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An Interview with Laura Carlsen
By Mike Whitney
Global Research, December 24, 2009
“Militarization is not the way to deal with Mexico’s political crisis.” Laura Carlsen
Mike Whitney— Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Laura Carlsen:  Plan Mexico, also called the Merida Initiative, is a [...]

La Paz, 5 ago (PL) Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that he would ask the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to reject the installation of foreign military bases in Latin America, following a meeting with his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe.
“We will take a proposed resolution to the UNASUR meeting rejecting the presence of any [...]

By Nokolas Kozloff, from CounterPunch
When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana. Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company joined Dole in criticizing the government in Tegucigalpa which had raised the [...]

By Bill Weinberg, from NACLA
The Merida Initiative, Washington’s new security program for Mexico and Central America, was immediately dubbed “Plan Mexico” by its critics—implying it is a new version of Plan Colombia. Mexico is now poised to supersede Colombia as the hemisphere’s top recipient of U.S. security aid.
From its origins 10 years ago, the multibillion-dollar [...]

THE youth of Cuba have called on all people of goodwill in the world to continue the fight for [...]

April 16, 2009 – During his intervention at the VII ALBA Summit, Bolivian president Evo Morales recalled the 1962 documents of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that resulted in Cuba being expelled from the organization, and outlined the importance of reflecting over the motives of that expulsion.