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PEACE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST
Eliminating
the Palestine homeland
October.9.09
IN his carefully prepared speech to a Muslim
audience at the University of Cairo, Egypt on June
4, Obama Barack, the current U.S. president,
correctly recognized that central to peace in the
Middle East is the solution to what he described as
the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the
Arab world.
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The G7 passes
the buck to the G20
October.1.09
THEY may be the 20 countries with the most economic
weight in the world, but they are not wizards, nor
are their computers fortune-tellers. Nobody on the
planet can sign the death certificate of capitalism’s
global crisis. What just took place in Pittsburgh,
in the United States, is best described as buck
passing.
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Approximately
400,000 child agricultural workers in the United
States
October.1.09
APPROXIMATELY 400,000 children, the majority of them
Hispanic, are agricultural laborers in the United
States under the protection of the law, a minors’
rights organization has confirmed, PL reports.
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Oligarchic
media vs. revolutions
Juin.25.09
THE Estrella del Oriente (Star of the East)
newspaper does not illuminate anybody. It darkens
the environment. It is preparing a shadowy "civic"
coup in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, along with
two other reactionary newspapers — El Deber
and El Mundo — forming a powerful media trio
in that eastern city backing the oligarchy’s
fruitless attempts to overthrow the government of
President Evo Morales.
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BOLIVIA
Closing the way to
mercenary coup-plotters
May.15.09
EFFICIENCY, unity and steadfastness. Those are
the principal weapons of the Evo Morales government
and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in response
to attacks by the coup-plotting right wing, which
has not hesitated in resorting to foreign
mercenaries to try to overthrow the president and
his revolutionary program.
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Bolivarian Revolution returns to the attack
December 11.08
MORE
than a few people believed what certain opposition
candidates were saying in their campaign speeches,
that not only would they retain the social missions
but extend them, that they would cooperate with the
government, that they would form a constructive
opposition.
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From victorious
candidate to president
Quo Vadis,
Obama?
December 4.08
THE transition
from George W. Bush to Barack Obama is taking place
in the midst of two phenomena that make it
unprecedented. The country is at war (two, for lack
of one) and in the midst of a profound economic
crisis that is spreading throughout the world. It’s
as if it was happening in the intensive care unit of
a hospital, and the world is concerned because there
are still 53 days to go before the inauguration of
the new president.
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U.S. elections
are "half soap opera"
April 25. 2008
"THE American
elections are half soap opera, half political
process," Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. ambassador in Spain,
affirmed with unusual candor during an interview
with the Barcelona newspaper El Periódico,
the same interview in which he defended George W.
Bush, who appointed him to that post despite his
controversial celebrity.
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STATE AND MEDIA: DOUBLE IMPERIAL
TERRORISM
The SIP coup
WE
know that we live in an upside-down world, as
Eduardo Galiano described it. Because it is as anti-democratic
as the UN Security Council. It is as dominating as
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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Defeats for which Washington will not forgive
Venezuela
March 27. 2008
THE defeats suffered by Washington at the Río
Summit, in the Organization of American States (OAS)
and at the High Court in London which ordered PDVSA’s
shares to be unfrozen, have incensed the empire’s
anger with Venezuela to the point that that country
has become – as never before – an unwholesome
obsession against which it is increasing its entire
arsenal of dirty war.
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Ecuador: the
path of renovation
March 20. 2008
SHORTLY before
leaving Havana, where he participated in the 10th
Conference of World Economists on Globalization and
Problems of Development, Fander Falcón, minister of
planning and development of the Republic of Ecuador,
assured Granma International that his country
would not be returning to the times of glitzy, sell-out,
anti-patriotic democracies: "Destiny has placed us
on the path of the most profound transformations
demanded by the people and for the people."
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The deadly
cycle that is destroying the future
March 20. 2008
IN recent
weeks, the Republican administration of George W.
Bush has increased its hostility and subversive
actions against governments in Latin America and the
Caribbean that have prioritized social justice.
• GUATEMALA
Colom
government taking steps against impunity, violence
and poverty
March 20. 2008
THE recent
announcement made by Guatemalan President Alvaro
Colom on the declassification of Army archives in
order to facilitate the clarification of crimes
committed during the bloody repression that
devastated that nation from 1954 onwards and thus
punish those responsible, has shaken the country.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
"Father,
lend Paraguay a hand"
January 25. 2008
PARAGUAY is preparing, full speed ahead, for the
upcoming April 20 elections. For the first time,
there is a possibility that the traditional Colorado
Party will be removed after 61 consecutive years in
government power, and even that the presidency could
be occupied by a former Catholic bishop, Fernando
Lugo.
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BOLIVIA
Unity needed
in the face of counterrevolution
January 25. 2008
THE revolutionary process in Bolivia is about to
complete its first two years. Despite undeniable
accomplishments in the social arena and the recovery
of the country’s natural resources, it is clear that
representatives of the old order, entrenched in the
so-called eastern Media Luna, have taken it upon
themselves to obstruct the advance of changes.
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"American
Dream" increasingly out of reach for Black people
November 23. 2007
A
study by a U.S. NGO based in Washington that began
in 1968 has confirmed the involution of the day-to-day
lives that is the lot of millions of Black citizens
in the United States, condemned to economic
servility and lack of social resources and
confirming their inequality in comparison to white
people.
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Washington,
warning or threat to Cristina?
November 19. 2007
THE election of
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as president of
Argentina not only gave rise to the first woman
president elected to the Casa Rosada by popular
vote, but introduced changes on the political and
legislative map, auguring consequences that will
presumably influence future events in that country.
• SANTIAGO
DE CHILE SUMMIT
2008 to be declared Year of Ibero-American Youth
November 19. 2007
SANTIAGO DE CHILE (PL).— The 17th Ibero-American
Summit on Social Cohesion, which concluded here with
the presence of 22 leaders from the region, approved
a 53-point Action Program and 10 special communiqués.
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The
blockade is against Cuba and the world
October 25. 2007
WITH a
little over 30 years’ experience as a specialist and
official for Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Trade —almost
20 of them related to trade policy on North America—María
de la Luz B’Hamel has through-and-through knowledge
of the macabre structure of the economic, commercial
and financial blockade imposed on the people of Cuba
by various U.S. administrations.
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Bush
doesn’t even respect trademarks
October 25. 2007
AMBASSADOR Juan Antonio Fernández, Cuba’s permanent
representative to the World Trade Organization’s
Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), presented a
denunciation in Geneva of Washington’s disregard for
the international agencies of the United Nations.
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The Bank of the South
New advance
on the road to Latin American development
October 18. 2007
THE figures are exemplary: in 1959, Latin America ‘s
external debt stood at $5 billion; now it is in
excess of $850 billion, as a consequence of the
usurious and leonine policy imposed on the region by
the international credit agencies related to
Washington, like to World Bank (WB)and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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BOLIVIA
Destabilizing plan with U.S. financial support
October 18. 2007
FEW people, perhaps, could imagine that the work of
the Constituent Assembly in Bolivia would be so
difficult. The struggle that has hampered its
debates to date confirms the existence of an
indigenous nation that supports the re-foundation
and another rich one that is attempting to close the
way to them.
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COSTA RICA AND FREE
TRADE
Uncertain future
October 18. 2007
THE possibility that Costa Rican authorities
committed fraud during the recent referendum to
ratify a Free Trade Agreement between that country
and the United States is gaining credence given
continuing claims from national and international
agencies and social movements.
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Problems in
Iraq growing
October 18. 2007
PROBLEMS, in their multiplicity, are growing daily
in Iraq, further discrediting the "mission completed"
of George W. Bush.
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Rocks
leading to a terrible landslide
October 18. 2007
WITH that sense of superiority characteristic of U.S.
administrations and reinforced by the unilateral
approach provided by Bush, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has made emphatic statements
related to the anti-missile shield that is about to
be installed in central Europe with the connivance
of the Czech and Polish heads of state.
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CHILE
Coalition facing
disunity?
October 12. 2007
EVENTS
in Chile in recent weeks —particularly after
September 11, when the most violent social
disturbances took place date since the fall of
Pinochet— are calling attention to that southern
country, once glorified by neoliberals as a showcase
for prosperity and well-being, and now the tragic
expression of inequality and exclusion.
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CLIMATE CHANGE IN
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Future
hijacked by predatory capitalism
October 12. 2007
BECAUSE
of its extensive plains, its concentration of
forests, the oxygen and water of the Amazons and a
long list of other natural resources, Latin America
is becoming an object of desire for industrialized
nations, particularly the United States, as the
devastating effects of climate change on the planet
are starting to be felt.
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CHILD LABOR EXPLOITATION
Everyone knows
why; the question is, until when?
October 5. 2007
PEOPLE hurriedly moving through
the streets and avenues of Latin America are only
bothered by their singular presence when they are
forced to stop and have their windshields doused
with water and wiped down with a cloth or have their
paths interrupted by an invitation to have their
shoes shined.
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