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LATIN AMERICA
Collection of articles or other research pertaining to countries in Central America and the Caribbean.
CIA Investigates Conduct Of Its Inspector General
By Greg Miller 12 October 2007
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has mounted a highly unusual challenge to the agency’s chief watchdog, ordering an internal investigation of an inspector general who has issued a series of scathing reports sharply critical of top CIA officials.
Sanchez condemns Iraq strategy
By Tim Shipman 13 October 2007
America’s former commander in Iraq has issued a damning indictment of the war, branding President Bush’s government “incompetent” and “negligent” for presiding over “a nightmare with no end in sight”.
Thousands died in police custody
By The Associatied Press 11 October 2007
More than 2,000 criminal suspects died in police custody over a three-year period, half of them killed by officers as they scuffled or attempted to flee.
By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele October 2007
Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing
Judge blocks illegal worker crackdown
By Leonard Anderson 10 October 2007
A federal court judge blocked a key part of the Bush administration’s stepped-up efforts to crack down on illegal immigrant workers and those who employ them.
Rendition victim is denied justice in US
By Jim Lobe 11 October 2007
The US Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a German citizen who was allegedly abducted, detained and tortured by the CIA.
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
By Carl Hulse 9 October 2007
Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
Security Guards Kill Two Women In Baghdad
By Mariam Karouny and Haider Salahuddin 9 October 2007
Private security guards escorting a convoy of four vehicles through central Baghdad shot dead two women in a car on Tuesday.
Secrets of the Justice Department
By Anthony D. Romero 4 October 2007
Bush-Gonzales Justice Department vastly exceeded what others might only dream up in their most creative fiction.
By Ghada Karmi 15 September 2007
After nearly 60 years, Israel is still not at peace with most of its neighbours.
Returning the compliment Iran brands US Army, CIA as ‘terrorist’
By Wire Service 29 September 2007
Iranian MPs on Saturday branded the US Army and the Central Intelligence Agency as terrorist.
Fired Blackwater Guard Found More Work
By Richard Lardner 5 October 2007
The State Department may have withheld critical information from the Pentagon about a fired Blackwater USA guard.
By Katrina Vanden Heuvel 2 October 2007
The Bush administration may be developing a strategy to blame Iran for the disaster in Iraq in order to rally support for an attack on Iranian targets.
Iraq’s Top Corruption Judge Testifies; GOPers Attack
By David Corn 5 October 2007
Iraq’s top anticorruption official appeared before the House government oversight committee and described what had become of people who had worked for him at the Commission on Public Integrity as they investigated crime and fraud within the Iraqi government.
By Jeff Chester 1 February 2006
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
US expands Afghan base at Bagram
By The Associated Press 6 October 2007
Six years after the first U.S. bombs began falling on Afghanistan’s Taliban government and its al-Qaeda guests, America is planning for a long stay.
By Helen Thomas 4 October 2007
Bush has no better friends than the spineless Democratic congressional leadership and the party’s leading presidential candidates when it comes to his failing Iraq policy.
‘State Secrets’ Case May Get Airing
By David G. Savage 8 October 2007
The ACLU’s lawyers say the high court should not permit the “government to engage in torture, declare it a state secret and . . . avoid any judicial accountability.”
Bush: ‘This government does not torture’
By (CNN) 5 October 2007
Bush on Friday defended his administration’s methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, insisting, “This government does not torture people.”
Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren’t Torture
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg 5 October 2007
Bush, reacting to a Congressional uproar over the disclosure of secret Justice Department legal opinions permitting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, defended the methods.
Details In The Blackwater Shootings Don’t Mesh With Firm’s Version
By James Glanz & Alissa J. Rubin 3 October 2007
It started out as a family errand: Ahmed Haithem Ahmed was driving his mother, Mohassin, to pick up his father from the hospital where he worked as a pathologist. As they approached Nisour Square at midday on Sept. 16, they did not know that a bomb had gone off nearby or that a convoy of four armored vehicles carrying Blackwater guards armed with automatic rifles was approaching.
By The Associated Press 3 October 2007
President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children’s health insurance.
Blank Check for Domestic Spying
By Marjorie Cohn 2 October 2007
Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration in August, the Democrat-led Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of Americans.
Bolivia’s Evo Morales Wins Hearts and Minds in US
By Deborah James and Medea Benjamin 1 October 2007
While Iranian President Ahmedinejad stole the headlines during the United Nations meeting last week in New York, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales stole the hearts of the American people.
Senate authorizes more war funding
By The Associated Press 2 October 2007
Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Administration’s plan for Iran
By Seymour M. Hersh 1 October 2007
In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran.
By Stephen Zunes 1 October 2007
American religious leaders and scholars met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York. In what was billed as an inter-faith dialogue, we frankly shared our strong opposition to certain Iranian government policies and provocative statements made by the Iranian president. At the same time, we avoided the insulting language employed by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger.
By Thom Shanker 1 October 2007
The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006.
Iraq Unites Against Partitioning
By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman 1 October 2007
Iraq’s divided political leadership skewered a non-binding U.S. Senate resolution approved in Washington, D.C., last week that endorses the decentralization of Iraq.
By Katrina Vanden Heuvel 1 October 2007
It is a systemic problem for a democracy to link corporate profits and war-making. There are now more contractors than soldiers in Iraq.
By Dave Lindorff 12 September 2007
The issue, which should be of concern to Democrats, Republicans and independents alike, is illegal spying on Americans by the National Security Agency.
Bush, Oil and Moral Bankruptcy
By Ray McGovern 30 September 2007
It is about oil—unabashedly and shamefully. Even to those lacking experience with US policy in the Middle East, it should have been obvious early on, when every one of Bush’s senior national security officials spoke verbatim from the talking-point sheet, ‘It’s not about oil’, says Ray McGovern.
US: Iraqi civilians’ deaths part of ‘war on terror’
By Middle East Online 30 September 2007
US says military regrets if women, children killed in Baghdad raid but strikes aimed at insurgents.
By Daniel Ellsberg 28 September 2007
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.
U.S. Secret Air War Pulverizes Afghanistan and Iraq
By Conn Hallinan 22 September 2007
According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan’s Pakitka Province and slammed into a Madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people were dead.
