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Wagers & Risks in the Zapatistas' 6th Declaration

Tuesday, 19 July 2005, 1:18 pm | narconews.com

Narco News continues to follow the new step in the Mexican Zapatista Army of National Liberation's struggle for democracy, freedom, and justice. Today, an English version of historian Neil Harvey's insightful essay "Wagers and Risks in the Sixth Declaration ... More >>

Vivanco Attacks Telesur: The Airwaves Are Falling

Monday, 18 July 2005, 3:49 pm | narconews.com

Telesur, the Latin America-wide TV station that is scheduled to begin broadcasting on July 24 with start-up funds from the governments of Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Cuba, is already worrying the anti-democracy crowd in the region, including Human ... More >>

Law Enforcer Indicted After Exposing Illegal Abuse

Monday, 18 July 2005, 3:17 pm | narconews.com

A new case concerning a government whistleblower on the U.S.-Mexico border appears in Bill Conroy's notebook this week. It concerns border patrol agent Ephraim Cruz, who last year complained in several internal memos (later leaked to the press) about ... More >>

Narconews: Bigwood - Mycoherbicide Redux

Monday, 18 July 2005, 3:10 pm | narconews.com

A group of U.S. Congressmen are currently insisting on restarting a program to research a biological plant killer for use against drug crops - most likely in Latin America. Mycoherbicides, as the fungal sprays are called, have long been shown to do horrific ... More >>

Del Castillo: Independent Media in Colombia

Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:39 am | narconews.com

The past two months have been explosive for the independent media and authentic journalists of Colombia. While members of various "alternative" media outlets across the country, from non-commercial newspapers to community radio stations, have moved forward in ... More >>

A US "Human Right" to Buy Venezuela Elections

Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:16 am | narconews.com

As court proceedings begin this month against four Venezuelans from an election campaign group that accepted donations from a foreign government – something that is indisputably a federal crime under both U.S. and Venezuelan law – it’s no surprise that members ... More >>

Bolivia Balkanized - Aid to Haiti Coup Regime

Monday, 11 July 2005, 8:20 am | narconews.com

Today in The Narco News Bulletin, Narco News correspondent and leading Bolivian intellectual José Mirtenbaum reports on a new political compromise in the Bolivian congress that would postpone the referendum on "regional autonomy" that the country's business ... More >>

Narconews: COHA Libels the Zapatistas

Monday, 11 July 2005, 8:17 am | narconews.com

The Washington DC-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) demonstrated this week that the “liberal” beltway may be paved with good intentions… but it still leads to hell. More >>

Narconews: A Bouquet from George Sanchez

Friday, 8 July 2005, 2:33 pm | narconews.com

I was too young to appreciate the original Dark Alliance website when it debuted. Nor was I then inclined to appreciate the amount of information presented as supplementary for those doubts that linger with a story as explosive and inflammatory as Dark Alliance. ... More >>

Conroy: Ex-DEA El Paso Chief Slams U.S. Attorney

Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 12:47 am | narconews.com

The DEA's former El Paso chief, Sandalio Gonzalez, is demanding a congressional investigation into the "House of Death" case, in which a DEA/Customs informant allegedly participated in a series of tortures and murders at a house in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. More >>

Friedsky: Authentic Media from Below in Bolivia

Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 12:49 am | narconews.com

Narco News publishes a story of independence on this July 4th: a report by our correspondent Jean Friedsky in Bolivia on that country's blossoming independent media movement. More >>

Narconews: Rovai - Scent of a Coup in Brazil

Monday, 4 July 2005, 9:02 am | narconews.com

Narco News publishes today translations, in English and Spanish, of Renato Rovai's new article in the Brazilian magazine Forúm on the disturbing trend in recent media coverage of his country's government. Reporting on a recent corruption scandal, he ... More >>

Zapatistas Decl..: "How We Are Going to Do It"

Monday, 4 July 2005, 8:43 am | narconews.com

Well, now we are going to say what we want to do in the world and in Mexico, because we cannot look at everything that happens on our planet and just stay quiet, as if we are the only ones who are in the situation that we are in. More >>

Narconews: Day 3 of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance"

Friday, 1 July 2005, 3:34 pm | narconews.com

With the publication of Day Three of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series, the restored Dark Alliance website is now fully online. Narco News still mourns Gary's death on December 10, 2004, and is pleased to be able to remember him by giving his masterpiece ... More >>

Narconews: Welcome, Comrade Mary Anastasia O'Grady

Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 3:07 pm | narconews.com

Wall Street Journal editorial writer Mary Anastasia O'Grady and the Narco News team - journalists all with Latin America as our beat - have not found much to agree on over the past five years. More >>

Narconews: Day Two of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance"

Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 2:40 pm | narconews.com

Today, Narco News publishes part II of Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series. The series returns this week to the Internet in its original, groundbreaking format after years offline. More >>

Weaver - Terrorist Posada *Is* U.S. Policy

Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:43 am | narconews.com

Weaver: Terrorist Posada *Is* U.S. Policy June 25, 2005 Gary Webb - Presente Please Distribute Widely More >>

Telzer: Investigate This... If They Let You

Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:17 am | narconews.com

With Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series making its return to the Internet in Narco News, we publish an article today by School of Authentic Journalism graduate and professor Andrew Stelzer looking at what has become of the kind of journalism - authentic, ... More >>

Gary Webb's Dark Alliance Returns To The Internet

Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:27 pm | narconews.com

After an arduous journey, the late and beloved Authentic Journalist Gary Webb's magnum opus, his "Dark Alliance" series on U.S.-sponsored narco-trafficking, finally finds a new on-line home. Narco News will, starting today, publish the full text of Dark ... More >>

The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas

Thursday, 23 June 2005, 1:05 pm | narconews.com

Mexico: The False Narco-Smear Against the Zapatistas June 22, 2005 Gary Webb - Presente Please Distribute Widely More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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