South America

ainfos May 21, 2008

"This is going to be a different type of occupation," say the people of Tierra y
Libertad (Land and Freedom), a land occupation on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The name of their group gives an idea of what they intend. The occupation began on March 29th this year when 40 families entered a small parcel of land in La Matanza and began setting up a community. Since then the occupation has grown to over 135 families and has continued to organize and resist eviction in the face of intimidation and violence.  read more »

From: EL NUEVO TOPO <giltapia@igc.org>

May 3, 2008 10:51 Two peasants were murdered on or about April 25, according to the Frente Campesino Ezequiel Zamora. (FNCEZ)

The FNCEZ states: "A group of criminals who hide behind police uniformssilenced the lives of two noted peasants, Fabricio Duglas Ivan Perez Heredia and his brother Engel Alexander Hernesto Perez Heredia. Their bodies were found in the zone of Pavia. Witnesses confirmed that the companeros were transported in a police car shortly before their bodies were found.  read more »

By Alonso Soto Sat Apr 5, 2005

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's president accused the CIA on Saturday of controlling many of his country's spy agencies, in comments that could fray ties with Washington and drag it into Ecuador's feud with neighboring Colombia.  read more »

SANTIAGO, March 30 (Reuters) - A man died, a police officer was wounded, and 122 people were arrested in Santiago on Saturday night in riots marking the anniversary of the 1985 police slaying of two leftist brothers during the Pinochet dictatorship, police said.

A 28-year-old died after he was shot by protesters who accused him of being a police infiltrator, a police spokesman told Reuters.

A police officer was also serious wounded in the protests, he said. Angry demonstrations to mark the "Day of the Young Combatant," an unofficial commemoration of the anniversary, have become an annual event in the Chilean capital.  read more »

By BILL CORMIER, Associated Press Mar 24, 2008

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Thousands of Argentines marched to mark Monday's anniversary of a 1976 military coup that launched seven years of dictatorship, carrying banners bearing photographs of the people who disappeared under the junta.  read more »

Film and Talk Wed. April 2, 7pm at Media Island
816 Adams St. SE Olympia (across from the Downtown Library)

And discussion about current Colombia/ Venezuela Situation

Wednesday March 5, By Tales Azzoni

Brazil Activists Protest Police Violence After Invasion of Farm Run by Stora Enso

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Landless workers blocked roads in southern Brazil to protest alleged violence by police who ousted activists from a tree farm run by a Swedish-Finnish paper maker, protesters said Wednesday.

Members of the Landless Workers Movement blocked eight roads in the Rio Grande do Sul state to call attention to Tuesday's police operation, which they say injured 50 activists of the farm workers' rights group Via Campesina.

"We want to denounce the violence and the abuse committed by (authorities)," the movement said in a statement.  read more »

Dear comrades,

We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a
coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with
immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America.

Anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest USA have
come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders Group.

This working group came out of the recent Consulta of the Northeast
Anarchist Network (NEAN) and Midwest Action Network (MAN). The proposal
was initiated by the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (BAAM) and NYC
Local Union of the North East Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC),
and has been joined by anarchists from over a dozen other towns and cities.  read more »

By Alex Emery

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg ) -- Peruvian farmers ended a two-day protest that disrupted transportation and left four dead and hundreds under arrest, the government cabinet chief said today.  read more »

Fri Feb 15, 2008

PANAMA CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Nearly 300 protesters were arrested in Panama on Friday as construction workers clashed with police for the third day running over the shooting death of a fellow worker earlier this week.

A dozen police were injured in Friday's protest, which kept much of the capital paralyzed, with piles of tires burning on busy roads and highways across the city.

Police reported 286 arrests, bringing the number of people detained since Tuesday to around 780, police said.

Protesters also threw stones at riot police in the affluent Paitilla area of the city, home to many of Panama's glass-covered skyscrapers, local television images showed.  read more »