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Honduras: Filing police reports for murders could become signatures to own death warrants

Central AmericaNow that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times of a “clean and fair” election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated by the US-supported junta currently in power), the violence has increased even faster than feared.
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Mexico: Butane is in the eye of the bomb-holder

Central AmericaAmid the annual September celebrations of independence and revolution, a series of explosions hit symbols of capitalism across Mexico, each accompanied by anarchist graffiti. What the Mexican press have labelled the ‘Anarcho-bombings’ has since been used by the authorities to launch an attack on Mexico’s autonomous universities – hotbeds of radical politics and action.

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Costa Rica: March Against Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement

Central AmericaOn 6 October, two years after the fraud that ordered the adoption of the FTA with the U.S. (the TLC in spanish), there was a People's Walk for Dignity in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica. More than 150 activists marched from the entrance of Térraba Territory to the center of the township of Buenos Aires. Step by step the the march was traveling the 13 kilometers. Different communities around the wide, long and deep struggle in the South face off against pineapple expansion, the construction of the "PH Diquís", the construction of international airport in the territory of Finca 9, plans to build and deploy sea tuna farms in Golfo Dulce and for the law of indigenous autonomy.
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Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime

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Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.

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APPO Man Convicted for Brad Will's Murder

Central AmericaJuan Manuel Martinez Moreno has been sentenced to prison by the judge of the Fifth Federal Court, Rosa Iliana Noriega Perez, for the murder of US Indymedia videographer Brad Will on October 26, 2006.
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Secretary Clinton Doesn’t Get the Power of Nonviolence in Honduras

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As thousands of Honduran citizens peacefully blockaded the central highways of their nation yesterday, bringing its commerce under a coup regime to a halt, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Washington with her Canadian and Mexican counterparts.

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Hondurans block main highways

This is the strategy that, from 2003 to 2005, toppled three repressive presidents in the nation of Bolivia, one after the other. Union organizations in Nicaragua and El Salvador have announced that they will close the border routes with Honduras in solidarity with the Honduran blockades.
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Fear of "disappearance" in Honduras

Central AmericaFear of detention, disappearance by security forces, violence in demonstrations, that their houses will be raided, families harmed, is currently daily reality... Women in poverty-stricken villages report army forcing their young sons – many of them minors – into military service.
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Striking Teachers Occupy Banks, Offices in Mexico’s Oaxaca

Central AmericaOAXACA, Mexico – Teachers in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the scene three years ago of a months-long uprising against a widely despised governor, occupied banks, shopping centers and government offices at the beginning of a 48-hour strike.

Besides a pay raise, the teachers are demanding the resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz, just as they and a coalition of grassroots groups did in 2006 during a conflict that ended only with a federal occupation of Oaxaca city.
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CISPES: Exposing ARENA atrocities on the eve of the SOA vigil... and more!

Central AmericaSpanish Human Rights Organization Files Suit Against Salvadoran ex-president Cristiani and 14 others for involvement in Jesuit massacre of 1989. Case comes as tens of thousands prepare to protest the military school in Georgia where perpetrators of crime were trained by US officials.