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The Venezuelan Election: Chavez Wins, Bush Loses (Again)! Now What? The Venezuelan congressional elections of December 4, 2005 mark a turning point in domestic politics and US-Venezuelan relations. President Chavez's party, the Movement of the Fifth Republic, won approximately 68 per cent of the congressional seats and with other pro-government parties , elected all the representatives....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:33pm PST
U.S. Christians March on Guantanamo to visit Prisoners on Hunger Strike Santiago, Cuba-Twenty-five Christians in the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker arrived in Cuba last evening and plan to set out from Santiago today on a solemn fifty-mile march to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They seek to defend human dignity by visiting with the hundreds of detainees who have been held for more than three years under horrific conditions by the U.S. government....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 7:42pm PST
Protest Worsening Prison Conditions For Ill Cuban Activist Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet is seriously ill and suffering from
chronic gastritis and hypertension. The conditions in which he
is serving his 25 year prison term - imposed after an unfair
trial in 2003 for his non-violent advocacy of human rights - are
deteriorating....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 1:26pm PST
Fenton: Canada's New Ambassador in Ecuador Helped Plan Haiti Coup Aside from the United States, two countries are widely recognized to
have played major rolls in last years rightwing paramilitary takeover
of Haiti. One is France, the island nation's colonial antagonist for
centuries. The other is Canada....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 1:13pm PST
Venezuelan vote boycott: Washington paves road to intervention With predictable brazenness, the US State Department on Monday questioned, on grounds of a low turnout, the legitimacy of Sunday’s legislative elections in Venezuela. But, as the US government is well aware, the low vote total was caused in large part by a boycott and sabotage campaign mounted by right-wing opposition parties that Washington supports, both politically and financially....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 6:44am PST
Salvadorans Mobilize Against Gold Mining Resisting the New Conquistadors
By Sean Donahue
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
December 1, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:33am PST
Decriminalization and How It Could Change Life for Bolivia’s Cocaleros Coca Cookies and Constitutional Dreams By Jean Friedsky
Special to The Narco News Bulletin December 2, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:31am PST
Venezuelans vote for new congress Parliamentary elections are taking place in Venezuela, with polls suggesting supporters of President Hugo Chavez will extend their majority....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:29am PST
The Chávez Theorem: How Venezuela Pulverised the Rhetoric of the Neo-Liberal Left By MANUEL TALENS...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 9:07am PST
Amnesty demands crackdown on police death squads in Brazil Brazil's police force needs urgent reform to tackle endemic human rights abuses that potentially constitute thousands of executions in the country's poorest communities every year, Amnesty International says....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 8:37pm PST
Friedsky: Coca Cookies and Constitutional Dreams In an in-depth report today in The Narco News Bulletin,
Jean Friedsky writes that though the intense militarization of the
Chapare has mostly ended in the last year, the wounds still run deep
and the coca growers continue to struggle for their rights to farm
this ancient traditional crop....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:48pm PST
Dr. Michelle Bachelet likely to be Chile's next president. A look at the upcoming Chilean presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 9:32pm PST
First consignment of Iranian tractors delivered to Venezuelan farmers Buenos Aires, Dec 1, (IRNA)--The first consignment of tractors called 'Ven-Iran' jointly produced in Venezuela were delivered to farmers in a ceremony attended by President Hugo Chavez in Bolivar on Thursday.
Iranian Ambassador to Caracas Ahmad Sobhani and several senior Venezuelan officials and MPs including ministers of agriculture, infrastructure, energy and mines and housing were present in the ceremony....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:10pm PST
U.S. bends law to deny justice to Cuban 5 Routine administrative and legal procedures are often subject to manipulation, never more so than when Cuba’s enemies manipulate them....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:41pm PST
Bolivians set to elect left-wing leader Evo Morales, an indigenous leader and candidate of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), is favored to win Bolivia’s presidential elections on Dec. 18....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:40pm PST
latin america studies - petition latin america studies, cut education, lack of transparency...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 4:35pm PST
Rep. Jose Serrano: One of Two to Accept Venezuelan President Chavez' Offer of Cheap Oil We speak with Rep. Jose Serrano (D - NY), one of only three Congressmembers out of more than 400 who voted for an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. He's also one of the two to take up an offer by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for cheap oil here in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:29pm PST
Dark Armies, Secret Bases & Rummy, oh my! Secret US bases on Bolivian border...
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 1:22pm PST
Maya Hurricane Survivors Benefit, Cornel West Talk, Hugo Chavez Movie at CSUS This Week! This is a real busy week for activism at Sacramento State, with a Guatemalan hurricane survivors benefit today, a talk by Cornell West on Thursday and a film benefit on Friday for students going to the upcoming World Social Forum meeting in Venezuela. Don't miss these wonderful events!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 11:55am PST
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