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  • A Bolivarian Socialist at the UN Hugo Chavez’s Mission
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROGER BURBACH
    Caracas, Venezuela.
    Hugo Chavez has moved onto the world stage as an advocate of profound change within his own country and abroad. At the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week he proclaimed: "The United Nations has exhausted its modelThe twenty first century demands deep changes that will only be possible if a new organization is founded." He described the specter of a "frightening neo- liberal globalization" that has sapped the will of the United (…)

  • Chavez nails US again-Chickens in Cuba get better treatment than US residents
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested on Sunday that chickens in Cuba get better treatment from authorities than black residents of the hurricane-ravaged US city of New Orleans.
    "In Cuba, when they know a hurricane is coming, chickens, hens and people are all evacuated," Chavez said in an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, stepping up his rhetoric against the US government.
    "A hurricane recently destroyed many towns in Cuba but not a single person (…)

  • Letter to President Hugo Chavez
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Roraima Albornoz Press Attaché VHEADLINE.COM
    Dear Mr. Roraima Albornoz. I would like to send a big thank you to President Hugo Chavez, and the people of Venezuela, for the kindness and good will they have offered the citizens of the US who have suffered so much from Hurricane Katrina. I am from the City of Berkeley in California, known as the only city in the United States with its own foreign policy. We have adopted sister cities all over the world where US imperialism and foreign (…)

  • Entire Text of President Chavez’ speech at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005 (in Span
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Entire Text of President Chavez’ speech at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005 (in Spanish and English) By President Hugo Chavez Frias Sep 16, 2005, 20:52
    Spanish Text from Agencia Bolivaria de Noticias followed by English Translation from VHeadline
    English Translated at in the middle of the page Discurso del Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, en la Sexagésima Asamblea General de la Organización de Naciones Unidas ABN /2005
    Enrique (…)

  • Cuba Maintains Offer of Medical Help to the US, says Fidel
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, (AIN) Cuba maintains the offer of medical aid to the victims of hurricaneKatrina, repeated Cuban President Fidel Castro.
    Fidel explained that Cuba was not offering money, but saving lives, and even though the American authorities have not answered Cuba’s action of solidarity, the Cuban doctors are ready to help the people of that country and any other country that needs it.
    The Cuban president attended, Monday, the national graduation of 1,905 doctors from medical (…)

  • HE SARTRE MYTH: REBORN?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Georges Duncan
    Cubanow.- Half a century later, the texts and words of Jean Paul Sartre, the scandalous French intellectual, are once again being read as if they had never before been read, and his figure is being reconsidered as if it had been hidden and waiting for better times.
    Recently, in connection with his 100 th anniversary, philosophers and writers, critically searched out files of one of the most lucid and controversial thinkers of the last century.
    For some, Sartre was the (…)

  • New Venezuelan Parliament Focuses on Socialist Project
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caracas, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The governing Bloque de Cambio (Bloc of Change) formalized the socialist nature of the National Assembly as polls closed for Venezuelan parliamentary elections on Monday.
    President Hugo Chavez referred to the strategic importance of the legislature to start strengthening the process "toward socialism" by 2006.
    Chavez fully trusts in the overwhelming support of most Venezuelans supporting the social policy effective since 1999 to improve the distribution of (…)

  • Fidel Castro Affirms that Cuba Will Even Better Her Health Statistics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, Sep 19 (PL) President Fidel Castro affirmed Monday that Cuba is on the way to reduce infant mortality here to less than four per thousand births and to increase the life expectancy of her people.
    We are going to be the first Latin American country to reach this figure, even better than that of Canada, the statesman pointed out during the graduation ceremony for more than 1,903 physicians from the country’s medical schools.
    In addition, he said, this will take place in half the (…)

  • Access Denied!
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    People often marvel at the Bolivarian revolution that put President Hugo Chavez Frias into power where he did so based upon the philosophies of Simon Bolivar. They marvel that ordinary people but people of great strength can take their country back from the elite. Then-candidate Gov. Howard Dean’s message was take back your country and those primary voters could have by making him our candidate in this past election.
    I want to remind the American people that they too (…)

  • CHAVEZ WARNS BUSH AGAINST INVASION OF VENEZUELA TO SEIZE OIL RESERVES
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHAVEZ OFFERS GUARANTEED SUPPLY OF OIL FOR 150 YEARS
    FREE FUEL TO US POOR DURING THE KATRINA CRISIS
    CHAVEZ CONTROLS 300 BILLION BARREL RESERVE TO US 20 BILLION BARRELS
    By Darryl Mason
    In an interview with US network ABC, on September 16, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez claimed he had proof the Bush administration were ready to invade his country in an attempt to seize control of some 300 billion barrels of oil.
    He warned the Bush administration to retreat from such aggression and (…)