November 17, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day -- Fueled by a widespread feeling of a deteriorating standard of living in Mexico, the government’s firing of 44,000 electricity workers, members of the county’s most combative and independent union, SME (Mexican Electrical Union), became catalyst for a movement of people deeply angry at both an unfair economic system, and towards a president who, most studies admit, used fraud to win the elections in 2006.
November 17, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Honduran Congress Will Rule on Zelaya After Vote -- Honduran lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after upcoming presidential elections, the congressional leader said Tuesday, a decision that could undermine international support for the vote.
November 12, 2009 CommonDreams.org [Regions > Brazil]
	Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest -- Brazil houses the largest expanse of tropical wilderness remaining on the globe, claiming 60% of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a vast and remote stretch which thirty years ago only Indians and wild animals roamed. Today, ranchers and sawmill owners in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks speed past new stores selling chain saws, construction materials, and farm equipment.
November 12, 2009 Democracy Now! [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	US Criticized for Collapse of Honduras Deal -- In Honduras, the Obama administration is facing growing criticism for the apparent collapse of an agreement to resolve the Honduran political crisis.
November 10, 2009 Reuters AlertNet [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	CRS RESPONDS: NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR DEVESTATED BY HURRICANE -- Aid comes to Nicaragua and El Salvador after hurricane Ida roared through Central America leaving over a 130 dead and thousands displaced.
November 10, 2009 Toward Freedom [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	The Peru Shoot Down: The CIA, DynCorp, and Why the Truth May Not Come Out -- Among the five cases of intelligence operation cover up currently being investigated by the US House Intelligence Committee is the 2001 shoot down of a small plane in Peru, resulting in the death of a Baptist missionary from Michigan and her 7-month-old daughter. The CIA inspector general has already concluded that the CIA improperly concealed information about the incident.
November 09, 2009 Reuters [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Colombia turns to U.N., OAS after Venezuela war talk -- Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the U.N. Security Council and the OAS after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighboring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.
November 09, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Electrical Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon Government -- A union leader's account of the recent events in the Mexican Union of Electricity workers (SME), and the electricity company Fuerzas y Luces, after 6,000 federal police and soldiers occupied it on 10 October. President Felipe Calderon then liquidated the company and its union, the SME, leaving 44,000 workers unemployed.
November 09, 2009 Democracy Now! [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: Talks Are Off with Coup Government After Deal Collapses -- Amy Goodman follows developments in Honduras, where an American-mediated accord to end the four-month political crisis in the country appears to be in shambles just a week after it was signed, and speaks to President Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy.
November 09, 2009 ChevronToxico [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Fraud in Ecuadorian Oil Battle -- The long running environmental case against oil giant Chevron over its activities in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador gained momentum recently, when two Chevron lawyers committed fraud in their testimony.
November 08, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced in Honduras; Deal "Dead" -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead", after de facto leader Roberto Micheletti announced late Thursday that he had formed a "government of unity and reconciliation" without the participation of the deposed president.
November 05, 2009 MSNBC [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	Ida batters Nicaragua, then weakens -- Ida weakened back into a tropical storm on Thursday after ripping into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm.
November 04, 2009 Reuters [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Colombia spars with Venezuela in growing crisis -- Colombia on Wednesday warned Venezuela not to brush aside last month's deaths of nine Colombians on the border as paramilitary gang violence, an incident that fueled tensions between the Andean neighbors.
November 03, 2009 CommonDreams.Org [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	Twenty Years After Iran-Contra, Washington’s Role In Nicaragua Still a Scandal -- Imagine Osama bin Laden visiting the United States ten or 15 years from now, telling Americans who to vote for if they want to avoid getting hurt. It would never happen, but in Nicaragua something very similar is happening in the run-up to their election on November 5.
November 02, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	US Oil Company Threatened with Eviction from Amazon -- Indigenous people have threatened to evict a US company, Hunt Oil, exploring for oil on their ancestral land in the Peruvian Amazon.
October 30, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Agreement to End Honduran Coup Marks Victory and Challenge -- On the night of Oct. 29, Honduras' de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote to "restore full executive power prior to June 28". Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran coup appears to be facing its final days.
October 29, 2009 ChevronToxico [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	American Who Shot Secret Videos for Chevron in Ecuador Is Convicted Drug Trafficker -- Wayne Hansen, the American businessman who helped make the secret videos being used by Chevron in an attempt to taint an environmental trial where the company faces a $27 billion liability, is a convicted felon who was charged with conspiring to import more than 275,000 pounds of marijuana from Colombia to the United States, according to a search of public records.
October 29, 2009 Toward Freedom [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food -- Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally.
October 27, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexico's Utility Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA -- At midnight on Octover 10, President Felipe Calderon issued an executive decree to liquidate the company and its union, one of the strongest and most vocal independent unions in the nation. Ironically, the current economic crisis provided the Calderon Administration its strategic opportunity to cut the underfunded company and malign the union.
October 27, 2009 Amazon Watch [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Incoming Chevron Chief Toes Company Line on Ecuador Oil Pollution Case During Debut in Nation's Capital -- Supporters of Amazon residents who are suing Chevron for environmental cleanup put $27 Billion contamination case front and center during CEO-to-be John Watson's Chamber of Commerce visit.
October 27, 2009 Toward Freedom [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Ecuador: The Battle for Natural Resources Deepens -- A new indigenous uprising began in defense of water sources threatened by open air mining in Ecuador in late September. This time indigenous organizations find themselves up against a government that claims to be anti-neoliberal, a player in the "socialism of the 21st century," and one that has begun a "citizen's revolution."
October 22, 2009 Amazon Watch [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Ecuadorian Indigenous Mobilization Results in Government Negotiations, Strengthened Movement -- The last few weeks in Ecuador, characterized by indigenous mass action and protests and which culminated in a formal agreement between the indigenous leaders and the president of Ecuador, have marked the beginning of a promising new phase in relations between the government and the country's indigenous populations.
October 20, 2009 The Guardian [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	Nicaragua court allows Ortega to seek new term in 2011 -- Leftist Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega appears to have won the right to seek re-election in 2011, though opponents call the decision illegal and vow to fight it.
October 19, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Community on the Airwaves: End to Dictatorship Media Law in Argentina -- Like the United States, media laws in Argentina favor big corporations over small community groups. But this changed recently when Argentina passed a media law which will radically transform media ownership regulations.
October 19, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	The Neoliberal Crusade For Resources on Indigenous Lands in the Peruvian Amazon -- Despite the repeal of Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s controversial executive decrees that attempted to open Peru to foreign investment, it appears as though the Amazon is still very much for sale.
October 16, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	Peru: Gov't Seeks Legal Shield for Security Forces -- The Peruvian government has moved to protect the armed forces and police against investigations for crimes committed in the line of duty, especially in areas convulsed by social protests.
October 12, 2009 Common Dreams [The Latest News]
	Premature Peace Prize or Call to Action? -- Medea Benjamin and Kevin Martin of Peace Action respond to President Barack Obama's recent Nobel Peace Prize Award.
October 12, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexico shuts troubled energy firm -- Mexico has closed a state-run energy distribution firm with about 40,000 employees and 25 million customers, blaming the scale of its losses.
October 12, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Honduran Accords Hung Up on Zelaya's Reinstatement -- Talks between representatives of the coup regime and the constitutional government of President Manuel Zelaya reached consensus on eight of nine points yesterday. But the missing point is the same one that that has has held up any agreement to end the stand-off since Day One of the coup d'état over three months ago.
October 10, 2009 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Argentina Enacts Law on Broadcasters -- Argentina enacted a controversial law on Saturday that gives the government more control over the broadcast media.