NACLA Update 05/21/09 - USAID in Bolivia / Militarization in Mexico




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Building a Transnational Peasant Movement
by Annette Aurélie Desmarais

La Vía Campesina movement continues to grow worldwide. Last October, the movement held its Fifth International Conference in Mozambique, strengthening its presence in Africa. A few years earlier, the organization's headquarters was moved to Jakarta and is now under the leadership of the Indonesian Peasant Union, making inroads in Asia, where the majority of the world's rural peoples live. While Latin American organizations continue to play an important leadership role in La Vía Campesina.
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USAID's Silent Invasion in Bolivia
by Eva Golinger

Recently declassified documents obtained by investigators Jeremy Bigwood and Eva Golinger reveal that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has invested more than $97 million in "decentralization" and "regional autonomy" projects and opposition political parties in Bolivia since 2002, showing USAID has funded and fomented separatist projects promoted by regional governments in Eastern Bolivia.
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Megaprojects and Militarization: A Perfect Storm in Mexico
by Todd Miller

Recent events perhaps demonstrate what a Bush administration official meant when he said that Washington planned the "armoring" of NAFTA. As Mexican security budgets inflate with U.S. military aid, rights groups say security forces are increasingly targeting activist and community groups opposed to foreign-financed and government-backed megaprojects. In the southern state of Oaxaca, these resource conflicts seem inevitable.
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