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  • Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0410-03.htm Published on Monday, April 10, 2006 Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the US ambassador and blamed him for triggering protests in which his car was pelted with tomatoes and eggs.
    "If you continue making provocations, you’re going to have to pack your bags, mister, because I’m going to throw you out of here, Ambassador (William) Brownfield," Chavez (…)

  • WHY EASTER BUNNIES LAY COLORED EGGS
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ABOUT EASTER BUNNIES AND EGGS
    By Peter Fredson
    April 9, 2006
    A nephew in Mexico e-mailed me a question concerning Easter. His wife is a school teacher, and her pupils wanted to know why in the U.S. bunnies and colored eggs are associated with Easter.
    Most of the Mexican pupils were raised as Catholics and they only know of the alleged crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ in connection with Easter symbolism (Las Pascuas). No bunnies, no Easter Eggs. How did (…)

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

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Ted Rall The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall 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 (…)

  • Opportunity, Cubed, for World’s Organic Growers A sugar plantation in Brazil found dividends beyond
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Sunday, April 9, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times Opportunity, Cubed, for World’s Organic Growers A sugar plantation in Brazil found dividends beyond its dreams after making the switch. The reason? U.S. farmers can’t meet demand. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0409-07.htm
    by Colin McMahon and Andrew Martin
    SERTAOZINHO, Brazil - Growing up on his family’s sugar plantation, Leontino Balbo slept like a dream. The hard work, fresh air and lullaby (…)

  • Latin American School of Medical Sciences : free for all !
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Housed on a former military base in Havana, the Latin American School of Medical Sciences trains students from all over Latin America to be doctors, free of charge.
    Since the revolution in 1959, Cuba has had a long tradition of sending doctors and other medical personnel to countries in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean in need of their services. The devastation in Central America and the Caribbean caused by Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in 1998 increased this need exponentially, and (…)

  • On Revolutionary Medicine By Che Guevara, 1960
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    On Revolutionary Medicine
    By Che Guevara, 1960
    "Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger, and disease ; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money ; with the stupefication provoked by continual hunger and punishment, to the point that (…)

  • PERU : “I am one of those from below and my idea is to govern with them and with everyone”
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “I am one of those from below and my idea is to govern with them and with everyone”
    • “We shall respect foreign investment although it must meet certain requisites: the generation of employment - direct or indirect - the transfer of technology for the country, respect its fiscal obligations and protect the environment” • From Lima, presidential candidate Ollanta Humala talks to Granma International
    BY ALONSO DEL PRADO-Special for Granma International-
    MEDIUM height, an athletic (…)

  • Venezuela Hunts Down Serial Killers
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Hunts Down Serial Killers
    Caracas, Apr 7 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Minister for Interior and Justice Jesse Chacon announced the arrest of three of the five people involved in the quadruple murder that rocked the country.
    Colomb Paramilitary Heats up Venezuela
    The cruelest of the recent bloody crimes in Venezuela was this kidnapping February 23 of 12, 13 and 17 year old siblings and their driver. Their bodies found on Apr 4.
    The crime wave includes an Ultimas Noticias (…)

  • PERU PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS : HUMALA FOR PREZ !
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Humala Campaign Enlivens Peruvian Election
    By JOAQUIN RIVERY TUR rivery @granma.cip.cu
    With a flurry of activity, the campaign for the presidency of Peru is in the home stretch and the polls have the leading two candidates neck and neck for the April 9 vote.
    The main sensation that turned the race into a hotly contested three-way campaign is without a doubt Ollanta Humala of the Partido Union por el Peru (Union for Peru Party) who surged to the top of the polls and has a decent chance (…)

  • Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action
    8 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 (…)