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Peasant-Farmer Activists Imprisoned in Colombia
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 10:36 am | narconews.com
Feder: Peasant-Farmer Activists Imprisoned in Colombia October 2, 2007 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, Editor Dan Feder reports in The Narco News Bulleti More >>
USA Sutton Linked to Cover-Up in House of Death
Monday, 17 September 2007, 9:57 am | narconews.com
Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy has doggedly reported on the ongoing cover-up of the House of Death murders that took place in Juarez, Mexico for over three years while the commercial media has done little or nothing to shed light on the issue. More >>
Conroy: Judge's Ruling Reveals Truth of Drug War
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 10:31 am | narconews.com
Throughout the past several years of Narco News reports on the 'House of Death' cover-up, a familiar pattern has emerged in regards to how the US War on Drugs is fought. Continuing his series on this case, Bill Conroy reports that this recent ruling regarding families ... More >>
Narconews: Davies - Oaxaca Declines to be Governed
Monday, 27 August 2007, 10:55 am | narconews.com
Since the creation of the APPO in 2006, the ongoing struggle in Oaxaca has evolved through many different phases and forms. However, always at the heart of the matter is the strong discontent towards the corrupt and oppressive tactics used by the state, ... More >>
Davies: Oaxaca Police Attack Popular Guelaguetza
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:18 am | narconews.com
An attempt by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO, in its Spanish initials) to repeat its peaceful "Gueleguetza" (an annual and folkloric tradition) ceremony was met by violent repression yesterday by the armed forces of disgraced ... More >>
Al Giordano: The Age of Atlantica
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 6:58 pm | narconews.com
During his recent lecture tour in the Northeastern US and Quebec, Narco News publisher Al Giordano saw many of the same changes imposed on the peoples and land of those regions that he has reported for the last decade from Mexico. More >>
Nancy Davies' Oaxaca Book Is Ready to Ship
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 3:53 pm | narconews.com
Narco News Books is proud to announce the completion of printing of Nancy Davies' new book, "The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular Assembly," which is a culmination of Davies' reports and commentary from Oaxaca for the past year with additional updates. More >>
House of Death Cover-Up - DOJ DHS Brass Implicated
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 3:53 pm | narconews.com
Since 2004 Narco News has reported on the "House of Death" investigation in Juarez, Mexico, and the ensuing cover-up by ranking officials within the U.S. Justice Department. Bill Conroy today publishes documents and transcripts that show the cover-up involves ... More >>
Rep. Serrano Writes To Rice On Murder of Brad Will
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 10:36 am | narconews.com
Since the assassination, last October, of Indymedia journalist Brad Will, Mexican authorities say they've made no progress on the case. This, in spite of the fact that Will's own video has identified the shooters, operatives in the political machine ... More >>
The General, The Diplomat, and the Mass Grave
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 9:50 am | narconews.com
Former US Ambassador to Colombia Anne W. Patterson now heads the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the State Department. But the recent discovery of a mass grave with 105 bodies in Colombia's Putumayo region cast doubts upon her ... More >>
APPO Counselor Death Threat from State Governor
Friday, 11 May 2007, 10:54 am | narconews.com
In the Southern Mexican State of Oaxaca, those who resist the corrupt rule of the state government, led by Governor Ulises Ruiz, are constantly at risk of being persecuted, attacked and impisoned. Such is the case for APPO activist David Venegas Reyes, who ... More >>
Zapatistas March in Support of Texcoco and Atenco
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 11:25 am | narconews.com
The Zapatistas were once again in Mexico City to support the struggles of the Texcoco and Atenco people, this time as part of the second phase of the Other Campaign. Narco News Correspondent Juan Trujillo was in the Mexican capital to report the event. ... More >>
Nacho del Valle, Sentenced to 67 Years in Mexico
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 10:59 am | narconews.com
One year after the brutal police attack on the town of San Salvador Atenco and the arrest of several leaders of the People's Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT), a sentence for three of those leaders has been handed down. Arrested in resistance ... More >>
White House Firing for Trying to Protect President
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 9:45 am | narconews.com
Laura C. Jones was lead mail assistance in the West Wing of the White House with a top security clearance that allowed her access to the President of the United States and his staff. More >>
Torre: A Phantom in Northeast Mexico - Zapatismo
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 10:38 pm | narconews.com
The Other Campaign, crossing into new political territory with the beginning of its second phase, again finds itself in the Northeast part of Mexico. Alejandro de la Torre, writing for Dossier politico, describes how ten Zapatista comandantes, five ... More >>
Zapatistas Select Yaqui To Host Intercont. Summit
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 4:14 pm | narconews.com
Zapatistas Select Yaqui To Host Intercontinental Summit In Mexico April 24, 2007 Please Distribute Widely More >>
Former Fed a Kidnapper? Or Whistleblower Framed?
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 12:37 am | narconews.com
John Carman, a former federal law enforcement officer, was recently arrested in San Diego on the charge of kidnapping. However, there is more than meets the eye with this case. More >>
More Evidence of Double-Standards in DOJ
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:37 am | narconews.com
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, headed by Johnny "House O Death" Sutton in San Antonio, has again found itself in an uncomfortable position. Bill Conroy, reporting for Narco News, sheds light on the double-standards within ... More >>
Narconews Events This Week In New York City
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 10:54 am | narconews.com
NEW YORK, NY: An intense season of work rolls toward another as our first paperback publication's galley proofs will come off the presses in time to be seen and touched at the first New York City Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, April 14. More >>
AP Fires Oaxaca Correspondent Rebeca Romero
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 3:17 pm | narconews.com
Throughout its reporting of the popular movement in Oaxaca, Narco News correspondents have regularly corrected distorted reports by then AP correspondent Rebeca Romero. John Gibler reports for Narco News about the firing of Ms. Romero from her AP post ... More >>