Latin America recognizes Palestine
In December, Argentina and Brazil announced their recognition of a free and independent Palestinian State within the 1967 borders. Uruguay has also published intentions of doing the same. These lates...
Author Archives: Harry Lam
West flip-flops on Gadaffi
Weeks of uprising in Libya against the Libyan leader, Colonel Mummar Gaddafi, has led to a civil war between pro-Gaddafi military forces and opposition rebels that are partially made up of military d...
Colombia’s ‘Parapolitics’
Former Colombian senator, Mario Uribe Escobar, has been found guilty of having connections with the Colombian right-wing paramilitary death squad, United-Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Escoba...
Egypt gains freedom!
After 18 days of massive unrest across Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak ended his 30-year rule and resigned on February 11, handing over power to a military supreme council. Protests and demonstrations...
Venezuelans celebrate overthrow anniversary
Thousands of Venezuelans that included supporters of President Hugo Chavez and the opposition gathered across Caracas on Sunday, January 23 to mark the 53rd anniversary of the overthrow of General Ma...
Palestinians remember former leader
Harry Lam Journal Staff On November 11, Palestinians commemorated the sixth anniversary of the death of former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Arafat was the first president of the Palestinian Nat...
Wikileaks reveal truths on Iraq
Harry Lam Journal Staff The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the occupation that followed is one of the most violent conflicts in the past decade. It was an invasion that was claimed by former U.S. ...
Argentina mourns death of former president
Harry Lam Journal Staff Former Argentine President, Néstor Kirchner, died of a heart attack last Wednesday at the age of 60. He had been suffering from heart problems in the last year and underwent t...
Venezuelan president travels to form new world order
Harry Lam Journal Staff In an attempt to create a world free of U.S. hegemony, Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has been traveling though Eastern Europe and the Middle East, signing energy deals w...
Police uprising in Ecuador causes chaos
Harry Lam Journal Staff Ecuador was thrown into chaos as hundreds within the police force launched an uprising against Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, on September 30. This was in response to a ...
No fair trials for the Cuban Five
Harry Lam Journal Staff In June 1998, Cuban government officials held a meeting with the FBI concerning terrorist plots against Cuba that were being organized by Cuban-exiled terrorist groups in Miam...
Cuban-exile roaming the U.S.
Harry Lam Journal Contributor In the U.S., when one thinks of terrorist attacks involving commercial airliners, first to mind are the barbaric 9/11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people. However, fe...