Political Prisoners of the Empire  MIAMI 5      

     

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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.


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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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