Stories by John Ross

Wal-Mart a la Mexicana

Posted on Mar 14, 2005, Source: The Progressive

Wal-Mart puts down roots in the shadow of the Pyramid of the Sun in San Juan Teotihuacan. Is the global leviathan any match for Quetzalcoatl?

Mexican Data Grab

Posted on Aug 13, 2003, Source: The Progressive

After Sept. 11, the Justice Department got hold of the personal records of over 300 million Latin Americans.

Endgame in Baghdad

Posted on Mar 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Expulsions of Human Shields from Iraq effectively decapitates an action whose autonomy had become a thorn in Saddam's side just as George Bush revs up for war.

Life and Death at the Daura Refinery

Posted on Mar 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Human Shields in Baghdad hope their presence at a prime bombing target will remind Bush that his war will endanger the lives of his own citizens as well as those of 34 other nations.

Baghdad Countdown

Posted on Mar 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Almost daily, international volunteers parade along the boulevards of Baghdad, yelling at both Bush and Blair to get off the Iraqi peoples' backs.

Into the Crystal Ball, Darkly

Posted on Mar 7, 2002, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus

The Bush administration's global war against terror bodes ill for the future of U.S.-Latin American relations in 2002.