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Venezuela, January 19th, 2003
CocaCola - Polar - TV brainwashing - Bolivarians Hacked....
Posted: Mon, Jan 20, 2003 1:22am PST
High-Profile Brazilian Land Rights Activist Murdered
The leader of one of Brazil's largest indigenous groups was murdered this week by unidentified gunmen, according to London-based Survival International which issued a statement Wednesday condemning the killing and noting that it was the third assassination of an Indian in Brazil during the
first two weeks of 2003....
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2003 9:37am PST
COLOMBIAN REPORTER TELLS ALL - TO U.S. PRESS
NEW YORK -- Colombian journalist Ignacio Gomez told a roomful of America's most influential journalists Tuesday how Washington-supported Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is connected to drug traffickers and how U.S. military trainers helped organize a massacre in his country....
Posted: Fri, Jan 17, 2003 10:01am PST
Dozens of U.S. Special Forces Arrive in Colombia (January 16th 2003)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Dozens of U.S. Green Berets flew in to a Colombian war zone this week to train Colombian army troops to protect a key oil pipeline from rebel attacks, a U.S. official said Thursday. The Bush administration, with approval from the U.S. Congress, has decided the U.S. military assistance should expand into helping Colombia combat the rebels....
Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2003 10:09pm PST
Cisneros are wealthiest family in Venezuela. $5 billion of Media War and Oil Coup-lockout.
Multi-billionaire Cisneros exposed more and more as the power behind the Oil Coup-Lockout and 24/7 Media War in Venezuela. Cisneros letter to President Chavez exposed....
Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2003 1:49pm PST
Vieques Protest Pictures
These pictures were taken at the Vieques anti-marine protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday January 12....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 2:52pm PST
BRAZIL: New Environment Minister
(Translated by Amigos da Terra- Amazonia Basileira)
1) Marina Silva takes over at the Ministry of the Environment, Promises much work.
2) Minister wants to include environmental protection in development banks contracts....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 8:01am PST
Venezuela: Oil Workers will take street actions asking for their right to work
Venezuelan Oil Workers request that the workings at the contractors companies are started again. Text: Maria Fernanda Pineda
Translation: Trastor (from Panorama Newspaper - Maracaibo)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 4:59am PST
Bolivia: The national roadblock has started
the military have started to use what seems to be live ammunition against the peasants who are blocking the highway through Bolivia....
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2003 10:11am PST
A Split Screen In Strike-Torn Venezuela. Lockout and Media War exposed by Mark Weisbrot.
Lockout and media war inside and outside Venezuela is exposed by a Washington Post article! Excellent article summarizes what REALLY is going on inside and outside Venezuela. The last sentence probably explains why such a good article is found in the Washington Post: "Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, an independent nonpartisan think tank in Washington."...
Posted: Sun, Jan 12, 2003 6:09am PST
Spinners of Venezuelan Fairy Tales: An Open Letter to NPR
Hadden provides almost no context, few facts, and little rebuttal to offset the charges his sources level against the Venezuelan government....
Posted: Sat, Jan 11, 2003 11:19am PST
VENEZUELA ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY: Environmental Sabotage at PDVSA oil company
What is happening in Venezuela when the commercial TV media starts to repeat hour after hour images of oil spills at Maracaibo lake and other petroleum zones in Venezuela?... Translations from venezuelan environmentalists concerned....
Posted: Sat, Jan 11, 2003 8:08am PST
Chiapas Action Alert
Ten Tons of Humanitarian Aid Destined for Chiapas Denied Entry into Mexico...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2003 8:21pm PST
Brazil: Macuxi Indians Urgent Action (send letter to Lula)
This week a Brazilian indian from the macuxi-village maturuca got killed. It is all related to this landrights case there. Urgent Action is needed to send letters to Lula...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2003 4:10pm PST
Many more Venezuela news sources to fight disinformation media war for oil coup-lockout.
Just when the lockout-strike was beginning to fade and news of this was barely beginning to reach the corporate media outside Venezuela there are more tiers of management trying to impose a strike in there workers. This time in the banking industry. Banks and oil. Sound familiar?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2003 5:34am PST
Movilizaciones campesinas en Mexico en contra del TLCAN. (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
Ante la crisis del trabajo agropecuario el gobierno federal anuncia que se puede dialogar pero no asegura ninguna solución....
Posted: Tue, Jan 7, 2003 2:17pm PST
Venezuelan Political Crisis: January 6, 2003
Political Opposition in Venezuela is showing the "alternative" country projects they propose in the case if Chavez is gone....
Posted: Mon, Jan 6, 2003 5:32am PST
Brazil: Two Thousand Families to be Evicted
Two thousand landless families in Guarulhos, Brazil are facing the risk of
eviction on Monday morning. Your international solidarity may be decisive....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 4:44pm PST
Help fix computers for Indymedia Argentina in Berkeley Jan 1-12
Help build computers for Indymedia Argentina. We are working on putting together a shipment of a couple hundred computers to support their work. This is a follow-up to a shipment of 235 computers which we sent to the Ecuador Indymedia Center in November....
Posted: Thu, Jan 2, 2003 10:24am PST
Venezuela Resistance - NEW YEAR 2003
Report from venezuela the last day of the year 2002: People is dying, oil is spilling....
Posted: Mon, Dec 30, 2002 9:25pm PST