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  • Venezuela Takes Over Two Foreign Operated Oil Fields (Venezuelanalysis.com)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1935
    Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006 By: Gregory Wilpert -
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 5, 2006-Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA took over seven oil fields last weekend, which were previously run by foreign oil companies. Five of these fields were ceded to PDVSA intentionally and two, run by the Italian oil company Eni and the other by the French oil company Total, PDVSA took over without the companies’ agreement.
    The takeovers were the result (…)

  • Rice moves to block Chavez power play
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rice moves to block Chavez power play
    By Philip Sherwell in Washington
    (Filed: 02/04/2006)
    Go to :
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JTNWEKWPJ2O2VQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/04/02/wperu102.xml

  • Greenpeace Investigation Links Fast Food Giants to Amazon Destruction
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greenpeace Investigation Links Fast Food Giants to Amazon Destruction Campaign launched to hold McDonald’s accountable
    CONTACT: Greenpeace Gavin Edwards, Greenpeace International forests campaign co-ordinator (m) +31 652 391429 Pat Venditti, Greenpeace UK senior forests campaigner (m) +44 797 337 5089 Matilda, Greenpeace International Communications (m) +31 653 504701 Or see http:www.greenpeace.org/forests
    LONDON - April 6 - Greenpeace today exposed the role played by McDonald’s in (…)

  • The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Ted Rall The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0407-23.htm 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 (…)

  • McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Agence France Presse McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0407-09.htm
    The environment group Greenpeace launched a campaign against McDonald’s, accusing the US restaurant chain of abetting the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest by buying meat raised from Amazonian soya.
    Greenpeace protestors staged colourful but peaceful demonstrations at several McDonald’s (…)

  • Nationalist indigenist candidate leads comfortably Peruvian election
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mercosur Thursday, 06 April http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=7605
    NB from the transmitter : Ollanata Humala is a victim of a defamatory campaign
    Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala leads comfortably Peruvian election
    With a few hours before Peru’s Sunday’s crucial presidential election two last minute public opinion polls have further complicated an already confusing political scenario.
    One of the polls anticipates a virtual technical tie between the three main (…)

  • Dutch Islands Caught Up in US-Venezuela Friction (Antiwar.com)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 6, 2006
    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS - Several Dutch islands in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, have been caught in the middle of the war of words between the Venezuelan and U.S. governments, while the United States is getting ready to carry out naval exercises in the area.
    Dutch Defense Minister Henk Kamp recently remarked that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is a "fanatic populist who has his sights set on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao" - Dutch islands located off the (…)

  • Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
    TOM LEWIS reporting from Bolivia
    WINNING THE presidential election in Bolivia last December with an impressive 54 percent of the vote, Evo Morales joined Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Tabaré Vásquez (Uruguay), Alejandro Toledo (Peru), and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) as part of Latin America’s electoral backlash against neoliberalism.1 Morales, an Aymara (…)

  • U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia Znet
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Colombia
    by Garry Leech; Colombia Journal; April 02, 2006 While the U.S. mainstream media widely-reported the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of 50 rebel leaders belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an announcement by the State Department the next day received surprisingly little coverage. On March 24, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson told Colombia’s Radio Caracol that, while the United States would not initiate any (…)

  • Provocative Humanitarianism? Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times By DAVE LINDORFF
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Provocative Humanitarianism?
    Bashing Hugo Chavez at the New York Times
    By DAVE LINDORFF
    What do you call a nation that provides medical aid to desperately poor people in Mexico, heating assistance to low-income families in the U.S., crucial project financing to some of the poorest countries in Africa, and aid to impoverished Caribbean island nations?
    If you’re the New York Times, you call it "provocative," and you call the leader of that country "the next Fidel Castro."
    Venezuela, (…)