• Colombia Watch from Znet.  The latest articles and background information.

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Ernesto Che Guevara

• Granma, Cuban newspaper, English Version, international website.

• Fidel Castro's May Day speech, May 1, 2003.

• Statement of Conscience to the World, signed by 160 intellectuals, including four Nobelists, in support of Cuba against a possible U.S. invasion, May 1, 2003.

• Fidel Castro details U.S. provocations in escalation of hijackings.

• Operation Carlota, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Laureate and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude). This article was written in 1976 and was widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines around the world.  It provides a history of Cuban support and defense of Angola against Apartheid South African Troops with U.S. backing.

• Click here to sign a petition to end the embargo and travel ban.

Mexico

 "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" --Emiliano Zapata

• Chiapas Watch from Znet "Welcome to ZNet Chiapas Watch, where you will find translated writings of the EZLN, analysis of the conflict and of connections with other struggles..."

United States

"The US has about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population... In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford the luxury of altruism and world benefaction...We should cease to talk about such vague and--for the Far East--unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." --George Kennan, U.S. State Department 1948 Policy Planning Study (PPS) 23 FRUS 1948, I (part 2)

• Weapons of Mass Destruction, International Weapons Treaties, Weapons Treaty Violations See also, Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who's The Biggest Rogue Of All? by Richard Du Boff; August 07, 2003.

• A list of U.S. military invasions from 1899 to 2001, compiled by Zoltan Grossman for Znet.

• Parallels between the U.S. Invasion of Viet Nam and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, by Ramin Vakilian, CSUN

• The Iran Contra Scandal: Historical Summary.  Declassified documents establish covert U.S. government narcotics trafficking to support terrorist activities of the Nicaraguan Contras.  Read a concise summary of the Iran-Contra Affair.  Leading figures in the Iran-Contra scandal have prominent posts in the George W. Bush administration.  For background read, "Iran-Contra gangsters resurface in Bush administration."

• Spying, Secrecy and the University: The CIA is Back on Campus,  By David N. Gibbs.  This is a history of the CIA's involvement with U.S. universities.

• Torture, killing, and mistreatment of Afghan prisoners by U.S. forces. Guantanamo Detainees Reports by Human Rights Watch, including information on detention of Afghan children as young as 13. Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base, Guardian Newspaper, March 7, 2003.

• Hugo Chavez is Crazy!, by Greg Palast, July 1, 2003, The Observer.

• Venezuela Watch from Znet. Venezuela is the site of a Latin American government that has shown a desire for democratic and social reform and an independent foreign policy.  This has made it an enemy of the United States.  This site covers the US-supported coup in Venezuela of April 2002, and news on the situation in Venezuela before and since, including the general strike of Dec 2002.