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  • A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Hayden
    Veteran social activist Tom Hayden interviews Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon.
    “Let’s try to imagine what Karl Marx would be doing today.”
    It was Sunday, May 21st, and my host posing the question was Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly. It was Alarcon’s 69th birthday, and I was having difficulty understanding why he had pressed me to fly down for a visit. The purpose was nothing more than “two old guys talking,” according to his (…)

  • Mexican court fuels voter doubt
    10 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mexican court fuels voter doubt The ruling settling the disputed election puzzles legal experts.
    Los Angeles Times
    MEXICO CITY - Top electoral officials and judges are feeding doubts about the outcome of Mexico’s presidential vote by declining to release details about a recount of 4 million ballots and by moving quickly to destroy all 41 million ballots, legal experts said Friday.
    The seven judges of the Federal Electoral Tribunal declared conservative candidate Felipe Calderon (…)

  • VENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
    9 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
    Urban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas
    by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom
    In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the Organopónico Bolivar I, the first urban, organic garden to show its green face in the heart of the city.
    One afternoon while international crowds swarmed the city for the World Social Forum, I visited the (…)

  • Chavez Announces Energy Revolution in Venezuela
    9 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Announces Energy Revolution in Venezuela Ahora.cu / 07-09-2006
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the beginning of an energy revolution in his country and called on the entire nation to participate.
    During an outdoor rally of supporters from different political parties and social movements, Chavez announced the creation of a system of energy generating units and the use of natural gas to produce electricity.
    Chavez said that thanks to a gas pipeline currently being (…)

  • Blockades
    8 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blockades
    “Those that underestimate the popular opposition don’t know what they are talking about”
    By Luis Hernández Navarro La Jornada
    A profound political crisis is shaking up the country. The rules that regulate the balance of power between elites have been violated. From above, there is no agreement or any possibility for one in the short term. The occupation of the lectern of the Palace of San Lázaro (the Chamber of Deputies, lower house of the Mexican Congress) by legislators (…)

  • Mexico: A new revolution
    8 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The confirmation of the conservative candidate as the victor of Mexico’s presidential election will spark a huge social explosion.
    by Roger Burbach
    Mexico moved one step closer to a social explosion with the Federal Election Tribunal’s decision to crown conservative Felipe Calderon as the victor in the hotly contested presidential elections of July 2. The tribunal acknowledged Calderon’s campaign had "violated the norms of public order," particularly with the role played by the business (…)

  • SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH BOLIVIA’S EVO MORALES
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America"
    Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, 46, talks to DER SPIEGEL about reform plans for his country, socialism in Latin America, and the often tense relations of the region’s leftists with the United States.
    SPIEGEL: Mr. President, why is such a large part of Latin America moving to the left?
    Morales: Injustice, inequality and the poverty of the masses compel us to seek better living conditions. Bolivia’s majority Indian population was always excluded, (…)

  • Oaxaca’s Social Movement Develops Radical Vision for a National Government of the People
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Oaxaca’s Social Movement Develops Radical Vision for a National Government of the People
    Despite Fatigue, Marchers Once Again Fill the Streets of the State Capital, as Social Leaders from Other States Visit to Learn from Oaxaca’s Example
    By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
    September 3, 2006
    The fifth Oaxaca Mega-March called by the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials) for Friday, September 1, passed a fixed point for an hour and a half, with a (…)

  • USA terrorist actions put in place to sabotage Venezuela’s coming elections
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    USA terrorist actions put in place to sabotage Venezuela’s coming elections
    Published: Thursday, August 31, 2006 The Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera “Through the labyrinth of revolutions, honor is the best guide." Simon Bolivar
    The Rev. Obed Juan Vizcaino Najera (Maracaibo) writes: The governor-candidate has returned after meeting with the USA Ambassador in foreign lands (just as we had predicted a few days ago). He went to meet his political and financial mentors and to fetch the (…)

  • Chile copper miners’ strike ends
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A strike at the world’s largest privately-owned copper mine has ended after workers voted in a secret ballot.
    Union members at Chile’s Escondida mine accepted new contracts, so ending a 25-day dispute, but it will take up to a week for full production to resume.
    Workers voted more than 13 to one to accept a new 40-month contract, with a 5% wage rise and a $17,000 bonus.
    La Escondida, owned by Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton, produces 8% of the world’s copper supply.
    During the (…)