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  • Mexico: Students arrested – urgent solidarity needed!
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday August 6th, a force of nearly 1000 police officers attacked a peaceful sit-in demonstration of students who were demanding access to university. The protest had been organised by the Movement of Non-Admitted Students, a campaign launched by the Committee in Defence of State Education - Committee of Student Struggle (CEDEP-CLEP http://cedep.militante.org ).
    As a result of this brutal action by the authorities of the Federal District, eight students were arrested, four of them (…)

  • José Ramon Rivero: “In Venezuela, we are going against the tide of neo-liberalism”
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Cathy Ceïbe
    Latin America: An interview with the Venezuelan labour minister, José Ramon Rivero, who describes the reform of working hours in Venezuela, recalling also the tensions between the Government and the Venezuelan Employers’ Confederation (Fedecamaras).
    Huma: The working-time reform should start in 2010: six hours a day or 36 hours a week. In what way is this a “socialist proposal”, which is how you have refered to it?
    José Ramon Rivero: In these times when capitalist (…)

  • The Target: Fidel Castro
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 1960, the CIA contacted a former FBI agent and right hand man of billionaire Howard Hughes, who in turn conspired with the Mafia to have Fidel assassinated.
    The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations, established in September of 1975 and presided over by Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, was mandated to investigate the “government’s operations with respect to Intel Surveillance activities.” It had drawn up a 347-page document describing the plots to (…)

  • ‘Plan Mexico’
    11 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush administration is close to sealing a major, multiyear aid deal to combat drug cartels in Mexico that would be the biggest U.S. anti-narcotics effort abroad since a seven-year, $5 billion program in Colombia, according to U.S. lawmakers, congressional aides and Mexican authorities.
    U.S. Anti-Drug Aid Would Target Mexican Cartels Deal to Include Training, Gear
    By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, August 8, 2007; A01 MEXICO CITY, (…)

  • Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America’s New Militarism
    8 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Castillo, in his cool Asunción office, with the standard Paraguayan herbal tea, tereré in his hand, said these operations marked a shift in US military strategy. "The kind of training that used to just happen at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia is now decentralized," he explained. "The US military is now establishing new mechanisms of cooperation and training with armed forces." Combined efforts, such as MEDRETEs, are part of this agenda.
    Written by Benjamin Dangl (…)

  • President Hugo Chavez announced that there will be no more cultivation of GMO in Venezuela
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A socially responsible approach to GMOs (!) http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=301
    (NB : In 2004, Pt Chavez had announced the ban of GMO in the country !)
    Today, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that there will be no more cultivation of genetically modified crops in his country. Although full details are not out, Chavez terminated a 500,000-acre Monsanto project to grow GMO soybeans.
    Brazil and Argentina are still involved in GMO soybean production.
    Chavez said that a policy (…)

  • Zyklon B on the US Border By ALEXANDER COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
    2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zyklon B on the US Border
    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    Zyklon B came to El Paso in the 1920s. In 1929, for example, a U.S. Public Health Service officer, J.R. Hurley, ordered $25 worth of the material—hydrocyanic acid in pellet form—as a fumigating agent for use at the El Paso delousing station, where Mexicans crossed the border from Juárez. Zyklon, developed by DEGESCH (the German Vermin-combating Corporation) was made in varying strengths, with Zyklon C, D and E representing gradations in (…)

  • US DEMOCRATS :42 House Democrats Back U.S. Terror Academy Democrats and the School of the Americas
    2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 25, 2007 42 House Democrats Back U.S. Terror Academy Democrats and the School of the Americas
    By DAN BACHER
    Two San Joaquin Valley Representatives, Dennis Cardoza of Merced and Jim Costa of Fresno, were among 42 Democrats that voted to keep the world’s foremost torture school, the School of the Americas, open during a House vote on June 21. The vote was 203 yes, 214 no, 1 voting "present" and 19 not voting.
    Cardova, Costa and 40 other Democrats voted no on the McGovern/Lewis (…)

  • VENEZUELA HIT BY 5.3 MAGNITUDE QUAKE, NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF DA (Alternet)
    21 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    VENEZUELA HIT BY 5.3 MAGNITUDE QUAKE, NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF DA 20 Jun 2007 20:13:27 GMT http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20283111.htm Source: Reuters
    CARACAS, June 20 (Reuters) - A 5.3 magnitude quake hit Venezuela on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage in the OPEC nation, including to any of the state oil company’s operations, officials said.
    The quake, which also hit Colombia, should not produce any significant damage because of its size and depth, (…)

  • Video: Hugo Chavez recommends reading Thierry Meyssan’s investigations
    17 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.voltairenet.org/article148932.html
    Video: Hugo Chavez recommends reading Thierry Meyssan’s investigations
    The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has denounced in length the CIA-organized "velvet coups" attempts around the world, including against his own government, using techniques revealed by Thierry Meyssan.
    The head of the Venezuelan State was making a speech in the presence of Daniel Ortega, the recently elected president of the Nicaraguan (…)