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Step Back Renews Women’s Drive to Move Forward in Venezuela

by Humberto Márquez

Caracas (Venezuela) | 3 July 2006

A recent Supreme Court ruling that undermines the safety of domestic violence victims has galvanised activists in Venezuela, who vow to step up the fight against a scourge that the country’s advanced gender-equality laws have so far failed to eradicate.

Nuclear Pact with India Seen as Surrender

by Jim Lobe

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 March 2006

While U.S. President George W. Bush hailed Thursday’s nuclear accord with India as a major breakthrough in forging a "strategic partnership" with the South Asian giant, the pact has been broadly denounced by non-proliferation experts here as a devil’s bargain.

A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War

by Humberto Márquez

Caracas (Venezuela) | 31 January 2006

Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal
importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities
taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the
participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some
personalities from standing (...)