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Learning about the Past to Understand the Present

US secret services in between China and Tibet

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 2 April 2008

The Tibet images published by the CNN are simplistic: on the one hand they show the Chinese as the bad guys because they are communist; on the other hand we have the Tibet people, the Buddhists. But Comandante Fidel Castro warns that all that is but mere propaganda. The history of that Asian (...)

World Personalities Demand Justice in Luis Posada Carriles Case

23 April 2007

More than 3,000 Scholars and personalities from around the world issued a declaration urging Washington to meet its international
obligations and try Luis Posada Carriles for his terrorist crimes or
attend the extradition request made by Venezuela. Below we reproduce
the declaration and (...)

Venezuela Summit: Zapatero Asks US to Respect Arms Sale

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 1 April 2005

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero signed seven bilateral agreements yesterday in the areas of defense, commerce and energy and security. The meeting was a continuation of Tuesday’s four-nation summit between Venezuela, Spain, Colombia and (...)

Venezuela’s Pro-Chavez Parties Dispute Candidacies

by Jonah Gindin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 18 March 2005

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will have the last word in a conflict among parties of his governing coalition over the selection of candidates for this August’s election of city councilors and district councils. Earlier this month Willian Lara, of the governing party Fifth Republic Movement (...)

The Treasure of Japanese Criminals

Golden Lily Operation

by Denis Boneau

8 November 2004

After the 1930’s, while the Japanese imperial army looted Southeast Asia, Emperor Hirohito launchd “the Golden Lily Operation”, aimed at recovering and hiding his war booty. At the end of World War Two, US general McArthur’s troops took hold of the treasure and raised funds to finance the (...)