” …human rights groups were examining a steady increase in the reports of civilian killings since 2002, when commanders intensified a counterinsurgency financed in no small part by more than $500 million a year in ...
www.democracynow.orgJuly 28, 2008 Here in New York, a former CIA-backed Haitian death squad leader has been found guilty on all counts in a mortgage fraud case. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was found to have orchestrated a ...
By David Adams | St. Petersburg Times | July 15, 2008 Just as the gangster Al Capone was finally brought down on tax charges, one of Haiti’s most notorious death squad leaders looks like he’s ...
by Cyril Mychalejko upsidedownworld.org 30 May 2008 A retired Colombian army general and former CIA asset was arrested Tuesday over the disappearances of 11 people. Ivan Ramirez, formerly the Colombian Army’s third in command, led ...
AgenciesApril 23, 2008 Bogota: The cousin of Columbian President Alvaro Uribe has been arrested after authorities investigated his suspected ties with outlawed paramilitary. Mario Uribe, a former senator, was arrested on Tuesday and was taken ...
” … on Monday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told the media, ‘It’s bad news that the man we were talking to, with whom we had contacts has been killed. Do you see how ugly ...
By Bill Van Auken World Socialist Web Site, 15 May 2008 In a deal worked out between Washington and its principal ally in Latin America—Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe—14 leaders of the country’s right-wing paramilitary militias were ...
by Toni Solo Scoop 28 April 2008 Corporate globalization and its equally misshapen twin, the fake “war on terror”, look like the Western Bloc’s last crooked chance to sustain a few decades longer its member ...
” .. His funeral was largely publicised by the U.S. media, and it was attended by, amongst others, David Eisenhower and Richard Nixon’s secretary of state William Rogers. Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis held a ...
Human rights violators and important witnesses disappear mysteriously Andrés Gaudin March 30, 2008 Murders, suspicious suicides, kidnapping, hundreds of death threats, concealment of witnesses and evidence. All are tools used by some ultra-right wing military ...
MOSCOW — A Russian court has ordered the extradition of a former Israeli commando wanted in Colombia for training illegal private armies. Yair Klein was arrested at a Moscow airport in August on an Interpol ...
BY ORLANDO ORAMAS LEON PERIÓDICO 26 Eleven years after the signing of the peace accords in Guatemala, the new president, Alvaro Colom, has decided to open and investigate military archives to reach a reconciliation that ...
Also see: “PERU: US Govt. Document Links President García to 1980s Death Squads” By CARLA SALAZAR December 21, 2007 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former president Alberto Fujimori, on trial for murder and kidnapping, apologized Friday ...
” … The Reagan government at the highest level therefore knew about the killings, but kept silent. … “ Inter Press Service News Agency January 15, 2008 US Gov’t Document Links García to 1980s Death ...
Chronicle of Higher Education October 10, 2007 Colombian Death-Squad Leader Testifies About ‘Clean Up’ at University Bogotá, Colombia — A much-feared leader of paramilitary death squads here gave new details this week about his reign ...
OCTOBER 10, 2007 LA PLATA, Argentina — A Catholic priest accused in a series of deaths and kidnappings during Argentina’s Dirty War was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Tuesday Former police chaplain Christian ...
Larry D. Hatfield and Susan Ferriss OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Fri, Dec. 1, 1995 The U.S. government may have paid off a San Francisco man and another former Salvadoran guerrilla in exchange for intelligence information, ...
Penny Lernoux, CRY OF THE PEOPLE – The struggle for human rights in Latin America and the Catholic Church in conflict with US policy (Penguins, 1980): http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Latin_America/Cry_of_the_People.html Excerpts: Torture, Repression Repression (continued) Be a Patriot ...
http://pinoypress.net/2007/07/30/enforced-disappearances-an-act-of-terror/ By Roland G.Simbulan July 30, 2007 MANILA — Extrajudicial killings and enforced (or involuntary) disappearances have been rampant occurrences during the Marcos dictatorship and, during the Aquino, Ramos and Estrada administrations, there were also ...
Several lawmakers say multinationals that aid violent groups in return for protection are not being prosecuted By Josh Meyer Los Angeles Times/July 22, 2007 WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, leftist guerrilla and right-wing ...
Bogota, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) The idea presented by President Alvaro Uribe that Colombia has overcome the period of paramilitary groups is the “best-disguised lie by this government,” an editorial by El Tiempo daily said ...
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=6545439 The Associated Press Friday, July 6, 2007 Alabama coal company accused of bankrolling Colombia’s killer right-wing militias LA LOMA, Colombia: The bus had just left Drummond Co. Inc.’s coal mine carrying about 50 workers ...
“WE WERE RUNNING A DAMN MURDER INCORPORATED IN THE CARIBBEAN” NYT 6-22-82 – Lyndon Johnson, 3 months before dead, was referring to CIA + MAFIA Collect the entire American-Supported Death Squads Trivia series! Keep your ...
Have a banana sorbet (and pay the death squads), Gringos? June 2007 Washington, D.C. – Advocates for the families of 173 people murdered in the banana-growing regions of Colombia filed suit, June 7, against Chiquita ...
By SIMON ROMERO New York Times, May 16, 2007 CALI, Colombia, May 15 — President Álvaro Uribe, the Bush administration’s closest ally in Latin America, faces an intensifying scandal after a jailed former commander of paramilitary ...
NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will Shot Dead by Government Forces in Oaxaca October 27, 2006 general.addtranslation A shooting occurred today in Oaxaca City, Mexico, leaving New York City Indymedia journalist Bradley Will dead after being ...
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“Negroponte has been described as an ‘old-fashioned imperialist’ and got his start during the Vietnam War in the CIA’s Phoenix Program, which was responsible for the assassination of some 40,000 Vietnamese. … ” “Obviously it ...
The Salvador Option May 8, 2006 The American public is being prepared. If the attack on Iran does come, there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no truth, writes John Pilger The lifts ...
