Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register narconews.com for InfoPages here.
narconews.com - Latest News [Page 12]
A Week of Drug War Summits in South America
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 3:55 pm | narconews.com
The northern Colombian city of Santa Marta - and Colombian president Álvaro Uribe - played host this week to the 15th Summit of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) of Latin America and the Caribbean. More >>
U.S., Mexican Justice Officials Peddle "Trust"
Monday, 17 October 2005, 11:05 am | narconews.com
Bill Conroy reports the following from San Antonio, Texas in the Narcosphere: "U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the attorney general of Mexico, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, blew into San Antonio, Texas, earlier this week to announce a new 'compadre ... More >>
Narconews: Friedsky & Mantilla - Bolivia & Ecuador
Monday, 17 October 2005, 10:26 am | narconews.com
As part of Narco News' ongoing series "Bolivia on the Train of Life," Jean Friedsky reports from Bolivia on the growing movement of that country's landless rural workers. In the last several years, reports Friedsky, peasant farmers without title to land, ... More >>
Conroy: U.S. AG Briefed on House of Death Murders
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 10:27 am | narconews.com
A new document that Bill Conroy has received as part of his investigation into the "House of Death" case – in which a paid U.S. informant took part in the tortures and murders of at least twelve people in a Juárez, Mexico house with the knowledge ... More >>
Narconews: The New Battle for Coca in Peru
Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:02 pm | narconews.com
Peru is simmering with protest in these weeks over the national government's stance on the legal status of the coca plant. Yesterday, Narco News posted an interview that Luis Gómez and Jean Friedsky had done in Spanish with Peruvian academic and ... More >>
Giordano: Marcos' Six Month Tour of Mexico
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 12:17 am | narconews.com
The details of the "Other Campaign" - of the new direction that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation is taking in order to break out of Chiapas and join with different struggles around the Mexican republic - are out. Subcomandante Marcos, alone, unarmed, ... More >>
U.S. Decertifies Venezuela on Drug Control
Monday, 19 September 2005, 1:30 pm | narconews.com
The Cubanization of United States policy toward Venezuela has begun in earnest. Yesterday, President George W. Bush released his findings on drug war “certification” - the highly politicized list the White House has produced since the mid-1980s of which ... More >>
106 Hours of Listening in the Mexican Southeast
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 10:29 am | narconews.com
Giordano: 106 Hours of Listening in the Mexican Southeast September 13, 2005 Please Distribute Widely More >>
FOIA Records Link U.S. Officials to Mass Murder
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 11:49 am | narconews.com
Conroy: New FOIA Records Trace "House of Death" Cover-Up to Upper Levels of the Justice Department September 12, 2005 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Gómez & Friedsky: Bolivia on the Train of Life
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:37 am | narconews.com
The last major battle for the future of Bolivia was fought in the streets in May and June, and the next one, it seems, will be fought in the ballot box. Or will it? Today, Luis Gómez and Jean Friedsky, who provided some of the best coverage anywhere ... More >>
Displaced Colombians Occupy Bogotá Neighborhood
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 2:19 pm | narconews.com
Displaced Colombians Occupy Bogotá Neighborhood; Hurricane Helicopter Rescue Crews Pulling Press Duty; Why Posada Will Not Be Extradited; World Youth Festival Report More >>
Al Giordano: Then Came the Humans
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 2:18 pm | narconews.com
Al Giordano today files his third report on the series of meetings taking place in Chiapas, Mexico between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and civil society. Unlike previous meetings, to which various types of groups, organizations, and collectives ... More >>
Giordano: Growing Up Zapatista
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:56 am | narconews.com
Al Giordano reports again from Chiapas, Mexico, as he follows the historic series of meetings between civil society and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Last weekend's encounter, the fourth of six scheduled, "was expected to be the `youth' ... More >>
Narconews: Day One of Posada Carriles Hearing
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 10:35 am | narconews.com
Bill Weaver and Irasema Coronado report in from day one of Luis Posada Carriles' immigration hearing today. Posada Carriles, a longtime Cuban exile activist, CIA asset, and accused terrorist seeks political asylum in the United States. The Venezuelan ... More >>
Giordano: Zapatistas Activate a New Kind of Bomb
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 3:50 pm | narconews.com
Al Giordano reports today from Chiapas, Mexico on the series of historic encounters between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and groups from around Mexico and the world. The meetings are the beginning of the process outlined in the Zapatistas' ... More >>
3rd Anniversary of Atenco's Machete Rebellion
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 12:44 am | narconews.com
Today, August 1, marks three years since the people of Atenco and the Texcoco region near Mexico City won one of the 21st century’s first victories against neoliberal power – the prevention of the construction of a new international airport on their ... More >>
COHA Responds, Retracts Attack on Zapatistas
Monday, 1 August 2005, 1:28 pm | narconews.com
Three weeks after we published "COHA Libels the Zapatistas.", COHA (the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, based in Washington DC) responds, noting the "large volume of criticism" it received and taking back some of its scurrilous claims (thank you very ... More >>
Welcome Telesur: Notes on Media from Below
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:17 pm | narconews.com
The same Commercial Media mercenaries who spent recent years trying to convince the public that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is not popular (and therefore illegitimate) have now changed their tune. Gone are the days when the Juan Foreros of big media ... More >>
Narconews: Radio Free Venezuela?
Monday, 25 July 2005, 12:45 am | narconews.com
The United States Congress is doing its best to outdo the Colombian government in overwrought, overreaching responses to the new Latin American news station Telesur. The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment on Wednesday to begin beaming ... More >>
Weaver: Where Is Luis Posada Carriles?
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 2:21 pm | narconews.com
Reporting from El Paso, Texas, where U.S. officials claim they have international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in custody, Bill Weaver receives conflicting signals from authorities about whether Posada - wanted to face trial in Venezuela for the ... More >>
