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  • letter of november to Obama.
    2 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama November 2nd, 2010 The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    In a previous letter, I wrote to you: “The United State’s hypocrisy is flagrant; it condemns the Cuban government’s actions while sweeping their own crimes under the rug”. This is not an unfounded accusation, I have been striving to show this in every letter that I’ve been sending you every month.
    While the five Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio (…)

  • Nicaragua Sugar (Grupo Pellas) reinforces aid to CKD patients
    8 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Within the framework of the dialogue that has been maintained for more than one year between Nicaragua Sugar and ASOCHIVIDA, under the auspices of the Office of the Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank, a meeting was held by the parties last September 1, which was attended by Mr. Carlos Pellas, as irrefutable proof of the will of Grupo Pellas to support the former workers of Ingenio San Antonio affected by CKD.
    Although it has been scientifically proven that the (…)

  • letter of october to Obama.
    6 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    The letter that I’m sending you this month is rather special.
    Because, since last September 12th, the five Cubans - René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González et Antonio Guerrero – have started their thirteenth year of imprisonment in your country. (…)

  • Global support for Ecuador leader
    1 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Neighbours close borders with Ecuador as nations from across the Americas signal their support for Rafael Correa.
    World leaders have pledged their support for Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, after a state of emergency was called amid protests by police officers angry over plans to remove some of their benefits.
    Correa himself sought refuge in a hospital in Quito on Thursday after being teargassed by as he attempted to speak to offficers at a barracks in the capital.
    Hugo (…)

  • Ecuador’s president attacked by police
    1 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Country’s leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency
    Ecuador teetered on the brink of chaos early today as rebellious police officers protesting against austerity measures blocked airports and roads, occupied the national assembly and besieged the president in a hospital after physically assaulting him.
    The government called the revolt a coup and declared a one-week state of emergency which put the military in charge of public order (…)

  • Boycott Flor de Caña: There is no evidence linking Nicaragua Sugar to CKD
    11 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Boston University Public Health School recently presented its final report on the industrial health study it conducted in Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), in which it concludes that there is no evidence that the labor practices of the company have contributed to its workers developing Chronic Renal Disease (CKD / CRI).
    The research study team evaluated ISA’s labor practices during the 2009-2010 harvest, as well as the chemical products used by the company both now and in the past.
    “We found no (…)

  • letter of september to Obama
    1 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barack H. Obama
    The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Last August 13th, nineteen mountain climbers from the Southwest of France scaled the highest summit of our Basque-Bearn Pyrenees, the Auñamendi Mountain (2,504 m).
    We were demanding, by this symbolic act, in the name of their many friends in our region, the liberation of five Cubans – (…)

  • the "Five" to the mountain
    18 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a little video (8 mn) of the mounted to the "pic d’Anie" (Pyrénées, France), for the five Cubans Gerardo, Fernando, René, Antonio, y Ramon, in prisons in USA.

  • letter(s) of august to Obama
    2 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote two letters. Learning the second, you’ll understand why.
    August 2nd 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    We’re coming into the twelfth anniversary of the incarceration of the Cuban Five -René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero- these patriots are still behind bars in your country.
    And yet, just a little reflection leads us to realize the (…)

  • Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
    19 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
    By NICHOLAS CASEY
    CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram.
    Violence escalates in the drug wars in Mexico as a car bomb set off by a cell phone kills at least three people. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Video Courtesy of Reuters. (…)