Archive - Jul 10, 2009

• Demonstrations against free market policies continue in Peru
• US Congress debates position on Honduras crisis
• Honduras de facto government threatens supporters of ousted President
• Congress reviews CIA record on information disclosure
• South Korea recovers from cyber attacks; Point finger to the North
• 156 dead following ethnic violence in China´s Xinjiang region

• G8 leaders pledge food aid; 2000 march on meeting in Italy
• Final witness defends pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi
• General Motors looks at the other side of bankruptcy
• Protests planned to support 27 activists arrested at Oregon logging site
• Parents accuse private swim club in PA of ejecting

Protests against neoliberal economic policies entered a fourth day in Peru, just a month after at least 33 people died in demonstrations against oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest.
President Alan Garcia has promised to make significant changes in his cabinet, saying the protests have been instigated by neighboring countries who seek to destabilize Peru.
This week's demonstrations have been led by Indigenous organizations and labor unions that oppose Garcia´s economic policies. They accuse the Peruvian president of using excessive force against demonstrators. FSRN reporters  Alfredo Cuadros and Pamela Cueva have more from Lima.

On Capitol Hill today, US lawmakers met to review their response to the political crisis in Honduras, where President Manuel Zelaya was recently ousted by the military.  Zelaya´s opponents say that the deposed president had defied the Honduran constitution and illegally attempted to extend his time in power. But as FSRN´s Sam Greenspan reports, Congressmembers have a different take on the events.

While negotiations continue over the return of the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the de facto government of Roberto Michelletti has threatened to freeze bank accounts of Zelaya supporters. FSRN´s Tim Russo brings us more on the measures being taken to pressure Zelaya´s supporters in Honduras.

A showdown is looming between Congress, the President and the CIA.  Several months after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first accused the CIA of misleading her about torture practices in Iraq, new revelations are inviting skeptics to take another look at how the agency communicates with Congress.  Tanya Snyder reports from Washington.

South Korea is reeling from a week-long wave of cyber attacks. This week, hackers managed to freeze or slow down eleven major websites in South Korea, including the site for the government´s Defence Ministry, while viruses infected more than 30,000 personal computers. Similar attacks in the US froze the websites of more than a dozen major institutions including the Secret Service and the New York Stock Exchange.
South Korean intelligence officials suspect that North Korea and its supporters are behind the cyber attacks, although they have not released any evidence linking North Korea, to these events.
To understand the scale of these attacks and their impact on the Korean peninsula, we spoke to Heon Joo Jung, a professor of Korean politics at Indiana University.