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  • Hands Off Venezuela at the Fête de l’Humanité
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We were there. Bellaciao
    By Greg Oxley
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in the Paris area last weekend. Overall, more than 400 people heard Jorge Martin speak at the Fête.
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in (…)

  • The U.S. People have a major responsibility in the world. I think that we’re going to save the world
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AMY GOODMAN: Mr. President Hugo Chavez, your assessment of president Bush, of the invasion and occupation of Iraq? And do you think if it weren’t Iraq, it would have been Venezuela?
    HUGO CHAVEZ: The imperialist government of Mr. Bush planned. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They’re looking for oil. This is part of the crisis that is looming in the horizon. You should know that the U.S., I already said this, 5% of the world population lives in (…)

  • Chavez vows to help U.S. poor
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To thunderous applause and chants in Spanish of "Chavez, friend, the people are with you," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode into the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew yesterday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
    Chavez told the house packed with peace and anti-globalization activists and community and religious leaders that he would soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below-market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States.
    "I felt a (…)

  • The Bush Beat
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Harkavy
    Taking the U.N. by storm, a successful oilman from Venezuela berates an unsuccessful one from Texas
    Hugo Chávez, speaking at the U.N. Thursday, showed George W. Bush how to use a bully pulpit. Following Bush by a day, the Venezuelan president generated the loudest applause at the biggest gathering of world leaders in Planet Earth’s 4.55-billion-year-history.
    He did it blasting the U.S. for being a bully - and for even using a pulpit to do it. Here’s how the (…)

  • Chavez & Fuel
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The donation of 300,000 barrels of fuel to U.S southern states probably is a political stunt by Pres.
    Chavez Frias but who could blame him, with American christian right leader Pat Robinson urging the U.S govt to ’take him out’ who wouldn’t be worried? Pres.
    Chavez is sending a message to Americans poor & working class that he isn’t their enemy,after all he isn’t sending American manufacturing jobs to China or Mexico neither is he destroying the livelihoods of American farmers or (…)

  • Venezuela sends cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline direct to Louisiana
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has confirmed that a cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline is on its way to the USA to help Southern States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
    The President as confirmed that before traveling to New York to attend the UN summit, Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco phoned the Venezuelan President accepting his offer of help.
    Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 (…)

  • Speech by President Chavez at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Your Excellencies, friends, good afternoon:
    The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life. *
    Translated by Néstor Sánchez
    Five years after (…)

  • LET’S INVADE VENEZUELA
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    The insolence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toward U.S. President George Bush cannot be tolerated any longer by the neoconservatives of the U.S. Bush must not allow any inferior nation or race or person to challenge the U.S. bid for world domination. Bush, the darling of his God, the love of his remolded Republican Party, the Messiah of corporations, the apocalyptic leader of American Taliban Fundamentalists, has been insulted beyond any possible bounds of taste, (…)

  • If I am not Venezuelan, then neither is Hugo Chavez
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (This is a continuation of “Correction: Venezuela’s Chavez Fuels a Class War”. For the full string please refer to that article and the posted responses.)
    At least five generations of the Jaramillo family have been born and bred in the farmlands of Tucupido, right down the road from Barbacoa, the village where Hugo Chavez was born.
    My grandfather, “Abuelo Pancho”, was a farmer (in those days farming was done with a burro and rastro) who worked very hard to provide for his wife and six (…)

  • Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Van Auken
    Among the many offers of aid for New Orleans and Gulf Coast disaster victims that the Bush administration has either blocked, squandered or delayed is that of a substantial emergency medical brigade from Cuba.
    The Cuban government of President Fidel Castro offered in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation to send over 1,000 doctors and 36 tons of medicine and equipment to the disaster zone. After 10 days, the Bush administration has yet to even (…)