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  • Historic Med School Graduation in Cuba
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, Aug 23 (AIN) Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales
    said the first graduation of the Latin American Medical School
    in Havana will be engraved in history.
    The leader of the Movement for Socialism congratulated the Cuban
    government for the project, which celebrated its first
    graduating class of 1,610 last Saturday. He also praised the
    Venezuelan government for announcing that it would create a
    second such medical school and like the Cuban model, provide (…)

  • Radical cleric’s call for assassins
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A radical cleric has called on his flock to assassinate a South American President recently elected in a democratic election that did not conflict with exit polls.
    Pat Robertson acting as the holy see for evangelical extremist associated with his 700 club is promoting the use of assassination to defend Americas oil supply in South America.
    The Radical cleric has a long history of support for Bush and his neocon allies, his threat should not be taken as idle talk.
    The world will be (…)

  • HEALTH-CUBA: New Doctors Head Home to Aid Their Communities
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Patricia Grogg
    HAVANA, Aug 22 (IPS) - Some are leaving with jobs waiting for them at home, others will have to fight to have their degrees recognised, but all of them now face a unique challenge: to serve as living proof of the effectiveness of the cooperation project that made it possible for them to study medicine in Cuba.
    None of them is the same after having spent six years at the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, where young people from low-income families in 28 (…)

  • Over 50,000 Venezuelans Have Eye Surgery in Cuba
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Aug 21 (AIN) More than 50,400 Venezuelans have received eye surgery in Cuban hospitals, announced Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez during a radio and TV program aired on Sunday from Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
    Both heads of state shared views on the Operation Milagro program, which will benefit 100,000 Venezuelans suffering from eye diseases this year alone and has been extended to citizens from other Latin American and Caribbean nations.
    Fidel Castro said that following an (…)

  • An Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Prime Minister: Not since the Christie Affair * (1862-1865) have relations between our two countries been this bad; I mean Brazil and England. Quite apart from the lies of the war which, in our cups, I’m sure we all agree, were fantastic fibs (great with the rabble, though, I must admit: they sold like hot cakes here in the US where I live), I think you would better do right by the De Menezes dossier and not try to "fix the facts around the policy" on this matter. Brazil did not (…)

  • Like Old Times: U.S. Warns Latin Americans Against Leftists
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    LIMA, Peru, - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s visit this week to South America had the throwback feel of a mission during the cold war, when American officials saw their main job as bolstering the hemisphere’s governments against leftist insurgencies and Communist infiltration.
    During stops in Paraguay and Peru, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be troublemaking by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington’s old cold war foe, (…)

  • Chile Completes Its Transition To Democracy
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    In two key decisions Chile has restored her democracy lost on September 11, 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically elected president Salvador Allende in a bloody Coupe supported by the United States.
    On July 6, a Chilean court ruled 11 to 10 to remove Picnochet’s immunity he had granted himself when he became dictator in 1973. This opens the door to the families of those murdered and tortured by his regime to pursue legal action against him. There (…)

  • Soul Search
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Dinges
    For the last seven years, the press in Venezuela has had a story that would be the envy of any red-blooded, news-addicted reporter. It is a story of political upheaval and social change that began when Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998, and promptly rewrote the constitution. He has fended off efforts to dislodge him ever since. Chavez is floating vast income-redistribution programs, including housing and land reform that have peasants squatting on private property, on bonanza (…)

  • Vancouver Celebrates the Anniversary of the Referendum Victory in Venezuela
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Miriam Martin Hands Off Venezuela Vancouver, Canada
    It has been one year since the majority of Venezuelans voted in favour of President Chavez in the opposition-led recall referendum. The Vancouver Internationalist Bolivarian Circle “Bob Everton” teamed up with Hands Off Venezuela to throw a Victory Fiesta on Saturday August 13th to celebrate this important anniversary. Eighty people attended the celebration, representing a good number of Vancouver’s Latin American solidarity groups, (…)

  • Fidel Castro says: "Release Cuban Five or Face Nuremberg"
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Release Cuban Five or Face Nuremberg, says Fidel Castro
    Havana, Aug 15 (AIN) President Fidel Castro said that true justice in the Cuban Five case will only occur when the men - considered national heroes on the island- are released and return to Cuba.
    During an encounter Saturday in Havana with the mothers, spouses and children of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against the island, Fidel Castro praised the decision made by three judge (…)