El Salvador: Monsignor Romero, 30 years Later

Monday 5th April 2010, by James Rodríguez - Mimundo.org

“On Monday, March 24th, 1980, Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, Archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated while giving a mass in the chapel of the Divina Providencia Hospital. He was gunned down by a professional sniper who fired a single caliber 22 shot from a red vehicle parked outside the small church.” (1)

The Land Lugo Promised: Paraguayan Farmers Mobilise for Agrarian Reform

Sunday 28th March 2010, by Benjamin Dangl/Upside Down World

Thousands of Paraguayan farmers raised their clubs, fists and placards into the air while marching through the streets of Asunción, the capital city, on Thursday, March 25. The farmers demanded that President Fernando Lugo follow through on his campaign promises for agrarian reform, including the distribution of land to poor farmers, and access to health care, education, better homes and roads for rural communities.

[State Department campaign denies the systemic repression that continues, nine months after coup.]

U.S. Covering up Reality in Honduras

Thursday 8th April 2010, by Jesse Freeston - The Real News

[A media focus on Hugo Chávez means the voices of the Venezuelan government's grassroots supporters are rarely heard. Click here to view a Spanish translation of this article.]

Venezuela Deserves a Fair Hearing

Sunday 11th April 2010, by Pablo Navarrete - Comment is Free (The Guardian)

[By failing to recognise why national self-determination is important, the US hinders global economic and social progress.]

The Great US foreign Policy Flaw

Thursday 8th April 2010, by Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian (Comment is Free)

U.S. and Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves

Thursday 1st April 2010, by Dan Kovalik - The Huffington Post

The biggest human rights scandal in years is developing in Colombia, though you wouldn't notice it from the total lack of media coverage here.

Afro-cuban jazz from saxophonist Tony Martinez

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MARCH 2010

Chile's Billionaire President Piñera Gets a Raise

Wednesday 24th March 2010, by Benjamin Witte-Lebhar - Upside Down World

Chile’s billion dollar man, Sebastian Piñera, has a US$30 billion dollar problem on his hands. That’s the estimated price tag of damage caused by the monster 8.8-magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc on Chile Feb. 27, less than two weeks before Piñera was inaugurated president.

One of two episodes devoted to the Latin side of soul music.

Watch it here:

http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/04/november-15-1972/