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  • LATIN AMERICA : Texaco’s Toxic Legacy In Ecuador (COMMONDREAMS)
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Texaco’s Toxic Legacy In Ecuador by César Chelala and Alejandro M. Garro June 14, 2007
    It can be considered one of the most unequal battles in the world today. It pits a group of indigenous people in Ecuador, almost totally devoid of material resources, against one of the most powerful oil corporations in the world. The outcome of this battle will impact them for the rest of their lives.
    From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron and is now called Chevron) carried out oil (…)

  • CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food (IPS)
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:09 GMT
    CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food
    Patricia Grogg
    HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops. Official Cuban sources described the cooperative alcohol programme between the two countries as part of their "joint efforts" to protect the (…)

  • Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example ZNET
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example by Federico Fuentes; Green Left Weekly; June 11, 2007
    Under the banner of "For freedom of speech and against imperialism", hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on June 2 in defence of their revolution, and as a direct response to the domestic and international campaign being whipped up by Washington in the wake of the non-renewal of Radio Caracas TV’s (RCTV) broadcasting concession, dwarfing all (…)

  • Wall Street Journal’s Looking Glass World
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    She’s at it again on the Journal’s editorial page in her June 4 article called "The Young and the Restless," subtitled "Is this the beginning of the end for Hugo Chavez?" The writer is self-styled Latin American expert Mary Anastasia O’Grady always getting top grades in vilification and disinformation but failing ones on regional knowledge and legitimate journalism.
    This time she may have overstepped. Her article wreaks with disinformation, outright lies, and most (…)

  • "We Must Find Another Mode, Not Based on Greed" by Ricardo Alarcon, Vice President of Cuba
    10 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 9 / 10, 2007 An Interview with Ricardo Alarcon, Vice President of Cuba "We Must Find Another Mode, Not Based on Greed"
    By SAUL LANDAU
    Editors’ Note: Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada is Cuba’s Vice President and President of its National Assembly. He was interviewed in Havana on May 23, 2007 by Saul Landau.
    Saul Landau: Cuba recently received billions in investment from China and Venezuela. In addition, nickel prices have risen sharply and foreign firms are drilling for oil off Cuba’s (…)

  • "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
    30 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
    I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial (…)

  • Venezuela Accuses U.S. DEA of Being a “Drug Cartel”
    16 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela Accuses U.S. DEA of Being a “Drug Cartel” Tuesday, May 08, 2007 By: Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
    Mérida, May 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— The Venezuelan government responded yesterday to United States Drug Czar John Walters’ criticisms that Venezuela is not cooperating with the United States in the fight against drugs by saying that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is a "drug cartel." The Venezuelan government rejected Walters’ statements, saying that the U.S. has (…)

  • Gonzales justice department will allow a terrorist to be set free on bail
    11 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mary MacElveen
    April 11, 2007
    What would you say if a known terrorist was about to be freed on $350 thousand dollar bail? Would it anger you? Of course it would if this country truly believes in capturing and punishing terrorists. What would be your reaction if this was the last recorded message made by a pilot of a downed air plane, “We have an explosion aboard, we are descending immediately! ... We have fire on board! We are requesting immediate landing! We have a total (…)

  • Diogenes and His Lamp: George W. Bush’s Latin American Odyssey
    28 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flávio Américo dos Reis, Worldpress.org contributing editor, March 23, 2007
    Bush listens to questions from the press under a portrait of Simón Bolívar at the presidential palace in Bogota. (Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images)
    According to the American Heritage Dictionary, besides being Homer’s second epic poem—retelling the wanderings and adventures of the cunning king of Ithaca, Odysseus, a leader of the Greeks, after the fall of Troy—the word" odyssey" has taken on (…)

  • To Joe Scarborough and Steve Adubato, tell the truth of President Chavez
    23 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Joe Scarborough and Steve Adubato, tell the truth of President Chavez By Mary MacElveen March 23, 2007
    As I have watched Scarborough Country go after President Bush’s handling of the Iraq War, I must say that I have enjoyed the barbs being launched against this administration. I just wish that shows like Scarborough Country did that many years ago and fact checked this president as he sent over 3,100 soldiers to their deaths and killed thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis.
    In (…)