Links but No Update for January 6, 2013

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

Falklands fracas flares amid Antarctic anxieties (Argentina)
http://ww4report.com/node/11856

Chile: Mapuches Still Fighting Pinochet-Era Highway Project
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/chile-archives-34/4055-chile-mapuches-still-fighting-pinochet-era-highway-project

Video Advocacy and Forced Evictions in Brazil: An Interview With Tiago Donato
http://nacla.org/news/2013/1/3/video-advocacy-and-forced-evictions-brazil-interview-tiago-donato

Peace Talks Between FARC and the Santos Government: “Meterle más Pueblo” (Colombia)
http://nacla.org/blog/2013/1/1/peace-talks-between-farc-and-santos-government-%E2%80%9Cmeterle-m%C3%A1s-pueblo%E2%80%9D

‘Learning to Govern Ourselves’: Venezuela’s National Network of Commoners
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/venezuela-archives-35/4049-learning-to-govern-ourselves-venezuelas-national-network-of-commoners-

Venezuela After Chavez’s Victory
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/4056-venezuela-after-chavezs-victory-

Venezuela without Chavez: A Possible Scenario
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7588

U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, by Privatization This Time
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/el-salvador-archives-74/4057-us-intervention-in-el-salvador-by-privatization-this-time-

Guatemala - Mayan Oxlajuj Baktun: End of an Era, More of the Same
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/guatemala-archives-33/4053-guatemala-mayan-oxlajuj-baktun-end-of-an-era-more-of-the-same

Guatemala: Impunity, or Justice for Crimes of the Past?
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/4058-guatemala-impunity-or-justice-for-crimes-of-the-past

Radio Documentary - Communities in the Crosshairs: The Drug War in Guatemala
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/4054-eviction-of-triqui-protest-camp-in-oaxaca-results-in-death-of-a-newborn

“We Are Here”: Zapatistas Send Silent Message With the Return of the PRI (Mexico)
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/8775

Oaxaca: indigenous protest camp eviction (Mexico)
http://ww4report.com/node/11858

Eviction of Triqui Protest Camp in Oaxaca Results in Death of a Newborn (Mexico)
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/4054-eviction-of-triqui-protest-camp-in-oaxaca-results-in-death-of-a-newborn

Taking Stock Three Years Later: A Prelude (Haiti)
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/taking-stock-three-years-later-a-prelude

Haiti’s Increasingly Hidden Displacement Disaster
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/haitis-increasingly-hidden-displacement-disaster

“A Dark Truth” Disrespects Latin American Struggles for Water Rights (US)
http://nacla.org/blog/2013/1/4/%E2%80%9C-dark-truth%E2%80%9D-disrespects-latin-american-struggles-water-rights

Note: An interview with Weekly News Update co-editor David Wilson appears in From Disaster to Hope, a series of interviews conducted by Nicole Titus with people affected by the 2010 earthquake in southern Haiti. Available at:
http://www.amazon.com/From-Disaster-Hope-Interviews-ebook/dp/B009E52X66

He will be speaking at a forum in New York City on the third anniversary of the earthquake on January 12, 2013. More information at:
http://nycal.mayfirst.org/node/13401
and http://www.facebook.com/events/512833625416529/