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  • Video : José Pertierra : “Extradite Luis Posada Carriles”
    21 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On May 20, 2008, a press conference was held, at the National Press Club, in downtown Washington, D.C., near the White House. One of the featured speakers at the event was attorney José Pertierra, counsel for the government of Venezuela. He demanded the extradition from the U.S. to Venezuela of Luis Posada Carriles. Mr. Pertierra also addressed the issues concerning the case of the “Cuban Five.” The co-sponsors of the affair was the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and the “National Committee to Free (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Says Attack by U.S. Would Cause $500 Oil
    15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela’s Chavez Says Attack by U.S. Would Cause $500 Oil
    By Steven Bodzin
    May 15 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose country is the biggest oil exporter in the Americas, said crude oil would rise to ``$400 or $500 a barrel’’ in the case of a U.S. attack.
    The reactivation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet in the Caribbean on July 1 and a possible U.S. base on the Guajira Peninsula, which Venezuela shares with Colombia, are both threats to his country, Chavez said at his (…)

  • Pdt Morales to Pdt Fernando Lugo :"Welcome to the Axis of Evil !" (video)
    15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Welcome to the Axis of Evil" — Bolivian President Evo Morales to Paraguayan President-Elect Fernando Lugo
    Bolivian President Evo Morales came to New York to deliver the keynote address at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Morales became Bolivia’s first indigenous president when he was elected in 2005 with more popular support than any Bolivian leader in decades.
    Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez had a chance to sit down with President Morales at the Bolivian mission in (…)

  • Special programming “Bolivia” on Radio Venezuela en Vivo
    30 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Radio Venezuela en Vivo http://radiovenezuelaenvivo.blogspot.com/ radiovenezuelaenvivo@gmail.com
    Special programming “Bolivia” on Radio Venezuela en Vivo
    The local pro-opposition authorities in Santa Cruz, Bolivia have decided to hold a referendum on 4 May 2008: the question, should the region become autonomous
    Now, according to Bolivan electoral authorities, this referéndum is illegal
    What lies behind this demand for regional autonomy?
    Is Bolivia en route to balkanisation? (…)

  • Native chief seeks help of Venezuela’s Chavez
    18 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    He’ll ask President to help stop profitable U.S.-bound oil pipelines
    By Joe Friesen
    WINNIPEG — An outspoken Canadian native leader is urging Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to throw his weight behind an attempt to block two multibillion-dollar pipelines that will transport oil from Alberta to the United States.
    Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau First Nation in Manitoba, met last week with officials at the Venezuelan embassy in Ottawa and yesterday released a letter to Mr. Chavez in (…)

  • Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present
    17 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. We hope that this serves as a useful point of reference for those who are interested in the subject. The profile of anarchism in Venezuelan history has been less pronounced than in other parts of Latin America, where it has vigorously manifested itself through collective struggles, publications, personalities and (…)

  • Huichols and pesticides
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    French version: http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18663111.html
    "Huichols & Pesticides, documents, through witnesses, reports and persuasive images, the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the tobacco fields, and the poisonings, and even deaths, resulting from the use of agrochemicals." (Boletín RAPAM - Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México, 1994)
    Part I:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZesVO028oak
    Part II: (…)

  • Chavez: Castro Predicted Fall of Dollar
    13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez: Castro Predicted Fall of Dollar
    Thursday, April 10, 2008.
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his close friend Fidel Castro predicted the fall of the U.S. dollar. Chavez said Cuba’s 81-year-old former president mentioned the prediction some time ago before signs of a weakening dollar had begun to appear.
    "Fidel told me one day, ’Chavez, it won’t be long before the crisis of the dollar occurs,’" the Venezuelan leader said in a televised (…)

  • Venezuela 2008 : A libertarian view & proposal for the current situation
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Issue #52 of El Libertario is out . In its contents we reaffirm the commitment of this voice of Venezuelan anarchism to maintain a critical viewpoint on the country’s realities, as well as our stand in solidarity with the struggle for liberty and equality. The year begins and it’s already clear that the electoral circus will be used once again to tame the social struggle in Venezuela, a script routinely applied with success for the last 10 years. Elections for governors, state (…)

  • Argentina, Brazil to drop U.S. dollar in bilateral commercial transactions
    16 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Argentina, Brazil to drop U.S. dollar in bilateral commercial transactions
    www.chinaview.cn 2008-03-16 14:03:09
    BUENOS AIRES, March 15 (Xinhua) — Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in U.S. dollars and start using their own currencies from August, an official in charge of currency settlement at the Argentine Central Bank said here Saturday.
    The new payment system is aimed at reducing costs in commercial transactions and would benefit small and (…)