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Bill Van Auken

Journalist and writer.

2 articles

Honeymoon over?

US military base plan fuels Latin American tensions

by Bill Van Auken

5 August 2009

While Barack Obama was enchanting his Latin American listeners at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad earlier this year, with promises of "equal partnership" and "mutual respect", plans to establish a base in South America that could be used "as a location from which mobility (...)

Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder

by Bill Van Auken

Caracas (Venezuela) | 7 April 2006

The government of Puerto Rico went to federal
court last week, accusing the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the US Justice Department of
obstructing justice by stonewalling a local
investigation of the FBI’s killing of a leading
figure in the island’s independence movement (...)