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Narconews: Marcos Sets Off Alone on His Motorcycle
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:02 pm | narconews.com
In the second of her reports from the ground in the city of San Crisóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, Concepción Villafuerte tells of the first day of the Zapatista's national "Other Campaign" tour. A huge, mostly indigenous crowd gathered in the city's ... More >>
Narconews: The First Report from Chiapas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:06 pm | narconews.com
Concepción Villafuerte files the first report today from the first day of the "Other Campaign," the Zapatistas' ambitious tour of the entire Mexican Republic. So begins the reporting of the Amado Avendaño Figueroa Brigade, formed last month to provide ... More >>
Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos Coverage Begins
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 3:14 pm | narconews.com
Preparations for Narco News Full “Swarm” Coverage of the first legs of the historic six-month voyage of Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos to every corner of Mexico are gearing up. You can read all about it at the special page we’ve created for it: More >>
A Very Paramilitary Christmas in Colombia
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:23 pm | narconews.com
This Christmas day may not be a happy one for everyone in our América. Laura del Castillo reports today in The Narco News Bulletin that in her native Colombia, the U.S.-backed war that has destroyed the lives of so many takes no time off. In fact, ... More >>
Narconews: Bolivia Goes to the Polls
Monday, 19 December 2005, 9:48 pm | narconews.com
Bolivia votes today for its next president. Publisher Luis Gómez and correspondent Jean Friedsky are on the ground and watching the events unfold. All indications are that coca grower and Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo Morales will come out ahead, ... More >>
Coca Growers' Nancy Obregón Arrested in Peru
Monday, 19 December 2005, 5:15 pm | narconews.com
In a "legal" action spurred by the coca growers' protests in April and May of 2004, the Peruvian police arrested leader Nancy Obregón yesterday. This is part of a strategy of legal harassment being carried out by the Alejandro Toledo administration against ... More >>
Tracking Bloody Footprints in the House of Death
Saturday, 10 December 2005, 2:44 pm | narconews.com
Bill Conroy’s tireless following of the ”House of Death” case — in which the Justice and Homeland Security departments are implicated in covering up mass murder committed with their knowledge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico — continues. Today in the Narcosphere ... More >>
Canada's Amb. in Ecuador Helped Plan Haiti Coup
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:11 pm | narconews.com
Aside from the United States, two countries are widely recognized to have played major rolls in last years rightwing paramilitary takeover of Haiti. One is France, the island nation's colonial antagonist for centuries. The other is Canada. More >>
House of Death Series Begins on WBAI Today
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:08 pm | narconews.com
The "House of Death" mass murder case is the subject of a four-part series that will begin airing today on WBAI's Expert Witness Radio. Bill Conroy's exclusive Narco News investigations of this case will play a major part in the series by Expert ... More >>
Friedsky: Coca Cookies and Constitutional Dreams
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:03 pm | narconews.com
For years, the people of the coca-growing Chapare region of Bolivia lived in a militarized zone, in constant conflict with the U.S.- financed soldiers who came to enforce the policy for forced coca eradication. In an in-depth report today in The Narco News ... More >>
Narconews: Vicente Fox vs Hugo Chávez
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:29 pm | narconews.com
Since his appearance at the latest Summit of the Americas in Argentina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has drawn the ire of rightwing, U.S.-oriented politicians throughout Latin America embarrassed by his strong words. New pieces in Narco News look at conflicts ... More >>
The Pretense Of The Guatemalan “Narco-State”
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:24 pm | narconews.com
The Central American country of Guatemala, the Cold War's bloodiest battleground in our hemisphere, continues to suffer due to its strategic location on the highway that brings South American cocaine to gringo consumers. More >>
Ecuador Mobilizes Against Free Trade Agreement
Friday, 18 November 2005, 12:17 am | narconews.com
For the last two days, in various points across Ecuador, the social movements and organizations have been, once again, on the warpath. The enemy, always the same at heart, today bears the name Free Trade Agreement. More >>
Paramilitaries Remain Key Arm of Colombian Govt.
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 10:28 am | narconews.com
The Colombian Army, the number-one recipient of U.S. military aid outside of the Middle East, continues to wage a dirty war in its own countryside. Ramón Acevedo reports from the northeast Colombian department of Antioquia that Colombian soldiers ... More >>
Narconews: Drug War Testimonies from Ecuador
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 11:56 am | narconews.com
Families frightened by warplanes and helicopters flying overhead. Men coming back from their fields with strange rashes and marks on their bodies. Women washing their faces in what was once a clean river, and their skin breaking out. Children suddenly ... More >>
Guatamela's Antinarcotics Chief to Step Down
Monday, 14 November 2005, 12:45 am | narconews.com
After just six months on the job, Adán Castillo, head of Guatemala's Antinarcotics Analysis and Investigation Service (SAIA, the Guatemalan equivalent to the DEA) is quitting. The Spanish-language news site Terra reports that Castillo has received ... More >>
The Struggle for Coca Decriminalization in Bolivia
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 12:02 am | narconews.com
Bolivian social scientist and coca historian José Mirtenbaum provides a fascinating retrospective in The Narco News bulletin today on the history of coca criminalization and the struggle to decriminalize it during the last two decades. More >>
Rodríguez Rearranges Bolivian Congress by Decree
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 10:49 am | narconews.com
"This isn't about who wins and who loses, but about the fact that we're all Bolivians," said President Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, among many other things, just moments ago. He also issued Supreme Decree 28429, with which he has guaranteed ... More >>
Gómez: The Reappearance of the Nazis in Bolivia
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 12:21 am | narconews.com
Gómez: The Reappearance of the Nazis in Bolivia November 2, 2005 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Narconews: Elections Postponed in Bolivia
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 2:22 pm | narconews.com
For about the last month this country has lived under the threat of an electoral postponement; the December 4 general elections were up in the air. Today, barely an hour ago, the Bolivian political parties represented in the National Congress ... More >>
