The International Police Agency's findings on computer devices the Colombian government says it found at a rebel camp do not ratify the veracity of Bogotá's claims about the devices' contents supposedly linking neighboring governments to Colombian guerrillas. International media have ignored this important fact, while independent experts continue to raise doubts on Interpol's investigation and the few conclusions drawn in its report.

Since January 1959, nearly half a century ago, U.S. mass media have reflected the views of the U.S. government and systematically misreported the Cuban Revolution. Few reporters have tried to understand—much less explain—the Cuban Revolution.

Guatemalans have supposedly lived in peace and democracy since the brutal 36-year civil war formally ended in 1996. But the state-sponsored terror of the past is again rearing its head. In today's undeclared war rates of violence in some cases surpass even those of the war, with the government repeating many abuses of the past.

On May 2, the day after nationwide marches clamoring for immigrant rights, federal authorities detained 64 workers from taquerias across the San Francisco Bay Area. In response, hundreds of activists have poured into Bay Area streets to protest the raids.

Just weeks after Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia pulled back from the brink of conflict, the U.S. Navy announced the Fourth Fleet to reassert U.S. power in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, Mexico has lived through the slow disintegration of the corporate state created and controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), its gradual replacement by a multiparty neoliberal state, and the emergence of new sources of governance and power­—national and transnational, private and public, criminal and legal.