Here it is, film fanatics, Hollywood’s next gaudy, patriotic CIA box-office mega-hit. This true CIA Nazi thriller has immense box-office potential. Given the proper directorial handling (and Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead), it may knock Argo straight into the drugstore remainder bins. “Stars, ...
“… Death squad terror reflects policy. Violence persists. Washington supports it. Campesinos are targeted. They’re displaced. They’re driven from their own land. Others disappear or die. Media scoundrels don’t explain. …” Honduran Police State Repression ...
(Adapted from “The Covert War Against Rock,” Feral House, 2000) “I’M NOT SCREAMING, I’M NOT SCREAMING, TELL ME I’M NOT SCREAMING” – Phil Ochs In 1980, Danish journalist Henrik Kruger collected scraps of suppressed information on ...
” … the C.I.A. had been paying top military officers throughout the period. … “ Article highlights: … During a month of testimony before the three-judge panel that found General Ríos Montt guilty last Friday, ...
Lauren Carasik of the Western New England School of Law says that the US must restrict aid to the Honduran government, so long as human rights abuses continue … ———————— Honduras is plagued by the ...
Also see: “Genocide Trial against Ríos Montt: Declassified Documents Provide Key Evidence” ” … The U.S. military contributed 90% of the Guatemalan army’s resources. … Ríos Montt was strongly supported by U.S. President Reagan. … Guatemala ...
Also see: “Guatemala court upholds genocide trial for ex-dictator Ríos Montt,” Tico Times, March 13, 2013: ” … The decision to put Ríos Montt on trial will mark the first time genocide proceedings have been brought ...
Photo: Colonel Jim Steele In 2004, with the war in Iraq going from bad to worse, the US drafted in a veteran of Central America’s dirty wars to help set up a new force to ...
The national ombudsman’s office and human rights leaders across Colombia requested that an autopsy be done on a victims rights activist who allegedly committed suicide on Saturday after recieving numerous death threats. Angelica Bello, herself ...
By Chris Burke AllVoices, Jun 04, 2010 The Jamaican ‘Shower Posse’ has made international headlines recently for inciting rebellion and murder in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. This international gang situated in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston, ...
By MARIMER MATOS Courthouse News Service, September 17, 2012 (reposted) MIAMI (CN) – Siemens sicced “mercenaries” to beat and torture a government worker who blew the whistle on its multimillion-dollar bribes to Argentine officials, in ...
By Matt Bewig AllGov.com, August 20, 2012 (reposted) Although it might seem obvious, when searching for records related to Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Central Intelligence Agency must actually search for the name “Pablo ...
By Annie Bird, Rights Action Upside Down World, November 8, 2012 The Dinant Corporation and subsidiaries of the Jaremar Corporation, both Honduran African palm oil corporations blamed by campesino movements for the murder of approximately 80 ...
By New Times staff Broward-Palm Beach New Times, November 2, 2012 Ricardo Poma, proprietor of the Transal Corp., linked to the planc crash in Nicaragua that triggered the Iran contra exposures: “Documents found in the plane’s ...
“… The notorious US/CIA funded Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) was where opponents (active or perceived) to the dictatorship were raped, tortured, murdered and scientifically experimented on. The sport of choice for the trainee torturers wasn’t ...
By Brandon Barrett Colombia Reports, March 26, 2012 Israeli mercenary Yair Klein claimed his arrival in Colombia in the 1980’s to train paramilitary groups was undertaken with the approval of Colombian and Israeli authorities. The ...
” … The self-proclaimed refugee stands accused of committing mass murder in uniform. Last month, Canada extradited him to Los Angeles to face trial on charges related to one of the worst war crimes in ...
August 2012 “Fear had taken root in my own house, in my drawer, carefully folded, smelling of fresh laundry, nestling among the socks.” With these simple words, author Marcelo Figueras re-creates the opening days of ...
By David Zucchino Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2012 WILMINGTON, N.C. – Lawyers for convicted killer and former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald continued to offer evidence Tuesday that they say suggests intruders were in his ...
Romney scrutinized over investments from Salvadoran families that ran a corrupt government, 12 years of murderous civil war and death squads. By Terry J. Allen In These Times, September 17, 2012 Mitt Romney has a ...
By Matt Bewig AllGov.com, August 20, 2012 Although it might seem obvious, when searching for records related to Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Central Intelligence Agency must actually search for the name “Pablo Escobar,” ...
” … According to the Salt Lake Tribune, ‘about $6.5 million of $37 million that established the company (Bain) came from wealthy El Salvadoran families linked to right-wing death squads.’ The Salaverrias, oligarchs who grew ...
” … The book’s argument that ‘[t]he war on drugs and terror in Colombia is in fact a war for the control of the cocaine trade—in a system of imperial domination—by means of state-sponsored terror’ ...
Photo: Enrique Prado, CIA/Mafia assassin, has worked for Cofer Black, the Bush administration counter-terr0rist, and Blackwater June 27, 2012 Enrique “Ricky” Prado’s resume reads like the ultimate CIA officer: veteran of the Central American wars, ...
Liberia’s ex-president, now on trial in The Hague, worked with US intelligence agencies, officials admit By Chris Arsenault Al Jazeera, 21 Jan 2012 He stands accused of funding rebels who hacked the arms off small children, ...
By Tom Peters Colombia Reports | May 11, 2011 Accused: Jose Miguel Narvaez A former deputy director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS ordered the assassination of a leftist politician by paramilitaries, the Prosecutor General’s Office said ...
” … Two U.S.-based corporations have been accused of having ties with anti-union ‘death squads’ – Drummond Coal and Chiquita Brands International (the original United Fruit). The Organization of American States revealed that 3,000 automatic ...
Today’s Zaman | May 11, 2011 İbrahim Şahin, who is currently in jail as a suspect in the investigation into the coup-plotting gang Ergenekon on charges of having formed death squads using police officers in order ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP – April 14, 2011) — A human rights group is urging Haitian authorities to prosecute former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. A lawyer for Human Rights Watch says there is enough evidence ...
” … Martelly’s Washington friends include Damian Merlo. … Merlo’s CV should alarm anyone concerned with democracy in Haiti. Merlo has worked for Otto Reich, the Iran-Contra veteran and supporter of coups in Honduras and ...
DANIEL McLAUGHLIN in Budapest Irish Times | April 23, 2011 ALMOST 300 Roma have fled their homes in Hungary in fear of far-right vigilantes, creating fresh problems for a government facing international criticism over a ...
Parapoliticians may have to compensate victims By Marguerite Cawley Colombia Reports | March 22, 2011 A Colombian Congressional committee on victim reparation is considering making politicians with proven ties to paramilitary death squads partly responsible ...
” … The families are seeking damages from Alabama-based coal company Drummond for allegedly supporting right-wing death squads. … “ By Pete Yost AP | March 31, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration urged a ...
“… As harrowing photos and other exhibits show, police murder squads in the occupied territories would murder local civilians — men, women and children — including with special ‘gas trucks’. … In the parts of ...
Agence France-Presse | April 1, 2011 BUENOS AIRES–Former Argentine general Eduardo Cabanillas was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for running a notorious detention center linked to the shadowy “Operation Condor” of 1970s South American ...
