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Protests Sweep Latin America as Bush Begins Five-Nation Tour; Colombian Opposition Leader Gustavo Petro Defies Threats to Challenge Ties Between Death Squads and US-Allied Colombian Government; Council on Hemispheric Affairs’ Larry Birns on Bush’s Trip to Latin America: “A Matter of Low Expectations and Utter Despair”; As Bush Admin Keeps Kidnap, Torture Victim Maher Arar on “No-Fly List,” New Play Brings Arar’s Ordeal to the Stage; Tacoma Peace Activists Stage Blockade of Stryker Vehicles Headed for Iraq;

2007-03-09

Protests Sweep Latin America as Bush Begins Five-Nation Tour

Protests have broken out across Latin America as President Bush begins a five-nation tour. In Brazil, over 30,000 people took to the streets of Sao Paulo Thursday with more underway in Uruguay, Col...

Colombian Opposition Leader Gustavo Petro Defies Threats to Challenge Ties Between Death Squads and US-Allied Colombian Government

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe -- the closest U.S. ally in Latin America -- has been mired in scandal. Eight lawmakers from Uribe’s party and his former domestic intelligence chief have rec...

Council on Hemispheric Affairs’ Larry Birns on Bush’s Trip to Latin America: “A Matter of Low Expectations and Utter Despair”

To talk more about President Bush’s visit to Latin America, Council on Hemispheric Affairs director Larry Birns joins us in Washington. COHA calls the trip “a matter of low expectations...

As Bush Admin Keeps Kidnap, Torture Victim Maher Arar on “No-Fly List,” New Play Brings Arar’s Ordeal to the Stage

Despite his exoneration by the Canadian government, the Bush administration is keeping Maher Arar on a terrorist watch list despite requests from the Canadian government to remove him. Arar was sei...

Tacoma Peace Activists Stage Blockade of Stryker Vehicles Headed for Iraq

Peace activists in Tacoma, Washington have launched a campaign to prevent the military from shipping 300 Stryker armored vehicles to Iraq. The protests are expected to intensify this weekend as a...

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