, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation lost its "greatest weapon" – Comandanta Ramona, who succumbed to cancer after a 10-year struggle, at only 46 years of age. Ramona was one of the most well known and beloved figures of the EZLN, a ... More >>
Mexico - The Freedom Fighters of Tomorrow
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:03 pm | narconews.com
Two more reports on the opening day of the Zapatistas' "Other Campaign" across Mexico are published in today's Narco News Bulletin. First, Julie Webb-Pullman writes about what it felt like to be among the crowd January 1 in San Crisóbal de las Casas, Mexico: More >>
