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  • Mexico suffers
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands remain stranded by Mexico floodwaters
    Severe floods in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco were continuing to cause havoc and devastation on Saturday.
    People evacuate a flooded area in Villahermosa, Mexico, Saturday. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press) Officials estimate as many as 800,000 people are homeless after a week of heavy rain swamped the Gulf Coast state.
    Rivers burst their banks late Thursday, submerging about 70 per cent of the low-lying state and 80 per cent of (…)

  • Mexican floods leave 300,000 stranded
    2 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexican floods leave 300,000 stranded
    Haroon Siddique and agencies Friday November 2, 2007
    Rescuers were today racing against time to evacuate 300,000 people trapped by the worst floods to hit the Mexican state of Tabasco in 50 years, ahead of further predicted rainfall.
    Military trucks delivered bottled water, food and clothing as health officials warned of the threat of cholera and other waterborne diseases.
    A week of heavy rains, which caused rivers to overflow, has left at least (…)

  • Fidel CASTRO claims BUSH could spark WW III
    24 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GLOBAL RESEARCH
    By WILL WEISSERT AP Writer for Global research
    Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington a day before the White House plans to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
    "The danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush’s recent initiative to transform foods into fuel," Castro wrote in Cuban news media, referring to U.S. support for using corn and other food crops to (…)

  • VENEZUELA Defends Iran, Blasts ‘Hypocritical’ US Policy On Terror (commondreams)
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    NO AFP on Bellaciao please !
    UNITED NATIONS - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday used the General Assembly podium here to defend Iran and to blast Washington’s “hypocritical” policy on terrorism.../...
    URL to article: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/03/4299/

  • American Spy Satellite Downed In Peru ? (video)
    21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Russian Military Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that one of the United States most secretive spy satellites, the KH-13, targeting Iran was ‘destroyed in its orbit’ with its main power generator powered by the radioactive isotope Pu-238 surviving re-entry and crashing in a remote region of the South American Nation of Peru, and where hundreds are reported to be ill from radiation poisoning.
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    But we are pried to believe (…)

  • Mexican Rebels Claim Pipeline Attacks
    11 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mexican Rebels Claim Pipeline Attacks
    By MIGUEL HERNANDEZ –
    VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — A shadowy leftist guerrilla group took credit for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines Monday, rattling financial markets and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production.
    The six explosions could be seen miles away, and set off fires that sent flames and black smoke shooting high above the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
    At least a dozen (…)

  • Scum
    4 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Who among us hasn’t been told to clean up our mess? Who among us doesn’t take responsibility for our actions? Who would dump garbage on their neighbors and then just ignore them when they complain? World Capitalist’s that’s who, far from the claims of growth and prosperity promised to us by global free trade we have heard not only the giant sucking sound of disappearing employment but the sound of giants sucking.
    In Mexico the town of Tehuacan, blue jean washing (…)

  • ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native Communities
    1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native Communities
    Marcela Valente
    BUENOS AIRES, Aug 30 (IPS) - Encroached upon by the expanding agricultural frontier and facing the indifference of the state, indigenous communities in the northeastern Argentine province of Chaco have problems of access to water, food and their natural medicines, and are heading towards extinction.
    Images of emaciated men and women suffering from hunger and tuberculosis in the district of Villa (…)

  • CHILE’S WORKERS UNION CALLS FOR FOCUS ON COLOMBIA
    31 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the AI report, 2,245 Colombian union members were murdered in the 15 years between 1991 and 2006. In the same time period, 3,400 received threats and 138 were disappeared. Almost half of the killings are attributed to rightist paramilitary groups, which have links to politicians within Colombia’s government. AI found government security forces responsible for 43 percent.
    AI Chile Director Sergio Laurenti (right) details recent Colombia report. Photo by Sean Havey
    Written by (…)

  • DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT?
    20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “SPP has three fundamental objectives.to create more advantageous conditions for transnational corporations and remove remaining barriers to the flow of capital and crossborder production within the framework of NAFTA. It wants to secure access to natural resources, especially oil. And it wants to create a regional security plan based on “pushing its borders out” into a security perimeter that includes Mexico and Canada.”- Laura Carlsen, International Relations Centre. (…)