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  • The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela
    8 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela - by Stephen Lendman
    "Today we gave another lesson in dignity to the imperialists, it is another defeat for the empire of Mr. Danger....another defeat for the devil. We will never be a colony of the US again....Long live the socialist revolution....Destiny has been written....Socialism is human. Socialism is love." This is how Hugo Chavez Frias characterized his smashing electoral victory on December 3 when he appeared on the balcony of the Palacio de (…)

  • Rome - The aboriginal people mapuche they contest Benetton
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME, Piazza di Spagna - 6/12/2006
    The first escapes of shopping christmas, to the center of Rome, have had Wednesday 6 Decembers an unscheduled program. Two representatives of the aboriginal people mapuche, Rogelio Fermin and Dina Huincaleo, arrive to you from the Argentine, have contested the Italian multinational Benetton, with an action in front of the store of the company, to Public square of Spain. The photos are of Simona Granati.
    http://www.carta.org (…)

  • Photos Oaxaca - APPO - Flavio Sosa: Mexican police arrest head of Oaxaca activists
    5 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flavio Sosa one of the founders of the Oaxaca People’s Assembly, APPO, arrives at news conference in Mexico City, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. Police arrested Flavio Sosa, the emblematic leader of a six-month-long leftist protest movement that took over the southern city of Oaxaca and battled authorities, authorities reported on Monday. Sosa, whose heavyset, bearded presence become almost a symbol of the leftist People’s Assembly of Oaxaca, was detained late Monday in Mexico City, federal (…)

  • The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico City
    2 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico City - by Stephen Lendman National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon had center stage at 12:01 AM, December 1 at the presidential residence of Los Pinos as Mexico’s new president addressed the country on national television after a brief stealth swearing-in ceremony for him to the office he didn’t win and will now assume illegitimately because of the fraud-laden electoral coup d’etat that gave it to him. He then had to be slipped in a back (…)

  • Hugo Chavez Gains An Ecuadoran Ally
    27 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hugo Chavez Gains An Ecuadoran Ally - by Stephen Lendman
    Ecuador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal is still counting the votes in the November 26 presidential runoff election but the results seem clear - with one-half of them tallied so far they show: the peoples’ candidate, Rafael Correa, 68% and the bible-toting billionaire banana tycoon oligarch who’s also the richest man in the country, Alvaro Noboa, - 32% - results consistent with two exit polls and an unofficial citizens election watchdog (…)

  • Hugo Chavez Holds Commanding Lead Eight Days Before Election
    25 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hugo Chavez Holds Commanding Lead Eight Days Before Election - by Stephen Lendman
    Hugo Chavez holds an insurmountable lead in two late November polls - one by Ipsos Venezuela/the AP-Ipsos Poll and the other by Zogby International-University of Miami. Both were released on November 24 and are the most current and reliable data available and are consistent with most independent poll results for months. This is in stark contrast to several fraudulent US National Endowment of Democracy (…)

  • Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez - by Stephen Lendman
    Eva Golinger’s eagerly awaited new book is now out - but only for those able to read and understand Spanish as it’s not yet available in English. It’s appropriately called Bush vs. Chavez - Washington’s War Against against Venezuela published by Monte Avila Editores in Caracas. Hopefully it will soon be available in English as well.
    Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney specializing in international human rights and (…)

  • Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador declares himself president
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHADOW INAUGURATION As his critics dismiss it as an act of a loser’s desperation, Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador declares himself president ’Parallel’ government begins
    By MARION LLOYD
    The left struggles in Mexico,Parallel government launched in Mexico Protesters clash with police in Oaxaca ,Leftists rally in Mexico City, Oaxaca
    MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s nearly five-month-old political standoff took a surreal twist Monday when the losing presidential candidate was "sworn in" before tens (…)

  • Mexican Ex-Presidents Blasted in Report
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JULIE WATSON
    The Mexican government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blamed "the highest command levels" of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the 1960s to the 1980s.
    The report ends a five-year investigation by a special prosecutor named by President Vicente Fox to shed light on past crimes, including a 1968 student massacre and the disappearance of hundreds of leftist activists (…)

  • Oaxaca Assembly Gives Governor an Ultimatum
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina)
    Oaxaca People’s Assembly (APPO) demanded on Saturday that Governor Ulises Ruiz resign his post before November 25 or they will undertake new actions against him in all the Mexican states.
    Flavio Sosa, leader of that organization, reported at the national meeting of trade union, academic, artistic, social, and political organizations with the APPO, said Ruiz should be ousted, when "the legitimate president takes up his post."
    He called on those who (…)