Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Aulaqi, to stop the government from killing him. This case will not decide whether the US can legally assassinate US citizens or anybody else. This case is about whether the government can deny pro bono lawyers to US citizens who the government accuses of being terrorists. Once we win the right to be lawyers for his father, we will challenge the constitutionality of the US efforts to kill him.

Gary Prado Salmón quedó en la historia al arrestar al Che y a sus compañeros. El militar retirado aparentemente servía de asesor a una banda de mercenarios, liderada por el boliviano-croata Eduardo Rózsa Flores. La jueza de lo Penal de La Paz, Betty Yañíquez, ordenó el arresto domiciliario del ex general Gary Prado Salmón, el hombre responsable de la captura de Ernesto “Che” Guevara en 1967 en Bolivia. Además detuvo a otras dos personas por sus presuntos vínculos con un grupo terrorista que habría operado en la región oriental de Bolivia en 2008, un episodio que terminó con la revelación de un grupo de extrema derecha, con vinculaciones en el resto de América latina, incluidos ex carapintadas argentinos.

If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens -- and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because it's part of a pattern. For more than 15 months, evidence has mounted that President Obama routinely combines progressive rhetoric with contrary actions. As one bad decision after another has emanated from the Oval Office, some progressives have favored denial -- even though, if the name "Bush" or "McCain" had been attached to the same presidential policies, the same progressives would have been screaming bloody murder. But enabling bad policies, with silent acquiescence or anemic dissent, encourages more of them. At this point, progressive groups and individuals who pretend that Obama's policies merely need a few tweaks, or just suffer from a few anomalous deficiencies, are whistling past a political graveyard.

La nuestra es la tierna resistencia de sonrisas compartidas, de dolores que hermanan y de miradas que contagian horizontes… la nuestra es la tierna rabia, que resiste desde nuestras entrañas y nace como grito en esta tierra. Y entonces, mientras caminen los caminos hombres y mujeres verdaderos, la resistencia será la bella dama de compañía (o sea, la compañera) que danzará con los vientos, el baile eterno de la dignidad… innegable, innegociable, invendible.

Tras 15 meses de haber dictado sentencia, la Sala Constitucional de Costa Rica notificó este lunes el voto que le da la razón al Comité de Lucha por el Agua y el Desarrollo de Sardinal y a la organización ambientalista Confraternidad Guanacasteca, que se oponen a la construcción de un mega-acueducto. La sentencia respalda a ambas organizaciones que cuestionan la ilegal construcción del acueducto Sardinal - El Coco – Ocotal, para suministrar agua a condominios, centros comerciales, villas, hoteles y piscinas.

Traducción en español abajo Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: The Guardian Allegations against Goldman Sachs highlight the pressing need to break up big banks and introduce strict financial regulation by Dean Baker In the past few months we have learned a number of things about Goldman Sachs. In February, we found out that it played a [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: Rethinking Schools by Bill Bigelow An interview with historian Howard Zinn In 2008 Rethinking Schools and the Washington, D.C.-based education nonprofit Teaching for Change joined together to form the Zinn Education Project, dedicated to promoting the teaching of a people’s history in middle and high schools throughout the United [...]

Fuente: Página/12 por Sandra Russo 24 de marzo, 2010 Un abrazo es un acto que ya tiene varias dimensiones. Implica al menos a dos, porque un abrazo a sí mismo a cualquiera le suena a simio, a desfasado, a narcisista. El abrazo consiste de al menos dos: uno que abraza y otro que es abrazado. Son los brazos [...]

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso de Rebelión Entrevista a Sandra Gamboa, abogada de derechos humanos Fuente: Rebelión por Adolfo Mena Sandra Rocío Gamboa es abogada defensora de derechos humanos y forma parte del Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo, uno de los blancos recurrentes de las diatribas del presidente Uribe contra quienes defienden a las víctimas del terrorismo [...]

Traducción en español abajo Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Jonathan Cook Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be [...]