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  • Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by the Financial Times Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’ by Adam Thomson Millions of people throughout Mexico are threatening to turn their backs on US products and businesses on May 1 as part of a protest that is being dubbed “the great American boycott”.
    Teachers, telephone operators, housewives and farmers are just a handful of the groups that have decided on the boycott as a way to support Latin Americans living in the US who (…)

  • Pentagon Releases Extensive Gitmo List
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BEN FOX
    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. government released the first list of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison on Wednesday - the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds of people held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.
    In all, 558 people were named in the list provided by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by The Associated Press. They were among the first swept up in the U.S. global war on terrorism for suspected (…)

  • All Eyes on May Day A Real Day Without Mexicans?
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN ROSS
    Outgoing Mexican president Vicente Fox’s long-treasured pipedream of an immigration agreement with Washington went up in smoke in early April when Republican senators torpedoed a compromise measure that would have legalized millions of undocumented workers living north of the border and guaranteed hundreds of thousands of unemployed Mexicans short-term jobs in the U.S.
    But the proposed reform carried by Senators Ted Kennedy (Dem Ma.) and John McCain (Rep. Ariz.) would have (…)

  • The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism (ZNET)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall; April 12, 2006
    When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries’ treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when a democratically elected populist president uses Venezuela’s oil profits to lift poor (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Channel 4 Smears Chavez
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela by David Edwards; April 10, 2006 On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ’Hugo to go?’
    Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, in a piece described by John Pilger as "one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen". (Email to Channel 4 News, copied to Media Lens, March 27, 2006)
    Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow introduced the film:
    "Now, he’s the president with his own (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium A Discussion of the Current State of Venezuela by Maria Paez Victor; March 29, 2006
    [A talk prepared for the "Walter Gordon/Massey Symposium", Toronto March 15, 2006]
    Throughout most of its history, there has been very little interest in North America about Venezuela except as a supplier of oil. With the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999, all this changed. He ushered in the Bolivarian Revolution, founded on ideas expounded (…)

  • US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba by Jorge Martin; Hands Off Venezuela; April 01, 2006 According to a press release by the US Southern Command on Monday, March 27: "A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group will deploy from the U.S. east coast to the Caribbean Sea to conduct Operation Partnership of the Americas from early April through late May 2006." The strike group will be composed of "aircraft carrier USS George (…)

  • US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez by Stephen Lendman; April 18, 2006 http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10113&sectionID=45
    This essay has a dual purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it’s true which it rarely is. I chose the title Reeducation 101 - Defogging and Reversing the (…)

  • Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
    By Greg Brosnan Tue Apr 18, 6:43 PM ET
    President Hugo Chavez, who accuses Washington of planning to invade Venezuela, said on Tuesday recent deployment of U.S. warships in the Caribbean Sea threatened his country and its ally Cuba.
    Four U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, and 6,500 sailors, are in a two-month deployment in the Caribbean Sea dubbed "Partnership of the Americas" by the U.S. Navy.
    "They are doing maneuvers (…)

  • Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean 20.04.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/79367-military-0
    Venezuela plans to hold military exercises soon along its coasts and with neighboring countries’ armed forces, the defense minister said Wednesday, while U.S. warships were conducting their own maneuvers in the Caribbean.
    Adm. Orlando Maniglia did not specify when Venezuelan troops would train with other countries, but said the Venezuelan military is (…)