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Narconews: A Suspenseful Wednesday in Bolivia
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 2:55 pm | narconews.com
La Paz was paralyzed again this morning, though only partially. The merchants of El Alto, the rural schoolteachers and the urban schoolteachers, and, once again, the rural Aymara leadership, have returned to the streets of downtown La Paz. More >>
Narconews: The People Take La Paz
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 2:33 pm | narconews.com
In a march even bigger than yesterday's, the residents of El Alto and the Aymara peasant farmers returned to La Paz this morning. More than 50,000 people covered an area of nearly 100 square kilometers: this time they didn't just limit themselves ... More >>
U.S. Govt. Support for the Venezuelan Opposition
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 2:22 pm | narconews.com
In April, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez canceled the long-running IMET (International Military Education and Training) program, which had seen Venezuelan soldiers traveling to the U.S. for training, as well as U.S. officers giving courses in Venezuela. Chávez’s ... More >>
Narconews: More Marches In Bolivia, Protests Widen
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 12:47 am | narconews.com
This morning they did it again: the steep kilometers that separate La Paz from EL Alto were completely covered by the biggest march the Bolivian capital has seen since October 2003. Workers, street merchants, and other groups from El Alto led the human ... More >>
Narconews: Zetas Burn Media's Script in Drugs War
Monday, 30 May 2005, 5:07 pm | narconews.com
Our correspondent on the Texas-Mexico border, Bill Conroy, follows up his string of reports for Narco News debunking politically motivated government travel warnings regarding northern Mexico with a new report on the narco-mercenary gang known as ... More >>
After a Truce, More Mobilizations en Bolivia
Monday, 30 May 2005, 4:28 pm | narconews.com
Yesterday, Thursday, Bolivia celebrated the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi, which is an official holiday in this country. Most organizations called a one-day truce, and the groups aligned with Evo Morales' Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) extended ... More >>
2 Rebel Soldiers Worry Bolivian Social Movements
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 3:08 pm | narconews.com
This morning the Aymara came down marching from El Alto once again. This time it was a huge group divided into three parts: more than 5,000 rural school teachers from the La Paz department, then the Federation of Neighborhood Committees of El ... More >>
Giordano: Customs Cops Visit Narconews' Conroy
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 2:40 pm | narconews.com
The name Bill Conroy is well known to our regular readers. Through a string of investigative stories in Narco News and the Narcosphere, as well as the online book Borderline Security, Conroy has made things very uncomfortable lately for law enforcement agencies ... More >>
Narconews: A Time of War in Bolivia
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 11:38 am | narconews.com
Gualberto Choque, leader of the peasant farmers of the Department of La Paz and, as such, leader of the rural Aymara people, said it yesterday: "This is a time of war." Although nobody listened to him, it was a warning. More >>
Narconews: A Fast, Dramatic Day in La Paz
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 11:17 am | narconews.com
Yesterday morning at 10:00, the leaders of the Federation of Neighborhood Committees of El Alto, with their president Abel Mamani in front, walked the hundred meters that separate them from the Ceja zone and installed a blockade in front of the highway ... More >>
Narconews: Bolivian Miners Besiege Capital
Friday, 20 May 2005, 1:31 pm | narconews.com
Today around 500 miners came down from El Alto. Led by Jaime Solares and the secretary general of the Bolivian Mineworkers Federation, Miguel Zuvieta, they again confronted the police just outside downtown La Paz. Meanwhile, the long march led by Evo Morales' ... More >>
Mesa Accepts New Law as El Alto Defines Next Move
Friday, 20 May 2005, 12:26 am | narconews.com
Mesa Accepts New Law as El Alto Defines Its Next Actions May 17, 2005 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Vaca Díez Passes Hydrocarbons Law in Bolivia
Friday, 20 May 2005, 12:25 am | narconews.com
"I have no choice but to sign the document and pass this law, faced with President Carlos Mesa's negative response. Now, all I ask is for unity in the country," said Hormando Vaca Díez, president of the Bolivian National Congress, assuming, before ... More >>
New Protests In Bolivia - The Stage And Its Player
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 11:37 am | narconews.com
It was just a question of time. But the people of Bolivian's social movements are now on the march, in streets and on the highways. The new Hydrocarbons Law, still not officially in effect, and the ownership of natural energy resources form the ... More >>
U.S. Air Force to Build More Counterdrug Sites
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 11:35 am | narconews.com
The expensive, violent, destabilizing, environmentally devastating drug war marches on in Latin America, undeterred by nearly daily evidence of its corruption and ineffectiveness. Today, Stephen Peacock posts another discovery from his tireless searches of U.S. ... More >>
Anti-Drug War Demo in Argentina & Narco-Economics
Friday, 13 May 2005, 11:36 am | narconews.com
Don't miss our two top current posts in the Narcosphere. First, Narco News School of Authentic Journalism 2004 graduate and harm reduction activist Romina Trincheri reports from the "Festival Against Intolerance" in Rosario, Argentina. More >>
Sandinista Son and Iraq War Veteran Camilo Mejia
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 11:19 am | narconews.com
Several antiwar groups have designated today as a "national day of action for GI resisters." It is the day before the court martial tribunal of two U.S. soldiers who have opposed the war in Iraq and refused to serve. More >>
Narconews: Plan Colombia Aid & the Paramilitaries
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 12:29 am | narconews.com
Last week we reported to you on the U.S. soldiers caught allegedly trying to sell ammunition to Colombian paramilitary fighters. On Friday, Sean Donahue posted an eye-opening history of U.S. collaboration with Colombian paramilitarism. More >>
US Soldiers Selling Arms to Colombian Paramilitary
Monday, 9 May 2005, 11:05 am | narconews.com
On Tuesday, Colombian authorities arrested Lieutenant Colonel Alan Norman and Sergeant Jose Hernandez of the United States Army, for illegally trafficking weapons and ammunition. More >>
The Haiti Democracy Project Is Not So Democratic
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 1:23 pm | narconews.com
In the Narcosphere today, copublisher Jeb Sprague reveals the role of a U.S.-based "nongovernmental organization" – actually comprised of several former ambassadors and others close to the State Department – in whitewashing the crimes of the coup ... More >>
