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  • VENEZUELA : Breaking Imperial Ties: Venezuela and ALBA By: Tim Anderson - Green Left Weekly
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, Mar 27, 2006 In late 2005, while war raged in the Middle East and oil prices rose drastically, governments and oil companies repeated the “market forces” mantra, saying there was nothing they could do about oil prices. However, the Venezuelan government-owned US-based petrol distribution company Citgo (with eight refineries and 14,000 petrol stations across the US) decided to discount up to 10% of its US sales, so that poor families in cold-weather US states could have access to (…)

  • Venezuela Experienced Record Growth of 17% in 2004 By: Sarah Wagner
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, February 17, 2005-Venezuela’s gross domestic product grew 17.3% in 2004, closing the year with a "notable recuperation" according to the Central Bank of Venezuela. The oil economy, which accounts for 80% of the country’s exports, experienced an 8.7% growth rate. This growth "constitutes the highest level reached since the Central Bank of Venezuela began to calculate the figure (GDP)," said the Central Bank.
    The average growth rate for non-oil economy was (…)

  • At OAS Venezuela Says US Interventionism is Prelude to Aggression By: Jonah Gindin & Gregory Wilpert
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, Feb 23, 2005
    Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez at the OAS Credit: Reuters
    Caracas, Venezuela, February 23, 2005-Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Alí Rodriguez took the issue of US intervention in Venezuela’s affairs to the Organization of American States (OAS) today, where he made a presentation calling for an investigation into a possible attempt to “liquidate” the Venezuelan President.
    Rodriguez cited statements from US officials, who referred to Chávez as a (…)

  • Caracas Mayor’s Office to Expropriate Buildings for renters
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1930
    Thursday, Mar 30, 2006
    Greater Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto Credit: Alcaldia Mayor
    Caracas, Venezuela, March 29, 2006-The mayor of Greater Caracas, Juan Barreto, announced Monday that the city will confiscate some 400 buildings and sell them to the people currently renting apartments within them.
    “All good rented buildings which were constructed between 10 and 30 years ago, or longer and of which the sum of the rental contributions has (…)

  • The War Drums Are Getting Louder and Sounding a Clear Message
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Lendman
    The way things are today, why on earth would those in charge in Washington ever want another war or maybe two of them. Already they’re embroiled in two out-of-control debacles in the Middle East and Central Asia, and the country is leaching multi-billions we don’t have to pay for them. Despite this hopeless chaos, it looks almost certain we’re now headed for a new one with Iran and may try to "double our displeasure" by adding still another with Venezuela to remove their (…)

  • Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Truth crusaders Walter and Rodriguez to appear on Hugo Chavez’s weekly TV broadcast
    Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 31 2006
    Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into (…)

  • Protests in Puerto Rico mount against FBI over tactics
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The FBI is under attack in Puerto Rico for operations that critics say unfairly target pro-independence activists.
    BY FRANCES ROBLES
    SAN JUAN - Students masqueraded as rifle-toting federal agents, while others donned T-shirts with the face of a man they called Puerto Rico’s liberator.’’
    Near the angry shouts and political placards stood Elma Beatriz Rosado with a calm explanation for it all:I want the FBI out of Puerto Rico. The time has come for them to leave, now.’’
    Rosado’s husband (…)

  • ENVIRONMENT: Who Has Access to Biodiversity?
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mario Osava*
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 23 (Tierramérica) - Biologically mega-diverse countries, including Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, are calling for a binding global policy to regulate who has access to biodiversity. The proposal is up for discussion at an international environmental meeting this week in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, but the goal remains far out of reach.
    "The negotiation has been difficult and this process could take a couple more years," Hesiquio Benítez told (…)

  • Terminator defeated Terminator Rejection - A Victory for the People by Greenpeace and Via Campesina
    26 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CURITIBA, Brazil - March 24 - A broad coalition of peasant farmers, indigenous peoples and civil society today celebrated the firm rejection of efforts to undermine the global moratorium on Terminator technologies - genetically engineered sterile seeds - at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Curitiba, Brazil.
    "This is a momentous day for the 1.4 billion poor people worldwide, who depend on farmer saved seeds," said Francisca Rodriguez of Via Campesina, a world wide movement (…)

  • Anti-Empire Notes The Cuban Punching Bag By WILLIAM BLUM (COUNTERPUNCH)
    25 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 22, 2006
    The Committee to Protect Journalists, located in New York, calls itself "An Independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide". In December it issued a report that said that "China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are the world’s leading jailers of journalists in 2005".
    On January 7 I sent them the following email:
    "Dear People,
    "I have a question concerning your report on imprisoned journalists. You write that you consider journalists (…)