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  • Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455 (InternationalANSWER.org)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 11, 2006
    Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455
    A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
    http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7729
    Last week in Miami, Luis Posada Carriles?s accomplice in the downing of the Cuban passenger plane that was blown out of the sky with 73 innocent people on board on October 6, 1976 was interviewed by Juan Manuel Cao of Channel 41 in Miami. His name is Orlando Bosch. (…)

  • U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean: President Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean: Venezuelan President Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion
    April 13, 2006 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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    Tuesday, April 11, 2006 · Last updated 4:23 p.m. PT
    U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean
    By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
    ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON — An aircraft carrier strike group moved into the Caribbean this week to begin two months of naval exercises in (…)

  • APRIL 2006 : Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action By Hands Off Venezuela Monday, 03 April 2006
    Dear friends,
    The last few weeks have been full of events related to Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. It seems that the United States have stepped up their campaign of pressure against Venezuela with a number of statements by Condolezza Rice and other high officials in Washington, including Director of National Security John Negroponte.
    In Britain this was followed by comments by Prime (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WHEREAS, Washington, under the Bush Administration, with bipartisan support in the US Congress, has an open policy of overturning the Cuban government and destroying the Cuban Revolution.
    WHEREAS, the US government has openly allocated millions of dollars towards that end, including direct payments to its clients and agents inside Cuba, the so-called dissidents.
    WHEREAS, US citizens and legal residents continue to be deprived of our Constitutional right to travel to Cuba to learn the (…)

  • THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ in April 2002
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE PROOF IS IN THE DOCUMENTS: THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ
    by:Eva Golinger
    http://www.venezuelafoia.info/english.html
    On April 12, 2002, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer stated: “Let me share with you the administration’s thoughts about what’s taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday’s events in Venezuela resulted in a change in the government and the assumption of a transitional authority until new (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Washington Post vs. Venezuela (CounterPunch)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 work on the right-hand side of the opinion page, thus (…)

  • Venezuela Reaches Landmark 75% Debt Retirement
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1944
    Tuesday, Apr 18, 2006
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 18, 2006-After almost a year of buying billions of dollars in Argentine bonds, Venezuela moves to buy back its own, saving, according to the Ministry of Finance, $676 million in debt repayments in 2006.
    Venezuela announced in late February it would retire 3.9 billion dollars in Brady bonds, which would have matured in 2020. Last week the Ministry of Finance announced that 75 percent of the (…)

  • New Poll Gives Venezuela’s Chavez 82.7% Approval Rating
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Michael Fox www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1934
    Venezuela’s President Chavez during his weekly television program Aló Presidente. Credit: Prensa Miraflores
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 4, 2006-According to the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis (IVAD), 82.7% of the Venezuelan population looks favorably upon the job done by President Hugo Chavez.
    Of those interviewed; 22.9% said the President had done a regular to good job; 41.8% good; (…)

  • CARACAS : Venezuela Unveils Monument for Victims on Coup Anniversary
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006 By: Michael Fox www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1943
    Chavez supporters gather at the Puente Llaguno to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the April 11 coup against Chavez. Credit: Silvia Leindecker
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 12, 2006-Venezuelans commemorated the 4th anniversary of the April 11, 2002, coup d’etat, yesterday, with the unveiling of a monument to the victims at the Llaguno Bridge, one of the centers of the violence in 2002.
    The (…)

  • From Bolivia to Iraq, "Trickle-Down Economics" a Total Failure
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlie Cray
    While it’s hard to see it here in the U.S., "trickle- down" economics is beginning to be confronted by popular democratic movements, which are bubbling up in communities across the country as well as all over the world in countries like Ghana and Bolivia, where fierce resistance to the privatization of water not only pushed big water multinationals like Bechtel out of the country , but led the government of Bolivia to begin pushing the world’s international financial (…)