Links but No Update for May 17, 2009

[We are unable to send out an Update this week because of travel. We'll be back next week. Below are links to stories from other sources.]

Paraguay: Soy: A Hunger for Land
https://nacla.org/node/5798

Diplomacy Underground: Tunnel Proposed to Grant Bolivia Access to Sea
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1864/1/

USAID's Silent Invasion in Bolivia
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1865/1/

Bolivia: Plan 3000: Resistance and Social Change at the Heart of Racism
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6093

Peru: Canadian oil company signs deal to explore uncontacted tribe's land
http://ww4report.com/node/7312

Swinging from the Right: Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1856/1/

Colombia: In Radio Diversia “After the Burglary...Came the Threats” http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1863/68/

Assassinations Continue in Colombia http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1857/68/

Beyond the Media Hysteria on Hugo Chávez
https://nacla.org/node/5809

Venezuela: Chávez takes hardline pasta policy
http://ww4report.com/node/7321

Campaign Against School of the Americas Lobbies El Salvador http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1858/68/

What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left - Carlos Alarcón http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1861/1/

Landmark Developments in Guatemalan Human Rights
https://nacla.org/node/5818

Video Accusing Guatemalan President of Murder Unleashes Political Crisis, Deepens Social Divisions
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1862/1/

Mexico: Swine Flu Reveals Flaws in Global Public Health System
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6108

Obama and the Future of Cuban-U.S. Relations
http://www.nacla.org/node/5812

Compañero Obama? Obama Mends Fences with Latin America http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1855/1/