Venezuela, US clash at OAS General Assembly (Roundup) Jun 3, 2008, 21:15 GMT Medellin, Colombia - Venezuela and the United States clashed strongly Tuesday at the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Colombian city of Medellin. Both countries accused each other of harbouring terrorists, and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas

The treacherous Human Rights Watch and its Jose Vivanco doing the US’ dirty work again. Venezuela should demand that HRW clarify its relationship with the US Government and its various foreign destabilization programs. Venezuela Dismisses Human Rights Watch’s Demand to Clarify FARC Relationship June 4th 2008, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com Human Rights Watch Americas Director José Miguel

In true Cuba style, the World Food Summit would not conclude until the Cubans pointed out the long history of hypocrisies, deceits, and obfuscations characteristic of the global north and especially, the US. Cuba knows that the the western countries are largely going through the motions in addressing the “food crisis.” As a

(Check out the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five website for more information: http://www.freethefive.org) GRANMA June 7, 2008 Attorney Leonard Weinglass: “There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the new ruling from Atlanta.” ARLEEN RODRIGUEZ DERIVET A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the

In typical low-down US style, the State Department chastised Cuba in its 2008 Human Trafficking Report for not making significant efforts to confront the alleged trafficking of women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In addition, the report described Cuba as a sexual tourism destination. Too bad we couldn’t lock a few State

I want to urge readers to check out a terrific new blog, “Machetera.” While it deals with wide-ranging subject matter, the primary emphasis is on Latin America. Machetera provides a wonderful public service through her blog by translating articles from the Spanish-speaking press into English, thereby providing us with access to information that

This June 14 is the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara’s birth and it is a good occasion to review various parts of his life. In late 1964, after making a speech before the UN General Assembly, Che Guevara embarked on a lengthy tour of Africa that began and ended in Algeria. He visited Mali, Congo

Note to Readers: I just finished reading an article featuring a Jorge Ramos (Noticiero Univision) interview with Barack Obama about Latin American issues. Thanks to Machetera, a terrific blog you should check out (http://machetera.wordpress.com), I have an English translation of the article. Unfortunately, throughout the interview, Senator Obama lays on the right-wing rhetoric, especially

Recently, INTERPOL examined computers which Colombia claims were seized on March 1 in a FARC camp across the border from Colombia in Ecuador just after Colombia bombed the camp. Colombia immediately spread the allegation that files on the computers showed a link between President Chavez and the FARC. No evidence has been offered

Not one penny from the international financial institutions went to Haiti from 2000 until February 29, 2004, the day that the US put Aristide on a plane and banished him to the Central African Republic. It was not the instability of the Aristide government that caused the IFI’s to withhold funds. It was