By Noam Chomsky - Znet

Regional integration of the kind that has been slowly proceeding for several years is a crucial prerequisite for independence, making it more difficult for the master of the hemisphere to pick off countries one by one. For that reason it is causing considerable distress in Washington, and is either ignored or regularly distorted in the media and other elite commentary.

Headlines from Latin American News/Noticias de Latinoamérica

CIDA funded numerous groups in Haiti that aided and abetted the 2004 overthrow of that country's democratically-elected government and then backed the vicious, coup-installed dictatorship that reigned for the next two years.

We have just received the shocking news that Dr. Maryse Narcisse, member of the National Commission of the Fanmi Lavalas Party, has been kidnapped. Dr. Narcisse and her driver, Delano Morel, were abducted near her home in Port-au-Prince.

Dr. Narcisse is a medical doctor and long-time advocate for democracy in Haiti. She has been in the forefront of efforts to provide community-based health care and education for all Haitians.

Supporters of exiled former President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Haiti's capital on Sunday,
demanding the ousted leader's return and accusing President Rene
Preval of turning his back on his one-time ally.

While Latin America is fast moving in progressive directions...in contrast the United States, at least since the Reagan era, has been moving step by step toward a Fascism for the 21st Century. And the pace has quickened in the last six years of Republican government under George W. Bush...

In March 1979, socialist leader Maurice Bishop took over Grenada in a bloodless coup...The U.S. worked to destabilize the Bishop regime but, in early October 1983, he was ultimately deposed and later murdered by a group even more to the "Left" than he. That's when America decided to risk awakening this sleeping Caribbean flea by launching a preemptive military strike.

Incendio Publicacion! - English and Espanol
New Bi-lingual Anarchist Journal focused on Latin America!

Incendio is...

An endeavor that some of us have taken up to increase communication with anarchists in Latin America, network, learn from their struggles, illuminate opportunities for solidarity actions, provide a forum for Latin American anarchists to share ideas and analysis, break down the language barrier, and make support efforts more possible.

The United States is seriously worried about the impact the Venezuelan revolution is having in the rest of Latin America...the Bolivarian revolution has raised the hopes of the masses of workers and peasants throughout the continent and beyond. It has provided an example that it is possible to challenge the policies imposed by Washington.

Gay rights groups and others are decrying a decision by the Bahamas film control board to ban the gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain...The Rainbow Alliance, a gay advocacy group, called the ban a "farce," and said most Bahamians would agree that (a) small group of people should not “provide the moral compass for the entire country."

|By Moisés Montoya|Freedom Socialist|February 2006|

Montoya delivers a first person account of why Chicanos in the military - fighting racist wars (and any person for that matter) doesn't make sense, and how to show support for US students who are resisting recruiters in their schools.

“For Dominicans, the presence of foreign military troops on our soil is unacceptable ... even more so when these troops are from a nation that has invaded us militarily on two occasions on the pretext of ‘saving lives,’ with the result of thousands of deaths,”