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  • Venezuela requires Euros for some oil contracts
    15 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela requires Euros for some oil contracts
    Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:30pm EDT
    CARACAS, March 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela is requiring payments in euros on some contracts for crude, oil product and spot sales, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters on Friday.
    The move to have some of its contracts in euros is a sign OPEC-member Venezuela could be easing away from the plummeting dollar — the standard currency for the oil industry.
    The South American producer had no set target for the (…)

  • Vale Says Peasants Destroyed Offices of Its Reforestation Unit
    10 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Vale Says Peasants Destroyed Offices of Its Reforestation Unit
    By Romina Nicaretta
    March 8 (Bloomberg) — Cia. Vale do Rio Doce SA, the world’s biggest iron-ore producer, said a group of peasants invaded and destroyed offices of its reforestation unit in the Brazilian northern state of Maranhao.
    Militants from Movimento dos Tralhadores Sem Terra invaded today the administrative offices of Monte Libano Farm, where Vale plants trees used in the production of charcoal, the Rio de (…)

  • Fidel CASTRO : Underestimating Rafael Correa
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch March 5, 2008
    I remember when Rafael Correa visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us as Vice President, before becoming the President in an unexpected situation that took place in Ecuador. He had been receptive to a program of ophthalmologic operations (…)

  • Venezuela : The Spectre of Big Oil, by Paul Kellogg
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research March 4, 2008 The Bullet, Socialist Project e-bulletin
    "Never again will they rob us -the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq."
    This was the response from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to the successful lawsuit by the world’s biggest corporation (ExxonMobil), freezing $12 billion in assets of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, (…)

  • Uribe’s Illegal Cross-Border Raid Colombian Deaths in Ecuador
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RICHARD GOTT
    The deaths of Raúl Reyes and Julián Conrado, two senior figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Farc, is clearly a serious blow to the guerrilla organisation. It will also call a halt to the release of hostages held by the Farc in the jungle over many years, a process that had been proceeding slowly under the auspices of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Freedom in the short term for the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in which the (…)

  • Pétition : Oppose ExxonMobil action against Venezuela
    29 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venuela Information center Sign on line : http://vicuk.org
    Pétition: Join with leading figures opposed to ExxonMobil action against Venezuela
    In a letter published in the Guardian (28 Feb), over 50 prominent figures representing a wide section of British society have signed a statement, organised by the Venezuela Information Centre, raising concern over legal action taken by oil giant ExxonMobil to prevent the Venezuelan government from exercising its right to control its natural (…)

  • Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
    By Andres R. Martinez
    Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked supporters to shut airports, oil facilities and highways next month when President Felipe Calderon introduces a plan to open the state oil industry to investment.
    The country’s oil belongs to the people, even the most humble,’’ Lopez Obrador told protesters outside state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos headquarters in (…)

  • Chavez Urges Withdrawals From U.S. Banks
    28 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Urges Withdrawals From U.S. Banks
    By IAN JAMES – 1 day ago
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his Latin American allies on Saturday to begin withdrawing billions of dollars in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis.
    Chavez made the suggestion as he hosted a summit aimed at boosting Latin American integration and rolling back U.S. influence.
    "We should start to bring our reserves here," Chavez said. "Why (…)

  • CUBA: Philip Agee, former CIA Agent, Passed away (Jan 10 2008)
    10 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philip Agee was born in 1936. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1957 and worked as a case officer in several Latin American countries.
    Agee later claimed: "My eyes began to open little by little down there as I began to realize more and more that all of the things that I, and my colleagues were doing in the CIA had one goal that was that we were supporting the traditional power structures in Latin America. These power structures had been in place for centuries. Where in a (…)

  • Cuba’s Great Victory Against The Empire
    2 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    National Assembly Address By Fidel Castro; December 31, 2007 Comrades of the National Assembly:
    You have no easy task on your hands. On January 1st, 1959, surrounded by the accumulated and deepening grievances that our society inherited from its neo-colonial past under U.S. domination, many of us dreamed of creating a fully independent nation where justice prevailed. In the arduous and uneven struggle, there came the moment when we were left completely alone.
    Nearly 50 years (…)