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  • Nicaragua prepares to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
    4 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nicaragua prepares to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
    04/ 09/ 2008 MEXICO, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - Nicaragua is preparing to officially recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a Nicaraguan deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.
    Russia recognized South Ossetia and Georgia on August 26, two weeks after it had concluded its operation "to force Georgia to peace." The operation came in response to an attack by Georgian forces on breakaway South Ossetia on August 8.
    Nicaraguan (…)

  • COLOMBIA: Indigenous Groups in Danger of Disappearing (IPS)
    30 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    (INTER PRESS SERVICE)
    By Constanza Vieira
    BOGOTA, Jul 28 (IPS) - The Permanent People’s Tribunal warned in its final statement on Colombia of "the imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction faced by 28 indigenous groups," adding that 18 of the communities have less than 100 members, "and are suspended between life and death."
    Source: www.latinamericanstudies.org
    The 28 groups in question are the Nukak, Shiripu, Wipibi, Amorúa, Guayabero, Taiwano, Macaguaje, Pisamira, (…)

  • N.H. will accept free oil from Chavez after all
    21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    N.H. will accept free oil from Chavez after all
    With fuel prices rising, N.H. decides to accept free oil from Chavez’s government after all
    NORMA LOVE AP News
    Jul 18, 2008 14:47 EST
    Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil.
    With the state’s blessing, New Hampshire residents will be receiving some of (…)

  • ALB interviews the Cuban Libertarian Movement
    16 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas www.alasbarricadas.org posed several questions to the MLC www.mlc.acultura.org.ve, an affinity group of Cuban anarchism abroad. The complete text of this interview follows.
    We’re interviewing the Cuban Libertarian Movement (Movimiento Libertario Cubano – MLC), an organization made up of anarchists in exile in different parts of the world. In these days of apparent change, of transition, as the European and (…)

  • The truth about "Operation Redemption" of Ingrid Betancourt
    10 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The truth about "Operation Redemption" of Ingrid Betancourt and the American Mercenaries
    09.07.2008
    Source: http://english.pravda.ru/
    To be able to understand "Operation Redemption" to free Ingrid Betancourt and the mercenaries of the company Northrop Grumman Corporation who were released together with her, it is necessary to connect the pieces published in the media and their meaning, to filter the content, and from there to form a true understanding of the facts of what happened. (…)

  • Bolivia: Agrarian Elite Foments Coup (Rise of Food Fascism)
    4 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    countercurrents.org Bolivia Rising 1 July, 2008
    By Roger Burbach
    Source: www.cubaencuentro.com
    Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta—including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as (…)

  • Bolivia: mutiny in the provinces
    14 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday, another two Bolivian departments voted for autonomy. The referendum was accompanied by confrontations between supporters and opponents of autonomy, road blocks and the burning of ballot boxes. With a majority of nearly half a million, the residents of Beni and Pando voted for a statute that will make them more independent of President Evo Morales’ government.
    by correspondent Cees Zoon* 02-06-2008
    Beni and Pando, which together make up Bolivia’s Amazon region, were following (…)

  • Washington Planning To "Checkmate" Chavez By Stephen Lendman
    3 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Countercurrents.org 02 June, 2008
    So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues.
    In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said "Washington does not want to lose (…)

  • Memories of “Popular Power” in Venezuela’s economy
    23 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * From false co-management and cooperatives to the deceitful EPS, we present a balance of what has happened in Venezuela after at least 7 years of pretending to build a socialist economy, where the available data and verifiable facts belie the failure of the Chavez administration. Since 2001 we have heard the government’s promises to foster a production model where the Venezuelan state would create the conditions to enable and support the growth of a new endogenous economy – at first (…)

  • Controversy surrounds Brazilian dam project in Amazon (+video)
    21 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    english.aljazeera.net
    Brazil Indians attack energy worker
    Environmentalists say a new dam in the Amazon will displace nearly 15,000 local people [EPA]
    Indians in Brazil’s Amazon region have attacked a delegate from the national power company when a heated meeting protesting a proposed dam exploded into anger.
    An engineer with Brazil’s national electric company Eletrobras emerged from the gathering of local indigenous people and activists shirtless and bloody
    About 1,000 Amazon (…)