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  • Bolivia photos - General tests of civil war
    17 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cochabamba, 11-12-13-14-15 January, 2007
    A Bolivian demonstrator holds a dynamite stick during a rally in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, January 15, 2007. Thousands of protesters from El Alto city on Monday demanded the resignation of La Paz governor Jose Luis Paredes for supporting a pro-autonomy movement. The rally in El Alto took place four days after violent clashes in the central province of Cochabamba, also over the autonomy issue. (photo: Jose Luis Quintana)
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  • Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil? Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:56 am Opinion: Sherwood Ross Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
    By Sherwood Ross
    After Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country. The loquacious Chavez had the temerity to compare President Bush with the devil, (…)

  • Code Pink in Cuba & American Citizenry Say: Shut the Bush Regime Down!
    10 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defiant activists in march to shut down Guantanamo Havana January 8, 2007
    ANTI-WAR activist Cindy Sheehan has defied a US ban on travel to Cuba, flying to Havana to join protesters demanding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorism suspects.
    Ms Sheehan will join a march to the US naval base in eastern Cuba where about 395 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being held.
    The march is part of planned international protests against the prison camp on Thursday, (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan’s arrival in Cuba...
    8 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by teresa simon-noble
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    The image of Cindy Sheehan’s arrival in Cuba, followed by Medea Benjamin, Tiffany Burns, Adele Welty and Ann Wright, these good, honest Americans who happen to believe in integrity and who happen to get it right, evokes for me so many memories of my own mother, an American woman, tall of stature and of humble heart who lived in Eastern Cuba, the Cuba I left through those very gates of that very Jose Martí International Airport some 49 years ago.
    This (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan, Peace Defenders, to Cuba
    6 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan, Peace Defenders, to Cuba
    Havana, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) A group of defenders of peace, including Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, will arrive in Cuba on Saturday as part of a campaign to demand the immediate closing of Guantanamo Prison.
    Sheehan will be accompanied by a former prisoner of that facility illegally located in Cuban territory, as well as attorneys and relatives of some detained together with whom she will call for new world actions against (…)

  • Chavez Landslide Tops All In US History
    20 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez Landslide Tops All In US History - by Stephen Lendman
    Well almost, as explained below. Hugo Chavez Frias’ reelection on December 3 stands out when compared to the greatest landslide presidential victories in US history. Except for the close race in 1812 and the electoral deadlock in 1800 decided by the House of Representatives choosing Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr, the very earliest elections here weren’t hardly partisan contests at all as the Democrat-Republican party of (…)

  • Argentina and Brazil from 2007 without dollar
    15 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Argentina and Brazil from 2007 without dollar
    BUENOS AIRES, 13 December 2006 - Argentina and Brazil plan to use the U.S. dollar from middle 2007 no longer as a mediator currency for its trade exchange. The import-export-traffic between the largest Mercosur-partners is supposed to be completed then directly over the local currencies – Argentinian pesos and Brazilian actually –. The last details are supposed to be cleared in the headquarters bank conference taking place on Friday of the (…)

  • Reuters Pictures of the Year 2006 - Political World
    15 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A student is detained by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2006. In the largest student movement in the past 30 years in Chile, hundreds of thousands of students from around the country are pressuring the government to cede to their list of demands whose main points are free passes to public transportation, free college entrance exams, more teachers and improved secondary school buildings. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero
    PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A (…)

  • Interview to Flavio Sosa member of the Collective Direction of the APPO
    12 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The dialogue is urgent, but without one gun to the temple” (13 novembre 2006) Claudio Albertani and Gianni Proiettis How is been born the Appo? Since the preHispanic age, one great tradition of assemblies exists in Oaxaca. In the communities, the popular assembly is the maximum authority. The Appo is born with the pretension of being the assembly of the assemblies, like between the zapotechi, the mixtechi, mixe and the other original people of the state. The Appo is born, after the (…)

  • Photos - Prepare the glasses… The death of the Pinochet
    11 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Santiago, December 10, 2006
    Prepare the glasses…
    By Luis Sepúlveda
    I have been locked up for three weeks finishing a novel, without more company than my Zarko dog and the sea, happy between my personages, but from the first hours of today Sunday I began to receive calls of my friends and friends of Chile.
    “It prepares the glasses”, say from my distant country. Whenever some or some miserable one is going away to raise malvas, I open a bottle of good wine and offer the joy that (…)