18.5 Mb Stereo CBR 192kbps. 14 minutes.

Jose Texeira, Fretilin Parliamentarian and member of the Central Committee of Fretiliin comments on te upcoming East Timorese Elections.

There are over a dozen candidates for the Presidential elections in East Timor coming up in March. Fretilin candidate, former resistance leader and Fretilin organiser looks like the strongest candidate to challenge the incumbent Jose Ramos Horta. But with a wide range of candidates, some with a strong personal following, a run off between Horta and Lu'Olo could be unpredictable.

15.2  25 minutes

Toni Solo, (http://tortillaconsal.com) entrevista una dirigente del FNRP de Honduras y candidata del nuevo partido que se formo para representar al Frente. 

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Toni Solo, host of http://tortillaconsal.com continues his analysis of the Nicaraguan elections and the landslide victory of the Sandinista Front looking at what this means for the region, and what it will mean for the Nicaraguan people in the future.

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Toni Solo, host of http://tortillaconsal.com calls from Nicaragua to talk about the landslide electoral victory of the Sandinista Front. Much to the chagrin of the neo-liberal oriented opposition parties, the social programs of the Sandinista Front has one the respect of the people.

33Mb mono 30 minutes

Corrina Grace is visiting Australia after five years working on aid projects in Guatemala. An engineer by profession she is passionate about appropriate technologies and sustainability. She emphasises that there is a high level of consciousness in the underprivileged communities of Guatemala of climate change and the Global financial crisis. It is no longer a topic for debate, but critical issues to which they are already taking steps to adapt.

With her is a team of six young Guatemalans who are touring Australia to learn techniques and methods of sustainable technologies and permaculture.

Corrina's web site can be found here:

http://projectseres.org/

6.3Mb 256kbps. stereo. 13 minutes.

Interview with student spokesperson for the Chilean student movement that is sending a shockwave through Latin American society with its determined resistance to the privatisation of the education system.

Entrevista con un vocero de los estudiantes en resistiencia a la privitisacion de educacion en Chile, y America latina.

29 Mb. 128kbps. stereo. 31 mins 36 seconds.

Victor Marillanca was one of the first wave of Latin American refugees arriving in Australia to escape the US promoted 'dirty wasr' in Latin America. He describes graphically his experience of the days of the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11 1973. A tireless worker on community radio in Australia he presents his view of the student uprising happening in Chile at this time, the role of the media, and how and why it is happening.

24.5 Mb mono. 17 minutes, 48 secondes

(Note, there is some noise interference about two thirds of the way into the interview0

Former Guatemalan General Otto Perez Molina was in Washington last May seeking approval and support for his Presidential aspirations. He is expected to win the Guatemalan elections scheduled for September this year. Perez Molina is a graduate of the US “School of the Americas” Military Academy.

He was also the head of the notorious Guatemalan D2 Intelligence Unit that was responsible for the disappearances and torture of thousands during the 1980s and 1990s ‘counterinsurgency campaigns’ in Guatemala, during which over 200,000 mainly indigenous people were massacred.

US citizen Human Rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury whose Guatemalan husband was one of the victims of the D2 intelligence unit, is a co-signatory of a document filed with the UN rapporteur Torture calling for Perez Molina to be put on trial for war crimes.

Jennifer has spent the last twenty years accumulating evidence that Perez Molina and others were not only complicit in abduction, torture, and genocide, but that the CIA had illegally withheld documents which demonstrated its complicity in these acts.

Jennifer is seeking an end to the impunity of those responsible for gross human rights violations through the Guatemalan legal system and the United Nations. But before discussing the “document of allegation” presently before the UN rapporteur, I asked her if she had had recourse through the US legal system.

Jennifer has published a book about her experience recently, "Truth, Torture and the American Way" and interviews, documentation and links to supporting material on YouTube can be found on http://rigtsaction.org

Un Escuadron de diez,enmascardos  llegaron a la casa del periodista Hondureno, y dirigente del Radio Uno, para secuestrarlo y intimidar su familia. Aqui una entrevista que presenta la situacion en Honduras, dominado por un regimen post-golpista que niega los derechos humanos, fundamental, de un pueblo muy sufrido. Arnulfo tiene una historia de un radio communiatrio, independiente en su periodismo, y perseguido fuertemente por un 'gobierno' que no soporta ni tolera una punta de vista independiente.

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(Interview with English language voiceover)

Union leader Jorge Max Zavala Galeano talks about the second day of a national uprising in Honduras against the Post-coup regime of Pofirio ('Pepe') Lobos. Police have started using live ammunition against peaceful protestors who have succeeded in closing down much of the country, as a response to the intransigence of the regime in meeting the just claims of teachers who have been out on strike for over a week and who have met with brutal repression.
Students and parents have come out in support, and faced baton charges, beatings, over 500 canisters of teargas, and dozens of arrests without charge. There have been several deaths already, but the people intend to continue their resistance.