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  • Honduras : Obama’s first coup d’Etat
    29 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eva Golinger
    President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped
    Caracas, Venezuela - The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d’etat underway in Honduras, spread the word.” It’s a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of Hondurans that were preparing to exercise their sacred right to vote today for the first time on a consultative referendum concerning the future convening of a constitutional (…)

  • Interview with El Libertario (Venezuela – June 2009)
    24 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * From Madrid the anarchist group Star, linked to the Iberian Federation of Anarchists Youths (Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Anarquistas-FIJA-), has raised questions whose answers will let us know today and in detail what is doing and saying the known Venezuelan anarchist newspaper. Anarchist group Star (GS) - Could you start talking about your project?
    º El Libertario is a newspaper published since 1995 (56 issues from then to June-2009). We try to report on anarchist theory and (…)

  • Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela
    18 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we’re trying to divulge this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in this country.
    Enough killings and repression of workers in struggle!
    This past May 5 union leader Argenis Vasquez, organizing secretary in the union at Toyota’s plant in Cumana, was gunned down by thugs as he left his house. This assassination occurred just after a month-long strike (…)

  • The Flor de Caña Boycott Group Extends its Protest
    25 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Letters of Protest to Importers and Distributors around the World
    One month ago a youth group launched a boycott against Flor de Caña, the famous Nicaraguan rum. The boycott is in solidarity with members of the Nicaraguan Association of Those Affected by Chronic Renal Insufficiency (Anairc). They have decided to extend their campaign by sending protest letters to Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua SA (CLNSA), which together with the Nicaragua Sugar Estates Ltd. (NSEL) and Ingenio San Antonio (…)

  • Venezuela: El Libertario warns of possible sentence to the 14 SIDOR workers
    29 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 05 September 2006 a group of workers and union leaders staged a protest against the carrier Camila, a contractor to SIDOR (Siderurgic of the Orinoco), the principal steel core business located in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, in Venezuela. The workers were protesting the failure to pay wages, and maintain health and safety, as well as the lack of tools to accomplish their work. The protest was endorsed by Readers of the “Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Siderúrgicos y Similares" (Sutiss, (…)

  • Petition from the Friends of Lebanese Solidarity Committee for the freedom of the Cuban Five to the President Obama
    18 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
    His Excellency Mr. President Barack Obama: The White House, Washington DC USA
    Mr. President Obama,
    The undersigned, based on your slogan “Yes We Can”, hasten to inform you, and the American people, our deep concern about the method you treat and develop the case of Cuban five prisoners and their families, especially in regard to the systematic and continuous refusal to grant temporary visas to Adriana Pérez, wife of Gerardo and Olga Salanueva, the wife of (…)

  • Venezuela: The People’s Struggle is the Best Response to the Crisis!
    8 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Soon El Libertario #56 will be available in the street and on the Internet (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario). El Libertario is the voice of free ideas and independent social movements in Venezuela and Latin America. As a preview of its usual combative, irreverent and uncompromising position with regard to authoritarian power and oppression, here’s the editorial: All thorough media analysts agree about the increased vulnerability of the Venezuelan economy to the consequences of the world (…)

  • Cuba: The hurt of no longer being
    8 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Fragment from a work by Daniel Barret about the evolution of Cuba’s political regime since November 17 2005 till today. This piece attempts to place the role of Fidel Castro these past months.
    Talking about a political regime so dependent on its tribal totem pole, it is not surprising that a fundamental chapter of its trajectory is about Fidel Castro; “commander in chief” by his own guerrilla merits and per saecula saeculorum. Fidel seemed to be dead but not buried back on January 11 (…)

  • (A) Book & Video Fair of Caracas
    1 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Call to the First Libertarian Print and Audiovisual Documentary Fair of Caracas. D O C U M E N T (a) November 2009. The editorial collective of El Libertario announce that the Venezuelan capital will be, during the second half of November 2009, the venue for D O C U M E N T (a) , the First Libertarian Print and Audiovisual Documentary Fair.
    With this event, we want to show the public a sample as large and representative as possible of printed and audiovisual materials produced and (…)

  • Interview of Noam Chomsky
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    «The terrorist war against Cuba, which was most extreme under Kennedy, was uncontroversially in violation of international law.»
    Interview of Noam Chomsky
    Liberté 62 : «In your book What We Say Goes you declare that «the USA are the outlaw land par excellence, free from the International Law». The US blocus of Cuba - about 50 years , blocus denouced by many ONU’s résolutions - that you qualified of «strangling strategy of Cuba», seems to illustrate this fact in a exemplary way. How the (…)