“They attempted to execute Chavez but the firing squad refused to shoot.” – Fidel Castro Ruz
Anyone who knows a lick about Venezuela knows that the private media played a treasonous role in the US-sponsored coup of 2002. In addition to altering camera angles to make it look like government supporters were firing on unarmed opposition [...]
“The most sophisticated media developed by technology, employed to kill human beings and to subjugate or exterminate peoples; the massive sowing of conditioned reflexes of the mind; consumerism and all available resources; these are being used today against the Venezuelans, with the intent of ripping the ideas of Bolivar and Martí to shreds.” –Fidel Castro [...]
As the Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Post, Jackson Diehl has quite a pulpit from which to bully. Actually, “bludgeon” is closer to what Diehl does in his November 19 editorial about President Hugo Chavez and the upcoming referendum on reforms to the Venezuelan constitution. Over time, the Post has metamorphosed into the [...]
“I DARE SAY THAT HAD THIS CRIME BEEN COMMITTED MORE RECENTLY AND IF POSADA’S FIRST NAME WAS MOHAMMED RATHER THAN LUIS, THIS EVIDENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN SUFFICIENT TO GET HIM RENDERED TO GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA.” — from testimony by Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archives
Thanks to Walter Lippmann at CubaNews, we have a transcript [...]
A small, but enthusiastic group from the Venezuela Solidarity Network protested at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, DC on Wednesday nite concerning King Juan Carlos’ remark to President Chavez that he “shut up” during a meeting of the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile last weekend. The protesters stated that not only was the King’s remark [...]
“We have been here for 500 years and we have never shut up, much less when a monarch says to do so.” — Chavez at press conference after Summit.
We know that over the weekend, King Juan Carlos of Spain told President Chavez to “shut up.” But, let’s get the whole who-hit-johnny and [...]
Within the last few days, we learned that the UN is sending home 0ver 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in Haiti because of allegations of rape against Haitian women and girls. Of the close to 1,000 Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti, 10% are being sent home for these [...]
