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Venezuela’s Electoral Council President Says Zamora’s Resignation Has Hidden Motives

by Jonah Gindin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 4 October 2004
Ezequiel Zamora
In a press conference yesterday, President of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) Francisco Carrasquero responded to the resignation of vice-president Ezequiel Zamora by suggesting that the arguments raised by Zamora in declaring his resignation “weren’t the real reasons.” Carrasquero declined to specify what Zamora’s alleged "real" reasons were for resigning, respecting the friendship that he had developed with Zamora during their tenure together in the CNE. (...)

U.S. Military Intelligence Involved in Chemical Attack in Syria

by Andrey Fomin

Moscow (Russia) | 5 September 2013
A photo taken by Marco di Lauro/AP in Iraq in 2003 was presented by US State Secretary Kerry on August 30, 2013 as evidence of "Assad’s chemical attack."
The situation in Syria is still in focus of the world media. Another U.S.-led “humanitarian intervention” may be unleashed soon. The Pentagon announced that it is ready to attack Syria in order to punish Bashar al-Assad and Syrian army for the alleged use of chemical weapons against the civilians.
Meanwhile, the new evidence of the U.S. (...)

Brazil as a Key Player

by Raúl Zibechi

Montevideo (Uruguay) | 6 March 2010
A newly established industrial superpower, owner of the seventh largest oil reserves of the world and the world’s largest area of natural biodiversity in the Amazon, Brazil is also poised to emerge as a new military power. Unquestionably, Brazil is now a big league player. In the decade in which it begins its ascent, the country is so important that it is forcing its main competitor in the region, the United States, to redesign its foreign policy to take into consideration Brazil’s prominence, a tactic that might destabilize all of Latin America.

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The American veto topples the “Arab Spring” propaganda

by Wassim Raad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 12 September 2011
Ambassador Susan Rice, US permanent representative to UN, will veto the Palestinan State recognition. Arab affairs
Editorial: The American veto topples the “Arab Spring” propaganda
The United States and the Western colonial countries are trying to exploit the climate of the so-called Arab Spring in their battle to improve their image ever since the occupation of Iraq and the loss of two global wars to eliminate the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.
Despite the exposure of the colonial (...)

“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 production of nuclear energy but many believe that Teheran actually wants to have nuclear weapons.
The resumption of the uranium enrichment programme is an insult to the French, British and German Foreign (...)

“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 than solutions. This is the reason why I have presented a legal action.
The settlement between Ukraine and Gazprom, the Russian state-owned company, leaves Ukraine’s energy-related future to the mercy (...)

Kzrgyzstan

A Russian-Uzbek challenge to the US

by Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar

New Dehli (India) | 23 April 2010
An earlier article published by Voltaire Network, which analyzed the situation in Kyrgyzstan when it was still in turmoil, entertained the possibility that Washington might have had a hand in the events leading to the overthrow of its former lackey. As can be seen below, the Manas military base is clearly not the sole U.S. interest in Kyrgyzstan and developments show that while Washington is beaming at Roza Otunbayeva’s interim Government, Russia and other neighbouring countries are increasingly taking a much dimmer view.

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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010
On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, national or foreign. Lawyer and Right to Peace advocate, Zamora Bolaños, analyses the repercussions of this overturn - officially to fight drug trafficking - for his country and its ramifications for the region.

“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 11, 1973, Michelle Bachelet’s father, Air Force General, Alberto Bachelet, was captured by his own colleagues from the armed forces and died in jail as a result of tortures. Michelle Bachelet and her (...)

Remarks by H.E. Ms. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at 64th Session of UN General Assembly

New York (USA) | 23 September 2009
New York
23 September 2008
Statement Summary:
(Original Spanish)
CHRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ DE KIRCHNER, President of Argentina, as the first woman elected President to her country, spoke first on Argentina’s policy of unrestricted respect for human rights. She urged that the Treaty on the Forced Disappearance of Persons be ratified by all nations that had signed it. Only three nations had joined Argentina thus far — Albania, Mexico and Honduras -– and it was indispensable that all firmly (...)

Reforming the international financial system

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 8 July 2010
Below is an overview of the international financial institutions reform plan which has been released by the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs. The document, drafted by Group of Experts, mirrors exactly the wishes of the world ruling class. Its driving principle is the creation of a new world reserve currency under IMF surveillance and a system of global economic governance that would supervise the economic policies of individual nation-states.

A Threat To Peoples of Both the South and North

A Stronger IMF and World Bank

by Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet, Renaud Vivien

22 October 2009
The G-20, the self-proclaimed global regulation authority, has decided to bolster the capacity of the FMI and the World Bank to siphon the wealth from the South in order to solve the crisis in the North. In an effort to conceal the ruthlessness of this policy, at their Istanbul meeting the international institutions agreed to give the IMF a new face while leaving intact the voting principles of its General Assembly. The leaders of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) denounce this consequential widening of world imbalances.

Bashar al-Assad Speech at Syrian People’s Assembly

by Bashar al-Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 30 March 2011
Mr. Speaker,
Ladies and gentlemen,
members of the People’s Assembly,
It gives me a great pleasure to meet you once again in this distinguished place, to talk to you about the conditions engulfing Syria and the region and to address, through you, all the children of Syria; Syria which is at the heart of everyone of us, the invincible castle, with its glories, with its people in every governorate, city, town, and village.
At this exceptional moment, events and developments pose a great (...)

“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 70’s be used when Henry Kissinger empowered military dictatorships. It is the same right-wing that welcomed the atrocities committed by the tyrants from the South. Fifteen years after the demise of the former (...)

The Not So Odd Couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro

by Hampden Macbeth

Caracas (Venezuela) | 22 June 2005
In late 2004, President Hugo Chávez nearly doubled Venezuela’s daily oil barrel deliveries to Cuba and Havana doubled the number of healthcare professionals and teachers it was stationing in Venezuela.
The ongoing relationship between Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro began with Chávez’s 1994 visit to Havana, significantly deepened after Chávez was elected president in 1998 and reached its culmination in late 2004.
Chávez, a long-time admirer of Castro’s achievements and of Havana’s refusal to (...)

Will continue in office until 2006

Venezuela’s Chavez Wins Recall Vote

by Martin Sanchez

Caracas (Venezuela) | 17 August 2004
At 4:03AM, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that according to preliminary results, Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez will continue his term until 2006.

The World Bank Involved in a Dirty Quarrel in Chad

by Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Paris (France) | 2 December 2005
The high-flown oratory of World Bank experts about good management, corruption and the reduction of poverty is only a farce. As a matter of fact, the World Bank imposed on Chad, at all costs, an oil pipeline project that was supposed to enrich a well-known dictator who has just laughed at that institution in a masterly manner. Meanwhile, the people in that country sweat blood to pay a colossal debt without taking the least advantage of their own natural wealth. Let’s see in detail this skit on a neoliberal model artificially imposed by international institutions at the service of world powers and money.

Large Landed Estates

Venezuela accelerates its fight against large idle estate property

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 January 2005
After its publication in the Official Gazette yesterday, a Decree with the status of national law for the regulation of land possession will be in force in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Last Monday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías ratified the eight-article decree that will initiate a process of reorganization of public and private productive lands, after pointing out that 80% of the agricultural land is in the hands of 5% of the producers, while the remaining 6% is left for (...)

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’ First Annual Summit

China is setting up the menu for Global Financial Order

by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 9 September 2016
During the first Annual Summit organized by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China has shown her intention to take over the global leadership in infrastructure investment. By the end of this year, AIIB would have more than 100 members, making it the first lending institution in multilateral loans in history, under the control of the most important emerging countries. Yet, it is expected that she makes the decision of dropping off the Dollar, as it is the only way to break away from US hegemony in international finance.

Venezuela Recuperates Largest Landed Estate in Country

by Michael Fox

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 August 2006
This Sunday, from the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, President Hugo Chavez announced the recuperation of the “largest latifundio” (plantation) in the country, and the creation of the Socialist Production Unit "Manuel Piar."

U.S. Officials Soften Stance Towards Venezuela, Chavez Welcomes Move

by Jonah Gindin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 6 May 2005
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez responded to recent statements by high-level US officials, reaffirming Venezuela’s desire for dialogue with the US despite serious political differences. “A high-level functionary of the US government has said that they would like to have constructive relations with Venezuela...Welcome!” said the President during a Tuesday evening television address.
Earlier that day Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Roger Noriega told a meeting of the (...)

Major business round between Colombia and Venezuela to be held in March

by Alia2

Caracas (Venezuela) | 17 December 2004
The Second Major Binational Business Round between Venezuela and Colombia will be held on March 13th, 14th, and 15th of 2005, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; said the president of the External Trade Bank (Bancoex), Víctor Álvarez.
He said that the purpose of this round is to consolidate the economic and productive base of Latin American integration and to strengthen South to South cooperation.
He commented that this event will reactivate and strengthen commercial relations by increasing (...)

Hugo Chávez Frías: Onwards towards a Communal State!

by Hugo Chávez Frías

27 February 2010
Caracas, Venezuela
27 February 2010
Address by President Hugo Chávez Frías on the anniversary of the Caracazo
“Zamora lives, the fight continues," is the motto brought to life by our people. There could not be a better occasion for the enactment of the Organic Law of the Federal Council of Government than the unveiling of the statue of the Peoples General Ezequiel Zamora in the El Calvario Park, Caracas downtown. We were accompanied by representatives of Community Councils from all (...)

Beijing, the Asian Dawn Post Bretton Woods

by Ariel Noyola Rodríguez

Mexico City (Mexico) | 1 November 2014
The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank was finally approved by 22 Asian countries on Friday 24 October. On the one hand, the new regional development bank enters into direct competition with the Asian Development Bank, established in 1966 under the overwhelming dominance of the United States and Japan; on the other hand it will serve as a mechanism for regional integration and against the “pivot doctrine”, driven by Pentagon and the State Department.

800 million for the mining industry

by Alia2

Caracas (Venezuela) | 4 January 2005
He pointed out that they would forward a strategy to strengthen the productive capacity of the mining activity. As for the electricity sector, he informed that the budget includes a 1 billion U$ investment in projects that are already under way and that will continue next year. He said that no investments had been made in the electricity sector for a long time and that as a consequence, the electric network, as well as the distribution of electric energy; had deteriorated.
He also (...)

Venezuela’s Electoral Council Says Referendum Data Will Be in Safe Hands with Telecom Company

by Robin Nieto

4 August 2004
Jorge Rodríguez
Preparations for the upcoming August 15 presidential recall referendum include guaranteeing the security of computers and databases used for recording votes. Chavez supporters have raised doubts as to how the National Electoral Council (CNE), will guarantee the security and reliability of these computers and databases.
CNE spokespersons reassured the public yesterday that it sees no problem with the private telecommunications company, CANTV, which will handle the (...)

Speech by Robert B. Zoellick at Woodrow Wilson Center

by Robert B. Zoellick

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 14 April 2010
Introduction: The End of the Third World?
For decades, students of security and international politics have debated the emergence of a multipolar system. It’s time we recognize the new economic parallel.
If 1989 saw the end of the “Second World” with Communism’s demise, then 2009 saw the end of what was known as the “Third World”: We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar world economy – in which some developing countries are emerging as economic powers; others are moving towards (...)

BRICS prepares world banking revolution

28 February 2012
BRICS member-states are preparing a world banking revolution. They are planning to nominate an alternative candidate for the post of the Chairman of the World Bank for the first time in history. BRICS also demands redistribution of quotas in the International Monetary Fund in the near future and intends to study India’s initiative on creating a South-South Bank.
Representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa proposed a reform of the world financial system at their meeting (...)

The World Bank Publishes its hit-parade on financial docility

10 May 2005
Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, published on May 9, 2005, his “Barometer on the Ability to Govern from 1996-2004”. Experts compared the policies implemented by 209 countries based on six criteria: receptivity of the citizens’ opinion, political stability, efficiency of administrations, deregulation, respect for contracts and corruption control.
Of course, these criteria reflect the objectives of the Bank: to congratulate docile governments who accept opening their national (...)

US Treasury Sanctions Central Bank of Venezuela and its Director

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 17 April 2019
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Banco Central de Venezuela, or the Central Bank of Venezuela, pursuant to E.O. 13850, as amended, for operating in the financial sector of the Venezuelan economy. Additionally, OFAC designated Iliana Josefa Ruzza Terán (Ruzza), pursuant to E.O. 13692, as amended, who is determined to be a current or former official of the Government of Venezuela.
“Treasury is designating the Central Bank of Venezuela to (...)

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