The United States Must Leave Guantanamo Now!
All and every state, community, above all every individual in this world declared one of global responsibility, who subscribes to the truth that only in justice can real humanity exist between nations and peoples, must demand, in that name, that the U.S.A. leave Guantanamo unconditionally.
Too Close for Comfort: El Salvador Ratchets Up its U.S. Ties
The State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is currently in the initial stages of negotiating plans with Salvadoran officials to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) at La Comalapa, with the potential for additional use of an existing Salvadoran police training headquarters in Santa Tecla.
Colombian nightmares
The main Colombian magazine, Semana boasts that the Colombian president – President Uribe – is 'an expert in negotiation,' who 'studied the peaceful resolution of conflicts at Harvard,' and is 'an excellent administrator,' who ‘reduced the number of State employees in the Antioquian region from 14,000 to 5,700 people.
Baseball, the Olympics and Cuba
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped baseball, which Americans, myself included, have considered our 'past-time' since the early 20th century, for the 2012 Olympics and beyond. Americans should be angry at this and their leaders should be protesting.
The World Festival of Students and Youth - After August, What’s Next?
The Venezuelan revolution must be defended as an example to all of Latin America and to the world. In Venezuela, the people rose. From the grass roots level, the people have founded their own democracy...The U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign opposes all forms of intervention by the U.S. government and its agencies in Venezuela...
UN Working Group Denounces Imprisonment of Cuban Five as 'Arbitrary'
In an opinion released in late May, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, a group created by the UN Commission on Human Rights, criticized the treatment of five Cuban men arrested in Miami in 1998 as 'arbitrary.'
The G-8 Announcement: Great Expectations Betrayed
Africa Action also rejected as inadequate the $25 billion annual increase in aid to Africa by 2010. The complete failure to make progress on trade reforms and climate change, as well as the absence of a plan to stop genocide in Darfur, Sudan, made this year’s G-8 Summit an ineffective response to Africa’s challenges.
Sovereignty Sinks in Latin America as Dollarization Rises
Dollarization, which is the official adoption of the U.S. dollar (USD) as the national currency has sometimes delivered a mixed signal to several Latin American nations. Globalization—the increased economic interdependence and integration of countries fuelled by the digital age—has led to intercontinental competition in the production of commodities and services. National currencies are no exception.
Vicente Fox: More a Caricature than the Real Thing
his past Sunday, July 3, represented a stunning indictment by Mexican citizens on how little President Vicente Fox’s government had progressed after five years in office, as the state of Mexico’s voters went to the polls to elect a Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) governor, Enrique Peña Nieto. Fox’s National Action Party’s (PAN) candidate, Rubén Mendoza Ayala, suffered a humiliating defeat in receiving an estimated 25 percent of the ballot, while Peña Nieto, won decisively with 47 percent.
Chicago Women Defy US Government’s Cuba Blockade
On July 11, nineteen-year-old Chicagoan Jennifer Suh and Trinidadian citizen Allison St. Brice, Suh’s 20-year-old Amherst College classmate, will board a yellow school bus on a mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba – a criminal act under current US law.
