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JOIN Venezuela News & Action, a free weekly bulletin on Venezuelan democracy. 
Please join Venezuela News & Action, a free weekly bulletin on Venezuelan democracy....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 1:04pm PDT
More Marches in Bolivia as Protests Widen, But Still No Advance This morning they did it again: the steep kilometers that separate La
Paz from EL Alto were completely covered by the biggest march the
Bolivian capital has seen since October 2003....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 12:31am PDT
Hands Off Venezuela--San Francisco Meeting 
Come to the next meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Hands Off Venezuela!
Two years ago, the United States government organized an unsuccessful military coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela, headed by President Hugo Chavez. Many US representatives, first and foremost Condoleezza Rice, has called Chavez a "negative force" in the region. Since the attempted coup, the US government has been beating the war drums while making preparations for war against ...
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 4:41pm PDT
Jun 1 at 1:30 pm - Latin american Indigenous Women Activists Speak LATIN AMERICAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN ACTIVISTS SPEAK ON COMMUNITY TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING -
Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
New College of California, 780 Valencia St, San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 5:27pm PDT
Slide Show of Chavista May Day March (video/x-ms-wmv 8.6MB) Slide Show of May Day with the Chavistas....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 4:43am PDT
NO to CAFTA - Central American Free Trade Agreement 
San Francisco Bay Area groups demonstrated at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office in the Federal Building in San Francisco May 26th urging Congress not to pass CAFTA....
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 10:04pm PDT
What’s so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal??? This article is about expanding coal mining consessions in Venezuela`s
western state of Zulia. It explains the threats coal mining poses to
indigenous communities and water security for Maracaibo, Zuila`s state
capital. The article also explains how this initiative is part of a larger
regional development plan, IIRSA, and other proposed projects that fall
into Zuila`s regional development. The article is also about the
grassroots resistence movement against the proposed projects....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 1:06pm PDT
CAFTA: privatization at gunpoint ACAJUTLA, El Salvador — Long before the current debate over the Central America Free Trade Agreement, workers throughout the region were under attack from economic reforms that have broken unions, privatized workplaces and lowered wages. One reason unions throughout Central America oppose the agreement so strongly is that CAFTA cements that reform policy into place. The treaty would require dismantling the public sector to encourage private, especially foreign, investment, regardless of cost....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:02pm PDT
Beyond the Gas War: Indigenous Bolivians Fight for "Nationalization of the Government" Massive indigenous-led protests continue to rock South America's poorest country. The fight for control of Bolivia's vast natural gas resources is fueling the current crisis but a war is escalating over the rights of the country's majority indigenous population. We'll go to Cochabamba to hear from the famed Bolivian resistance leader Oscar Olivera and longtime Bolivia activist Jim Shultz of the Democracy Center, as well as activist Moises Gutierrez Rojas of the Aymara Quichua Indigenous organ...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:34pm PDT
Two Rebel Soldiers Worry the Bolivian Social Movements Downtown La Paz was
paralyzed all day long by mobilizations… and all day long one
could
hear the famous rumor of a civic-military coup looming in Bolivia....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 9:44pm PDT
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen/Una el "Virtual Sit-In" contra los MinuteMen 
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY / Páselo por favor....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 5:13pm PDT
Chemicals and Small Bullets Used to Disperse Thousands of Indigenous in Bolivia (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) Live broadcast from Bolivia relayed by Indymedia...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 12:21pm PDT
Brazilian daily reports multinationals aided Latin American death squads: GM, Chrysler, VW Major US and European corporations collaborated intimately with Latin American military dictatorships in the 1960s and 1970s, fingering militant workers for arrest, torture and often death, according to an article that appeared this week in the Brazilian daily O Globo....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 9:22pm PDT
Chavez considers breaking US ties Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will consider breaking diplomatic ties with the US if it fails to hand over a Cuban-born terror suspect....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 10:52pm PDT
Rioting during Chilean president's speech 
About 4,000 demonstrators marched towards the Chilean National Congress in Valparaiso on Saturday, in a challenge to the annual speech to the nation by President Ricardo Lagos....
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 12:19pm PDT
Indigenous Community in Colombia Fears Start of "Dirty War" A large indigenous community in Colombia is predicting that a so-called dirty war could break out in an area that has been at the forefront of non-violent resistance to the government of the pro-US regime of President Uribe. We speak with the former mayor of Toribio and a surgeon and human rights activist from Toribio....
Posted: Fri, May 20, 2005 9:07am PDT
US accused of 'terror hypocrisy' Venezuela has said the US will be guilty of double standards on terrorism if it does not extradite a Cuban exile wanted over the bombing of a plane....
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 7:32pm PDT
U.S. Arrests Anti-Castro Cuban Tied To 1976 Airline Bombing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles was arrested in Miami shortly after he gave a press conference. Despite having been jailed on terrorism charges in Venezuela and Panama, Carriles managed to sneak into the United States in March in order to seek political asylum....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:02am PDT
Support Chavez; Buy CITGO Gas - Join the BUYcott; It doesn't go to Bush, Saudia Arabia etc CITGO is owned by state owned Venezuelan Oil Company which is benefitting the poor. See bottom for closest stations...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 7:11pm PDT
May 29th Benefit for Political Prisoners in Guadalajara Upcoming benefit for prisoners from last year's actions in Guadalajara, Mexico...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 7:49pm PDT
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