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June
6, 2002
By Roldan Tomasz Suarez
Vheadline.com
With
New Introductions by
Lisa
Fithian and Al Giordano
Immedia
Summer 2002
It's
Just a Shout Away:
Narco
News
To Launch Phase II
of Our
Project in Coming Days
Free
At Last!
Erika Zamora Leaves
a Mexican Prison Yesterday
After Four Years
of Unjust Imprisonment
Erika was finally
freed after members of Colectivo Libertad
(Liberty Collective) Ofelia Medina, Begoña Lecumberri,
Ana María Vera Smith, Ana Cecilia Lazcano, Raquel
Gutiérrez, Luz María Marván, Ana María
Iturbe, Aurora
Domenech and Oralba Castillo Nájera, launched a public
fast last Sunday to call for her release.
Wally
Nelson, ¡Presente!
March 27, 1909
- May 23, 2002
Friend, Teacher,
Troublemaker Extraordinaire
To Mark, to the Knapp
family, to Lucille, and to our colleagues from the Phoenix newsroom
during the years of Caroline's big change:
Somewhere in América
today the raindrops fall, the gods themselves can't stop their
tears. Alice K. was a larger than life figure to us, and then
we met Caroline; Introverted, dignified, quiet, taking inventory
of herself and her world with an intensity that only the most
bravest warriors and pioneers have dared attempt; Caroline, alchemist
of the self.
In 1994, we read Cornell professor Richard Klein's Cigarettes
Are Sublime, which he wrote as "a love letter"
to his former mistress, tobacco, and Caroline was seized with
the gutsy inspiration that became her magnum opus and
her transformation: Drinking: A Love Story. And from Boston,
where alcohol is King: Courage like that doesn't often grow on
the trees of such literary talent. How fortunate we were to sit
in her silent graceful shadow, typing mere journalism while she
penned immortal literature. Caroline, our friend, our leader…
our inspiration to reach higher: Long Live Caroline Knapp. ¡Viva!
Al Giordano
narconews@hotmail.com
Narco News '02
Authentic
Journalism on the "War on Drugs" in Latin America
"The Name
of Our Country is América" - Simón Bolívar
His
Campaign Manager, the DEA,
and
the Case of the 50,000 Kilos
Ya,
en Español:
De GMP Productos
Químicos S.A...
(GMP Chemical
Products Sent us a 22 page Response
in Spanish: We've
offered to publish it in English, too)
"Uribe was without doubt the favoured candidate
of the United States."
"Before Uribe was even
declared the winner,
U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson went to a hotel where he was holed
up with campaign workers to congratulate him."
Plan
Colombia Documents:
National
Security Archives Unearths
The
Secret History of Plan 1988-2000
Docs Show U.S.
Collusion with Paramilitaries,
and Knowing Lies
by Washington on Drug Trade
An Email
Exchange
with
Corporate America
Venezuela
Bombshell...
By Greg
Palast
From
The Guardian of London
The
Narco News Interview with
Peruvian
Journalist Róger Rumrrill
Part
III of a Series
By Luis A. Gómez
Narco News
Andean Bureau Chief
You
Can't Take It With You...
Narco-Dictator Hugo Banzer of Bolivia
May 10, 1926 -
May 5, 2002
The Narco News
Interview
with Father Gregorio
Iriarte
Part
II of a Series:
Did
you see Part I?
Part
I of a Series
Former
Attorney General of
Colombia
Makes the Case:
By Gustavo de Greiff
Special to the Narco News Bulletin
A Narco
News White Paper:
Online
Journalism's Finest Hour!
Consult
the Archives of
América
Reborn
Up-to-the-Minute
Venezuela
Colombia Discussion
Boards Now Open at...
Narco
News Opens South America Office
Andean
Bureau Chief
for
Narco News
Why
Authentic Journalism?
Where
did Narco
News Come From?
The
Secret History...
...About
to Be Revealed
Phase
Two:
It's
Showtime
Coming
Next to Narco News...
Immedia
Summer 2002:
The
Fall and Rise of
an Immedia
Project
"Narco News, its website, and the writers
who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment
protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist... Furthermore,
the nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordano's
statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public
concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug
trade and its affect on people living in this hemisphere..."
-- Supreme
Court of the State of New York
December
5, 2001
"And in the cause of journalism
we're also pleased
about a recent ruling by Judge Paula Omansky of the New York
State Supreme Court dismissing libel charges against Mario Menendez,
a Mexican journalist, and Al Giordano, editor and publisher of
Narco News, an Internet magazine (www.narconews.com),
published in Mexico, that reports on corruption and the drug
war in Latin America.... Banamex took him to court in Mexico
and lost. The bank then sued Narco News, along with Menendez,
in New York. Again they lost in what is a stirring victory for
freedom of speech on the Internet. Narco News has broken
important stories on the drug war. If it had lost, a chill could
have settled over the web."
-- The
Nation magazine
Issue of January
28, 2001
From somewhere
in Rio de Janeiro... a drawing by Latuff
Narco
News
Beat
Banamex
Victory
Extends to All Online Journalists
Now
on the EFF website:
It Protects
You, Too
What
is The Narco News Bulletin?
The Narco News Bulletin works to tell the truth. We call
it as we see it. Yet we are conscious that it's our truth. The
whole truth can only be constructed by the participation of the
people. Thus, we strive to work together, to collaborate, with
your truth and the truths of others, "to make a bigger truth."
We invite your comments,
corrections, criticisms, news tips and participation. Narco News
accepts letters from our readers. Contact us with your truth.
-- From
the First Day of Publication, April 18, 2000
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