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  • VIC Conference marks fourth anniversary of defeat of coup against President Chavez
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VIC Conference marks fourth anniversary of defeat of coup against President Chavez The Venezuela Information Centre (VIC) held a conference on Saturday 8 April 2006, in Bolivar Hall, London to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the coup that briefly ousted democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez on 11-14 April 2002.
    The conference was opened by Keith Sonnet, UNISON Deputy General Secretary and Chair of the Venezuela Information Centre, began by informing the meeting about (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency? BY Julio Godoy (IPS)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=33205 Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:41 GMT
    LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency?
    Julio Godoy
    VIENNA, May 11 (IPS) - The EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit, to take place Friday in the Austrian capital, will be marked by the contradictions that pervade relations between the two regions. While the governments tout cooperation, civil society organisations complain that it often merely serves to strengthen ties (…)

  • VIENNA SUMMIT : Live video streaming of the Meeting with the Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Live audio and video streaming of the Meeting with the Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
    Date: 13th May
    http://www.alternativas.at/English/indexenglish.htm

  • VIENNA SUMMIT : LATIN AMERICA-EU: Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:20 GMT
    LATIN AMERICA-EU: Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
    Julio Godoy
    VIENNA, May 12 (IPS) - The governments of Argentina and Bolivia joined civil society organisations, in the Austrian capital, to accuse European companies of disregarding laws on the environment, civil rights and labour in their operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The thirty or so corporations put in the dock by activists work in a wide (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Venezuela the New Niger?
    The Bush Administration is Trying to Link Hugo Chavez to Iran’s Nuclear Program
    By LARRY BIRNS and MICHAEL LETTIERI
    http://www.counterpunch.org/birns05102006.html
    Washington is no stranger to flimsy pretexts when it comes to justifying its ill-conceived, and at times illicit, Latin American initiatives. The contra epoch, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, Ollie North, former U.S. ambassador John Negroponte’s skullduggery in Honduras, and (…)

  • ARGENTINA : "The Disappeared."
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Desaparecidos is the Spanish word for "The Disappeared." For thousands of Argentine families, this word has become a symbol of a long harrowing nightmare.
    In a coup on March 24, 1976, a military junta seized power in Argentina and went on a campaign to wipe out left-wing terrorism with terror far worse than the one they were combating. Between 1976 and 1983 - under military rule - thousands of people, most of them dissidents and innocent civilians unconnected with terrorism, were arrested (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1962
    Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    Thursday, May 11, 2006 By: Richard Beeston and Tom Baldwin - The Times
    HUGO CHÁVEZ, the President of Venezuela and one of Tony Blair’s most vocal critics abroad, arrives in London this weekend on a whirlwind visit during which he will be fêted by Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs and the TUC but will avoid contact with the Prime Minister and his Government.
    The diplomatic snub will be delivered (…)

  • Participatory Democracy In Venezuela (znet)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1626
    Participatory Democracy In Venezuela
    By: America Vera-Zavala - ZNet Commentary
    The learning process is a basic argument for, and an important outcome of, participatory democracy. Parallel to the decision-making, a process of learning takes place where people learn how different things work and function and how they can influence them: a budget, a health station, a community kitchen. Knowledge is required to participate in building up (…)

  • URGENT: A Second Anti-Venezuela Resolution to be Introduced Tomorrow in the House.
    9 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Wednesday, Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) intends to introduce a resolution in the House condemning Venezuela for supposedly not cooperating with the United States in the fight against narco- trafficking.
    Please contact your House representative today!
    – http://www.democracyinaction.org/di...

  • ’The Power of Their Numbers’
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    This morning, for the first time in two months, it will be a day with immigrants at the University of Miami. On Monday the university’s janitors — almost all of them immigrants, and the vast majority refugees from Fidel Castro’s Cuba — won a nine-week battle with the university and its janitorial contractor over their right to be represented by a union. Today they report back to work. When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) set out to organize the janitors, (…)