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Security Council Meeting on Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria

New York (USA) | 7 November 2017

The meeting was called to order at 3.05 p.m.
The President: In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to participate in this meeting.
In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of (...)

Use of chemical weapons in Syria (Vetos)

New York (USA) | 24 October 2017

The meeting was called to order at 10.25 a.m.
The President, Mr. Delattre (France) (spoke in French): In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, (...)

First VP Jose Ramon Machado Ventura Meets with Cuban Brigade in Uruguay

Havana (Cuba) | 2 March 2010

Cuba’s First Vice-president, José Ramón Machado Ventura, met on
Monday with the group of Cuban voluntary workers offering their services in Uruguay.

U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 5 January 2010

President Chavez’s election in 1998 marked a decline of US hegemony in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. In this study, James Petras reminds us that Washington’s chief interest in overthrowing Chavez was political, not economic, and revolved around his steadfast opposition to the Bush (...)

Remarks by Tabaré Vázquez to the 64th UN General Assembly

by Tabaré Vázquez

New York (USA) | 23 September 2009

Mr. President, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
As I did four years ago, I once again extend the greetings of the people and the Government of the Republic of Uruguay to this Assembly, which is the most broadly representative body of today’s (...)

Bush-Chavez Tours Seen from Cuba

15 March 2007

When President Bush set out on his five-nation tour of Latin America on
Thursday March 8th he was hoping to obtain support for Washington’s
effort to isolate Venezuela and tighten its stranglehold on Cuba.

Defining the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas - ALBA

by Michael Fox

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 August 2006

Much has been written and theorized about the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) since President Chavez first proposed the idea at Isla Margarita at the III Summit of the Heads of State and the Government of the Association of Caribbean States in December, 2001.

The Paper War

by Raúl Zibechi

Montevideo (Uruguay) | 12 April 2006

Roadblocks on the international bridges connecting Argentina and Uruguay, carried out by the Argentine environmental movement to protest the construction of two large cellulose factories, demonstrates the social limitations of the neoliberal model and is jeopardizing the regional alliance (...)

Uruguay and Venezuela: Need to Strengthen Mercosur

by Jeroen Kuiper

Caracas (Venezuela) | 24 March 2006

Venezuelan President Chávez and Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez signed a series of agreements and conventions in the Venezuelan capital today, as part of a three-day visit by the Uruguayan President. During their common press conference, both Presidents stressed the need to transform and (...)

“Ukraine’s gas settlement: the wrong solution”

by Yuliya Tymoshenko

2 February 2006

Europe’s sigh of relief when the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine was supposedly over could even be heard in Kiev. But this settlement, which leaves Ukraine’s energy requirements to the mercy of a nonexistent company linked to a gang of international criminals, brings about more problems (...)

“In the hands of a woman”

by Sergio Ramirez

31 January 2006

As seen in the photos, Michelle Bachelet looks like what she really is: a paediatrician with a confident and frank smile, to whom any mother would entrust the health of her children and to whom Chile has been entrusted today. The day of the coup d’état against Salvador Allende, on September (...)

“The Iranian danger”

by Rafael Nieto Loaiza

27 January 2006

In an open challenge to the international community, the regimen ruled by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad lifted the seals that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had on the Iranian nuclear facilities and resumed its nuclear programme. Iran has said this programme is only aimed at the (...)

“Changes in Latin America”

by Óscar Collazos

17 January 2006

What is happening in the continent is alarming Washington’s allies. The right-wing policy, shortsighted and color-blind, wants to see the changes in Latin America as a “triumph” of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Some recommended even against this new “conspiracy” that methods of the 60’s and (...)

Yvonne Trías: “In Uruguay, my newspaper was accused of anti-Semitism for having criticized Israel’s policy”

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

During the Axis for Peace International Conference , the director of the Uruguayan weekly Brecha, Yvonne Trías, expressed her indignation for anti-Semitism accusations against intellectuals who oppose Israel’s policy towards the Palestinian.“They added my name on a black list of people (...)

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The Summit of Salamanca and the Struggle against Terrorism

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 14 November 2005

On October 14-15, 2005, the city of Salamanca hosted the 15th Ibero-American Summit with the participation of all Latina American countries, Spain, Portugal and Andorra. This summit, organized several weeks ahead of the Summit of Mar del Plata, which represented a failure for the Free Trade (...)

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