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Don't believe everything you read in the papers about Venezuela
First, check this 14 min. realvideo story on Venezuela's media-guided april's coup. URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1985000/video/_1985670_ven22_palast_vi.ram. IT'S SHOCKING!!!!!!!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2002 4:53am PST
Venezuela: Is the CIA preparing another coup?
With a “strike” organized by Venezuela’s employers now entering its second week, there is every indication that the South American country is being subjected to a classic destabilization campaign organized in collaboration with US intelligence....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 1:57pm PST
I AM VENEZUELAN,AND THIS IS THE TRUTH
87% of Venezuela's population consists of POOR people. And the actual "strike" is promoted by media and industry owners, who say the "majority" supports the strike. So?...
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 6:28am PST
Venezuelan Coup tonight?
The information below that concerns a coup plan for tonight is based on a report issued by Venezuelan military intelligence. It was forwarded to me by someone who works closely with the military intelligence at the Miraflores Presidential Palace. Let's hope they're wrong....
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2002 7:52pm PST
Venezuelan Majority Takes to the Streets, Coup Plotters Hide
On Monday night, the Venezuelan majority - unwilling to allow an upper-class economic coup d’etat that poses dishonestly as a “strike” to unseat its democratically elected government - took to the streets on a scale only seen once before in the nation’s modern history; as they had last April, when they turned back a military coup d’etat....
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2002 7:43am PST
INDYMEDIA IDIOTS WAKE UP: VENEZUELAN COUP THREAT
Why isn't Indymedia covering a possible imminent coup in Venezuela?...
Posted: Mon, Dec 9, 2002 9:15pm PST
INDYMEDIA IDIOTS WAKE UP: VENEZUELAN COUP THREAT
Why the F isn't Indymedia covering a possible imminent coup in Venezuela?...
Posted: Mon, Dec 9, 2002 9:14pm PST
Fed. Gov't tried to prosecute man for discussing travel to Cuba on the internet
Tom Warner is a long time activist in Seattle...
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 7:30pm PST
Gunmen in Venezuela Tried to Provoke a Crisis After "Strike" Failed
Today the essential task is not to define one self as "for or against Chavez," but, rather, to defend democracy in Venezuela and everywhere. That is to say, the right of a people to take its own destiny in its hands and to construct the development model that it chooses, even if that model is outside the dominant neoliberal model....
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 10:54am PST
Info on coup in Venezuela
a foreign intelligence agency has been charged with controlling delivery of money from a powerful international economic community to the axis of subversion encouraged by a strengthened ultra-right ... the agency is responsible for actions aimed at capturing sympathy among the military ......
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 10:49am PST
update from Venezuela
Two dead and latest reports claim twenty injured after four gunmen started firing indiscriminately into the crowd at Rebel HQ Plaza Altamira at just after 7:00 p.m. local time....
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 10:49am PST
Colombian Reporter Gets Applause - But no Coverage
Vol. 8, No. 1986 - The American Reporter - December 2, 2002
COLOMBIAN REPORTER TELLS ALL - TO U.S. PRESS
by Lucy Komisar
American Reporter Correspondent
New York, N.Y....
Posted: Thu, Dec 5, 2002 12:16pm PST
Protest the FTAA, CAFTA, PPP, Plan Colombia this Saturday!
Join us in a Day of Action and Outreach against the FTAA, CAFTA, PPP, and Plan Colombia Saturday, Dec 7th 9am-1pm 24th and Mission BART!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 5, 2002 11:58am PST
Hear director of Brazil's Workers Party.
Julio Turra, the national executive director of the nine-million-member Unified Trade Union Confederation of Brazil, will discuss their recent, fantastic victory at a public forum on Sunday....
Posted: Thu, Dec 5, 2002 12:39am PST
HUGE WORKERS' PARTY VICTORY IN BRAZIL
Come hear director of Brazil's confederation of unions!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2002 4:21pm PST
COLOMBIAN REPORTER EXPOSES U.S. LINK TO MASSACRES AND DRUG-TRADE
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: Wed, Dec 4, 2002 1:19pm PST
Each year is worse for Colombian workers
Being a trade unionist in Colombia has become a high-risk occupation and trade unionists frequently have to pay with their own lives. Figures from last year show how critical the situation has become....
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2002 1:47am PST
NEW AT FRONTLINES: ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, US AND SF ELECTIONS, ANTIWAR MOVEMENT ...
Book online on the revolutionary crisis in Argentina; articles analyzing the victory of Lula and the PT in Brazil, the elections in the US and San Francisco ... and many other articles....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 8:42pm PST