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Leader of Deathsquads Wins Colombian Election

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 28 June 2010

With just a 30 percent turnout, the election of new Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos - one of Washington’s closest disciples in Latin America - was hailed as a "victory for democracy" by major western media outlets. However, they blithely omitted to report on Santos’ presumed role in (...)

Cuba Marks Birthday of Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Che Guevara

Havana (Cuba) | 14 June 2010

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 14 (acn) Cubans mark on Monday the 165th birthday of
independence hero Antonio Maceo and the 82nd of Cuban-Argentinean
guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara.

El Salvador and Cuba Reestablished Diplomatic Relations

2 June 2009

El Salvador and Cuba reestablished diplomatic relations on Monday following the announcement by Mauricio Funes after his inauguration as new President of the Central American nation.

A Tribute to Martí

by Fidel Castro Ruz

29 January 2008

Five years ago, Cuba’s capital hosted the International Conference "For World Equilibrium", which was attended by delegates from forty three countries of all continents, to honor Martí on the occasion of his 150th birthday.

Antonio Maceo: the bronze titan

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 10 December 2007

I am indebted to him. Yesterday marked another anniversary of his physical death. There are over forty versions of how it occurred, but all concur on several details that are of great interest.

Fidel Castro says world economic crisis is at the Door

24 September 2007

Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared Friday in a video broadcast by Cuban television, where he warned of a serious world economic crisis and addressed different issues. He also dealt with his most recent reflections published by Cuban and international media outlets.

US Judge Denies Posada’s Habeas Corpus Petition

Havana (Cuba) | 22 February 2007

US judge Phillip Martinez ruled out a Habeas
Corpus request issued by Luis Posada Carriles at a federal court in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday and described it as inadmissible.

The Deepening Dimensions of the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis

by Kent Paterson

Caracas (Venezuela) | 16 February 2006

Long resentful at what they regard as second-class treatment by Washington, Mexicans across the political spectrum are blasting the Bush administration’s border and immigration policies. Stinging criticisms, diplomatic tiffs, street protests, and even calls for boycotts of U.S. businesses have (...)

Venezuela’s Urban Land Committees and Participatory Democracy

by Alex Holland

Caracas (Venezuela) | 16 February 2006

Nidia Lopez stood on one side of the brick built shack. It was like one of the thousands that made up the barrio of Andres Bello. The barrios, or slums, are where the majority of the Venezuelan population lives. Thirty people looked at Nidia. Some of them stood outside in the mud. The building (...)

WSF Talks Latin American Integration

by Alex Holland

Caracas (Venezuela) | 31 January 2006

On Wednesday night one of the first Co-organised activities of the WSF took place with “New Paths of Latin American Integration” as its theme.

Antonio Alberto Vulcano: “The US wants to appropriate Latin America’s resources”

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

“A country that has squandered its own resources is getting ready to wrongfully appropriate, on behalf of the ‘fight against international terror’, Latin America’s resources”, - denounced Argentinean activist Antonio Alberto Vulcano from the platform at the Axis for Peace International (...)

Interview with Marta Harnecker

In the Laboratory of a Revolution

by Ignacio Cirios

Caracas (Venezuela) | 27 September 2005

Her work Fidel: The Political Strategy of Victory, which illuminates the Cuban revolutionary process, is known in various editions throughout the Latin Amercian continent and has been one of the most read texts on the subject over the past 20 years.

Venezuelan Authorities Honor Colombian Extradition Request

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 18 May 2005

The Venezuelan Ministry of Interior and Justice and Venezuela’s investigative police, DISIP, handed over José Martínez Vegas, alias "El Chiguiro," to Colombian officials. Martínez, one of the leaders of the 16th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was apprehended on (...)

Venezuela’s Supreme Court Approves Extradition of Colombian Rebel Kidnapper

by Gregory Wilpert

Caracas (Venezuela) | 13 April 2005

Juan José Martínez Vega
Venezuela’s penal chamber of the Supreme Court decided to approve Colombia’s request to extradite Juan José Martínez Vega, a.k.a. "El Chigüiro." Martinez Vega had been arrested on a ranch in Venezuela last March for the kidnapping of the mother of Major League (...)

Interview with Tariq Ali, editor and journalist of the New Left Review

“Without oil in the Islamic lands, there would be no clash of civilizations”

by Gladys Martinez Lopez

17 January 2005

Tariq Ali is a British moviemaker, writer and journalist of Pakistani origin. The author of “El choque de los fundamentalismos” (“The clash of fundamentalisms”) and “Bush en Babilonia” (Bush in Babylonia”), among other books, he is one of the intellectuals which has strongly denounced the war (...)

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