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  • Venezuelan Fighter Shoots Down US F-16 over Cuba ?
    14 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan Fighter Shoots Down US F-16 over Cuba
    By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Conflicting reports are emerging from Cuba today that allege the shooting down of an American F-16 Fighter Jet by a Venezuelan Sukhoi-30MK2 Russian Fighter Jet participating in large scale Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces wargames in Pinar del Rio province.
    The United States has denied these reports and state that their F-16 Fighter Jet crashed off the coast of Cuba due to an (…)

  • In Buenos Aires, Chavez slams Bush
    11 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Buenos Aires, Chavez slams Bush
    Agencies
    Posted online: Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
    BUENOS AIRES, march 10
    Gringo, go home! thundered Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday as he denounced President Bush’s swing through Latin America as an “imperial” excursion, mocking the president and cementing the impression of the White House trip as a battle between the two hemispheric rivals.
    “Bush today is a political cadaver. He exhales the smell of the political dead, and (…)

  • The Smell of Sulphur in Latin America
    11 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 10, 2007
    The Smell of Sulphur in Latin America
    By Gatto
    Bush doesn’t get it. The MSM doesn’t get it, and most of the people in the United States don’t get it. What it is that they all don’t “get” is that The United States of America has no friends in Latin America. We might have some good relations on some occasions depending who’s in power down there and up here in Washington, but overall they don’t like us very much. I can hardly say I blame them. We have been usurping (…)

  • Why NPR Sucks Ass—An Analysis of NPR’s Coverage of Bush’s Latin American Tour
    10 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Flávio Américo dos Reis
    Source Links:
    Bush Set for Weeklong Tour of Latin America
    By Juan Forero
    Real Media Audio Stream
    Windows Media Audio Stream
    NPR’s Day to Day – Wednesday, March 7, 2007
    President Bush heads to Latin America on Thursday for a week long visit. The trip is meant to build support for the United States, and to respond to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s increasing power in the region. [Uh, in case you haven’t noticed, NPR, all over Latin America, (…)

  • Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit
    10 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
    "That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan (…)

  • Cuba ditches Microsoft and goes open source
    21 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuba ditches Microsoft and goes open source By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
    Tuesday, 20 February 2007
    Could it be Castro’s last strike against capitalism? Cuba has decided to throw off the shackles of proprietary software to join Venezuela in embracing open source software – but much like Fidel’s ongoing recovery, going open source won’t be an overnight process.
    Open source advocates must be breaking out the Cuban cigars in celebration as the Associated Press reports that Cuba has decided (…)

  • REJECTING TAPEWORM ECONOMICS AND ITS WAR ON FAMILIES
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carolyn Baker
    Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, during a meeting with working mothers
    A frightening story came across the radio waves this week and was later reported by MSNBC:
    “Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls.” Governor Rick Perry had just signed an order making Texas the first of what is likely to be many states to require that school girls be vaccinated against Human Papiloma Virus (HPV), implementing what at first blush appears to be sensible and humane (…)

  • Tens of thousands march in Mexico City to protest tortilla prices
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ioan Grillo ASSOCIATED PRESS
    8:30 p.m. January 31, 2007
    MEXICO CITY – About 75,000 trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas – the staple of Mexico’s poor – and to demand a change in economic policy.
    The march represented a challenge to President Felipe Calderón’s market-oriented policies and one banner read “Calderón stole the elections, and now he’s stealing the tortillas!” (…)

  • Lider Maximo - Havana Tuesday Jan. 30, 2007
    31 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    HAVANA - Emerging from months of seclusion, Cuban President Fidel Castro has appeared on television in apparent good spirits, telling his Venezuelan counterpart his recovery from surgery was "far from being a lost battle."
    Castro, 80, stood for part of the meeting with his Venezuelan friend and ally Hugo Chavez. He seemed far healthier than he did the last time such footage was broadcast by Cuban television three months ago. The video raises new speculation over Castro’s fate and (…)

  • Venezuela’s RCTV Acts of Sedition
    25 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela’s RCTV Acts of Sedition - by Stephen Lendman
    On December 28, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias delivered his annual "greeting speech" to the National Armed Forces (FAN) and announced the operating license of TV station Radio Caracas Television (known as RCTV) broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 won’t be renewed when it expires on May 27, 2007. The station played a leading role, along with the other four major commercial private television channels in the country controlling 90% (…)