Venezuela,Ecuador,Bolivia,Colombia: With Evo and FARC Weakened, Washington Begins its Checkmate Against Chavez and Correa

From Machetera’s blog
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/the-pentagon-moves-its-pawns/#more-250

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With Evo and the FARC Weakened, Washington Begins its Checkmate Against
Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa

Heinz Dieterich - Rebelión

Translation: Machetera

1. The Checkmate Scenario

Washington has reached the following conclusions:

1. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have lost their
operational capacity.
2. It has managed to neutralize the Evo [...]

CUBA Kicks Butt With Solid Evidence, the US and their Mercenaries Look Stupid

Thu May 22nd 2008, 07:03 PM
U.S. Interests Section: coordinator of subversion
By Pedro de La Hoz and Alberto Nuñez —Granma daily staff writers—
PART 2 of the Radio/TV Roundtable program once again gave several examples of the repugnant behavior of members of counterrevolutionary groups, who have made a daily practice of lying in their ambitions to gain [...]

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For years, there have been rumors that US diplomats were transmitting large quantities of cash from the US to distribute to so-called Cuban “dissidents.” It appears that a lot of that cold cash got there via some very hot diplomatic pouches thus avoiding a look-see at Cuban customs. The Cuban government held a [...]

VENEZUELA: Eva Golinger on “The War Machine: Or How to Manipulate Reality”

http://www.chavezcode.com/2008/05/war-machine-or-how-to-manipulate.html

The War Machine: Or How to Manipulate Reality
By Eva Golinger

Interpol’s Creativity

Since 2002, the Pentagon has been seeking evidence that intimately relates
President Chávez and his government with the FARC. Top secret documents from
the Department of Defense (that we have desclassifed under FOIA) evidence
that the Pentagon has been unable to find proof of a clandestine, subversive
relationship between [...]

HAITI - Journalist, Ortega, Murdered in Haiti by US Marines: A Reporter’s Notes

Ortega murdered by US Marines in Haiti: A Reporter’s Notes
by Kevin Pina
The family of slain Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega recently held a press conference in Madrid, Spain where they presented evidence that he was killed by U.S. Marines in Haiti and not by gunmen associated with ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The organization Reporters without Borders [...]

CUBA: USAID Replaces Corrupt Franco with Ex-CANF Capo

A Story Worthy of Its Own Novela
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. May 13, 2008
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/mayo/mar13/franco.html
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Granma International staff writer—
• IN order to “solve” the systematic fraud uncovered in its accounts by a
General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation a few months back, the
USAID has replaced the corrupt official Adolfo Franco with none other than
José Cárdenas, a former director of the [...]

HAITI: Neo-liberal Roots of Haiti’s Food Crisis - Interview of Kevin Pina

May 5, 2008

Kevin Pina is an independent journalist and filmmaker and the founding editor of the Haiti Information Project, an alternative news service providing coverage and analysis of developments in Haiti. He talked to Emmanuel Santos about the roots of the food crisis in Haiti.

WHAT IS the current situation in Haiti after the April protests?
UNFORTUNATELY, [...]