The Not So Odd Couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro
Chávez and Castro’s mutual affection for each other began 11 years ago when Chávez visited Havana upon his release from a Venezuelan prison in 1994, after staging a failed coup. Since then, the two men have remained friendly and after Chávez won the Venezuelan presidency in 1998, they have collaborated on several trade and political programs.
Challenge to Guantanamo 'Gulag' Continues
Human rights organization, Amnesty International, last week described the Bush administration’s decision to expand the prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a 'wrong decision.' Amnesty International calls for closing the Guantanamo prisons and for charging the prisoners held there under US laws in US courts or release them.
Bolivia On The Boil
THE current political turmoil in Bolivia is part of a wider movement in Latin America, of people rejecting not only corrupt politicians, but also – and more importantly – the neoliberal economic policy paradigm that enriched a few at the expense of the vast majority.
Global Disarmament Groups Slam US for the Failure of NPT Review Conference
NOT unexpectedly, the Non Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) month long (from May 2 to May 27) five-yearly Review Conference failed after the US spent the entire period either arguing about procedure or demanding that disarmament obligations of nuclear weapon states were outside the scope of discussions.
G8 Bribery
The mainstream media’s response to the announcement that the G8 had agreed to cancel $40 billion dollars in debt for eighteen countries in third world, mainly African.
Fort Lauderdale:Protestors Slam OAS General Assembly
The three-day General Assembly was a spectacle of U.S. arrogance, in which Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti were vilified and threatened. Protestors came to the defense of the targeted countries, denouncing Washington’s schemes against them
Rice advocates intervention for democracy in veiled threat against Venezuela
'The last time the OAS met in the US in 1974,' noted Rice, '10 of 23 members were dictators.' ... At the time, many of the military dictators Rice referred to were the US government’s closest allies in the region.The meeting in 1976, when the OAS held its 5th General Assembly in Santiago, Chile, was home of the US-supported Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Against terrorism, in defense of humanity: an appeal
The people have a right to know the truth. Those who wage a genocidal war in the name of a war on terrorism must not be allowed to cover up their systematic use of the most perverse of terrorist methods against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Panel Discussion: 'Terrorism:The Miami Connection' - Anti-Cuba terrorism has also touched the US
During his talk, Dr. Hevia summarized the main aggressions carried out by the United States over more than 45 years, including hundreds of acts of sabotage against industrial facilities and shopping centers; the burning of sugar cane fields; aggressions against Cuban fishing vessels, and the hijacking of Cuban sea craft.
Governments Urged To Join World ‘Asbestos Ban’ - Trade Unions Call For Stop To Century-Long Carnage
“Asbestos is a threat to everyone, not just workers”, Ryder [General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)] said, “from children in schools, to young and old in private and public buildings where asbestos is present and to whole communities where it exists as a pollutant'.
