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  • ENVIRONMENT: 100 Million Trees for Venezuela
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez *
    CARACAS, Jul 27 (Tierramérica) - Venezuela has launched a five-year reforestation project for Orinoco headwaters and tributary rivers in which more than 900 conservation committees and students from more than 100 schools will help plant 100 million trees in a 150,000-hectare area.
    "Campesinos who used to clear land for crops or cow pasture are now turning to agroforestry, which is more profitable and better for the local environment," Miguel Rodríguez, vice minister (…)

  • VENEZUELA RETIRES ITS AMBASSADOR IN ISRAEL
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saturday 5 August 2006 (21h45): Por.Faustino Rodríguez Bauza From the beginning of the genocida invasion of Israel, with the support of the North American government, to Palestine and Lebanon, in Venezuela a movement of solidarity of a great amplitude has taken place and throughout all the country. President Chávez by ricochet gave a declaration to the invasion, from the first day that this one began. At the same time in all Venezuela concentrations were made and simultaneous marches in all (…)

  • Venezuela will be the last straw engineered by Washington and its anti-christ leader
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The preparations of war against the democratic Bolivarian revolutionary are getting into the last stages ... Condi Rice has giving the go ahead for a plan to dismantle the democratically-elected government of Venezuela ... and the ferocious head of pigs tactics will begin in Cuba.
    A similar strategy that was used in the Lebanon invasion ... blame Hezbollah and label them as terrorists. At the same time, corner the UN into sanctioning Iran for its peaceful civilian nuclear necessities, (…)

  • On arrival in Venezuela, Chavez announces three important measures
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On arrival in Venezuela, President Chavez Frias has made several significant announcements. The first is domestic, making August 3 Official Flag Day.
    At a civilian-military parade in la Vela de Coro (Falcon) where Francisco de Miranda landed with the Venezuelan Republic’s independence flag 200 years ago, the President decreed that as of 2007 Flag Day will be on August 3 and not March 12, which the opposition undoubtedly will continue to celebrate by flying its seven-star flag.
    * The (…)

  • Unrest and alternative goverment in mexico?
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    With 2.4 million mobilising in mexico city last sunday the biggest march in its history and a 10km long permanent tent city established until ALL the votes are recounted from the July 2 elections, mexico is becoming a very interesting place. In one region, the movement seems to have take a tentative step forward..... Oaxaca Initiates Alternative Government Popular Assembly Reclaims Government Palace for the People
    By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
    July 7, 2006
    The Popular Assembly (…)

  • Fidel Castro’s health - ANNOUNCEMENT
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Courtesy of the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5233770.stm
    Proclamation by the commander in chief to the people of Cuba:
    As result of the great effort exerted to visit the Argentine city of Cordoba, to participate in the Mercosur meeting, the closing of the People’s Summit in the historic University of Cordoba, and to visit Alta Gracia, the city where Che [Guevara] grew up, together with my participation in the commemoration in Granma and Holguin Provinces of the 53rd (…)

  • Chavez withdraws Venezuelan envoy, citing Israeli ’genocide’
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he has recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel to show his "indignation" over the military offensive in Lebanon.
    "We have ordered the withdrawal of our ambassador in Israel," Chavez said in a televised speech, calling Israeli attacks in Lebanon "genocide."
    "It really causes indignation to see how the state of Israel continues bombing, killing ... with all of the power they have, with the support of the United (…)

  • Bolivia Rips Israel’s Lebanon Blitz
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    La Paz, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) The Congress of Bolivia voiced concern over
    Israel attacks on Lebanon that has targeted civilians, and called the United
    Nations to stop the hostilities.
    A joint House and Senate resolution passed Tuesday considers this
    Israel-Lebanon conflict a threat to world peace and the Middle East.
    The resolution recalls that the civilian population has been the main
    victim and urges for effort from the world community, the UN namely, to end
    the attacks.

  • FIDEL ALWAYS LIVES AND VIVIRA BY IN THE HEART AND THE MIND ON THE TOWNS
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    3 Thursdays August 2006 (16h29): FIDEL ALWAYS LIVES AND VIVIRA BY IN THE HEART AND THE MIND ON THE TOWNS Hardly the state of health of the historical leader of the Cuban revolution, the taken Fidel Castro Commander was disclosed from Cuba, and measures by means of which it delegates his functions in Raul Castro and other leaders of the Communist Party and the Cuban government, a reaction of endorsement and support of all the institutions and the Cuban town to Fidel Castro Commander took (…)

  • Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler
    3 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chavez Claims : Israel Resembles Hitler By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Tehran Monday, July 31, 2006 zaman.com
    Veneuzela President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel’s attack on Lebanon and Palestine. During an official two-day visit to Iran’s capital Tehran, Chavez declared, “What Israel is doing is fascism and terrorism. We call on the world to stop Israel’s insanity,” during a ceremony at the University of Tehran in which he was awarded the Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, First Grade. (…)