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  • Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Urges Africa To Unite Against US By Daniel Flynn Sat Jul 1, 2006 3:40 PM ET BANJUL (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Africa on Saturday to forge closer ties with Latin America to combat what he called a threat of U.S. hegemony.
    Chavez, whose repeated criticism of America has raised hackles in Washington, called on an African Union summit to cooperate with Latin America in everything from oil production to university education to counter "colonial" meddling in (…)

  • STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election By Greg Palast Friday, June 30, 2006 GEORGE Bush’s operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I’m not talking about the November ’06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I’m talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency. It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: (…)

  • The Politics Of The FARC Indictment
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A "Secret Formula" Against Colombia’s Guerillas?
    by Paul Wolf
    The US State Department has developed the secret formula to dismantle the armed groups of Colombia’s war. Or so it believes. It is believed that the demobilization of 28,000 members of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) was the result of threatening its leaders-notably Salvadore Mancuso and Don Berna-with extradition to the US.
    Fear of extradition, accompanied by promises of amnesty, convinced (…)

  • Colombia: The DAS scandals
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: http://www.ciponline.org/ April 13, 2006
    If you’ve ever traveled to Colombia, then you’ve seen the DAS, the government’s Administrative Department for Security. As soon as you get off the plane, DAS employees are there to stamp your passport and, perhaps, to ask why you’re visiting.
    The DAS does much more than stamp passports, though. It is a powerful agency, a sort of “secret police” institution founded in 1960. Its principal purpose is intelligence and counterintelligence, both (…)

  • We Stand with the Teachers of Oaxaca
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the early morning hours of June 14, armed federal and state police accompanied by helicopters dropping tear-gas grenades attacked an encampment of teachers in the center of Oaxaca, Mexico. According to news reports, after first being driven out of the town center, teachers armed themselves with rocks and sticks and fought back against the ferocious police assault. Conflicting reports of casualties range from 3 to 11 persons dead, including one child, with many injured or detained. About (…)

  • Wall Street Journal Calls Hugo Chavez A Threat to World Peace
    24 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Wall Street Journal Calls Hugo Chavez A Threat to World Peace - by Stephen Lendman
    You won’t find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It’s practically blood-curdling in its vitriol which calls Hugo Chavez a threat to world peace. The sad part of it is Journal readers believe this stuff and are likely to (…)

  • *Toronto activists expose Peña Nieto’s role in the violations of human rights in Atenco*
    17 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    *Toronto activists expose Peña Nieto’s role in the violations of human rights in Atenco*
    * version en espanol abajo
    Toronto, June 16^th . A group of activists denounced today Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of the state of Mexico, for having ordered a police raid on the villagers of Atenco, on May 3^rd and 4^th , resulting in the dead of two youths, the rape of 30 women, the beating of more than 200 detainees. Peña Nieto was in Toronto for the Metropolis conference of the World Association (…)

  • Wall Street Journal Gives Hugo Chavez A Mixed Review
    17 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wall Street Journal Gives Hugo Chavez A Mixed Review - by Stephen Lendman
    In contrast to its one-sided stance on Hugo Chavez, the June 16 Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on US based activists in Boston, New York, San Diego, Miami, Cincinnati and other cities around the country forming Bolivarian Circles and other groups supporting the Chavez government. But it couldn’t do it without taking its usual swipe at the Venezuelan leader beginning with the front page article’s (…)

  • SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO NOVOX JAPAN
    17 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    To demonstrate solidarity with Brazilian homeless people threatened by expulsion in Curitiba(Parana State) and Sao Paulo, associations from the international network "No-vox" in France, Japan and Portugal have organized a peaceful demonstration yesterday (15 of June)with the MNLM organization (Movimento nacional de luta pela moradia), and the MSTC (Moviemento dos sin tetos do centro) organization.
    Delegations have been received by Brazilian embassies. In Tokyo, the Japanese police force (…)

  • VENEZUELA: Many Housing Plans, but Limited Resources
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jun 8 (IPS) - "Where’s the end of the line? Another queue; whatever it takes to get a house," said Ángela Rodríguez as she reached Panteón Plaza in the Venezuelan capital, where thousands of housing rights activists who support President Hugo Chávez gathered after a recent march through the central part of the capital.
    Seven or eight out of every 10 of the participants in Sunday’s march were women. Amidst the heat and the chaos in the plaza — there were no (…)