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  • Truth about Cuba’s economy lies in middle
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paolo Spadoni
    Last February, Fidel Castro proudly stated that Cuba is recovering from the ashes of its post-Soviet economic recession and "rising again like the phoenix." Conversely, U.S. Interests Section Chief James Cason recently said that the island is facing severe economic problems and that Castro’s government "is on its last legs."
    What is the truth about the current status of Cuba’s economy?
    The economic situation in Cuba is not as bad as U.S. officials would have us (…)

  • CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE TV ROUND TABLE.
    Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the (…)

  • ’Cowboy’ Bush failed in Katrina evacuation, says Chavez
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called President Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.
    "That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.
    His remarks came as U.S. authorities (…)

  • Open Letter to The Attorney General of the United States of America
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Alberto Gonzales,
    Attorney General of the United States of America
    According to the information supplied by the International Press, on August 9, 2005, the Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Atlanta declared null and void the decision passed in Miami which had condemned Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, René González Sehwerert, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort for infiltrating the extremist Cuban American groups in the south of (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Chavez is to be commended for being the truth-teller!
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In light of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez then apologizing for it, what I have witnessed is the sounds of silence coming from all of our elected leaders, be they Democrat or Republican, chiming in unison that this was wrong.
    Then again, it goes hand in hand with the culture of death we are living with in this country.
    Yes, you heard me correctly ... this is a culture of death where the benefactors are the rich and the powerful (…)

  • Latin Nations Call for Punishment of Pat Robertson
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Source: La Jornada (Mexico)
    sent & translated by Luis Martin
    Foreign Ministers of the Latin American countries belonging to the
    Rio Group expressed confidence that U.S. authorities will set in
    motion the "appropiate legal processes" to punish the call of
    evangelical telepreacher Pat Robertson to assassinate Venezuelan
    president Hugo Chavez.
    The declaration, signed by diplomats of 19 Latin American and
    Caribbean nations meeting in Bariloche, Argentina states, in relevant
    part: (…)

  • Good Things Happening in Venezuela
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Parenti
    Even before I arrived in Venezuela for a recent visit, I encountered the great class divide that besets that country. On my connecting flight from Miami to Caracas, I found myself seated next to an attractive, exquisitely dressed Venezuelan woman. Judging from her prosperous aspect, I anticipated that she would take the first opportunity to hold forth against President Hugo Chavez.
    Unfortunately, I was right.
    Our conversation moved along famously until we got to the (…)

  • Cuba TV Analyzes Bush Fundamentalism
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The threats and failures of President Bush’s warmongering fundamentalism was the main topic on Thursday’s edition of the Cuban prime time TV and radio show “The Round Table”
    The panelists highlighted that US popular support for the war on Iraq is dropping fast and that the peace movement is gaining momentum at the cost of the president’s approval rating.
    The Iraqi resistance actions continue targeting US troops and the death toll has now reached 1,870. At the same time, over (…)

  • Pat and Hugo: The Real Story - Part 1 Rev. Robertson’s Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    For BBC Television and the Guardian newspapers of Britain, Greg Palast has conducted two award-winning investigations of both Pat Robertson and Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. To understand who these guys are — why Robertson would shoot at Chavez, and why Chavez would laugh at Robertson, read on...
    WHY DICK CHENEY WON’T PLAY IN HUGO CHAVEZ’ BAND
    There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. (…)

  • Two fingers to America
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    He’s a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has long been a thorn in the side of the US - a fact highlighted this week when televangelist Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Richard Gott on a man at war with the White House
    Thursday August 25, 2005 The Guardian
    Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, is a genial fellow with a good sense of humour and a (…)