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  • Venezuela’s Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MARC PERELMAN
    The Venezuelan Jewish community leadership and several major American Jewish groups are accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center of rushing to judgment by charging Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, with making antisemitic remarks.
    Officials of the leading organization of Venezuelan Jewry were preparing a letter this week to the center, complaining that it had misinterpreted Chavez’s words and had failed to consult with them before attacking the Venezuelan (…)

  • Intelligence sources warn Venezuela’s Chavez: Beware the Ides of January!
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VHeadline.com editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: A United States move to ’deal with’ Washington D.C.’s percieved problem with Hugo Chavez Frias could be close to execution if usually accurate intelligence sources are to be believed ... warning that Venezuela’s President should take extreme care as the ’Ides of January’ approaches this Sunday, January 15.
    While we at VHeadline.com sincerely hope and trust that, contrary to indications, the imminent threat is baseless, the zeal (…)

  • Belafonte Blasts Bush in Venezuela
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IAN JAMES
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)- The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
    Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s (…)

  • Ten Commandments for Evo
    10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Atilio A. Borón, Pagina12, Buenos Aires, January 7, 2006
    Translated from Spanish into English by Ernesto Páramo a member of Tlaxcala, the network of translators for linguistic diversity -. This translation is copyleft.
    On January 7, 2006 a few hours after the victory of Evo Morales, the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, declared that she expected the new head of State " to govern democratically.” The spokeswoman for the White House also pointed out that relations between (…)

  • EVO MORALES: WHITE MAN, YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELVES TO BLAME
    10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This month, cocaleros (coca farmers) champion Evo Morales was victorious in Bolivia’s presidential elections, with 51% of the vote. His triumph at the polls is a direct challenge to the US’s anti-narcotics campaign in the region, with Morales defending the production of the coca leaf - which, when refined, produces cocaine.
    Cocaine: the white man’s invention
    The coca leaf is traditionally chewed by the indigenous people of Bolivia to alleviate altitude sickness, a practice that predated (…)

  • BELAFONTE PRAISES VENEZUELA’S OIL DISCOUNTS
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Country slashes fuel prices to help ease heating costs among U.S. poor.
    *Singer/activist Harry Belafonte has given public props to the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for providing cheap home heating oil to poor families in the United States.
    "This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit," said Belafonte during a visit to the country Wednesday to meet with a delegation of civil rights activists. (…)

  • How is socialism bad when it helps those who need it most?
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen There are times where the good news coming from Venezuela is overshadowed by those closely monitoring what weapons have been purchased by the Chavez administration, or how he will interact with Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales.
    In my opinion both are treated by those who oppose President Chavez as if the sky were falling in.
    The opposition, both in America and in Venezuela, should sit down and take a deep breath.
    Some are alarmed at President Chavez’ (…)

  • 10 Good Things about Another Bad Year
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Medea Benjamin
    As we close this year, a year in which we were pummeled by the Iraq war, attacks on our civil rights, and Mother Nature’s fury of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, there is no shortage of reasons to feel bruised and beaten. But to start the New Year with a healthy determination to keep on fighting, we need to reflect on the good things that happened. And there are plenty.
    One continent alone - South America - could provide more than ten examples of wonderful (…)

  • Chilean Judge Strips Pinochet of Immunity
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By EDUARDO GALLARDO
    SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was stripped of his legal immunity Friday to face charges of diverting public funds to personal bank accounts.
    Judge Juan Escobar, president of the Santiago Court of Appeals, said his tribunal voted 21-3 to remove the immunity Pinochet enjoys as a former president.
    Friday’s decision is part of a wider corruption-related legal process in which Pinochet also lost immunity against charges of tax evasion and (…)

  • Chavez Exposes US Gov’t Values: Chicago turns down cheap fuel for the poor
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chicago, Dec 28 - The Chicago Transit Authority is refusing an opportunity to alleviate commuting costs for hundreds of thousands in the Windy City’s low-income neighborhoods. Instead of accepting deeply discounted fuel from the Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corporation, the city is instead raising fares to solve budget shortfalls.
    In an October meeting with representatives from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the city’s Department of Energy and other city officials, Citgo unveiled (…)