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  • Venezuela’s Agrarian Land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Seth DeLong - COHA Land Reform is the traditional third rail of left-of-center governments and social reform movements. President Hugo Chavez’s plan is fundamentally different from other Latin American attempts at land reform. The proper historical parallel is President Lincoln’s Homestead Act. Chavez’s opponents, who see him as “another Castro,” wrongly view his agrarian reform program as a total assault on private property. Land Reform is one of the most progressive aspects of Chavez’s (…)

  • COLOMBIAN ARMY UNIT MURDERS PEACE COMMUNITY LEADER
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Update From the Colombia Support Network
    On February 21, 2005 , the 11th Brigade of the Colombian Army, based in the state of Cordoba, massacred 7 people of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, among those one of its founders, LUIS EDUARDO GUERRA. Luis Eduardo, age 35, was killed with his 11-year old son, DEINER GUERRA ; his companion, BELLANIRA AREIZA- GUZMAN, 17 years old; a leader of the Mulatos settlement and its Peace Community, ALFONSO BOLIVAR TUBERQUIA -GRACIANO, age 30 ; (…)

  • Defying U.S. , Venezuela’s Chavez Embraces Socialism
    26 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Pascal Fletcher
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday embraced socialism as his ideology of choice in a political statement that sharpened his antagonism against the United States.
    Chavez, a firebrand nationalist who has governed the world’s No. 5 oil exporter for six years, has persistently declined to define the precise ideology of his self-styled "revolution."
    But, addressing an international meeting on poverty in Caracas, he said Western-style capitalism was incapable of (…)

  • Cuban Leader Castro Calls Bush "Deranged"
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuban Leader Castro Calls Bush "Deranged" Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press Writer
    HAVANA Feb 2, 2005 - In his first public remarks since the United States dubbed Cuba an outpost of tyranny, Fidel Castro called President Bush "deranged" and belittled recent improvements in relations between Cuba and Europe.
    In a televised address late Tuesday, Castro maintained his trademark go-it-alone attitude, saying his communist-run island is a paradise that is doing fine without the help of the (…)

  • Venezuela Enlists Iran To Steer Oil To China
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Enlists Iran To Steer Oil To China Andy Webb-Vidal in Caracas January 31 2005 Venezuela has enrolled Iran to help it accelerate a strategy to steer its oil exports to China and away from its traditional market of the US. A team of traders from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, is to be trained in London by Iranian advisers in how to best place oil in Asian markets, according to industry sources.
    The action is part of efforts by Venezuela, the (…)

  • Chavez nationalises VENEPAL under workers control !
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hands Off Venezuela Campaign
    Chavez nationalises Venepal under workers’ control By Jorge Martin - Thursday, 20 January 2005
    Chavez talks to Venepal worker after signing the decree. Picture: Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers (…)

  • Cuban Parliamentary Sessions End with Support to Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
    26 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, December 25 (RHC) — Cuban Parliamentary sessions concluded on Friday in Havana with the presence of President Fidel Castro and with the approval of the budget and economic and social guidelines for 2005.
    A total of 10.5 billion pesos will be earmarked for education, health and social assistance, culture, sports, sciences and technology - 68 percent of expenditures included in the budget.
    Education (4.1 billion pesos), health and new programs to improve medical and assistance (…)

  • Secret Pinochet payments linked to BAE
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    David Leigh, David Pallister and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    The British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet.
    Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet’s bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.
    Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary.
    At one point, Gen Pinochet obtained £1m, which (…)

  • Cuba Erects Sign Linking U.S. and Nazis
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by VANESSA ARRINGTON
    HAVANA - Cuba retaliated for the U.S. diplomatic mission’s Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents by putting up a billboard Friday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the U.S.A" stamp.
    The billboard, erected overnight facing the U.S. Interest Section’s offices, stands on the Malecon, Havana’s famed coastal highway.
    A diplomat at the mission noted the abuse of prisoners at (…)

  • World Gathering of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity
    17 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS APPEAL
    Gathered in Caracas, birthplace of Simon Bolivar, intellectuals and artists from fifty-two countries and diverse cultures, all agreed to build a wall of resistance against the project of global domination that is being imposed on the world today.
    We are living in an era in which United Nations decisions are not respected, international laws have been broken, and the basic principles of non-intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign nations ­and the concept of (…)