International Politics and Economics

summarized and translated from La Jornada
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Meeting between Calderon and Obama announced for May 19-20 in Washington D.C.

Notimex March 18, 2009

Mexico City- President Felipe Calderon will travel to Washington on May 19
and 20 for an official visit in where he will hold high-level talks with
his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama about common interests such as
cooperation against international crime.

The U.S.

A VIGIL TO REMEMBER THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO’S ASSASSINATION BY SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (SOA) GRADUATES
SINCE 1946 THE SOA/WHINSEC (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) HAS TRAINED LATIN AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND IN TURN GRADUATES FROM THIS FACILITY HAVE COMMITTED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA FUNDED BY YOUR U.S. TAX DOLLARS. WE WANT THE SOA/WHINSEC CLOSED AND A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO DOCUMENT ITS RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

From April 23rd through 25th, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) will hold their annual spring meetings in Washington, DC. The IMF/WB are responsible for saddling struggling economies with unmanageable debt, driving billions into deeper poverty through the imposition of (badly misnamed) “poverty reduction” programs, and threatening countries who refuse to follow their austerity programs with
economic blacklisting and isolation.

Getting over our federal addiction.

In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties (including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism) are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th.

Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup.

Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism. Meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, life expectancy is only to 45-years old, and adult illiteracy is 71%.

BEVERLY JOHNSON RUNS FOR COVER BACK 2 THE BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAT SHE & OJ BOTH ABANDONED.

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The anti-war movement in the United States has failed to respond to the war in Mexico. Mainstream media have only reported isolated stories of exceptional violence, promoting fear in racist tones.

The Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA)
invites you to the annual Rice & Beans Dinner and White Dove Awards