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Emilio Vera García

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UN enjoins London to surrender Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia

23 May 2019

On 22 May 2019, the United Nations General Assembly ordered the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to withdraw from the Chagos Archipelago it illegally occupies and for the islands to be reunified with neighbouring Mauritius within six months.
Two years earlier, on 22 June (...)

U.S. law imposes itself on European territory

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 10 July 2014

European governments most hypocritically claim that the mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate a transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with Washington falls within European law. Actually as with previous agreements such as Swift, data related to air (...)

Latin America’s New Middle Class Rulers: Stabilization, Growth and Inequality

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 24 May 2010

This sobering overview of post-neo-liberal Latin America raises the question as to whether the policies pursued by populist and social democratic governments in the region have actually been designed to favour their electoral base. Recent strikes and demonstrations in several of these (...)

July 26 Veterans Recall Fidel Castro’s Firm Certainty in Revolutionary Victory

23 July 2009

The Organizing Committee of the central activities to mark the ‘26 of July’ in this eastern province met Tuesday to discuss with working groups the final touches of preparations for the commemoration of the Cuban National Rebellion Day.

In the name of "Free Trade"

Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 13 June 2009

Recent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the Peruvian government to go ahead with changes to domestic laws that would seek to advance mineral, logging, oil and agricultural ‘development’ into previously untouched areas of the Amazon. In early June, (...)

A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?

by Michael Fox

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 April 2006

April 18 morning, Caracas awoke to the news in the Venezuelan daily paper, 2001, that US intelligence sources had reported the existence of a secret agreement between Iran and Venezuela whereby Iran will be sending nuclear weapons to Venezuela and Cuba.

Venezuela Launches Primary Health Program for Extreme Poor

by Michael Fox

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 April 2006

The Venezuelan government, April 21, began a diagnostic primary health project for the homeless, drug addicts, and at-risk individuals as part of the “Negra Hipolita Mission,” the social program that is aimed at taking care of Venezuelans in situations of critical poverty.

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 (...)

Armed Forces Protect Venezuela’s Oil Fields

by Gregory Wilpert

Caracas (Venezuela) | 5 May 2005

Venezuela’s Defense Minister, Jorge Garcia Carneiro announced today that last month the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Rafael Ramirez, had asked for the armed forces to take control of various oil installations in western Venezuela in order to prevent sabotage. The deployment, known as (...)

Venezuela’s Chavez Threatens to Freeze Relations with Neighbor Colombia

by Jonah Gindin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 January 2005

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched through the capital Caracas, today, calling for the respect of Venezuela’s sovereignty. Both Chavistas and opposition-supporters held marches to celebrate the anniversary of Venezuelan democracy, January 23, 1958, the day dictator Peréz Jiménez was (...)

A Case Study of Media Concentration and Power in Venezuela

Media war against the people

by Eva Golinger

Caracas (Venezuela) | 28 September 2004

I. Propaganda
Setting: Venevisión, one of 5 major private television channels in Venezuela, December 20, 2002. The following is a transcription of a television advertisement played on a Venezuelan private media channel during the December 2002 managerial stoppage. The commercial that (...)

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