country:el salvador

Abortion and Magical Thinking

http://www.thenation.com/article/174665/abortion-and-magical-thinking

It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to oppose legal abortion these days.

Ezra Caldwell / Interview / The Photographic Journal
http://thephotographicjournal.com/interviews/ezra-caldwell

belle interview du photographe new-yorkais Ezra Caldwell, où il parle notamment de #danse, de #photographie, de #vélo (il en fabrique), et de #cancer (il en meurt)
http://thephotographicjournal.com/assets/images/ezra-caldwell/cancer-faces.jpg

Abortion and birth control: A global map. - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/05/abortion_and_birth_control_a_global_map.html

Reproductive Rights Around the World
The complete global map of laws governing abortion and birth control.
By Chris Kirk, Charanya Krishnaswami, Katie Mesner-Hage, and Skye Nickalls

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p4p5ouq16mv8xd2/abortion.png

#cartographie #avortement #femmes #santé

Voici donc la carte vite brossée du résultat du vote sur le traité du commerce des armes le 3 juin 2013. Comme je ne l’ai vu nulle part, j’en ai fait une esquisse rapide. Et ça donne une image pas inintéressante.

Les raisons des abstentions et absences de plus ’une trentaine de pays expliqué dans ce long communiqué de l’ONU en anglais (version française là ----> ►http://www.un.org/News/fr-press/docs/2013/AG11354.doc.htm

Overwhelming Majority of States in General Assembly Say ‘Yes’ to Arms Trade Treaty to Stave off Irresponsible Transfers that Perpetuate Conflict, Human Suffering

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/ga11354.doc.htm

Voici donc la carte vite brossée du résultat du vote sur le trait du commerce des armes le 3 juin 2013

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gvh97wugyba7kw4/trait%C3%A9%20commerce%20armes%20small.jpg

To a burst of sustained applause, the General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly in favour of a “historic”, first-ever treaty to regulate the astonishing number of conventional weapons traded each year, making it more difficult for them to be diverted into the hands of those intent on sowing the seeds of war and conflict.

By a vote of 154 in favour to 3 against (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, Syria), with 23 abstentions, the Assembly passed the 28-article Arms Trade Treaty, aiming to establish the highest possible common international standards for the annual $70 billion business. The adoption follows the failure last week of the Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty to reach consensus on the text at the conclusion of its two-week session. (Please see annex for details of the voting.)

“The final text is, in my view, robust and actionable,” said General Assembly President Vuc Jeremić ( Serbia). It also was “groundbreaking”, in that arms-exporting countries would be legally bound to report arms sales and transfers. They would be obliged to assess whether the weapons they sold could be used to facilitate human rights abuses and humanitarian law violations.

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Vote on Arms Trade Treaty

The draft resolution on the Arms Trade Treaty (document A/67/L.58) was adopted by a recorded vote of 154 in favour to 3 against, with 23 abstentions, as follows:

In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, Uruguay, Zambia.

Against: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran, Syria.

Abstain: Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Oman, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Yemen.

Absent: Armenia, Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe.

##armement #onu #traité_commerce_armes

Conflit frontalier entre le Honduras et El Salvador
BBC News - La Nahuaterique : A village in limbo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22206085

There are not many villages that are neither in one country nor another, but La Nahuaterique was one, until the border between El Salvador and Honduras was settled in 1992. But while it is now in Honduras on paper, the reality is rather different.

Marcos Argueta climbs to the highest point in the village. “Over there is El Salvador,” he says, gesturing to a hazy blue volcano in the distance. “And over there, where the cornfields are, is Honduras.”

He shrugs. “In a way, we’re from neither here nor there. We’ve been abandoned by both.”

In 1969, the two countries went to war for four days, partly because El Salvador’s population had spilled into the ill-defined borderlands and built homes on land claimed by Honduras.

#frontières #amérique centrale #honduras #el-salvador

Le Venezuela ferme ses frontières avant la présidentielle (Le Monde avec AFP)
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/04/10/le-venezuela-ferme-ses-frontieres-avant-la-presidentielle_3156960_3222.html

Le Venezuela a ordonné, mardi 9 février, la fermeture des frontières et un dispositif de sécurité renforcé en vue de la présidentielle de dimanche, après avoir dénoncé un complot américain visant à assassiner le président par intérim et dauphin de Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro.

Bizarre, bizarre, El Nacional , pas vraiment suspect de sympathie pour le gouvernement ne mentionne pas la fermeture des frontières. Le ministre de l’intérieur et de la justice, Nestor Reverol Torres, a annoncé un renforcement de la surveillance car des indices montreraient que deux groupes de mercenaires en lien avec le Salvador opéreraient dans le pays. Il n’exclue pas des arrestations.

Reverol ofrece detalles sobre presunto « plan desestabilizador » denunciado por Maduro | http://el-nacional.com/tu_decides_2013/Reverol-presunto-desestabilizador-denunciado-Maduro_0_169183217.html

Indicó que arribaron al país dos grupos de mercenarios provenientes de El Salvador para llevar a cabo “acciones desestabilizadoras en el país” como “asesinatos en serie y sensación de inseguridad, para crear zozobra y perturbar la paz de los venezolanos de cara a las elecciones del 14 de abril”.

Par ailleurs, les deux autres titres du jour d’El Nacional :

• Nicolás Maduro, actuel président intérimaire, annonce une augmentation des salaires entre 35% et 45%, en trois fois d’ici la fin 2013… http://el-nacional.com/politica/Maduro-asegura-presidente-obrero_0_169183193.html

Nicolás Maduro, presidente encargado y candidato por el PSUV a las elecciones del próximo 14-A, prometió un aumento salarial «por tramos» para el año 2013: 20% en mayo, 10% adicional en septiembre y entre 5% y 10% en noviembre, según se comporte la inflación

• Henrique Capriles, candidat de l’opposition, lui, accuse Maduro de l’avoir copié pour l’augmentation et surtout que lui, ça sera en une seule fois, tout de suite et pas ce montant « minable »… http://el-nacional.com/politica/Capriles-decreto-aumento-salarial-pagado_0_169183257.html

Informó que el lunes 15, tras ganar las elecciones, decretará el aumento salarial. “Pagado de una vez, no en tres partes, ni ese aumento chucuto”, dijo.

Trained Killers, from the Americas to Afghanistan by Kelley B. Vlahos — Antiwar.com
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2013/03/18/trained-killers-from-the-americas-to-afghanistan

For most Americans the death squads and torture chambers that killed thousands in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua in the 1980’s are difficult to understand and easy to forget because, aside for an apology by President Bill Clinton in 1999 – the United States has never fully acknowledged nor taken responsibility for its role in them.

Très intéressant rappel : les méthodes des États-Unies au Moyen-Orient (torture, escadrons de la mort, terrorisme…) ont été largement appliquées par les mêmes en Amérique latine ; How the US exported its ’dirty war’ policy to Iraq – with fatal consequences | Murtaza Hussain (invité sur le blog de Glenn Greenwald)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/08/us-export-dirty-war-iraq

L’article commence, après l’évocation de la mort de Chavez, par une liste des exactions étasuniennes en Amérique latine :

Looking at the history of US engagement in Latin America, it becomes evident why such a situation exists. From overthrowing democratically elected leaders, operating death squads, and torturing civilians, the history of US involvement in the region has understandably helped create a widespread popular backlash that persists to this day.

et se conclut par la même liste d’exactions étasuniennes au Moyen-Orient :

Yet, the same discredited US policies of that era are now being repeated within the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. The use of torture, the patronage of sectarian proxy forces, and the facilitation of widespread human rights abuses all characterize US policy in the “war on terror”. Indeed, many of the same actors complicit in past crimes have returned to help develop and implement present US policy.

Le Pentagone derrière les centres de torture en Irak

http://www.courrierinternational.com/une/2013/03/07/le-pentagone-derriere-les-centres-de-torture-en-irak

►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link

Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link

The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.

Colonel James Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic shows.

After the Pentagon lifted a ban on Shia militias joining the security forces, the special police commando (SPC) membership was increasingly drawn from violent Shia groups such as the Badr brigades.

A second special adviser, retired Colonel James H Coffman, worked alongside Steele in detention centres that were set up with millions of dollars of US funding.

#irak #torture #états_unis

déjà signalé par Grommeleur ici
http://seenthis.net/messages/119682

Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link

The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.

#irak

Second Committee Approves Text Demanding End to Israel’s Exploitation of Natural Resources in Occupied Arab Lands
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/gaef3357.doc.htm

In other action today, the Committee approved — by a recorded vote of 152 in favour to 7 against (Australia, Canada, Federated States of Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, United States), with 3 abstentions (Cameroon, Colombia, Panama) — a draft resolution titled “Oil slick on Lebanese shores”.

By its terms, the Assembly would reiterate, for the seventh consecutive year, its deep concern over the destruction by the Israeli Air Force of oil storage tanks near Lebanon’s El-Jiyeh electric power plant due to its adverse implications for sustainable development in that country. By other terms, the Assembly would request that Israel assume responsibility for paying prompt and adequate compensation to Lebanon and Syria — whose shores had also been partially polluted — which should pay for the cost of restoring the marine environment and repairing environmental damage.

Following the vote, Israel’s representative said he was disappointed that the Committee had chosen to participate in “this annual ritual”. Year after year, the crucial work of the Committee had been “hijacked” by some delegations driven by narrow political motivations. The text failed to put the 2006 war into context, ignoring the fact that the Hizbullah terrorist organization had been the agitator, having launched rockets across international borders. It also ignored the fact that Hizbullah rockets killed and maimed Israelis, and failed to mention the destruction that those rockets caused in Israel, including damage to endangered fauna and flora caused by forest fires.

A lire ailleurs du 9 au 21 novembre 2012 | Internetactu
http://www.internetactu.net/2012/11/22/a-lire-ailleurs-du-9-au-21-novembre

. affordance.info : On a longtemps cru que le Pagerank … “Le Page Rank ne classe pas les pages web, il classe les gens, classe ceux qui publient, désigne le rang qu’occupe un individu qui publie.” Olivier Ertzchied . De la visibilité à l’attention : les musiciens sur Internet – Revue Réseaux – Cairn.info Irène Bastard observe comment les musiciens…

#A_lire_ailleurs

Non, l’Angleterre n’a pas envahi tous les pays du Monde : elle en a envahi 200, et oublié 22.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.h

The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries in the world found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British.

La carte de 21 des 22 pays qui n’ont pas été envahis par l’Angleterre :
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02388/BRITAIN_2388153b.jpg

Alors, tu te sens un petit peu nostalgique ? Tu vas ressortir ton plateau de Risk ?

Assassination Nation : Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones | Doug Noble (CounterPunch)
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/19/assassination-nation/print

In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century. Ironically, all this drone killing now offers us a new opportunity: to pry open the Pandora’s box hiding long-held secrets of covert US assassination and targeted killing, and to expose them to the light of day. What we would find is that the only things new in the latest, more publicized revelations about kill lists and assassinations are the use of drones, the president’s hands-on approach in vetting targets, and the global scope of the drone killing. Those of us in the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones, Code Pink and other groups protesting US drones for years have correctly focused on the use of drones as illegal, immoral and strategically counterproductive. We have abhorred the schizophrenic ease of remote killing, the uniquely frightening horror of a drone strike, and the unavoidable (even intentional) killing of countless civilian “terrorist suspects” in “signature strikes.” We have also warned of the proliferation of drones in countries around the globe and of their procurement by US police forces and border patrols, for surveillance and “non-lethal” targeting. (...) Source: (...)

À lire absolument dans Counterpunch : les « assassinats ciblés » tels que le scandale des drones et de la « kill list » les révèlent, ça dure depuis au moins 50 ans, et cet article nous plonge dans cette histoire occulte et sordide.
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/19/assassination-nation/print

In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century. Ironically, all this drone killing now offers us a  new opportunity: to pry open the Pandora’s box hiding long-held secrets of covert US assassination and targeted killing, and to expose them to the light of day. What we would find is that the only things new in the latest, more publicized revelations about kill lists and assassinations are the use of drones, the president’s hands-on approach in vetting targets, and the global scope of the drone killing.

Those of us in the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones, Code Pink and other groups protesting US drones for years have correctly focused on the use of drones as illegal, immoral and strategically counterproductive. We have abhorred the schizophrenic ease of remote killing, the uniquely frightening horror of a drone strike, and the unavoidable (even intentional) killing of countless civilian “terrorist suspects” in “signature strikes.” We have also warned of the proliferation of drones in countries around the globe and of their procurement by US police forces and border patrols, for surveillance and “non-lethal” targeting.

But drones are not the only, or even the most important, concern. It’s the targeted killing itself, past and present. In this article I start to unravel what the latest demands for transparency should lead us to investigate fully: the fifty year history of US assassination and targeted killing that has resulted, quite directly, in the present moment. Those who are mortified by the latest revelations of Obama’s kill list have much to learn from a more comprehensive, historical perspective on US killing around the globe.

Photos: Latin America Prisons (Plog)
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/03/19/photos-latin-america-prisons

A Honduran fire and a Mexican massacre have drawn new attention to deteriorating conditions at prisons in Latin America. Many of the prisons are stuffed over capacity, leaving inmates to string hammocks from the ceiling or bed down on the floor. Members of a gang known as the Mara 18 crowd into cells at the Izalco jail in Sonsonate, El Salvador while women Inmates wait in a cell at the Ilopango Women’s Prison in San Salvador. (...) Source: Plog

Photos: Latin America Prisons
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/03/19/photos-latin-america-prisons

Many of the prisons are stuffed over capacity, leaving inmates to string hammocks from the ceiling or bed down on the floor. Members of a gang known as the Mara 18 crowd into cells at the Izalco jail in Sonsonate, El Salvador while women Inmates wait in a cell at the Ilopango Women’s Prison in San Salvador.

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-314290/cache/prison01.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.JPG

Members of a gang known as the Mara 18 crowd into cells at the Izalco jail in Sonsonate, El Salvador. A Honduran fire and a Mexican massacre have drawn new attention to deteriorating conditions at prisons in Latin America, many of which are stuffed over capacity, leaving inmates to string hammocks from the ceiling or bed down on the floor. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)

#photographie

Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America - seattlepi.com
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mystery-disease-kills-thousands-in-Central-America-3288301.php

A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else. Scientists say they have received reports of the phenomenon as far north as southern Mexico and as far south as Panama.
(...)
Many of the victims were manual laborers or worked in sugar cane fields that cover much of the coastal lowlands. Patients, local doctors and activists say they believe the culprit lurks among the agricultural chemicals workers have used for years with virtually none of the protections required in more developed countries. But a growing body of evidence supports a more complicated and counterintuitive hypothesis.
The roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures, pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat stress for years on end. Many start as young as 10. The punishing routine appears to be a key part of some previously unknown trigger of chronic kidney disease,

le #travail (c’est pas la) #santé #cdp #chimie #agriculture

L’option El Salvador | bluetouff
http://reflets.info/option-el-salvador

L’ambassadeur Américain en Syrie, Robert Stephen Ford, aurait été en charge du recrutement d’escadrons de la mort pour aller affronter les forces de Bachar El Assad en Syrie. Ces mercenaires seraient, selon le site Opinion Maker, affiliés aux branches Afghannes, Tchétchènes, Iraquiennes et Yemenites d’Al Quaeda. L’ambassadeur Ford aurait dans le passé oficié aux côtés de John Negroponte, figure bien connue de la diplomatie US en Amérique centrale puisqu’il occupa le poste d’ambassadeur du Honduras entre 1981 et 1985 et s’illustra notamment en armant les contras nicaraguayennes et supporta des milices paramilitaires au Salvador et au Honduras où il acquis le charmant sobriquet de « Mr Death Squad ». L’option « El Salvador » est donc une stratégie bien rodée d’enrôlement de mercenaires que Robert Stephen Ford se vit charger d’implémenter en Iraq où le site l’accuse d’avoir mené des actions para-militaires, notamment proche de la frontière syrienne. Depuis l’ambassadeur américain en poste en

240 #Wikileaks cables on pharmaceutical data exclusivity | Knowledge Ecology International
http://keionline.org/node/1210
#cablegate #pharma via @jamie_love

Guatemala becomes killing field as drug wars spread through Central America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/28/guatemala-town-mexico-narco-wars

Twenty-seven farm labourers were decapitated and had their heads strewn across a field one recent night, but ask neighbours and they reply with blank looks and apologetic shrugs, as if it happened in a distant land.

C’est l’occasion de vous suggérer la lecture de l’intéressant

The Candy Machine : how cocaïne took over the world

de Tom Feiling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/05/candy-machine-tom-feiling-review

#WikiLeaks #cablegate: #McDonald's used US to put pressure on El #Salvador The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-mcdonalds-us-el-salvador

McDonald’s tried to delay the US government’s implementation of a free-trade agreement in order to put pressure on El Salvador to appoint neutral judges in a $24m (£15.5m) lawsuit it was fighting in the country. The revelation of the McDonald’s strategy to ensure a fair hearing for a long-running legal battle against a former franchisee comes from a leaked US embassy cable dated 15 February 2006.