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  • Martinez: Cuban aid should be welcomed
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sen. Mel Martinez said he was ’grateful’ for Cuba’s offer to send doctors to assist in the Katrina relief effort, though the Bush administration has not responded to the offer.
    BY PABLO BACHELET
    pbachelet@herald.com
    WASHINGTON - Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez said Wednesday that the U.S. government should accept Cuba’s offer to send hundreds of doctors to treat victims of Hurricane Katrina, provided they are needed and ``reasonably well-trained.’’
    Cuban leader Fidel Castro has (…)

  • Correction: Venezuela’s Chavez Fuels A Class War
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I attempted to post this as a response to “Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War”, but my response did not post. I hope that this posting is published.
    Dear Professor Pareja:
    While your commentary, “Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War”, attempts to portray the virtues of Venezuela’s current government, it oversimplifies the nice-looking trees at the danger of ignoring the forest. I will first respond to your specific examples, and then I will attempt to frame the big picture (…)

  • Venezuela: Eyewitness report from the heart of the revolution
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ramon Samblas
    This summer up to 17,000 young internationalists from 144 countries gathered in Caracas for one week to attend the World Festival of Youth and Students. Ramon Samblas who was there from Britain gives his impression of the festival and the general mood in Venezuela.
    One hundred and sixty years ago, Ezequiel Zamora - a Venezuelan revolutionary peasant influenced by the ideas of the French revolution and utopian socialism - also known as the General of the Sovereign People, (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sergio Pareja Law Professor
    Pat Robertson’s recently retracted suggestion that the United States should "take out" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is an extreme echo of the views of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Earlier this year when asked by Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., if there was anything good she could say about Chavez, she responded, "It’s pretty hard ... to find something positive."
    I have traveled to Venezuela to visit family all my life. During my most recent trip, I (…)

  • Helping the Blind to See - Venezuela’s People First Policies
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Charley Allan - Morning Star
    The contrast between the calls from a wealthy bible basher to assassinate Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and the south American country’s people-first policies in the region and beyond could not be larger.
    So, US televangelist Pat Robertson has ordered his million-strong "brownshirt" army to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    This powerful Bush ally, who sells "miracles" on live TV to people who really believe that he has a hot-line to God, may (…)

  • The Two Americas
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marjorie Cohn
    Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.
    What is Cuban President Fidel Castro’s secret? According to Dr. Nelson Valdes, a sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and specialist in Latin America, "the whole civil defense is embedded in the community (…)

  • We need a sense of urgency ... before Venezuela becomes another Iraq..
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I just got this urgent message in my e-mail.
    We need a sense of urgency ... before Venezuela becomes another Iraq...
    VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: This is an update regarding the urgency of implementing a Venezuelan government-run English-language campaign to spread the truth about Venezuela to the English-speaking world, most particularly, to the People of the USA...
    ... before it is too late!!!
    Below are excerpts from some letters I have received recently from (…)

  • Venezuela ’prepares for US invasion’
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sydney Morning Herald (Australia): Venezuela ’prepares for US invasion’
    Venezuela has uncovered plans for a US-led invasion and is preparing to defend the country against invading forces, President Hugo Chavez said in a report carried by the state-run news agency.
    The Bolivarian News Agency reported late on Friday that Chavez made the comments during an interview with CNN. It was unclear when the interview was to be aired.
    "If it occurs to the United States to invade our country — (…)

  • Why did FEMA reject offers of aid from other countries?
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - In a dramatic turnabout, the United States is now on the receiving end of help from around the world as some two dozen countries offer post-hurricane assistance.
    Venezuela, a target of frequent criticism by the Bush administration, offered humanitarian aid and fuel. Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledged a $1 million donation for hurricane aid.
    With offers from the four corners of the globe pouring in, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has decided “no offer that can (…)

  • While Bush prevaricates, Venezuela offers help to US poor
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jorge Martin
    Venezuela was the first country to offer help to the United States in dealing with the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Chavez has offered money and personnel to help in the relief operations. The answer of an unnamed "senior State official" was that “unsolicited offers can be counterproductive." They would rather some of their own people died than have the people of the USA see Venezuela for what it is, a country where its people are challenging the very capitalist system (…)