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  • "I Believe Only In The Power Of The People"
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Evo Morales
    Thank you for the invitation to this great meeting of intellectuals "In Defense of Humanity." Thank you for your applause for the Bolivian people, who have mobilized in these recent days of struggle, drawing on our consciousness and our regarding how to reclaim our natural resources.
    What happened these past days in Bolivia was a great revolt by those who have been oppressed for more than 500 years. The will of the people was imposed this September and October, and has (…)

  • Chávez: Morales’ Victory Means the People’s Victory and the Beginning of a New Era for Bolivia
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela celebrates along with the Bolivian people Evo Morales’ victory, a descendant of the Aymara people. "Evo, there is no doubt our happiness is also big: Bolivar’s and Sucre’s country is starting a new and definite battle for its dignity and sovereignty," expressed President Chávez through a letter sent to his Bolivian counterpart
    President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, sent to the elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, a greeting message on the (…)

  • Cuban Parliament: 2006 Will Be Brighter
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Parliament closed its last session of the year reaffirming the social, economic and political programs of the Revolution, slamming the new threats by the US government and painting a brighter future for 2006. # Fidel Castro: Transition in US
    The legislative discussions, led by the President of the Councils of State and Ministers Fidel Castro, assessed the Island’s economic indicators that showed an 11.8 percent growth, and passed the budget for the next (…)

  • The Bray of Pigs
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Instead of honoring the diversity that has changed baseball forever, Bush played vendetta politics with Cuba’s national baseball team.
    By Dave Zirin
    This March’s "World Series of Baseball" was supposed to celebrate the explosion of diversity that has forever altered the Major Leagues. Teams from the Dominican Republic, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the little seen but highly regarded Cuban national team were going to play the United States in an unprecedented contest to redefine the slogan (…)

  • Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Yifat Susskind
    The Bush Administration is touting Iraq’s December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has created a monster and that the monster is democracy. In Latin America and the Caribbean, popular movements are demanding that the United States’ "gift to the world" make good on its promise of majority rule. That would (…)

  • Venezuela: Declaration of the Frente Nacional Campesino Ezequiel Zamora
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FRENTE NACIONAL CAMPESINO EZEQUIEL ZAMORA
    THE ZAMORA AGENDA AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND REFORMISM
    TO THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA AND THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD:
    Two great threats are formiing over our nation, over the Venezuelan people, and its Boliviariano Revolution: the U.S. Empire is attempting to truncate the refounding of our nation and to recuperate our soil to serve its own interests and Reformism , represented by a new bureucratic corrupt political caste.
    It is difficult to define (…)

  • Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Flynn
    President Bush’s “comprehensive strategy” on border security aimed at preventing “people from coming here in the first place,” announced last month, does nothing to address the growing phenomenon of global migration. What’s more, it leaves Mexico to clean up a mess it didn’t make.
    According to the UN’s Global Commission on International Migration, the number of people worldwide living outside their country of birth has doubled in the past 25 years, rising to more than (…)

  • Colombian President Condemns Meeting of Venezuelan Coup Officers
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Simone Baribeau
    Caracas, Venezuela, December 19, 2005-In Colombia’s latest move to ease ongoing tensions over the country’s political refugee policy, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe publicly condemned a meeting between Venezuelan dissident generals and Colombian intelligence.
    “Our [military intelligence] has no business meeting with military officers who have left the Venezuelan Army and who now have problems with the Venezuelan government,” said Uribe.
    After Venezuela’s ephemeral (…)

  • Chilean Communist Party May Be Power Broker In January 15 Run-Off Election
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Chile’s Socialist Party candidate, Michelle Bachelet, soundly defeated her right wing opponents in the December 11 presidential vote but failed to obtain the 50% to become president. Chilean law requires a candidate receive at least 50% of the vote to obtain the presidency. The breakdown was Bachelet 45.95%, Sebastian Pinera of the National Renovation party 25.41%, Joaquin Lavin of the Independent Democratic Union party 23.22%, and Tomas Hirsch of the Humanist party and (…)

  • Bolivia’s charge to the left
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez
    NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON - With presidential elections in Bolivia on Sunday, Washington is buzzing with talk that another Latin American country may be "lost."
    Evo Morales, a former president of Bolivia’s coca-growers’ union and the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism party, is the current front-runner, according to the latest polls. If he wins the election, Mr. Morales will be the latest head of state to join the ranks of the region’s burgeoning New (…)