April 26, 2008
Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia: Clinical Death for OAS
BY NIDIA DIAZ—Special for Granma International—
• HISTORY is full of events that later prove to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Latin America'
March 26, 2008
VENEZUELA: Wash Post’s Diehl Gets a Long-Deserved Dressing Down from Chavez’ Communications Minister
Below is a letter from Venezuela’s Communications Minister, Andres Izarra, to Jackson Diehl, an editor at the Washington Post. Diehl has been responsible for some of the most vicious disinformation about President Chavez produced by any newspaper in the US. Hats off to Minister Izarra!
See Related article: “Washington Post’s Obsession with [...]
March 21, 2008
“CUBA: Transition Without End”- An Indictment of Imperialism and A Tribute to the Cuban Revolution
It’s always a pleasure to find an article that features a tribute to the Cuban revolution. It’s equally pleasurable to find an article that showcases a scathing indictment of imperialism. The following article offers BOTH!
Cuba : Transitions without End
By Dr. Frederic Clairmont
Global Research, March 21, 2008
” The victory of the Revolution is [...]
March 18, 2008
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: This Time USA Cut Down to Size
It’s been a breathless couple of weeks since Uribe and his murderous Colombian army bombed a FARC camp inside Ecuador. When the Colombian soldiers arrived at the camp site, they finished off those wounded and lured others to surrender so they could be killed on sight.
So what came out of it all? Thanks [...]
March 13, 2008
VENEZUELA: OAS Ambassador Says US Gov’t. is “Terrorist Gov’t. Par Excellence”
Watch out - when the Venezuelans start speaking French, they mean business!
Venezuela: U.S. Government is “Terrorist Government Par Excellence”
March 12th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, March 12, 2008, (venezuelanalysis.com) - The United States government is “the terrorist government par excellence,” Venezuela’s representative in the Organisation of American States (OAS), Jorge Valero said in [...]
March 6, 2008
COLOMBIA-ECUADOR-US: When a Massacre Isn’t Just a Massacre-Bush’s Hand Behind Reyes Murder
There’s a new blog in town, MACHETERA, at http://machetera.wordpresss.com. It features a terrific new article today about the Colombian violation of Ecuador’s sovereignty in the recent massacre of FARC soldiers. This article reveals that the attack on the FARC was a “planned in Washington” and is associated with US need to pass a [...]
February 24, 2008
CUBA: Pres. Raul Castro Speech at the National Assembly of People’s Power, Havana
Viva Fidel! Viva Raul! Viva la revolucion!
Key address by Comrade Raul Castro Ruz, President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers, at the closing session of the First Session of the 7th legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power. Convention Center, Havana, February 24, 2008, “Year [...]
February 13, 2008
VENEZUELA: Anti-Semitism or Anti-Imperialism?
Anti-Semitism or Anti-Imperialism in Venezuela?
By James Suggett
Venezuelanalysis
February 12th 2008
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3148
“We have to be very careful about what is going on in Venezuela, especially what is going on in the private universities,” Mario Silva asserts on his pro-Chávez television talk show La Hojilla (”The Razor Blade”) in late November 2007. The provocative host points out that in [...]
February 5, 2008
COLOMBIA Anti-FARC March: World’s Oddest Peace Rally- Hostage Relatives Denounce it and Uribe’s Bellicose Rhetoric
While the anti-FARC march snaked across the globe, many watching this spectacle were coming to the same conclusion: What effect did this have on current hostage negotiations? And, for a march professing peace, why was the rhetoric so bellicose, especially the rhetoric from Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe? See two articles below.
Finally, as a [...]
February 3, 2008
HAITI: The “Black Jacobins” 70 Years Later
If you want to learn about Haiti, The Black Jacobins by CLR James is the best and first book you should read.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yang030208.html
The Black Jacobins 70 Years Later
by Manuel Yang
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Touissaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. This classic account of the Haitian Revolution [...]
