MACHETERA: “A State Department at the Service of Petty Interests: The Ongoing Torture of Adriana Perez and her Husband, Gerardo Hernandez”

This is truly an amazing article about two amazing people enduring years of US injustice and cruelty.
A State Department at the Service of Petty Interests: The Ongoing Torture of Adriana Pérez and her Husband, Gerardo Hernández
August 20, 2009 ·
A State Department at the Service of Petty Interests:
Visa Denial as a Form of Torture
By Machetera
When the [...]

New Kevin Pina Video “Haiti: We Will Bend But We Will Not Break”

HIP – A new educational video released today by journalist and filmmaker Kevin Pina entitled Haiti: We will bend but we will not break highlights the resistance before the coup of Feb. 29, 2004. In this 20-minute video we see the roots of Haiti’s movement representing the majority of the poor struggle to contain [...]

HURRICANE BILL WILL THREATEN HAITI THIS WEEK

“Hurricane Bill will threaten Haiti this week”
In addition to important weather news, this article includes this bewildering item:
“UN Envoy Bill Clinton has made numerous pronouncements about the effectiveness of economic aid and hurricane “relief,” but the effectiveness of the 9,000 UN occupation forces — MINUSTAH — in assisting the People of Haiti will hurricane preparedness [...]

GET YOUR HAITI ON: Read, Learn and Take Action

Here is a list of some of the latest articles concerning the situation in Haiti.  These all appear on the site of “Haiti Action.”  The author of the articles is Kevin Pina who is founder of the Haiti Information Project, a  journalist and documentary filmmaker and Special Correspondent for the Flashpoints program on KPFA Radio [...]

Latin America Threatened by US Military Bases in Colombia by Eva Golinger

Thursday, August 6, 2009

LATIN AMERICA THREATENED BY US MILITARY BASES IN COLOMBIA
The announcement of the US occupation of more than 7 military bases in Colombia at a time when a dictatorship – supported, if tacitly by Washington – in Honduras is consolidating after almost a month and a half has passed since the violent coup [...]

PENTAGON’S 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia

Pentagon’s 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia
By Rick Rozoff

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14599

Global Research, August 1, 2009

More than half a year after the departure of the George W. Bush administration the United States is embroiled in its largest combat operation since the second attack on Fallujah in November of [...]

CUBA: The Revolutionary as Economic Manager, Review of Helen Yaffe’s New Book: “Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution”

The revolutionary as economic manager
Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution
By Helen Yaffe
Palgrave Macmillan, 354 pp. $59.95
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Every socialist revolution to date has occurred in a country whose economy stood at a level of development well below that of the most developed capitalist nations. New revolutionary governments have therefore confronted from the start a [...]

CUBA: Raul Castro’s Speech at July 26th Celebration in Holguin

GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana.  July 28, 2009
The modest results reaffirm our optimism and confidence that yes, we can do it!
• Speech by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the central rally commemorating the 56th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, [...]

HONDURAS (videos): The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

THE GOOD – Honduran Resistance: “Nos Tienen Miedo Porque No Tenemos Miedo” (They are afraid of us because we are not afraid)

THE BAD – Torture and Murder

Pedro Migdiel Muñoz Salvador came to the town of El Paraíso along the Honduran border with Nicaragua to demonstrate support for President Zelaya and to [...]

VIDEO: A Salute to the Honduran Resistance

“THEY ARE SCARED OF US BECAUSE WE ARE NOT SCARED OF THEM”