Monday, May 21, 2012

Links but No Update for May 20, 2012

[There is no Update this week; we'll be back next week. Below are links to stories from other sources.]

Buenos Aires Offers Same-Sex Marriage to Foreign Couples
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3642-buenos-aires-offers-same-sex-marriage-to-foreign-couples

Repsol Sues Argentina for $10 Billion Over YPF Nationalization
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15729

Belo Monte: Brazil's Damned Democracy
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3638-belo-monte-brazils-damned-democracy-

Chile’s Native Communities Find Ally in Supreme Court; Canadian Mining Project Halted
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3632-chiles-native-communities-find-ally-in-supreme-court-canadian-mining-project-halted

Chile Commemorates International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia
http://latindispatch.com/2012/05/17/chile-commemorates-international-day-against-homophobia-and-transphobia/

Israeli power company expands in Peru —but gets nationalized in Bolivia
http://ww4report.com/node/11096

Peru: army, cabinet shake-up in fallout from Amazon hostage crisis
http://ww4report.com/node/11094

Peru: Asháninka indigenous people fight hydro scheme in new war zone
http://ww4report.com/node/11095

Peru: Humala Takes Off His Gloves
http://nacla.org/news/2012/5/17/peru-humala-takes-his-gloves

Colombia: Community Takes on Uribe and Allies Over Controversial Tunnel
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/colombia-archives-61/3633-colombia-community-takes-on-uribe-and-allies-over-controversial-tunnel

Colombia's Resistance to Corporate Mining Excess has Lessons for the World
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3631-colombias-resistance-to-corporate-mining-excess-has-lessons-for-the-world

Venezuelan Authorities Regain Control of La Planta Prison after Violence
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6997

Venezuela demands extradition of exiled judge from US
http://ww4report.com/node/11089

CNN: The Latest Outlet for Roger Noriega’s Paranoid Speculations (Venezuela)
http://nacla.org/blog/2012/5/14/cnns-latest-outlet-roger-noriegas-paranoid-speculations

Consequences of the Military Occupation in Honduras
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3634-consequences-of-the-military-occupation-in-honduras

Honduras: A Violence, Repression and Impunity Capital of the World
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/3641-honduras-a-violence-repression-and-impunity-capital-of-the-world

Honduras: angry protests on Miskito Coast over US militarization
http://ww4report.com/node/11097

Collateral Damage (Honduras)
http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/collateral-damage.html

Honduras: campesinos protest hydro-electric plan that would flood their lands
http://ww4report.com/node/11098

Mexican Families March on Mother’s Day on Behalf of Disappeared Relatives
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/3637-mexican-families-march-on-mothers-day-on-behalf-of-disappeared-relatives

Mexico: crackdown on armed forces narco links?
http://ww4report.com/node/11099

Mexico: journalists targeted in wave of torture killings
http://ww4report.com/node/11100

Mexico’s Cananea Strikers: Fighting for the Right to a Union
http://www.inthesetimes.org/working/entry/13220/fighting_for_the_right_to_a_union_and_to_stay_in_mexico/

Another Score for the Tiger of the Monsanto Law (Mexico)
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/6840

Judge Rejects Declassification Of CIA Volume On Bay of Pigs (Cuba)
http://latindispatch.com/2012/05/15/judge-rejects-declassification-of-cia-volume-on-bay-of-pigs/

Streamlining the Border Patrol (Immigration)
http://nacla.org/blog/2012/5/16/streamlining-border-patrol

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