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  • VENEZUELA : Inflation and Unemployment fall, Minimum Wage Rises in Venezuela
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1956
    Inflation and Unemployment fall, Minimum Wage Rises in Venezuela
    Wednesday, May 03, 2006
    Venezuela’s economic boom has continued into the first part of 2006, with consumer inflation and unemployment down, and a 10 percent minimum wage hike.
    Consumer inflation, which in Venezuela is measured in Caracas, was 0.6 percent in April, less than half that of the same month last year, and down from last month according to number released yesterday (…)

  • VENEZUELA : A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1710
    A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?
    Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006
    By: Michael Fox - Venezuelanalysis.com
    Yesterday morning, Caracas awoke to the news in the Venezuelan daily paper, 2001, that US intelligence sources had reported the existence of a secret agreement between Iran and Venezuela whereby Iran will be sending nuclear weapons to Venezuela and Cuba.
    Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations, Ali Rodriguez Araque, was up before (…)

  • South American leaders to study Bolivia’s decision to nationalize gas reserves
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    South American leaders to study Bolivia’s decision to nationalize gas reserves 04.05.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/79861-Bolivia-0
    Presidents of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela asked Bolivia’s Evo Morales for an urgent meeting to discuss his determination.
    Presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela meet on Thursday with the Bolivian leader, Evo Morales, in northern Argentina, to dicuss the decision of La Paz to nationalize its energy sector, a (…)

  • EVO MORALES’ COURAGEOUS MOVE NOW MAKES HIM A US TARGET ALONG WITH HUGO CHAVEZ
    3 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EVO MORALES’ COURAGEOUS MOVE NOW MAKES HIM A US TARGET ALONG WITH HUGO CHAVEZ - by Stephen Lendman
    To get a good sense of where US policy is heading, one need only read the front page of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal - painful as that may be to do. I skip the Times but do read the Journal daily because of the audience it reaches - high level people in business and government who want real information to guide them in their work. So despite the Journal being a voice for US (…)

  • Bush’s Hypocrisy: Cuban Terrorists by Robert Parry
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/042606.html April 26, 2006
    Like an aging rock star singing a beloved oldie, George W. Bush can count on cheers whenever he delivers a favorite line from the Bush Doctrine enunciated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks: Any country that harbors a terrorist is equally guilty as the terrorist.
    Bush got a round of applause at an Indianapolis speech on March 24, 2006, when he declared “one of the lessons learned after September the 11th is that we must (…)

  • Peter Goss’s CIA
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I know this is a rather long read and sounds somewhat conspiratorial. However, there is a lot of documentation available for verification if one is interested. This is a pass along for FYI. By going to the link at the end of the article and scrolling halfway down the page, there is an actual picture of the plane and several other of receipts for clearer explanation..
    April 21, 2006 — SPECIAL REPORT. Porter Goss’s Cocaine Import Agency (CIA) has links to "Al Qaeda" and Saudis. Last year, (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Sun, Apr. 30, 2006
    Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    By Anita Snow Associated Press
    HAVANA - Bolivia’s new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional cooperation.
    Cuban authorities did not release copies of the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas signed by Bolivia’s Evo Morales, so its contents were unclear.
    Local media (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Bolivia weighs in on Peru vote along with Venezuela
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolivia weighs in on Peru vote along with Venezuela
    LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales invited nationalist Peruvian candidate Ollanta Humala on Sunday to visit Bolivia, after Peru withdrew its ambassador to Caracas over Venezuela’s comments backing Humala in its presidential election.
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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060430/wl_nm/bolivia_peru_dc_1

  • COLOMBIA : Washington’s Other Oil War
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Duroyan Fertl
    Green Left Review
    After almost five years, and countless thousands of people dead and disappeared, the US$7.5 billion initiative known as "Plan Colombia" has failed — politically and militarily — to bring an end to the crisis that characterises the violence-ridden South American country of Colombia.
    Begun in 2000, Plan Colombia was ostensibly designed to take the "war on drugs" to the drug producers. The US argued these were primarily "narco-terrorists" — the Marxist (…)

  • The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.counterpunch.org/wingerter04182006.html
    Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six?
    The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
    By ERIC WINGERTER
    Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.
    When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his (…)