News Round-Up

Otto at Inca Kola News continues to follow the Majaz torture story.

In Colombia, declassified documents have shown that the US was aware of human rights abuses, including executions, by the military as far back as the 1990s. Which mades it so doubly nice that President Uribe is to receive the Medal of Freedom from Bush.

And at the Latin America News Review, you can check out apparently the whole of John Pilger's War on Democracy, which looks like something I'll be doing when I find the time.