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  • From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    By GEORGE SALZMAN
    Oaxaca, Mexico.
    Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in natural resources, lie along the Pacific coastline in southeastern Mexico. Oaxaca is flanked to its east by Chiapas and to its west by Guerrero. Its population, about 3.5 million (…)

  • Venezuela’s Cooperative Revolution. The Hidden Story
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela’s Cooperative Revolution. The Hidden Story
    An economic experiment is the hidden story behind Chávez’s ’Bolivarian Revolution.’
    By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice.
    Zaida Rosas, a woman in her fifties with 15 grandchildren, works in the newly constructed textile co-op Venezuela Avanza in Caracas. The co-op’s 209 workers are mostly formerly jobless neighborhood women. Their (…)

  • We need you as much as you need us ... it is a symbiotic relationship, folks!
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    Many have emailed me that stating that I hate United States and nothing can be farther from the truth ... I love my country, just not its government.
    On many occasions through writing for VHeadline.com, I have told my readers in the United States how their own damn government was their enemy and not President Hugo Chavez.
    On several occasions, I have written favorable comments when it comes to Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. In my eyes, he is very much the patriot. (…)

  • COURAGE AND RESISTANCE IN OAXACA AND MEXICO CITY
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City - by Stephen Lendman
    It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected needs. They included restructuring teachers’ salaries, improving the deplorable educational infrastructure forcing teachers to conduct classes in laminated cardboard shacks, a (…)

  • Operation “Clean-Up” in Oaxaca
    29 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Operation “Clean-Up” in Oaxaca
    Following the CIA’s “Psychological Operations” Manual for the Nicaraguan Contras, the State Government Has Unleashed a Bloody Counterinsurgency Strategy to Eliminate the Social Movement
    By Diego Enrique Osorno Special to The Narco News Bulletin
    August 28, 2006
    OAXACA CITY: One of them, the one in a white cap, black shirt and denim pants, smiles like a child upon being discovered in the middle of the street with his machine gun.
    He’s maybe 32 years (…)

  • CUBA UNDER CASTRO
    28 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuba Under Castro - by Stephen Lendman
    Having just turned 80 on August 13 and undergone major surgery for what may have been stomach cancer at the end of July, a transitional time may be near in Cuba with Fidel Castro Ruz beginning to hand over power to his brother Raul and/or others in the months ahead. It passed without irony or mention of imperial arrogance in a brief front page comment in the August 19th issue of the Wall Street Journal that the US won’t invade Cuba but a "dynastic (…)

  • THE VENEZOLANIZACION OF BELLACIAO
    26 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For many Venezuelans one has become a point important to write something about BELLACIAO, position thus, everything in capital letters.
    It is a page that was possibly visited by that another reader, who has perhaps been able it to see like very distant.
    We arrived at BELLACIAO of accidental way, when a person, Venezuelan, related to Bolivarianos Circles in Paris, named it, like page that read there. We understood that it was purely in French, and as we can read in that language, we (…)

  • CHAVEZ DECIDES IN CHINA: TRANSFERENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
    24 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Front Revolutionary Bolivariano (Ferrebé) presents/displays to the world the summarized information of the profits reached about President Chávez in its trip to China.
    La bases in the agreements that Venezuela negotiates with other countries is the one to obtain technology transferences, in order to be guaranteeing the advance of the country towards an outpost power technology, combining those transferences with the investigation that leads the Specialized Ministry of Science and (…)

  • Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    AP , OAXACA, MEXICO Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006,
    Normally vibrant and thronged with tourists, picturesque Oaxaca City has ground to a virtual halt as protesters armed with pipes, machetes and clubs roam the cobblestone streets — burning buses, seizing media outlets and blocking highways and bus stations.
    The three-month-old protest — now almost an insurrection against state Governor Ulises Ruiz — made many in Oaxaca afraid to leave their homes on (…)

  • CHAVEZ: AN HONOURABLE MAN IN A WORLD OF FEW MEN
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez: Winning Arab hearts and minds
    Chavez is a hero to more than his fellow Venezuelans
    Sen here with the emir of Qatar, who is a close personal friend
    By Dima Khatib, Latin America Correspondent
    Friday 18 August 2006, 14:15 Makka Time, 11:15 GMT
    Chavez of Arabia?
    Billions of dollars spent, tens of thousands of lives lost, hundreds of hours of televised speeches and press conferences, extensive diplomatic efforts, political and military plans, years in Iraq, and much more. (…)