It’s time to draw borders on the #Arctic Ocean - Vox
#frontières #norvège #svalbard
#Haïti et #République_dominicaine
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvKeYuwifc
It’s time to draw borders on the #Arctic Ocean - Vox
#frontières #norvège #svalbard
#Haïti et #République_dominicaine
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvKeYuwifc
vu l’Arctique. Dernière phrase :
we can only hope that Russia continues to play by the rules.
On peut être certain que l’experte en géopolitique interviewée et sa brochette de conseillers veillent là dessus et s’activent de l’autre côté pour avancer les pions.
▻https://www.csis.org/about-us/counselors
Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf / Commission des Limites du Plateau Continental
… et donc #dorsale_de_Lomonossov #Lomonosov_Ridge (pas un mot là dessus…, c’est un truc pour les scientifiques de la #CLCS / #CLPC )
Oui, expert·es et point de vue US. Pour ce format magazine je trouve la réalisation quand même assez remarquable.
#cartographie_narrative
vu Haïti.
Tout à fait d’accord, excellente réalisation et avec, apparemment, des moyens limités.
à suivre…
Colombie-Venezuela
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0RqwweuWY
How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ps1TZXAN8
Edit : Facebook lance une expérimentation visant à excure les publications des pages d’éditeurs tiers de sa page d’accueil (Correspondance de la presse du 25/10/17)
►https://www.blogdumoderateur.com/facebook-posts-organiques-fil-explorer
Actuellement, seuls quelques pays sont concernés : la Slovaquie, le Sri Lanka, la Serbie, la Bolivie, le Guatemala, le Cambodge et a priori la Serbie et l’Indonésie, selon les témoignages de community managers qui gèrent des pages dans ces pays. Filip Struhárik, journaliste chez Denník N (un média slovaque), a effectué une analyse des interactions reçues par 60 médias slovaques sur Facebook, via l’outil Crowdtangle. Depuis la mise à jour Facebook, l’engagement a été divisé par quatre !
▻https://medium.com/@filip_struharik/biggest-drop-in-organic-reach-weve-ever-seen-b2239323413
Voir « vassalisation ».
Ecocide and modern slavery in the land of the Maya: the impact of oil palm cultivation in Guatemala - Equal Times
▻https://www.equaltimes.org/ecocide-and-modern-slavery-in-the?lang=en
It looks clean and exuberantly beautiful, but the lake is contaminated. And the lives of 700 people depend on this lake, all residents of the Manos Unidas (United Hands) Cooperative, a community that is part of the municipality of Sayaxché, in the Petén department, northern Guatemala.
Manos Unidas has become the last frontier of resistance to the advance of palm oil production in the region, as the only community that has hung on to its land; and that, say its residents, is because the lands are common property.
#huile_de_palme #Sayaxché #Manos_Unidas #résistance #terres #bien_commun
Le site internet de Manos Unidas :
Manos Unidas es la ONG de desarrollo de la Iglesia católica y de voluntarios, que trabaja para apoyar a los pueblos del Sur en su desarrollo y en la sensibilización de la población española. Nuestros ingresos provienen, en un 87,1 %, de fuentes privadas y en un 12,9 % del sector público.
▻http://www.manosunidas.org/etiquetas/guatemala
–-> une ONG espagnole liée à l’Eglise catholique
Les #réfugiés_érythréens ne sont pas les bienvenus en Suisse, mais l’or d’Erythrée, lui...
Schweizer Geschäfte mit einem geächteten Regime
Die Schweiz hat von 2011 bis 2013 für rund 400 Millionen Franken Rohgold aus Eritrea importiert. Schweizer Firmen haben es raffiniert und daraus Goldbarren gegossen.
Die #Bisha-Goldmine gehört zu 40 Prozent dem repressiven eritreischen Regime.
Ein ehemaliger Arbeiter der Mine lebt heute als Flüchtling in der Schweiz. Er erzählt von Zwangsarbeit beim Bau der Mine.
Aus keinem anderen Land kommen so viele Asylsuchende in die Schweiz wie aus Eritrea. Die Mine ist eine der wichtigsten Einnahmequellen des Regimes.
Asylpolitiker von links bis rechts kritisieren die Millionengeschäfte scharf.
▻https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/schweizer-geschaefte-mit-einem-geaechteten-regime?ns_source=srf_app?ns_source=sr
#or #matières_premières #Erythrée #Suisse #mines #travail_forcé #film #vidéo #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Lufthansa #Frankfurt #Nevsun
Accusation (provenant de la société civile canadienne selon SFR) de travail forcé dans la mine :
L’exploitant de la mine, Nevsun :
▻http://www.nevsun.com
Ici la description de la mine sur le site de l’entreprise :
Bisha Mine Location
On dit bien que :
The State of Eritrea has a 40% interest in the Bisha Mine through the #Eritrean_National_Mining_Company (#ENAMCO), 30% of which it bought from Nevsun prior to initial construction. As a result, ENAMCO contributed 33% of the initial build capital and, as a partner with Nevsun, has been integral to the success of the Bisha Mine. For more see About Eritrea.
Et toujours sur le site un chapitre consacré à « about Eritrea », où on parle notamment de l’infrastructure (définie comme « excellente ») qui permet de sortir les matières premières des mines :
L’histoire de l’Erythrée, pour Nevsun, s’arrête en 1993 :
Eritrea gained independence in 1993, after fighting for its freedom for over 30 years.
Et bien évidemment, on parle d’économie (un des pays les plus pauvres du monde), mais pas de politique...
Eritrea is largely an agriculture based economy and one of the poorest nations in the world. The country’s economy predominantly consists of:
cc @reka
Mining Company on Trial for Human Rights Abuses Appears to Lobby at the Human Rights Council (HRC)
Nevsun Mining Resources Ltd, based in Canada is cur rently facing a lawsuit initiated by more than 80 Eritrean plaintiffs, who contend they were victims of forced labour, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity at the company’s Bisha Mine in Eritrea. #Bisha Mine is owned 60-per-cent by Nevsun and 40-per-cent by Eritrean government.
Forced Labour and the appalling conditions in Bisha Mine have been documented by Human Rights Watch and the UN Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights in Eritrea. Yet the Todd Romain, the Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility of this company and his PR are at present in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) session where the current special rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea is due to deliver her final report, and a decision will be made regarding the renewal of the mandate.
Nevsun also participated in side events organized by the Eritrean Mission at the HRC on 16 June 2016 (▻http://www.eritrea-chat.com/eritrean-mining-conference-about-human-rights-in-geneva-16-june-2016) and on 8 March 2018 , and visited many Missions in Geneva despite the fact that this court case was already ongoing.
Human Rights Concern-Eritrea (HRCE) believes most strongly that it is inappropriate for a representative of a commercial corporation whose name has been raised in connection with human rights abuses during HRC debates and oral statements on the human rights in Eritrea, and which is currently the accused to court proceedings regarding human rights abuses, should be party to human rights side events, neither should it’s top representative give the appearance of lobbying country delegations about HRC initiatives that are directly concerned with its court case.
Eritrea has not implemented any of the UPR recommendations from the first and second cycles. The recommendations from the Commission of Inquiries and the Special Rapporteur have so far been ignored. No improvements in human rights in Eritrea have been identified in the last decade; 10,000 or more prisoners of conscience are still in detention and the violently enforced lifelong military service which prevails unreformed. Forced/slave labour have been used in all the government owned businesses including mining projects.
HRCE feels it important that country delegations and media are made fully aware of this issue, and advises that no further hearing should be given to any of Nevsun’s representatives pending a final court ruling on the human rights case.
▻http://hrc-eritrea.org/mining-company-on-trial-for-human-rights-abuses-appears-to-lobby-at-the
Nevsun lawsuit (re Bisha mine, Eritrea)
In November 2014, three Eritreans filed a lawsuit against Nevsun Resources in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They allege the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by Nevsun’s local sub-contractor, Segen Construction (owned by Eritrea’s ruling party), at the Bisha mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, headquartered in Vancouver, has denied the allegations. This lawsuit is the first in Canada where claims are based directly on violations of international law.
The plaintiffs, Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle, claim that they worked at the Bisha mine against their will and were subject to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”. They allege that they were forced to work long hours and lived in constant fear of threats of torture and intimidation. Nevsun has rejected the allegations as “unfounded” and declared that “the Bisha Mine has adhered at all times to international standards of governance, workplace conditions, and health and safety”.
In October 2016, the Supreme Court of British Colombia rejected Nevsun’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and ruled that the case should proceed in British Colombia as there were doubts that the plaintiffs would get a fair trial in Eritrea. Nevsun appealed the decision.
In November 2017, the British Columbia Court of Appeal rejected Nevsun’s appeal to dismiss the suit, thereby allowing the case to proceed in Canadian courts. The court also allowed claims of crimes against humanity, slavery, forced labour, and torture to go forward against Nevsun. This decision marked the first time an appellate court in Canada permitted a mass tort claim for modern slavery.
On 19 January 2018, Nevsun filed an application with the Canadian Supreme Court asking for permission to appeal the British Columbia ruling. There is no fixed time for the Supreme Court to decide whether to grant or deny such applications.
– “Nevsun appeals to Canada Supreme Court in Eritreans’ forced labor lawsuit”, Reuters, 26 Jan 2018
– “Court allows Eritrean mine workers to sue Nevsun”, Nelson Bennett, Business in Vancouver, 6 Oct 2016
– [Video] “Nevsun in Eritrea: Dealing With a Dictator”, CBC Radio-Canada, 12 Feb 2016
– [FR] «Une minière canadienne nie des allégations de travail forcé en Érythrée », Radio-Canada, 23 novembre 2014
– “Nevsun Denies Accusations of Human-Rights Abuses at Eritrea Mine”, Michael Gunn & Firat Kayakiran, Bloomberg, 21 Nov 2014
– “Nevsun Resources faces lawsuit over ‘forced labour’ in Eritrea”, Jeff Gray, Globe and Mail (Canada), 20 Nov 2014
Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ):
– “Vancouver court clears way for slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company to go to trial”, 6 Oct 2016
– “Eritreans file lawsuit against Canadian mining company for slave labour and crimes against humanity”, 20 Nov 2014
– [FR] « Des Érythréens intentent un recours contre une compagnie minière canadienne pour l’usage de main d’œuvre servile ainsi que pour des crimes contre l’humanité », 20 novembre 2014
– “Appeal court confirms slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company can go to trial”, 21 Nov 2017
Nevsun:
– “Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit”, 6 Oct 2016
– “Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit”, 21 Nov 2014
Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman [Counsel for the plaintiffs]
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on Forum Non Conveniens”, 17 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on the Representative Proceeding”, 17 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on Customary International Law”, 15 Dec 2015
– “Plaintiffs’ Submissions on the Act of State Doctrine”, 14 Dec 2015
– “Notice of Civil Claim”, 20 Nov 2014
Siskinds [Co-counsel for the plaintiffs]
– “Siskinds co-counsel in lawsuit against Nevsun Resources”, 20 Nov 2014
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP [Counsel for the defendant]
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on Customary International Law”, 1 Dec 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on Forum Non Conveniens”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on the Act of State Doctrine”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Chambers Brief on the Representative Proceeding”, 23 Nov 2015
– “Nevsun’s Response to Civil Claim”, 13 Feb 2015
– Araya v. Nevsun Resources. Reasons for Judgment, Justice Abrioux, Supreme Court of British Columbia, 6 Oct 2016
– Araya, Gize v. Nevsun Resources Ltd.[payment required], Vancouver law courts, 20 Nov 2014.
– Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle v Nevsun Resources Ltd and Earth Rights International, Court of Appeal for British Columbia, 21 Nov 2017
Quelques liens cités dans cet article :
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/canadian-courts-review-series-of-claims-filed-against-canadian
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-denies-accusations-of-human-rights-abuses-at-eritrea-mi
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/eritrean-refugees-file-claim-in-canada-against-nevsun-over-all
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-lawsuit-re-bisha-mine-eritrea#c168706
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/vancouver-court-clears-way-for-slave-labour-lawsuit-against-ca
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/eritrean-refugees-file-claim-in-canada-against-nevsun-over-all
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/fr/des-erythr%C3%A9ens-intentent-un-proc%C3%A8s-contre-nevsun-au-
Nevsun in Eritrea: Dealing With a Dictator
When a small Vancouver mining company struck gold in a remote corner of Africa, it started with so much promise. In remote Eritrea, Nevsun built a mine that was generating $700 million in profits in its first four years of operation. But it was also generating a lot of controversy – because Nevsun was partnered with a brutal dictatorship that runs the country and controls 40% of the mine. That has led to allegations by the UN and Human Rights Watch that the regime has used conscripted military labour in the mine. The Eritrea government has also been accused of funnelling arms to the terrorist group al-Shabaab. Nevsun denies the allegations of human rights abuses and insists it is a “template for responsible international business.” What is the price of doing business with a dictator? Mark Kelley investigates.
The Eritrea regime has a 40 per cent stake in the mine and is accused of crimes against humanity by the U.N.
Nevsun Resources Ltd. is facing a lawsuit in B.C.’s Supreme Court
The allegations filed by three former Eritrean conscripts in B.C.’s Supreme Court accuse Nevsun Resources of being “an accomplice to the use of forced labour, crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses at the Bisha mine”
▻http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2014-2015/nevsun-in-eritrea-dealing-with-a-dictator
Appeal court confirms slave labour lawsuit against Canadian mining company can go to trial
British Columbia’s highest court today rejected an appeal by Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources Limited (TSX: NSU / NYSE MKT: NSU) that sought to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Eritreans who allege they were forced to work at Nevsun’s Bisha Mine.
The ruling by the British Columbia Court of Appeal marks the first time that an appellate court in Canada has permitted a mass tort claim for modern slavery.
The court rejected Nevsun’s position that the case should be dismissed in Canada and instead heard in Eritrea. Madam Justice Mary Newbury described the situation in Eritrea as one with “the prospects of no trial at all, or a trial in an Eritrean court, possibly presided over by a functionary with no real independence from the state … and in a legal system that would appear to be actuated largely by the wishes of the President and his military supporters…”
The court also allowed claims of crimes against humanity, slavery, forced labour, and torture to go forward against Nevsun. It is the first time that a Canadian appellate court has recognized that a corporation can be taken to trial for alleged violations of international law norms related to human rights.
The lawsuit, filed in November 2014, alleges that Nevsun engaged Eritrean state-run contractors and the Eritrean military to build the mine’s facilities and that the companies and military deployed forced labour under abhorrent conditions.
“We are very pleased that the case will move to trial,” said Joe Fiorante, Q.C., of Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP, lead counsel for the plaintiffs. “There will now be a reckoning in a Canadian court of law in which Nevsun will have to answer to the allegations that it was complicit in forced labour and grave human rights abuses at the Bisha mine.”
Since the initial filing by three Eritrean men, which was the matter reviewed by the Court of Appeal, an additional 51 people have come forward to assert claims against Nevsun.
“I am overjoyed that a Canadian court will hear our claims,” said plaintiff Gize Araya. “Since starting the case, we have always hoped Canada would provide justice for what we suffered at the mine.”
The court also rejected Nevsun’s argument that the company should be immune from suit because the case might touch on actions of the Eritrean government, including allegations of severe human rights violations. Justice Newbury, looking to a recent UK case on the issue, wrote that “torture (and I would add, forced labour and slavery) is ‘contrary to both peremptory norms of international law and a fundamental value of domestic law.’”
This latest ruling by the B.C. Court of Appeal follows one earlier this year permitting a case to go forward against Tahoe Resources for injuries suffered by protestors in Guatemala who were shot outside the company’s mine.
“The Nevsun and Tahoe cases show that Canadian courts can properly exercise jurisdiction over Canadian companies with overseas operations,” said Amanda Ghahremani, Legal Director of the Canadian Centre for International Justice. “When there is a real risk of injustice for claimants in a foreign legal system, their cases should proceed here.”
The plaintiffs are supported in Canada by a legal team comprised of Vancouver law firm Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP (CFM); Ontario law firm Siskinds LLP [Nick Baker]; Toronto lawyer James Yap; and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ). This victory would not have been possible without the support of Human Rights Concern Eritrea and the tireless efforts of Elsa Chyrum.
Nevsun Comments on B.C. Lawsuit
Nevsun Resources Ltd...advises that the British Columbia Supreme Court has refused to permit a claim against Nevsun to proceed as a common law class action. The court did permit the lawsuit by the three named plaintiffs to continue. Today’s court decision addresses only preliminary legal challenges to the action raised by Nevsun. The judgment makes no findings with respect to the plaintiffs’ allegations, including whether any of them were in fact at the Bisha Mine. The judge also emphasized that the case raises novel and complex legal questions, including on international law, which have never before been considered in Canada. Nevsun is studying the court’s decision and considering an appeal of the decision that the action can proceed at all. Nevsun remains confident that its indirect 60%-owned Eritrean subsidiary, Bisha Mining Share Company (“BMSC”) operates the Bisha Mine according to international standards of governance, workplace conditions, health, safety and human rights...BMSC is committed to managing the Bisha Mine in a safe and responsible manner that respects the interests of local communities, workers, stakeholders and the natural environment.
▻https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/nevsun-comments-on-bc-lawsuit-0
“In November 2014, three Eritreans filed a lawsuit against Nevsun Resources in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They allege the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by Nevsun’s local sub-contractor, Segen Construction (owned by Eritrea’s ruling party)...”
"... at the Bisha mine in Eritrea. Nevsun, headquartered in Vancouver, has denied the allegations. The plaintiffs ... claim that they worked against their will and were subject to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”.
▻https://twitter.com/eduyesolomon/status/1232726864193556480
La #BNS investit dans une firme mêlée à un scandale de travailleurs forcés
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/619926
#banque_nationale_suisse
L’aigle et la pucelle
Georges Lapierre
▻http://lavoiedujaguar.net/L-aigle-et-la-pucelle
L’essai de Georges Lapierre Vierge indienne et Christ noir,
une « petite archéologie de la pensée mexicaine »,
paraît en feuilleton, deux fois par mois,
sur « la voie du jaguar ».
Le récit que font les Indiens Quiché des batailles engagées contre les troupes espagnoles commandées par Alvarado, le fameux capitaine de Cortés chargé de la conquête du Guatemala, possède toute la puissance du mythe ; il en a aussi toutes les caractéristiques. Il transforme un événement historique en événement culturel : les conséquences de l’événement sont telles qu’elles modifient en profondeur le destin collectif. Il est la « vérité » de l’histoire dans le sens où cette histoire marque un tournant au point de transformer le destin de tout un peuple. Le récit mythique se présente comme une transposition du récit historique, son domaine n’est plus celui des événements mais celui de l’idée, le fait historique se métamorphose en fait culturel, l’événement est saisi par le feu visionnaire de la pensée. (...)
#Mésoamérique #histoire #religion #Mayas #mythologie #cosmovision
Violence, Development, and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions - Working Paper 459
A recent surge in child migration to the United States from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 US apprehensions of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per year in the region, sustained over the whole period—that is, a cumulative total of six additional homicides—caused a cumulative total of 3.7 additional unaccompanied child apprehensions in the United States. The explanatory power of short-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of migration that snowball over time, continuing to rise even when violence levels do not.
▻https://www.cgdev.org/publication/violence-development-and-migration-waves-evidence-central-american-child-migr
#violence #Amérique_centrale #migrations #asile #réfugiés #USA #Etats-Unis
Hero of Israel
Gideon Levy | Jul 27, 2017
▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.803684
The new hero of Israel wears torn jeans, lives in a religious cooperative community in the south, has a girlfriend and he kills Arabs. Heroes of Israel have always killed Arabs, but sometimes they did so bravely; today they do so with rather pathetic cowardice. They’re scared of a teen with a screwdriver.
The hero of Israel kills Arabs indiscriminately, including ones who are innocent or who did not deserve to die. The Israeli hero is a young man of principles, principles he absorbed while serving in the occupied territories. He learned dehumanization in the Givati Brigade and how to kill civilians in Operation Protective Edge. He learned that the first action to take against an Arab is always to shoot to kill; the alternatives can be considered later.
He learned that it’s perfectly fine, even heroic, to kill an Arab, no matter why. He trained in the territories and put it to use in Jordan — what difference does it make, all Arabs are the same, whether on the east or the west bank of the Jordan River. His friends say he’s a “man’s man,” that this wasn’t his first time in a tough situation, like that teen with a screwdriver, and that he’s calm and considered. Imagine what might have happened if he weren’t. He might have killed five people, maybe 10.
The hero of Israel killed civilians: a physician, for no reason, and a teenager who was assembling furniture and who threatened him with that doomsday weapon, the screwdriver, in the heat of some argument, not even an attack. The hero of Israel didn’t blink. A hero of Israel never counts to 10. He draws and fires. Two dead, two more kill notches.
Our newest hero’s name is Ziv, but we can’t show his face. His blurred visage as he is embraced by the prime minister only adds to his aura. He replaces his predecessor, the more exalted Elor Azaria. The former killed a dying man, the latter killed two civilians. Don’t accuse him. That’s what he was taught to do in “tough situations” in the territories — to shoot and to kill. That’s what he was trained to be, a blind machine gun.
He is considered a hero. No one would dream of seriously questioning him as a suspect, beyond the formality promised to Jordan, and it’s already been said it would lead to nothing. Perhaps he committed murder, or perhaps negligent manslaughter? Perhaps he violated the rules of engagement? How would we know? We won’t know. We don’t want to know. Instead of that, we got the prime minister’s unsurprising phone call to him. “Did you make a date with your girlfriend yet?” asked Benjamin Netanyahu in that fatherly manner reserved for heroes. After that came the brave embrace in his office. Look, Jordan, look, these are the heroes of Israel, your sister in peace, the killers of your citizens. And the Palestinians are accused of exalting terrorists.
When a Jordanian soldier killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in Naharayim in 2007, Jordan’s King Hussein cut short his trip to Spain and hurried to Beit Shemesh to kneel before the grieving families and beg forgiveness. He also visited the wounded and his kingdom paid compensation. But when an Israeli government security guard kills two Jordanians, at least one of them completely innocent, the Israeli prime minister won’t even consider apologizing. Condemnations we demand only from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. We can only fantasize about a condolence call or the payment of compensation. Why, who died, as the saying goes? Two Arabs, nothing more.
King Hussein of jordan consoling an Israeli family whose daughter was killed by a Jordanian soldier during a class trip to Naharayim, 2007.Avi Ohayon / GOPTwo dead Arabs, and a hero of Israel who returned home safely, overcoming his injuries. Ziv the hero will recite his version of events, and perhaps even return to service. Tens of thousands of young Israelis dream of being Ziv. They dream of serving in the territories in the occupation army, of abusing and killing Arabs, of traveling to India and to Guatemala before becoming embassy security guards. If they’re lucky, they might even get to kill some teenager with a screwdriver and a doctor who happened to be there, as in the good old days in Qalandiyah.
Salute the heroes of Israel. They are the finest of our youth.
FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS OF DESIGNED DESTRUCTIONS IN GAZA
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-designed-destructions-gaza
▻https://soundcloud.com/the-archipelago/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-of-designed-destructions-in-gaza
“This conversation with Eyal Weizman was recorded in February 2017 in order to be featured as a main component of the 12th issue of The Funambulist Magazine, entitled “Designed Destructions.” In it we address both descriptively and analytically the work of Forensic Architecture, a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London, that he founded and directs, gathering architects, artists, filmmakers, and authors to investigate geopolitical crimes in which architecture or territorial components can be approached as witnesses and evidences. Although the agency’s investigations involves a variety of geographies (Guatemala, Syria, Serbia, Pakistan, etc.), this conversation mostly focuses on Palestine in general, and Rafah, Gaza in particular.”
Au Guatemala, une lagune disparaît, victime du changement climatique
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_au-guatemala-une-lagune-disparait-victime-du-changement-climatique?id=96
AFP | 14 mai 2017
Des coquillages asséchés qui émergent du sol craquelé par le soleil : c’est tout ce qui reste de la lagune d’Atescatempa au Guatemala, autrefois vaste plan d’eau turquoise, victime du changement climatique.
La vague de chaleur qui a frappé cette région d’Amérique centrale en 2016 et les faibles précipitations, qui empêchent deux rivières de l’alimenter, ont eu raison de ce lac de 5,5 kilomètres carrés, jadis destination touristique du sud-est du pays, affectant la vie des habitants de la zone.
Occasion de se promener sur la Route Panaméricaine Pan American Highway …
▻https://www.google.fr/maps/@14.2057326,-89.6800422,3a,75y,301.02h,109.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1gNFFpn4hIO8Q7DRP3E41Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Guatemalan land activist wins prestigious Goldman prize
▻https://apnews.com/0ef833cd3b884a759ce10f6f41461340/Guatemalan-land-activist-wins-prestigious-Goldman-prize
Rodrigo Tot, a 60-year-old farmer and activist, was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday for work in his Guatemala homeland, an honor that comes after two previous Latin American winners were murdered in the last year.
#activisme #terres #environnement #récompense le problème étant que bien souvent cela ne porte pas chance #assassinat
How immigration detention compares around the world
The US has the highest number of incarcerated non-citizens in the world: a population which grew from around 240,000 in 2005 to 400,000 in 2010. Since 2009, there has been a congressional mandate to fill 34,000 immigration detention beds each night. More than half of these beds are placed in privately run detention facilities, run by companies such as CoreCivic (formerly the Corrections Corporation of America), who lobbied for the passing of this mandate.
The number of detainees, according to the latest numbers, has also been growing in many EU countries since the 1990s. The UK held 250 people in detention in 1993 and 32,163 in March 2016. France detained 28,220 in 2003 and 47,565 in 2015. Sweden placed 1,167 immigrants in detention in 2006 and 3,959 in 2015. In the past ten years or so Australia’s detainee population has fluctuated. In 2009, there were 375 detainees, a number that sharply rose to 5,697 in 2013, and then dropped to 1,807 in January 2016.
Statistics for Greece and Italy, the two main first countries of entry for asylum seekers to the EU, are not readily available. In 2015 Italy detained 5,242 people, while Greece had a detention capacity of 6,290 in 2013.
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¿Qué esperamos del futuro?: Detención migratoria y alternativas a la detención en las Américas
The study is the result of numerous efforts to collect and compare information on policy and practice related to immigration detention and alternatives to detention in 21 countries in the Americas region: Argentina, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. Although data collection and analysis are by no means exhaustive, the study does identify the main patterns of human rights violations related to the use of immigration detention, and also highlights key policy and practice that represent positive components of alternatives to detention
Pour télécharger le rapport: idcoalition.org/publication/download/informe_regional_americas_2017
Interior anuncia la creación de tres nuevos #CIE en #Málaga, #Algeciras y #Madrid
El ministro del Interior, Juan Ignacio Zoido, ha anunciado este martes la creación de tres nuevos Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros (CIE): uno en Málaga, otro en Algeciras y un tercero en Madrid. La decisión llega cuando el debate por el cierre de estos centros, denunciados desde hace años por organizaciones de derechos humanos, había llegado a las instituciones.
Los tres nuevos CIE de Zoido están pactados con la Unión Europea desde 2013
Su partida se viene prorrogando en los presupuestos generales desde hace cinco años, aunque el ministro haya defendido que ahora son «necesarios»
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Il y aura trois nouveaux centres d’internement pour les étrangers (CIE) en Espagne avant 2020, ils seront construits à #Malaga, #Algeciras et #Madrid.
Cela est prévu sur la base de lignes de financement européens pour l’Espagne depuis cinq ans. Les documents des accords entre l’Espagne et l’Union européenne, analysés par la Fondation PorCause en collaboration avec El Confidencial, indiquent que leur construction a été approuvée en 2013 dans le cadre du Fonds Asile, Migration et Intégration (FAMI) pour les années 2014-2020. L’Espagne présente annuellement des projets à ce fonds pour leur financement, dont le retour des migrants à leurs pays d’origine (ce qui inclue la gestion et le maintient des CIE) est la partie la plus importante. Elle reçoit, juste pour cette « activité », 103 millions d’euros, soit 42% du total prévu pour la période.
#Angela_Davis en el Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros ( ) en Madrid
La reconocida filósofa y activista feminista, antirracista y anticarcelaria, Angela Davis, estuvo en el Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros (CIE) de Madrid, en una visita organizada por la Asociación de Mujeres de Guatemala AMG. Al finalizar, se dirigió al presidente del Gobierno Pedro Sánchez y al ministro de Interior, Grande-Marlaska, para denunciar la privación de libertad de las personas inmigrantes, diciendo: “Deberían reconocer que nadie debe ser tratado de esta manera. España y todos los otros países de Europa deben asumir la responsabilidad histórica por la situación en la que nos encontramos hoy”. A la vez, reclamaba la liberación de Josbylle Yrure y de todas las personas migrantes encerradas en “cárceles cómo ésta, a las que se disfraza con otros nombres.”
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The world’s most dangerous cities | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-23
COCAINE is grown primarily in South America, and trafficked to the world’s biggest market, the United States, via Central America and the Caribbean. The land routes originate mainly in Colombia, and pass through the small nations of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala before traversing Mexico. It is little wonder, then, that Latin America remains the world′s most violent region not at war. According to data from the Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think-tank, 43 of the 50 most murderous cities in the world last year, and eight of the top ten countries, are in Latin America and the Caribbean. (War zones, where numbers are hard to verify, are excluded.) Conflicts between gangs, corruption and weak public institutions all contribute to the high levels of violence across the region.
43 filles brûlées vives au Guatemala
▻https://paris-luttes.info/43-filles-brulees-vive-au-7764?lang=fr
Ce mardi 7 mars 2017, 80 adolescentes ont fugué de leur foyer « foyer sûr, vierge de l’ascension » pour dénoncer l’exploitation sexuelle, les viols et violences dont elles sont victimes à l’intérieur même de ce centre d’accueil pour mineurs. 60 d’entre elles ont été ramenées de force par la Police Nationale Civile, puis enfermées à clé dans une petite pièce.
Dans la matinée du 8 mars, un incendie s’est déclenché dans cette même pièce et a provoqué la mort de plus de 40 jeunes filles de 14 à 17 ans.
La honte | Entre les lignes entre les mots
▻https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/la-honte
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Corée du Sud, Allemagne, Brésil, Guatemala… nombreux sont les pays où la corruption a un prix. Tou-te-s ont été soupçonné-e-s de malversation : Park Geun-hye, Christian Wulff, Dilma Rousseff, Otto Pérez, respectivement président-e de la République de Corée du Sud, d’Allemagne, du Brésil, du Guatemala, démissionnent après quelques années d’exercice du pouvoir. En Roumanie, la guerre des citoyens contre la corruption est déclarée et est devenue une ligne de conduite dans les affaires politiques. Au Nigeria, des tentatives du même type voient le jour. Il y a bien évidemment des réfractaires : Jacob Zuma en Afrique du Sud, Teodoro Obiang en Guinée Équatoriale, Alpha Condé en Guinée, Omar Al Bashir au Soudan, Robert Mugabe au Zimbabwe, Paul Biya au Cameroun, et ceux qui les ont précédés, qui restent impunis.❞
La honte
▻https://joellepalmieri.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/la-honte
Corée du Sud, Allemagne, Brésil, Guatemala… nombreux sont les pays où la corruption a un prix. Tou-te-s ont été soupçonné-e-s de malversation : Park Geun-hye, Christian Wulff, Dilma Rousseff, Otto Pérez, respectivement président-e de la République de Corée du Sud, d’Allemagne, du Brésil, du Guatemala, démissionnent après quelques années d’exercice du pouvoir. En Roumanie, la guerre … Lire la suite →
Africans Face Dead End After Death-Defying Odyssey to U.S.
The number of Africans crossing the Americas to seek refuge in the U.S. grew tenfold last year. Now survivors of that long, expensive and dangerous journey face shrinking prospects of reaching the U.S. and more hardships in Mexico amid Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In the Mexican border town of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, a 27-year-old Somali man made inquiries at a grotty inn called the Imperial Hotel. He had arrived in Mexico a day earlier.
Nadir C. fled Somalia several years ago after falling in love with a woman from a rival tribe. Pursued by her family, he escaped to Kenya, before traveling on to Uganda and South Sudan.
The New Coyote Trail : Refugees Head West to Bypass Fortress Europe
Europe’s closing borders and the death toll in the Mediterranean are forcing asylum seekers to look further afield. An investigation into the migration routes out of Latin America into the U.S. and Canada finds Africans, Afghans and Iraqis enduring great risks.
▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/12/19/the-new-coyote-trail-refugees-head-west-to-bypass-fortress-europe
#réfugiés_afghans #réfugiés_irakiens #Canada #Equateur
From Cameroon to US-Mexico border: ’We saw corpses along the way’
Kombo Yannick is one of the many African asylum seekers who are braving the longer Latin America route to the US.
More Migrants From Far-Flung Lands Crossing US-Mexico Border
The young man traversed Andean mountains, plains and cities in buses, took a harrowing boat ride in which five fellow migrants drowned, walked through thick jungle for days, and finally reached the U.S.-Mexico border.
Then Abdoulaye Camara, from the poor West African country of Mauritania, asked U.S. officials for asylum.
Camara’s arduous journey highlights how immigration to the United States through its southern border is evolving. Instead of being almost exclusively people from Latin America, the stream of migrants crossing the Mexican border these days includes many who come from the other side of the world.
Almost 3,000 citizens of India were apprehended entering the U.S. from Mexico last year. In 2007, only 76 were. The number of Nepalese rose from just four in 2007 to 647 last year. More people from Africa are also seeking to get into the United States, with hundreds having reached Mexican towns across the border from Texas in recent weeks, according to local news reports from both sides of the border.
Camara’s journey began more than a year ago in the small town of Toulel, in southern Mauritania. He left Mauritania, where slavery is illegal but still practiced, “because it’s a country that doesn’t know human rights,” he said.
Camara was one of 124 migrants who ended up in a federal prison in Oregon after being detained in the U.S. near the border with Mexico in May, the result of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
He was released October 3, after he had passed his “credible fear” exam, the first step on obtaining asylum, and members of the community near the prison donated money for his bond. He was assisted by lawyers working pro bono.
“My heart is so gracious, and I am so happy. I really thank my lawyers who got me out of that detention,” Camara said in French as he rode in a car away from the prison.
Camara’s journey was epic, yet more people are making similar treks to reach the United States. It took him from his village on the edge of the Sahara desert to Morocco by plane and then a flight to Brazil. He stayed there 15 months, picking apples in orchards and saving his earnings as best he could. Finally he felt he had enough to make it to the United States.
All that lay between him and the U.S. border was 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers).
“It was very, very difficult,” said Camara, 30. “I climbed mountains, I crossed rivers. I crossed many rivers, the sea.”
Camara learned Portuguese in Brazil and could understand a lot of Spanish, which is similar, but not speak it very well. He rode buses through Brazil, Peru and Colombia. Then he and others on the migrant trail faced the most serious obstacle: the Darien Gap, a 60-mile (97-kilometer) stretch of roadless jungle straddling the border of Colombia and Panama.
But first, he and other travelers who gathered in the town of Turbo, Colombia, had to cross the Gulf of Uraba, a long and wide inlet from the Caribbean Sea. Turbo, on its southeast shore, has become a major point on the migrant trail, where travelers can resupply and where human smugglers offer boat rides.
Camara and about 75 other people boarded a launch for Capurgana, a village next to the Panamanian border on the other end of the gulf.
While the slow-moving boat was far from shore, the seas got very rough.
“There was a wave that came and tipped over the canoe,” Camara said. “Five people fell into the water, and they couldn’t swim.”
They all drowned, he said. The survivors pushed on.
Finally arriving in Capurgana after spending two nights on the boat, the migrants split into smaller groups to cross the infamous Darien Gap, a wild place that has tested the most seasoned of travelers. The thick jungle hides swamps that can swallow a man. Lost travelers have died, and been devoured, boots and all, by packs of wild boars, or have been found, half out of their minds.
Camara’s group consisted of 37 people, including women — two of them pregnant, one from Cameroon and one from Congo — and children.
“We walked seven days and climbed up into the mountains, into the forest,” Camara said. “When it was night, we slept on the ground. We just kept walking and sleeping, walking and sleeping. It was hard.”
One man, who was around 26 and from the African nation of Guinea, died, perhaps from exhaustion combined with thirst, Camara said.
By the sixth day, all the drinks the group had brought with them were gone. They drank water from a river. They came across a Panamanian man and his wife, who sold them some bananas for $5, Camara said.
Once he got out of the jungle, Camara went to Panamanian immigration officials who gave him travel documents enabling him to go on to Costa Rica, which he reached by bus. In Costa Rica, he repeated that process in hopes of going on to Nicaragua. But he heard authorities there were not so accommodating, so he and about 100 other migrants took a boat around Nicaragua, traveling at night along its Pacific coast.
“All we could see were the lights of Nicaragua,” he said. Then it was over land again, in cars, buses and sometimes on foot, across Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, all the way to the U.S. border at Tijuana. He was just about out of money and spent the night in a migrant shelter.
On May 20, he crossed into San Ysidro, south of San Diego.
“I said, `I came, I came. I’m from Africa. I want help,”’ he said.
He is going to stay with a brother in Philadelphia while he pursues his asylum request.
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#parcours_migratoire #nouvelle_Méditerranée
For African migrants trying, and dying, to reach north America, the Darién Gap is the “new Mediterranean”
By the time Basame Lonje made it out of the jungle, he was beyond exhausted. The 35-year-old from Cameroon had gone four days out of seven without food, surviving each day on a single biscuit. He drank from rivers flowing with debris and death, carrying the corpses of an unknown number of people who have perished in the Darién Gap, a remote stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the most dangerous in the world. “I barely survived,” Basame says. “People had sores on the soles of their feet and they had nobody to carry them. They were left there. Do you know what it means to walk for days?”
As a result of tough migration policies in traditional destination countries in Europe, Basame is one of thousands of so-called‘extracontinental migrants’ taking the desperate decision to try and traverse the American continent in the hope of seeking asylum in the United States or Canada. In previous times this route was used almost exclusively by central American migrants. More recently it has seen a surge in migrants from African countries like Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Mauritania, Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso, as well as people from Asian and Middle Eastern countries such as India, Pakistan, Syria and Nepal. Mexico authorities apprehended around 3,000 Africans and some 12,000 extracontinental migrants in total in 2018, according to the Migrant Policy Unit of Mexico’s Interior Ministry. Most are escaping a mix of conflict, political repression and crumbling economies.
They fly to visa-friendly countries such as Ecuador, Brazil and Guyana, before navigating their way up north to Mexico, sometimes with the help of smugglers, other times with the aid of social media posts of those who have gone before them. They spend thousands of dollars on flights and bus tickets for journeys that can take months.
Basame was a teacher back in Cameroon but says he fled the bloody conflict that has been raging in parts of his country since 2016 after he was abducted by armed groups fighting for the secession of the English-speaking parts of the country. His crime? Daring to hold classes.
New migration regulations have rolled out swiftly and unpredictably since Trump took office in January 2017. Military troops were deployed to the border in October 2018, when some 7,000 people from central America fleeing gang violence and poverty approached on foot. In January 2019, the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), known as ‘Remain in Mexico’ went into effect: as a result, asylees that arrive in the US via Mexico are now sent back to wait while their cases are processed, instead of being released on parole in the US as prescribed by US law. Rights organisations point out that sending asylum seekers back to Mexico, where they often face deportation, is a violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
This February, Trump declared a state of emergency and accessed emergency funds to begin construction of a physical wall between the US and Mexico. He has also pursued agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras under which all migrants who pass through these countries must first seek refuge and be rejected in them before placing claims in the US. The agreement disregards the fact that not only do these countries lack the capacity to process large-scale asylum claims but that many people are fleeing violence and poverty from these same countries.
Cumulatively, these policies have seen thousands of people waiting in shelters in US-Mexico border towns like Tijuana and Matamoros where conditions are deteriorating. A ‘metering’ system sees US customs officials attend to about three people daily. Mexico’s northern towns are also notorious for violence, and migrants are vulnerable to exploitation by drug cartels and human traffickers.
Externalising borders
In July 2019, Mexico signed an agreement with the US after President Trump threatened to impose trade sanctions if migration flows were not brought to a minimum. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to deploy 6,000 troops from the newly-formed National Guard to police its borders, adopting the US border militarisation strategy and sealing Mexico’s fate as President Trump’s outer wall.
Since then, Mexican immigration officials have stopped issuing exit permits to extracontinental migrants arriving at the southern border, trapping many like Basame in a country they have no desire to stay in. With fewer people able to reach the US, Mexico – a transit country – is becoming an unintentional final destination. Although Mexico has refused to sign a third safe country agreement with the US, it has been forced to field over 60,000 asylum claims – double the number received last year. It has been estimated that 60 per cent of these applications are made in Tapachula.
With no work permit, and even if he had one, with few opportunities available to him as an African migrant and a non-Spanish speaker, Basame is clear about his options: “Mexico can’t give me that.”
But Mexico’s immigration agency has denied his application for a visitor’s visa that would help him move north. Officials are only issuing permanent residency cards, a document that he fears will affect his asylum claim in the US.
By 09.00, hundreds of men and women from over two dozen countries were waiting in the blistering sun. Their voices were a cacophony of languages – Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Tigrinya and Haitian Creole – clashing with the wails of hot, hungry children hanging from their parents. Migrants of Asian origin are mostly absent from these daily crowds: since Mexico deported 310 Indian migrants in an “unprecedented” move this October, they have been keeping a low profile for fear of suffering a similar fate.
An immigration officer appeared behind the gate, looked at the crowd and shook his head in frustration. A fight broke out when the gates opened as people rushed to get in. Despite his punctuality, Basame was not seen that day.
“My friends died there”
Narrating his long, treacherous journey from Cameroon to Mexico, Basame tells Equal Times that after fleeing the captivity of armed rebels this March, he headed to Nigeria before deciding to try to reach the safety of the US. He wanted better opportunities than Nigeria could offer and feared the rebels could easily reach him there. First, he took a flight to Ecuador, then by bus he moved through Colombia. In the north-western town of Capurgana on the Colombian-Panamanian border, he met fellow Cameroonian migrants, as well as Haitians and Cubans. As they prepared to enter the Darién, villagers living at the mouth of the jungle warned them: “If you start this journey, you must finish it, otherwise it is bad news,” alluding to the dangers of the wild animals, poisonous insects and armed kidnappers marauding inside the impenetrable rainforest that breaks up the Pan-American Highway.
Basame spent seven days in the dense thickness of the Darién, battling the rain and cold, moving from morning until nightfall with nothing but a bag of clothes and some snacks. “You do not stop in the Darién. You keep moving,” he says. He walked with a group of other migrants. Many didn’t make it out of the jungle due to exhaustion. Others were swept away in the fast-moving rivers. “My friends died there,” Basame remembers soberly. One of his worst memories is of walking past the corpse of a dead baby left in a backpack.
Basame is one of the lucky ones. After reaching Panama, exhausted and starving, he regained his strength before moving up through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. After crossing the Suchiate River into Mexico by raft, he arrived in Tapachula in July. He spent a week at an immigration detention centre there before he was given an exit permit to leave the country.
It wasn’t until he got pulled from a bus to Tijuana by the National Guard that he realised that he could not legally leave Tapachula unless he was heading south, back to Guatemala. The US-Mexico deal took effect on 10 July and he was amongst the first people stranded by Mexico’s new regulations. Basame’s permit would force him back through the jungle of death he had barely survived.
Death and disease in Mexico
Judeline Romelus sits with her friends in Tapachula’s main square watching as they braid the hair of her 10-year-old daughter, Mariska. Nearby, Ghanaian and Guinean flags announce African food at restaurants, alongside Mexican and Honduran colours. Haitians and Africans give locals a trim in makeshift barbershops.
But the general atmosphere of warmth masks the apprehension many locals feel. Despite being in one of the country’s poorest regions, Tapachula has tried to bear the weight of its new migrant population but some people are concerned that government agencies and NGOs are focusing their attention on these new arrivals when the needs of the locals are also many.
Like Basame, Judeline and Mariska are stranded. Judeline applied for a humanitarian visa so that she can travel north with her daughter, but she must wait for her appointment in February 2020. The 28-year-old mother packed her bags and left Haiti three months ago. Economic stagnation and recent political unrest have caused many to flee the small Caribbean nation. “There are no opportunities in Haiti and I cannot work,” she says, even with a diploma. Judeline says she is looking for a better life in the US where friends are waiting for them in Florida. She relies on their monthly remittances of US$50 to pay for the small room the mother and daughter share.
The unsanitary living conditions in overcrowded shelters such as these have caused a spike in health problems. “Women are presenting diseases related to sexual and reproductive health,” says Claudia León, regional head at Jesuits Refugee Service, a humanitarian non-profit providing legal and psychosocial assistance to refugees. Many were assaulted in the Darién. “The situation is critical. They have no clean water to wash with and those who are pregnant are at risk.”
Migrants of all nationalities are suffering from invisible illnesses too. A spokesperson for the medical humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it is dealing with many cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and trauma. Poor living conditions coupled with the memories of the treacherous journey to Mexico and the general uncertainty is causing some to self-harm. “We are in an emergency,” says León. “I have seen people outside the immigration centre hurting themselves because they are in such extreme conditions.”
The desperation to get to the US has led to the exploration of dangerous alternative routes. A boat smuggling Cameroonian migrants capsized off the coast of Mexico in October, killing one man. “We knew him,” one migrant tells Equal Times at the restaurant where the deceased once frequented. But even as they recall his tragic passing, another man says that he is also considering taking the same route to the US.
“The new Mediterranean”
All across the world, tough policies on migration are forcing the most vulnerable migrants and refugees to go underground and seek the services of smuggling gangs and human traffickers. Like the US, Europe has enforced stringent measures to stem migration flows. An increase in anti-immigrant sentiments from far-right, populist governments in the US and Europe in particular sees leaders like Trump and Hungary’s Viktor Orban routinely employ rhetoric that fuels racist anxieties and emphasises the building of walls to prevent a ‘migrant invasion’.
In 2016, Turkey signed an agreement with the European Union and a bilateral agreement with Greece to keep some three million refugees fleeing the Syrian war from crossing the Aegean Sea into Greece. The agreement saw the European Union send back anyone who crossed without documents after 20 March 2016.
A similar agreement between Italy and Libya in 2017 was extended this November. Italy is training and funding the Libyan Coast Guard to stop African and Middle Eastern migrants on the Mediterranean and return them to Libya, a country at war.
Interception numbers have dropped from 181,000 in 2016 to only 8,000 this year, according to UNHCR. Thousands are held in detention centres run by armed factions battling for control since the Arab uprisings of 2011. African migrants have been enslaved, tortured and sold. They have also been caught in the crossfire of the battle for Tripoli. In July, a bomb fell on one detention centre, killing 44 people.
The number of asylum claims in Mexico keeps rising and is expected reach 80,000 by the end of the year. Although most Africans initially refused to seek asylum in Mexico, more people are applying, particularly from Cameroon. The number of asylum claims from Africa is currently around 500.
The influx of migrants and refugees has split Mexico politically, with many accusing President Obrador of yielding to President Trump and rescinding on human rights promises he made when he campaigned last year.
Human rights organisations condemn the US and Mexico’s strategies. “Those seeking safety want the same thing any of us would want if we were in their shoes,” says Isa Sanusi, of Amnesty International in Nigeria. “Mexico and the US must ensure that these migrants from Africa and other parts of the world are not denied the rights guaranteed to them by international law.”
For now, Basame is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Even if he had the money, it would be too dangerous for him to go home, and yet he currently has no way out of Mexico. As he struggles to stay afloat, his hopes are fading fast. “I’m running out of cash and I’m running out of patience. I’m sick and I don’t have anywhere to live,” he says. “How will I survive?”
▻https://www.equaltimes.org/for-migrants-trying-and-dying-to?lang=en
Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern #Costa_Rica
Starting from the idea that border externalization – understood as the spatial and institutional stretching of borders – is enmeshed with the highly contextual humanitarian and securitarian dynamics of migrant trajectories, this article addresses the reach of border externalization tentacles in Costa Rica. Although Costa Rica does not formally engage in border externalization agreements, it is located in a region characterized by transit migration and transnational securitization pressures. Moreover, externalization efforts across the Atlantic have contributed to a relatively new presence of so-called extra-continental migrants. Given these circumstances, we aim to interrogate the ways in which border externalization plays a role in Costa Rica’s discourses, policies and practices of migration management. We do so by analysing a migrant reception centre in the northern Costa Rica border region, and by focusing on African transit migration. Our analysis is based on exploratory field research at the centre as well as on long-term migration research in Central America. Building on these empirical explorations and the theoretical notions of mobility regimes, transit and arterial borders, the article finds that Costa Rica’s identity as a ‘humanitarian transit country’ – as enacted in the migrant reception centre – both reproduces and challenges border externalization. While moving towards increased securitization of migration and an internalization of its border, Costa Rica also distinguishes itself from neighbouring countries by emphasizing the care it extends to African migrants, in practice enabling these migrants to move further north. Based on these findings, the article argues for a deeper appreciation of the role of local-regional histories, perceptions, rivalries, linkages and strategies of migration management. This allows for a better grip of the scope and shape of border externalization across a diversity of migration landscapes.
▻https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0131-9
New contested borderlands: Senegalese migrants en route to Argentina
This article sheds novel, light on how Senegalese men and women adapt to European border governance by finding new ways to ‘look for life’ (chercher la vie) in Latin America, as an alternative to the perilous clandestine routes to Europe. The article follows how Senegalese migrants’ mobility to Argentina has evolved over the last two decades. It particularly focuses on the migrants’ journey to Argentina and explores the migrants’ accounts of their experiences en route and compares them to how different intersecting state-driven national and supranational migration policies become entangled in their mobility. By analytically focusing on the changing migration infrastructure and the different forms of friction the migrants encounter and respond to while moving, the article shows how the risk and uncertainty along the journey increasingly mirror the struggles which African migrants face at EU–African borderlands, and thus how similar features of global mobility regimes seem to be reproduced along this new route from West Africa to Latin America. In this way the politics and hierarchies of mobility are brought to the fore. Yet the article also points to how migrants find new openings and ways to contest the hindrances that aims to stop them as they move through these newly traversed borderlands.
▻https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-018-0109-z
#migrants_sénégalais #Argentine #Sénégal
Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia
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Oil palm plantations are rapidly mushrooming throughout the tropics.
A new film, Appetite for Destruction: The Palm Oil Diaries, looks at some of the consequences of that expansion.
This is an interview with the film’s director, #Michael_Dorgan.
Most of the attention around palm oil production has focused on where the crop has the largest footprint: Southeast Asia. Yet oil palm plantations are rapidly mushrooming throughout the tropics, from the species’ ancestral home in West and Central Africa to Pacific islands to Latin America. A new film, Appetite for Destruction: The Palm Oil Diaries, looks at some of the social and environmental impacts of that expansion, by visiting communities, forests, and plantations in Cameroon, #Guatemala, and Colombia.
El bulo del «muro de México en Guatemala» que usa fotos de EEUU y Melilla
Defensores de Trump difunden imágenes de «el muro de la vergüenza de México y Guatemala del que nadie habla» y que en realidad no existe
Las fotos corresponden al muro de EEUU en Tijuana (México), el que rodea el tren ’La Bestia’ e incluso a la valla de Melilla
Le « sale boulot » d’Israël dans la « guerre sale » au Guatemala Gabriel Schivone – 20 janvier 2017 – The Electronic Intifada – Traduction : Chronique de Palestine – Lotfallah
(...) Depuis les années 1980 jusqu’à nos jours, le rôle militaire d’Israël au Guatemala demeure un secret de polichinelle, bien documenté mais peu évoqué.
Ríos Montt a déclaré à un journaliste de ABC News que son coup d’État avait été si peu attendu « parce que beaucoup de nos soldats ont été formés par des Israéliens ». En Israël, la presse a indiqué que 300 conseillers israéliens étaient sur le terrain pour entraîner les soldats de Ríos Montt.
Un conseiller israélien au Guatemala à l’époque, le lieutenant-colonel Amatzia Shuali, a déclaré : « Je n’aime pas ce que font les païens avec les armes. Mais ce qui importe, c’est que les juifs en profitent « , comme l’ont raconté Andrew et Leslie Cockburn dans Dangerous Liaison.
Quelques années plus tôt, lorsque les restrictions du Congrès sous l’administration Carter limitaient l’aide militaire américaine au Guatemala en raison des violations des droits de l’homme, les responsables israéliens ont vu là une occasion économique en or d’entrer sur ce marché des technologies militaires.
Yaakov Meridor, alors ministre israélien de l’économie, indiquait au début des années 1980 qu’Israël voulait être un « proxy » (relais) pour les États-Unis dans les pays où ceux-ci avaient décidé de ne pas vendre ouvertement des armes. Meridor avait déclaré : « Nous allons dire aux Américains : Ne nous concurrencez pas à Taïwan, ne rivalisez pas avec nous en Afrique du Sud ni dans les Caraïbes ou dans d’autres endroits où vous ne pouvez pas vendre des armes directement. Laissez-nous faire … Israël sera votre intermédiaire. »(...)
Jean Ziegler : « Mon livre est une arme pour les opprimés »
▻http://the-dissident.eu/11414/jean-ziegler-livre-arme-opprimes
Jean Ziegler lors du Forum africain pour le Dialogue. Photo ONU
Enseignant, sociologue, ex-rapporteur pour les Nations Unies, Jean Ziegler est l’un des poumons de la Suisse, ce pays encore dominé par l’opacité bancaire. Ses « Chemins d’espérance », parus aux éditions du Seuil, nous montrent la voie pour en finir avec ce qu’il appelle « l’ordre cannibale du monde ».
Jean Ziegler : Dans le chapitre final, je parle des combats à venir que nous remporterons ensemble. Éliminer le droit de véto dans des confits où il y a crimes contre l’Humanité, comme aujourd’hui en Syrie. L’intervention humanitaire. L’abolition des sociétés-écrans. Comment arriver à cela ? L’axe essentiel, c’est la société civile. Les mouvements sociaux doivent exercer une pression continue sur les gouvernements. Pour que ces mouvements soient efficaces, il faut les alimenter avec des informations précises. Pour moi et d’autres qui sont directement dans la machine, notre première tâche est de créer la transparence. De fournir ces analyses à la société civile, aux mouvements sociaux pour qu’ils puissent organiser leur combat et forcer les gouvernements à changer leur politique.
Lorsque vous avez rencontré Ernesto « Che » Guevara à Genève, il vous aurait dit : « C’est ici que tu devras combattre le monstre ».
« C’est ici le cerveau du monstre. C’est là que tu es né. C’est là où tu dois combattre. » Il a refusé que je reparte avec lui. J’ai été évidemment très profondément blessé. Je me suis dit : « Il me prend pour un petit bourgeois inutile ». Ce qui était probablement le cas (Jean Ziegler est le fils d’un président de tribunal à Thoune dans le canton de Berne, ndlr). Mais, en fait, rétrospectivement, il m’a sauvé la vie. S’il m’avait dit : « Viens avec nous », parmi cette délégation de 12 personnes, comme je suis nul militairement, je serais depuis très longtemps enterré dans une fosse commune au Guatemala, au Vénézuela ou en Bolivie. Tandis que comme député de la Confédération, professeur à l’Université, auteur, rapporteur de l’ONU, j’ai pu grâce à l’intégration subversive alimenter la critique radicale et la conscience publique de cet ordre cannibale du monde.
Arnulfo Vásquez : « Les riches ne le sont pas parce que Dieu l’a voulu »
▻http://www.revue-ballast.fr/arnulfo-vasquez
La lutte des communautés zapatistes du Chiapas a traversé les frontières pour devenir le signal de ralliement contre les multinationales et les gouvernements corrompus ; au risque de laisser dans l’ombre ses semblables de la région. Totonicapán est un département du sud-ouest du Guatemala en Amérique centrale. Surnommé « Toto », il compte un peu moins de 100 000 habitants et est peuplé de près de 22 communautés dont l’immense majorité est indigène maya. Ici, les traditions préhispaniques se perpétuent : les communautés s’enracinent et s’organisent tantôt en parallèle d’un État, tantôt à son encontre lorsqu’il soutient des mégaprojets sur leur territoire. Parmi ces organisations indigènes, les quarante-huit cantons de Totonicapán présentent sans doute la plus forte capacité de mobilisation liée à l’importance de l’identité, du territoire, de traditions, et d’une mystique — formant ce que le philosophe Cornélius Castoriadis nomme des « gisements culturels ». Quelques mois après l’arrivée à la présidence de l’ex-général Otto Pérez Molina, élu sur un programme de mano dura (« main de fer »), l’armée réprimera une manifestation pacifique en tuant six paysans indigènes qui y participaient. Le 4 octobre 2012, l’organisation bloquait, comme elle le fait souvent, la Route panaméricaine pour protester contre la hausse des tarifs de l’électricité. Arnulfo Vásquez, secrétaire de leur comité directeur en 2011, nous éclaire sur leur organisation et leur méthode.
« Notre identité demeure vivante grâce au souvenir de toutes les luttes, tous les sacrifices, tous les succès ou revers subis dans le passé. »
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/46251 via Ballast
US Border Patrol uses desert as ‘weapon’ to kill thousands of migrants, report says
Arizona advocacy group says agents chase border crossers from Mexico into hostile terrain in a strategy that leaves many injured, dead or lost
#désert (comme #arme) #asile #migrations #réfugiés #frontières #USA #Etats-Unis #barrière_naturelle #hostile_environment
The US government deliberately made the desert deadly for migrants
The deaths of two Guatemalan child migrants in US custody highlights the perilousness of a journey that is no accident
This month, Jakelin Caal Maquin, a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl, died less than 48 hours after being detained at a remote New Mexico border crossing. Felipe Gómez Alonzo, an eight-year old Guatemalan boy, spent his final days in custody before tragically passing on Christmas Eve. Both were brought to the United States by families seeking a better life for their children. In the United States, all they found was death.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have been quick to deflect the blame. “[Jakelin’s] family chose to cross illegally,” Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asserted. In the case of Felipe, the DHS pointed to migrant shelters in Mexico as possible sources of disease. These desperate attempts do little to obscure the full weight of US culpability.
When trying to make sense of these two tragic deaths – and while details are still emerging – one thing is clear: the journey they undertook is designed to be deadly. In the 1990s, then president Bill Clinton introduced Prevention Through Deterrence, a border security policy which closed off established migrant routes. This forced migrants like Jakelin and her father through more remote and trying terrain. Jakelin and Felipe would probably not have died had it not been for the extreme conditions that Prevention Through Deterrence forces migrants to withstand.
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As the No More Deaths spokeswoman, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, notes: “Crossing from the US border in any location, there’s no physical way as a human being to carry the kind of water you’ll need to survive those conditions for three, four days of walking.” Those who survive the immediate journey still face significant health risks if they are not immediately granted medical treatment – at present, border patrol relies on self-assessment, and, as in Jakelin’s case, the documentation is often in a language they can’t read.
Prevention Through Deterrence meant tremendous investments in surveillance and border militarization, with the aim of pushing migrants ever deeper into the unforgiving Sonoran desert. Though the border patrol denies accountability for deaths along the US-Mexico border, their very metrics for success under the policy include “fee increases by smugglers”, “possible increase in complaints”, and “more violence at attempted entries”. These children’s deaths were by no means unpredictable. Violence is built into the plan.
Hundreds disappear each year, their remains too decomposed to be identified
The immigrant advocacy group No More Deaths charges that the US border patrol uses the desert as a weapon. Armed with night-vision equipment, border patrol agents chase migrants blindly into hostile desert terrain. In the ensuing chaos, migrants fall to their deaths, or get hopelessly lost. Hundreds disappear each year, their remains too decomposed to be identified.
Prevention Through Deterrence has done little to curb migration, but it has led to an explosion in needless suffering. As accessible routes are abandoned in favor of remote terrain, what was once a straightforward journey becomes life-threatening. In 1994, the year of the strategy’s inception, there were an estimated 14 deaths alongside the US-Mexico border. Last year, a staggering 412 deaths were documented in the region. As migrants are funnelled deeper into remote areas, they face not only the capricious desert terrain, but fatigue, dehydration and a host of heat-related ailments. Seizing on an influx of vulnerable, disoriented travellers, cartels lie in wait to extort and kidnap their next victims. Stories of rape along the migrant trail are so overwhelmingly common that many take contraceptives before the journey.
Prevention Through Deterrence assumes that migrants will simply stop coming if the journey is difficult enough. But migration is as old as human history itself. While the US decries an explosion of immigrants, policymakers would do well to consider their role in perpetuating migration flows. From exploitative trade deals – Nafta put more than 1 million Mexican farmers out of work – to outright imperial aggression – see US-backed coups in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala and Honduras, among others – the US is a harbinger of death and destruction across the continent. To turn away those who flee the disastrous results of our policies is victim blaming of the most vile sort.
US immigration officials have expressed regret at the passing of these children. Don’t take their word for it. Just last year, No More Deaths released video evidence of border patrol officials vandalizing water left for migrants. An unidentified agent grins at the camera while emptying water jugs, and others kick over bottles with glee. In the arid Sonoran desert, it is physically impossible to carry enough water to survive, a fact that is not lost on those who are employed to monitor the terrain day in and out. Within hours of the video’s release, a member of No More Deaths was arrested on charges of harboring immigrants. He will face 20 years in prison if convicted.
A popular immigrant refrain asserts: “We are here because you were there.” US policies of economic extraction and militarism put children like Jakelin and Felipe at risk every single day. To put an end to deaths at the border, the US must stop penalizing those who flee its very own destruction.
▻https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/29/the-us-government-deliberately-made-the-desert-deadly-for-migrants?
AmiEs de seenthis...
Est-ce que quelqu’un d’entre vous connaît le nom de cet #oiseau ?
C’est un ami qui me pose la question... mais moi j’ai aucune idée !
#Made_in_america (compilation uniquement à partir de sources MSM)
The world’s best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/515937
The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/532933
Americans Claim Role in Yeltsin Win
▻http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-09/news/mn-22423_1_boris-yeltsin
The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
That number doesn’t include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the U.S. didn’t like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile. Nor does it include general assistance with the electoral process, such as election monitoring.
Levin defines intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.”
These acts, carried out in secret two-thirds of the time, include funding the election campaigns of specific parties, disseminating misinformation or propaganda, training locals of only one side in various campaigning or get-out-the-vote techniques, helping one side design their campaign materials, making public pronouncements or threats in favor of or against a candidate, and providing or withdrawing foreign aid.
Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies
▻http://www.juancole.com/2017/01/hacked-americas-allies.html
Juan Cole n’a rien à voir avec les MSM, ses liens si.
Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/why-does-the-united-states-still-let-12-year-old-girls-get-married
In this way, U.S. lawmakers are strongly at odds with U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, released last year by the State Department, lists reducing child, early and forced marriage as a key goal. The strategy includes harsh words about marriage before 18, declaring it a “human rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood” by forcing her “into adulthood and motherhood before she is physically and mentally mature.”
Le contraste entre les deux couvertures est frappant
U.S.-led forces appear to be using white phosphorus in populated areas in Iraq and Syria - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/605882
Les Etats-Unis auraient financé un réseau social pour déstabiliser Cuba
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/243735
Les Etats-Unis allergiques aux traités internationaux
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/606664
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history — and still gave him a hand.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/613086
CIA killed first PM of Pakistan
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/620766
Sujet à caution,
[Indonésie] The United States provided the special radio system so the Army could coordinate the killings over the vast archipelago.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/390703
The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/621295
Deux psychologues du programme de torture de la CIA échappent à leur procès
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/623132
Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System - Real Time Economics - WSJ
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/630455
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/417111
Alan Stevenson, un ancien analyste de l’armée, a ainsi confié devant les membres du Congrès que lorsqu’il travaillait dans la base de Quảng Trị au Nord du Vietnam, en 1969, il était chargé de lister les hôpitaux qui devaient être pris pour cibles par les Américains. « Et plus l’hôpital était important, mieux c’était. »
Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/637438
#chili et #opération_condor
Declassified Files Lay Bare U.S. Knowledge Of Mass Murders In Indonesia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/638346
Watchdog: Troops say they were told to ignore Afghan child sex abuse | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645571
The Uncounted - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645280
Les Etats-Unis avaient embauché, en pleine connaissance de cause, l’ingénieur en chef des armes chimiques de Hitler,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/169437
Ambros only served half of his prison sentence. After his release in 1951, he was whisked to the West to advise the U.S. Army on its own chemical weapons program — including Sarin.
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/655968
Et encore en-deçà de la vérité puisque la violation des droits humains n’est pas seulement tolérée par les Etats-Unis comme reconnu dans ce mémo, mais encouragée quand le règne de leurs alliés dictateurs est menacé.
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/world/07doctors.html
Article de 2010
En français :
Quand les médecins de la CIA perfectionnaient les tortures
▻http://www.jeuneafrique.com/155595/societe/quand-les-m-decins-de-la-cia-perfectionnaient-les-tortures
Les médecins américains qui ont assisté aux interrogatoires de la CIA après le 11-Septembre ont contribué à affiner les méthodes de torture, une pratique qui s’apparente à de l’"expérimentation humaine", selon une ONG. Ces praticiens ont ensuite pu émettre des recommandations pour améliorer ces techniques « d’interrogatoire ».
The CIA Drug Connection Is as Old as the Agency - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html
Article de 1993
Allégations d’implication de la CIA dans le trafic de drogue — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%A9gations_d%27implication_de_la_CIA_dans_le_trafic_de_drogue
Database Tracks History Of U.S. Meddling In Foreign #Elections : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670012
Les 100 entreprises qui vendent le plus d’armes dans le monde
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670113
Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in #Elections. We Do It, Too. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670240
He Wouldn’t Become an Informant. Now He’s Headed for Prison. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/675306
Gina Haspel : CIA veteran tied to use of brutal interrogation measures
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/676265
Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/677423
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/652709
Le marché de l’immobilier haut de gamme est devenu de moins en moins transparent - et plus attrayant pour ceux qui à l’étranger possèdent des actifs qu’ils souhaitent garder secrets - alors même que les Etats-Unis poussent les autres nations à les aider à empêcher l’argent américain de sortir du pays pour éviter les impôts.
« Les Etats-Unis ont été la plus grande source de corruption en Afghanistan »,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/319094#message319097
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/306331
Le « New York Times » révèle l’existence d’armes chimiques abandonnées en Irak
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/302863
Toutes les armes trouvées auraient été fabriquées avant 1991 : rien à voir, donc, avec le matériel de destruction massive que l’administration Bush soupçonnait le régime de Saddam Hussein de produire. Selon le New York Times, les armes découvertes seraient des reliquats d’un programme lancé par l’Irak durant sa guerre contre l’Iran dans les années 1980.
[...] le mutisme des Etats-Unis pourrait aussi s’expliquer par leur implication dans la fabrication de ces armes.
5 / Les pays occidentaux impliqués dans la fabrication des armes
Selon le New York Times, le soutien de plusieurs pays occidentaux à l’Irak pendant la première guerre du Golfe lui a permis de développer rapidement un programme d’armement contenant ces armes chimiques . Le journal évoque le rôle d’entreprises allemandes dans la construction d’usines irakiennes ayant servi à fabriquer des ingrédients chimiques. Saddam Hussein aurait aussi acheté à des entreprises européennes et américaines des munitions pour disperser les agents toxiques fabriqués sur son sol.
L’effet boomerang est la mesure de la réussite ?
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/313053
Le Pentagone aurait dépensé plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars pour produire de fausses vidéos jihadistes
►https://seenthis.net/messages/530053
Expérimentations délétères sur des civils à leur insu
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/691602
’Astonishing’ #CIA memo shows Brazil’s ex-dictator authorized #torture and #executions | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/693502
La CIA a protégé Carriles, terroriste notoire, en toute connaissance de cause.
►https://seenthis.net/messages/697401
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/707272
In the early years of the U.S. occupation, the Pentagon and CIA cultivated influential Afghan tribal leaders who were not part of the Quetta Alliance, even if they were deeply involved in drug trafficking, in order to turn them against the Taliban. That willingness to overlook drug trafficking was assisted by their belief that the drugs were going almost entirely to Asia and Europe.
A Nation Challenged : Hearts And Minds ; Pentagon Readies Efforts To Sway Sentiment Abroad - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/708813
Les « fake news » comme tactique du Pentagone
Des #enfants migrants victimes de #tortures aux #États-Unis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/709770
“I’m shocked somebody did some hacking. That’s never happened before.”
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/710918
U.S. War Footprint Grows in Middle East, With No Endgame in Sight - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/middleeast/us-war-footprint-grows-in-middle-east.html
(2017)
Les victimes civiles des tirs russes ne sont plus comptabilisées par les Etasuniens de peur qu’elles se révèlent moindre que celles dues aux tirs Etasuniens.
The rise in reports of civilian deaths linked to the United States and its allies has been so significant that Airwars, a group that tracks airstrikes, said last week that it was suspending its investigations into Russian airstrikes to avoid falling behind on those by the United States.
The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/567530
Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States - NYTimes.com
►https://seenthis.net/messages/362590
PUTSCH – Les sept gouvernements (officiellement) renversés par les #Etats-Unis | Big Browser
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/166899
Washington aurait eu connaissance de projets d’arrestation de Khashoggi, selon le Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/728348
50 countries vow to fight #cybercrime; US and Russia don’t | Chicago Sun-Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/735196
Special Report: The Pentagon’s doctored ledgers conceal epic waste
►https://seenthis.net/messages/197847
THE #C.I.A. AND #LUMUMBA - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746801
Four more ways the #CIA has meddled in Africa - BBC News
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746802
#CIA Confirms Role in 1953 #Iran Coup
▻https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/#_ftn1
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States’ role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq’s ouster has long been public knowledge, but today’s posting includes what is believed to be the CIA’s first formal acknowledgement that the agency helped to plan and execute the coup.
US calls for ‘new government’ in Venezuela
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/752062
Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/755789
Top Ukrainian justice official says US ambassador gave him a do not prosecute list | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/769396
US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/776454
government officials continue to engage in a decades-long practice of overclassifying information, often for reasons that have nothing to do with national security..,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/783402
Congressman Hunter Says He Probably Killed ’Hundreds’ Of Civilians While In Combat | KPBS
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/784606
Overruling his experts, Pompeo keeps Saudis off U.S. child soldiers list - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/788233
#Libye : les #Etats-Unis bloquent une résolution pour condamner le #carnage dans un centre pour migrants
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/791032
Letter detailing civilian presence failed to prevent deadly Afghan drone strike - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/802991
The U.S. tried to fix Ukraine’s government. We exported our corruption, instead. - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/804463
Remembering The 1989 Massacre Of Jesuits In El Salvador : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/811572
Le scandale de l’affaire Omar Khadr
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/134220
Vol des avoirs irakiens
▻http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/813717#message813722
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
The BBC’s Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.
A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.
U.S. officials misled the public about the war in #Afghanistan, confidential documents reveal - Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815195
Centres de torture au Yémen : les Etats-Unis auraient leurs entrées - Libération
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/609299#message609710
Guerre contre la dissidence aux Émirats arabes unis avec l’aide des Etats-Unis,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/756518#message815319
What the C.I.A.’s #Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured - The #New_York_Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815805
La CIA reconnaît son rôle dans le coup d’Etat en Iran en 1953
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/822593
Après des bombardements qui ont causé la mort de nombre de civils les #Etats-Unis ont permis l’évacuation sécurisée des responsables et des combattants de Daesh
Raqqa’s dirty secret - BBC News
►https://seenthis.net/messages/644594
Vol des avoirs irakiens (bis)
Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy - The New York Times
►https://seenthis.net/messages/871642
In the annals of American diplomacy, corruption has long had an equivocal status: deplored in public but in practice often regarded as a tolerable, even useful vice. The United States has a long history of supporting kleptocrats who were on the “right side” of one geopolitical rivalry or another.
‘Environmental Poisoning’ of Iraq Is Claimed
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/241509
FinCEN Files Show Criminals Moved Billions As Banks Watched
►https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks
..."the largest money laundering operations occur with the cooperation of the financial institutions , or at least some officers within those institutions. The lack of money laundering enforcement had nothing to do with a lack of evidence of suspicious transactions, but a lack of interest by political and law enforcement leadership.’’
[...]
“Under US law, a bank that engages in money laundering can literally be forced out of business by the government, and it is kind of surprising that government hasn’t taken that step, given the obvious deterrent effect it would have.”
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Mazur, the former federal special agent and money laundering expert, says there are a “mosaic” of reasons why US authorities let the money keep running, but one of them may just be that it finds its way into too many pockets.
“Even if it’s bad wealth, it buys buildings,” he said. “It puts money into bank accounts. It enriches the nation.” ●
Les régimes kleptocratiques blanchissent aux États-Unis l’argent qu’ils volent
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... as has been well documented, the world’s kleptocratic regimes depend heavily on money laundering networks that commonly extend into Western centers of global #finance like New York and London, aided by lax incorporation rules in places like Delaware .
Opinion | With Hacking, the United States Needs to Stop Playing the Victim - The New York Times
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« Pandora Papers » : des milliers de milliards de dollars toujours à l’abri dans des paradis_fiscaux
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Ces documents, pour la toute première fois, montrent que les Etats-Unis sont eux-mêmes un paradis fiscal.
U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test
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Civilian Deaths Mounted as Secret Unit Pounded ISIS
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Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups | Reuters
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Février 2018
Ex-CIA director : US meddles in foreign elections for a ‘very good cause’ | The Hill
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Hidden Menace : Massive methane leaks speed up climate change | AP News
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Opinion | The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start - The New York Times
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Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power - The New York Times
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« Les pays industriels ont “choisi” la croissance et le réchauffement climatique, et s’en sont…
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Dès novembre 1976, la Mitre Corporation, un groupe de réflexion d’origine militaire proche de la Maison Blanche, organisait un congrès intitulé « Living with Climate Change : Phase II ». Dans son préambule, le rapport passait rapidement sur le réchauffement, considéré comme inexorable. Restait à en évaluer les conséquences sur l’économie américaine. Mitre souhaitait ouvrir « un dialogue avec les leaders de l’industrie, de la science et du gouvernement ». Le résultat est impressionnant de prescience, et de désinvolture.
’Barbaric’ and ’negligent’ treatment in ICE detention, inspections found : NPR
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CHILE’S COUP at 50 Countdown Toward a Coup | National Security Archive
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Life expectancy in U.S. is falling amid surges in chronic illness - Washington Post
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