Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia: Clinical Death for OAS

BY NIDIA DIAZ—Special for Granma International—

• HISTORY is full of events that later prove to [...]

Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Dress Them as Rebels, Collect their Bounty

The US is putting on a full-court press to get Congress to pass a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and is stressing Colombia’s improved human rights record as a good reason to do so.
Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Pass Off Bodies as Rebels’
By Juan Forero
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, March 30, 2008; A12
SAN FRANCISCO, Colombia — [...]

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 [...]

VENEZUELA: Chronology of the Fourth Generation War Against Venezuela by Eva Golinger

Chronology of the 4th Generation War Against Venezuela
March 20th 2008, by Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution
The US Government is waging war on Venezuela - not your typical, traditional war, but a modern, asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution. Below is a presentation I created regarding the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

COLOMBIA: FARC Negotiator Get’s Colombia’s Maximum Sentence - in US Prison

Fascinating story from “World War 4 Report.” This is a long article, so I am only including two excerpts here. For the full text of the article, double-click on the article title below.
The first excerpt focuses on the bizarre and convoluted path that led to Simon Trinidad’s conviction and sentencing (even [...]

VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, US, FARC: Let’s get straight on facts and context

After reading a few commentaries that chastise (gently and not so gently) President Chavez for requesting other governments to quit referring to the FARC as a terrorist organization and to support instead a “belligerent status” for it, opening the door for real political movement on this issue in Colombia, I am sharing two important [...]