NACLA Update 4/22/10 - Climate Change Summit in Bolivia / Honduras and the Drug War




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Scenes From the People's Climate Change Summit in Bolivia
by The Democracy Center

Imagine you live in a slow and sleepy village where the cow population rivals that of people and suddenly some 10,000 people from all parts of the planet descend upon it—bearing slogans. Welcome to Tiquipaya for the People's Summit on Climate Change. This repost from the Bolivia-based Democracy Center's blog brings together the on-the-ground reporting from Jim Shultz, Elizabeth Cooper, and Jessica Camille Aguirre, who dare to grapple with the huge questions raised at the summit this week.
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Honduras and the Political Uses of the Drug War
by Nikolas Kozloff and Bill Weinberg

Soon after the June coup in Honduras, the de facto government unleashed a vigorous PR campaign against ousted president Manuel Zelaya, accusing him of being involved in drug trafficking. This linking of Zelaya to drugs remained a prominent feature of the coup government's propaganda during its seven-month reign, and offers an insight into the the many political uses of the drug war in the Americas, even to justify the overthrow of a democratically elected president.
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