NACLA Update 11/13/08 - Afro Latino Voices for Obama, Colombia's Magic Laptops




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Another Economic Casualty: Mexican Remittances
by Zach Dyer

Remittances, the money immigrants send to their home countries, have become an essential economic lifeline for several Latin American nations. Mexico receives more remittances from migrants in the United States than any country in the world. But amid a tanking U.S. economy, the amount Mexicans are sending home dropped this year for the first time on record. Strangely, while Mexico reels, remittances to Central American countries have continued to rise—for now.
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Afro-Latino Voices Shout: Obama! Obama!
by Karen Juanita Carrillo

The election of Barack Obama sent shock-waves of pride and excitement through communities of African descent in Latin America. From Colombia to Cuba, and Peru to Venezuela, Afro-Latino activists celebrated Obama's victory at the polls as their own. Although activists noted the symbolic power of an Obama presidency, some questioned whether his administration would change U.S. policies negatively affecting their communities and nations.
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Officers Fired Over Executions Received U.S. Training and Funds
by John Lyndsay-Poland

Several high-ranking Colombian army officers recently dismissed over the practice of executing innocent civilians to pump up the army's guerrilla-body-count numbers received military training at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas (SOA). Some of the commanders even served as teachers at the SOA, and despite well-documented abuses, their units continued to receive millions in U.S. military assistance under Plan Colombia.
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From the newest NACLA Report

November/December 2008: Terror Incognita

Colombia's Magic Laptops
by Daniel Denvir

Since the Colombian government bombed a guerrilla camp on Ecuadoran soil on March 1, it has orchestrated a highly effective media campaign backed by material allegedly found on laptops belonging to a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The laptops were used almost immediately after the raid to implicate both the Ecuadoran and Venezuelan governments in drug-trafficking and "terrorist" connections to the FARC.
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