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  • The Threat of Hope in Latin America
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in southwestern Colombia ringed by soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas, strangers asking questions about you is never a good thing.
    The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which leads a political movement that is autonomous from all those armed forces, held an emergency (…)

  • Argentina and Venezuela agree on regional alliance and trade
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela and Argentina signed Monday in Puerto Ordaz several bilateral accords which lock the two countries into a tight strategic alliance targeted at converting Mercosur into the clear alternative to any trade agreement involving the hemisphere.
    Argentine president Nestor Kirchner hailed the occasion as “historic” and “unprecedented” and said the “bilateral relation has given a qualitative forward leap and I leave Venezuela absolutely gratified”.
    The one day talks with President Hugo (…)

  • Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests ...
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests, but Hardly Those of its Own Nation
    In an arrant display of rank political opportunism, Venezuela’s faltering middle-class opposition parties have announced that they would boycott the December 4 legislative elections. Far from a principled and high minded move, this tawdry tactic represents a cynical decision on the part of the opposition to spare itself the inconvenience of once again having to (…)

  • Bellaciao Collective of Cordoba : "It was the year..." Cycle of meetings on contemporary History of Italy
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bellaciao Collective of Cordoba
    The cycle of meetings is about to finish for this year. On thursday, december 1st, we will talk about : "Culture and Ideology between 1968 and the 90’s".
    M Luigi Vallebona is on charge for this presentation, which will take place at the FAIC office, 255 27 de abril street, 1st floor, at 6:30 pm.
    Antonio Mele, founder member of the Bellaciao collective of Paris, will be present.
    Before the end of this year, the collective is going to invite for a (…)

  • Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brazil’s police ’execute thousands’
    By Angus Stickler
    Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found.
    The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in military-style raids on drug gangs but according to a former senior official, new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police.
    Former police ombudsman Professor Julita Lemgruber has told BBC World Service’s Assignment (…)

  • Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist” and disparaged the US as a “terrorist state”. Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, “The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States...The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman.”
    He got that right.
    For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a (…)

  • Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Delahunt, Chávez help broker deal
    By Michael Levenson and Susan Milligan, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff
    A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under a deal arranged by US Representative William D. Delahunt, a local nonprofit energy corporation, and Venezuela’s president, White House critic Hugo Chávez.
    The approximately $9 million (…)

  • Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Poised for Presidency
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Franklin
    SANTIAGO, Chile (WOMENSENEWS)—To many Chileans the idea of quotas for female cabinet members is just the latest in a stunning turn of political events in this usually staid, conservative nation of 15 million.
    "Fifty percent of my cabinet will be women," Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet promised a crowd of supporters last week. "We are going to set a standard for Latin America."
    Chileans lived, and too many died, under a dictatorship from 1973 to (…)

  • Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a "terrorist" and disparaged the US as a "terrorist state". Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, "The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States...The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman."
    He got that right.
    For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a welcome respite (…)

  • Chávez: Bush is a Genocidal Madman
    20 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
    November 18, 2005
    ​​​​Although I have a couple problems with Hugo Chávez, I love it when he tells the truth, especially when it is so difficult to get the truth here in Bushzarro world, a criminal nation with a corporate media filtering system allergic to the truth. "The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States.... The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman," Chávez (…)