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Comentarios de Dick Cheney sobre Iraq
Dick Cheney explains, in 1994, why it would be a bad idea to topple the government of Saddam Hussein:
* what would you put in its place?
* the region is highly unstable and invading Iraq would increase that instability
* you wouldn't get Arab support for such a move
* you would risk fragmenting Iraq and pulling Syria and Iran into the conflict
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Paramilitares en Chiapas
Ataque paramilitar de la OPDDIC contra bases zapatistas
Junta de Buen Gobierno "Corazón del Arco iris de la Esperanza"
Caracol 4 "Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras", a 12 agosto de 2007.
A la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional A los Otros Medios de Comunicación Alternativos, Nacional e Internacional A las Organizaciones Independientes de ( Read more... ) -
Militarismo en Latinoamerica
COUNTERPUNCH
Weekend Edition
Laboratory for the New Latin American Militarism
Privatizing Repression in Paraquay
By BENJAMIN DANGL
Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of them holds an automatic weapon. John Lennon's "Imagine" plays in the background. This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a new video posted online by ( Read more... ) -
Derechos Humanos en Juarez, Chihuahua
Human Rights Defenders in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua
Maria Luisa Garcia Andrade and Marisela Ortiz Rivera are members of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (Our daughters return home). Since 10 June, they, and lawyers of the Asociacion Nacional de Abogados Democraticos (ANAD), National Association of Democratic Lawyers, have been receiving emails ( Read more... ) -
US no longer "Satan" for Latin America
INTERVIEW: Ecuador's Correa: US no longer "Satan" for Latin America
By Fernando Heller, dpa
Eds: dpa exclusive
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 06:47
Brussels (dpa) - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa believes that Latin America still faces the challenge of building "true democracy," but he admitted that the United States is no longer the region's "Satan ( Read more... ) -
Respuesta para Potatoe...
05/15/07 - Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales (Ecuador) -
POSICIÓN DE LA CONFEDERACIÓN DE PUEBLOS DE LA NACIONALIDAD KICHWA DEL ECUADOR FRENTE A LAS DECLARACIONES EMITIDAS POR BENEDICTO XVI EN LA V CONFERENCIA DE OBISPOS DE AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE (CELAM), EN MAYO DEL 2007 EN BRASIL
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Chavez y las compañías petroleras....
Friday, May 4, 2007
Irvine, CA--On Tuesday president Hugo Chavez forced ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil to cede operational control over their multi-billion dollar projects to the Venezuelan government. With their backs to the wall, these oil companies are "negotiating" the terms of their surrender, and trying to get some "compensation" for ( Read more... ) -
El Banco Mundial
04/26/07 - The Independent (London) - The Real Scandal At The World Bank
The Bank is Killing Thousands of the Poorest People in The World
by Johann Hari
While the world's press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz helped to get his girlfriend a $300,000-a-year gig next door, they have been ( Read more... ) -
Bush vs. Chavez
03/16/07 - Reforma (Mexico) - Promete Bush; Chávez concreta
Durante sus giras por América Latina. Contrastan acuerdos de Venezuela con
los ofrecimientos de Estados Unidos
Cecilia Sada
Especial
Mientras el Presidente de Estados Unidos prometía a Brasil impulsar el
desarrollo de los biocombustibles, su homólogo venezolano firmaba en
Argentina 11 acuerdos ( Read more... ) -
Sobre la estrategia de los demócratas en relación con la política exterior de E.U.
Washington Post
It's Uphill for the Democrats
They Need a Global Strategy, Not Just Tactics for Iraq
By Tony Smith
Sunday, March 11, 2007; B01
The Democrats' victory last November obviously reflected popular sentiment against the war in Iraq, but nothing seems obvious now as Democrats try to exploit their new majority status in Congress.
Iraq had ( Read more... )