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  • Venezuela wants CIA terrorist extradited
    20 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush administration forced to detain Posada Carriles
    Federal agents detained the anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Miami Tuesday shortly after he held a press conference where he told reporters that the government was not looking for him and he felt no need to hide.
    The arrest, in which Posada was whisked away in a Blackhawk helicopter to an undisclosed location, followed weeks of implausible denials by the US State Department that it had any knowledge as to his (…)

  • Chavez Frias Is Beating The Arrogant Crowd In Washington To The Punch...
    4 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Frias Is Beating The Arrogant Crowd In Washington To The Punch... Bob Chapman May 01, 2005 THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: President Chavez said that a woman in the US Armed Forces had been detained by authorities while taking pictures of military installations in central Venezuela. He stated, "If she or any other US official does this kind of activity again, they will be imprisoned and face trial in Venezuela."
    Except for Colombia and minor support in (…)

  • Hugo Chavez: U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government
    30 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezulean leader: U.S. citizens oppressed Hugo Chavez in Havana for trade talks
    HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Saying that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.
    Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an international gathering of activists here that before an earlier trip to Cuba, a U.S. State Department undersecretary he did not identify warned (…)

  • "Big Stick" Politics Not The Answer, America
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Big Stick" Politics Not The Answer, America Rickey Singh April 17, 2005 There seems to be no limit to the unbridled arrogance of spokespersons for the United States Administration of President George W Bush when it comes to publicly rebuking, indeed, dictating to governments in the Caribbean Community how they should conduct their foreign and domestic governance policies.
    Latest example of this US ’big-stick’-wielding policy emerged last week to affect Guyana. But there were two earlier (…)

  • Popular Uprising Forces President of Ecuador to Rescind Martial Law Order
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez has lifted a state of emergency in the capital, Quito, less than 24 hours after he imposed it.
    Thousands of people had taken to the streets of the city in defiance of the new emergency powers.
    They were also protesting the president’s decision on Friday to dismiss the Supreme Court for the second time in four months.
    The security forces took no action to stop the demonstration.
    Speaking on national television, Mr Gutierrez said he was lifting the (…)

  • Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Denounces Assassination Plot
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, denounced the arrival in Bolivia of a command of Colombian mercenaries hired to assassinate him and other popular leaders, and condemned the involvement of Interior Minister Saul Lara with the plot.
    Morales told the foreign correspondents that he was warned by intelligence officials about the assassination plot as he is at the top of the list, adding that the goal is to extinguish the social movement seeking to nationalize (…)

  • Venezuela: The Great Anguish of George W. Bush
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following is an inexorable truth: the U.S. government does not know what to do with the Bolivarian government of President Chavez. Our revolution is too democratic, too humanistic, too profound and too transcendent; and is therefore beyond traditional capitalist analysis and beyond the comprehension of a government of a country where values revolve around individualism. They try, through their declarations and their media and commercial power, to convince the world that President Chavez (…)

  • Peaceful Revolution- Solidarity from Venezuela
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Greetings to all the peace marchers and US citizens from the people of Venezuela on this important day!
    We congratulate you on your commitment to stopping the war in Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. The great majority of the Venezuelan people are also in complete disagreement with the use of US military force to dominate the peoples of the Middle East and other countries, classified arbitrarily as the "Axis of Evil". This march is vital to pressure the current Administration from (…)

  • Negroponte’s Dark Past. The Case Against Bush’s New Intelligence Czar
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Negroponte’s Dark Past. The Case Against Bush’s New Intelligence Czar Robert Parry March 03, 2005
    George W. Bush’s choice of John Negroponte to be the first U.S. intelligence czar signals that Washington is heading down the same road that has led to earlier American intelligence failures and controversies-from politicizing analysis to winking at human rights abuses.
    Although Negroponte’s nomination is expected to sail through the Senate, one question that might be worth asking about his (…)

  • If Attacked, Iran and Venezuela Threaten to Cut Off US Oil Supply
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran Threatens Retaliation On Persian Gulf Arab Oil If Attacked By U.S.
    Iran has warned that Gulf Arab oil would be endangered by any U.S. attack on the Islamic republic.
    In the first such threat, a leading Iranian official raised the prospect of Iranian retaliation against Middle East oil exports. The official said such Persian Gulf oil states as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia could be threatened, Middle East Newsline reported.
    "An attack on Iran will be tantamount to endangering Saudi (…)