Juan Vázquez Assassinated in Bachajón, Chiapas
Bolivian President Evo Morales expels USAID
Nicaragua cloud forest ‘under siege’ by illegal loggers
Guatemala declares emergency after mine protests
Mexico Congress passes sweeping telecoms bill
US Gives Honduras $1.75 Million for Police; Promises $200 Million for El Salvador, Guatemala and Central America
The Venezuelan Presidential Vote — What is the Probability That It Could Have Been Stolen?
Obama, visiting Mexico, shifts focus from drug war
Economy, security in spotlight as Obama heads to Costa Rica
Guatemalan Judge Reopens Genocide Trial of Rios Montt
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Tag Archives: Militarization
DAYS OF ACTION IN WASHINGTON DC – Ways to Act at Home
1. Days of Action in DC To Shut Down the School of the Americas and to End U.S. Militarization
2. Anti-Militarization Statement your organization can sign before April 10 (text below) http://org.salsalabs.com/o/727/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13017
3. CODEPINK vs. drones
4. Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia
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Honduras News – Reminds one of the Death Squads of the 1980s
Campesino communities in Honduras being devastated, one family at a time
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HONDURAS IS OPEN BUSINESS … AND REPRESSION Report from a fact-finding delegation, March 16-23
Honduras CAFTA labor complaint now a year old
“We’re Witnessing a Reactivation of the Death Squads of the ’80s”
More on death squads and other shameful uses of US tax dollars
Inside Story Americas – Honduras: A culture of impunity
Militarization Ramped up in Honduras by PROAH (Honduran Accompaniment Project)
Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras’ death squad regime?
**Action: Tell Kerry: No Aid to Honduran Death Squads
Tell Secretary of State John Kerry and Congress to end all U.S. aid to all units of the Honduran National Police, whose leader has been linked to death squads, as required by U.S. law. http://signon.org/sign/kerry-
IFCLA News Summary
1. Haiti: Haiti’s Duvalier Needs Company in the Dock
2. Peru: Military Draft in Peru Sparks Controversy
3. How the Monsanto Protection Act snuck into law
4. ST. LOUISANS MARCH FOR FAIR FOOD IN FLORIDA
5. Tell your Senators to support S. 505, a bill that would prohibit drone strikes in the United States. Take Action
6. Chiapas: San Marcos Avilés: Forced Displacement and the Hope of Solidarity 7. New Protest Paralyzes Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
8. BRICS Nations Plan New Bank to Bypass World Bank, IMF
9. Assassination of Venezuelan Yupka Chief Sabino Romero Leads to Criticisms
10. 6 Killed, 9 More Injured In Chase Across U.S.-Mexico Border
11. Chile: Back from UN job Bachelet confirms she is running for president next November
12. Correa Condemns U.S. Blockade of Cuba at Inter-Parliamentary Meeting
13. Rio De Janeiro Police Force Indigenous People Out Of Museum Near World Cup Stadium
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US aids Honduran police despite death squad fears
US aids Honduran police despite death squad fears
ALBERTO ARCE and KATHERINE CORCORAN. AP. March 25, 2013
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted and trained units that don’t operate under the direct supervision of a police chief once accused of extrajudicial killings and “social cleansing.”
But The Associated Press has found that all police units are under the control of Director General Juan Carlos Bonilla, nicknamed the “Tiger,” who in 2002 was accused of three extrajudicial killings and links to 11 more deaths and disappearances. He was tried on one killing and acquitted. The rest of the cases were never fully investigated. Continue reading
Urgent Action: Xinca Leaders Abducted after Mining Referendum
On Sunday, March 17, 2013, at around 8 pm, the President of the Xinca Indigenous Parliament and three other Xinca leaders were abducted by a group of heavily armed masked men while on their way home from observing a public referendum on Tahoe’s Escobal mine in El Volcancito, San Rafael Las Flores, in the department of Santa Rosa, Guatemala. This comes only two days after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, called on the Government of Guatemala to protect human rights defenders.
Two of the abducted Xinca leaders escaped and sounded the alarm. On the morning of Monday, March 18, 2013, the President of the Xinca Parliament’s vehicle was found with multiple bullet holes and Exaltación Marcos Ucelo, one of the four who were kidnapped, was found dead. About four hundred people peacefully gathered in the immediate area in order to protect the scene of the crime while demanding that authorities initiate a proper and full investigation. That evening, President Roberto González Ucelo was found alive. Continue reading
The Border Militarization Study Guide
Presenting– The Border Militarization Study Guide
End Border Militarization NOW!!!
Immigration reform is a hot topic again following the announcement on January 28th of a bipartisan proposal on the subject--an announcement enthusiastically welcomed by the White House. However, there are many flaws--among the worst is that it would continue the growth of border militarization. It is also troubling that this reform proposal moves forward at the same time the White House is trying to secure ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "NAFTA on steroids"-what would be the largest Free Trade Agreement in the world. From our office in Tucson, Arizona, we can affirm that the combination of FTAs and militarization has been a recipe for marshall law, economic disruption, displacement and deaths in the desert. Continue reading
From “Just the Facts” – SouthCom Visit to Honduras
In his first visit, SouthCom chief meetings in Hondura &, El Salvador Kelly also met with U.S. service members located in both countries.
http://www.southcom.mil/newsroom/Pages/Kelly-meets-with-leaders-in-Honduras,-El-Salvador.aspx
The U.S. military has a robust working relationship with both nations’ armed forces.
In Honduras, U.S. military forces are working with security forces there to support Operation Martillo, the multinational effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along Central America. U.S. troops also routinely train with Honduran forces and take part in humanitarian efforts.
Joint Task Force-Bravo – comprised of about 500 U.S. military personnel – is located at the Honduran Soto Cano Air Base. The task force organizes multilateral exercises and supports, in cooperation with partner nations, humanitarian and civic assistance, counter drug, contingency and disaster relief operations in Central America.
In El Salvador, the U.S. military also works with the nation’s armed forces to support Operation Martillo. At the Comalapa International Airport, the U.S. military operates a Cooperative Security Location where U.S. detection and monitoring aircraft fly missions to detect, monitor and track aircraft or vessels engaged in illicit drug trafficking.”
Throw the SOA/WHINSEC Over the Fiscal Cliff!
Action Alert: Contact Your Representative Today!
You sure have been busy since leaving the gates of Fort Benning in November!
Over 8,000 messages were sent to Congressional Representatives, Senators and to Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough demanding that in these times of fiscal crisis, we put an end to militarized budgets, and cut the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)! Added to that were the hundreds more postcards sent from the gates of Fort Benning to representatives and senators from 37 states!
We need to keep up the pressure. Order a set of advocacy postcards and get your family and friends to send a message to Congress.
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A $170 Billion Tab:How Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet
see below: NATO EXPANSION ONTO GLOBAL STAGE DANGEROUS THREAT TO WORLD PEACE
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175627/ See Honduras costs …
Tomgram: David Vine, The True Costs of Empire Posted by David Vine at 9:13am, December 11, 2012. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch.
Mars? Venus? Earth-like bodies elsewhere in the galaxy? Who knows? But here, at least, no great power, no superpower, no hyperpower, not the Romans, nor imperial China, nor the British, nor the Soviet Union has ever garrisoned the globe quite the way we have: Asia to Latin America, Europe to the Greater Middle East, and increasingly Africa as well.
Build we must. If someday Washington took to the couch for therapy, the shrink would undoubtedly categorize what we’ve done as a compulsion, the base-building equivalent of a hoarding disorder.
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