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Cele Castillo increasingly looks like a framed man
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:50 am | narconews.com
The conviction of Iran/Contra whistleblower Celerino “Cele” Castillo III late last year on federal charges of dealing in firearms without a license is beginning to look more and more like a travesty of justice. More >>
A Review of John Gibler's Mexico Unconquered
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:47 am | narconews.com
A little over a year ago in Mexico City, John Gibler and I were having drinks and talking about work with a handful of other journalists. John told us that he'd recently watched a documentary about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with Mexican activists. ... More >>
Bolivia's Gov Begins to Implement New Constitution
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:40 am | narconews.com
Santa Cruz, Bolivia; January 29, 2009 : Within in the next two years, Bolivian lawmakers and the national government will debate new legislation detailing a variety of issues relating to the passage of the new constitution on Sunday, including the creation ... More >>
Bolivia Votes Sunday on a New Constitution
Monday, 26 January 2009, 9:04 am | narconews.com
Cochabamba, Bolivia; January 24, 2009: Tomorrow Bolivians will go to the polls to decide whether to approve a new constitution that will permit and recognize greater rights for indigenous groups, which make up a 60 percent majority of the Andean nation’s ... More >>
Bolivia: Constitutional Referendum in Voters Hands
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 4:48 pm | narconews.com
Cochabamba, Bolivia; January 22, 2009: An estimated crowd of 25,000 people gathered in central Cochabamba on Thursday to hear Bolivian President Evo Morales’s final arguments supporting a new constitutional referendum that will be decided by voters ... More >>
Two Years After the Barricades in Oaxaca, Part I
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 11:26 am | narconews.com
Two years after barricades filled the streets of Oaxaca - and federal police were ordered in to clear them - the social movement which spurred those five months of resistance is still smoldering strongly. Narco News' Nancy Davies returns to give ... More >>
Conroy: Money Laundering & Murder in Colombia
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 12:53 am | narconews.com
Narco News’ investigation into alleged DEA corruption in Colombia has led journalist Bill Conroy to the discovery of several documents, the most well known to date being the “Kent Memo.” Now Conroy has uncovered even more info, utilizing the Freedom ... More >>
Four Years Investigating the “House of Death”
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 11:19 am | narconews.com
This week marks four years since Bill Conroy has been investigating and reporting on the massive cover-up in the "House of Death Case." In Juárez, Mexico multiple murders were committed by an informant run by the US Attorney's office. More than ... More >>
Colombia Regime Approaches Pariah Status in DC
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 10:31 am | narconews.com
The embattled US-Colombia “free trade” agreement met yet another setback in the US political scene after Mark Penn, Senator Hillary Clinton’s chief presidential campaign adviser, announced he would be stepping down. This, after The Wall Street ... More >>
Obama Passport Scandal Linked to Clinton, Bush
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 2:24 pm | narconews.com
New information regarding the contractors involved in the recent Obama Passport Breach continues to be released. Narco News' Bill Conroy learned on Friday that two of the three employees accused of meddling in Obama's Passport files work for Stanley Associates ... More >>
Narconews Update: US & The Paramilitaries & Oaxaca
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:13 am | narconews.com
The U.S. commercial media have been fixated on the telenovela of hostage negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the recent visit to Colombia of three U.S. congressmen has been reported only in terms of how it relates to that ... More >>
Narco News' Bill Conroy Radio Interview
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 10:36 am | narconews.com
For over a month now Narco News' Bill Conroy has been reporting on the mysterious US Gulfstream Jet that crashed in Mexico with about four tons of cocaine on board. Two Spanish language newspapers, El Tiempo of Colombia and El Nuevo Herald of Miami, ... More >>
Evidence of US Involvement with Crashed Coke Jet
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 1:02 pm | narconews.com
Don't miss the latest report from Bill Conroy on his continuing investigation of the cocaine-filled plane that crashed in the Yucatan peninsula two months ago, and its alleged links to U.S. law enforcement and security agencies. More >>
Davies: Remembering the Repression in Oaxaca
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 10:46 am | narconews.com
Nancy Davies reports on the one-year anniversary of the Mexican government's assault on the "Oaxaca Commune." On November 25, 2007, federal police swept through Oaxaca City, making mass arrests and clearing the hundreds of barricades that the movement ... More >>
Giordano: The Revolution Will Now Be Televised
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 11:10 am | narconews.com
Today in The Narco News Bulletin, Al Giordano reviews the new film "A Little Bit of So Much Truth," directed by Jill Friedberg. An exciting, first-hand record of the Oaxacan people's occupation of their state capital and other cities and towns, ... More >>
A Portal Into the "Dark Alliances" of the Drug War
Monday, 19 November 2007, 2:49 pm | narconews.com
A recent plane crash in Mexico has created a firestorm of speculation on the Internet and in certain press outlets on the old question of "dark alliances" between U.S. government agencies -- particularly the CIA -- and drug trafficking. Bill Conroy, ... More >>
Mohawk Warriors Unite with Zapatistas at Encuentro
Friday, 26 October 2007, 12:51 am | narconews.com
The Gathering of Indigenous Peoples of America, which took place last week in Sonora, Mexico, brought together many native peoples from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. One of these was the Mohawk nation from Quebec and upstate New York. The ... More >>
Strong US Presence As Indigenous Encuentro Begins
Saturday, 20 October 2007, 11:01 am | narconews.com
The effort to unify and mobilize the indigenous of America took a large step last week with the first ever American Indigenous Peoples' Encuentro held in Yaqui tribe territory in Sonora, Mexico. Among its participants was a strong presence of indigenous ... More >>
"House of Death" Informant Will Not Be Deported
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:28 am | narconews.com
In yet another blow against efforts by the US Government to cover-up the dirty truth beneath the House of Death case, a court ruling has been made against deporting informant Guillermo Ramirez Peyro back to Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security - after ... More >>
Colombian Social Movement Continues Mobilization
Friday, 12 October 2007, 1:59 pm | narconews.com
Feder and Castillo: Despite Fierce Gov’t Inti midation, Colombian Social Movement Continue it s Mobilization October 11, 2007 Please Distribute Widely More >>