Revolter, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. July 25, 2008. Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos today stated that he "still does not know what [the CSD] is for."
ElCatire, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. July 17, 2008. The supposed rescue operation earlier this month may have put humanitarian workers at risk around the world.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 10, 2008. We shouldn't let Ingrid Betancourt's long-awaited rescue distract from the abuses of the Uribe government.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. June 11, 2008. Political chasm between Washington and Latin America continues to deepen, as Chavez rejects FARC's armed campaign.
Daniel Denvir, NACLA. May 31, 2008. The pix suggest an intelligence agency -- either Colombia's or that of an "allied" government -- operating in Ecuador.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. April 16, 2008. Pollster Mark Mellman was hired by Lockheed Martin to push for funding for drug tracking planes in Colombia and doesn't like being called on it.
Kintto Lucas, IPS News. March 26, 2008. Sources: the Manta air base played a role in locating, and carrying out reconnaissance of, the FARC camp in Ecuador.
Richard Gott, AlterNet. March 8, 2008. The deaths of two senior FARC leaders will stymie the peace process and any hope for release for FARC's hostages.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. February 1, 2008. Those who follow the commercial media's coverage of Latin America can end up with less understanding than those who ignore it.
Roxanna Altholz, UC Berkeley School of Law. January 28, 2008. An army general who participated in one of the country's worst massacres in recent history goes free.
Charlie Cray, Huffington Post. August 27, 2007. In the New York Times' bizarro world, a multinational caught financing right-wing terror groups is only looking out for its workers.
