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

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

News hit the web yesterday that a U.S. Government-funded site serving as a database and repository on reproductive health information seemingly began censoring (blocking) search results for the term “abortion”. (Wired Magazine Web Article Here) The U.S. Agency for International Development funds the search site, administrated by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The

The heat wave is causing me to loose my focus. I read something interesting, get fired up and ready to blog, and then have to go sit down and cool down. But I’m indoors now, with AC, and ready to catch up. So… It’s dangerous to live in America, and it’s dangerous to be an

In the beginning In 1937, this young ‘genius’ (supposedly) scored 800 all correct answers in his GMAT test (reputedly, a first in the history of GMAT) - and joined Harvard Business School. Harvard milked this story to sell its struggling business school. In the next 60 years, (as the urban legend goes) only 3 others scored

Africa Science News Service reports that USAID signed a contract that allows U.S. money to be used to purchase DDT for Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. If so, this is one of the final barriers to use of U.S. funds for DDT use. Oddly, the news report offers no details on when or

  Numeralia    (Semana del 15 al 21/06/0 Lucha contra la corrupción. Vice-Ministerio de Transparencia y Lucha Contra Corrupción informa que en dos años denuncias de corrupción contra autoridades municipales y departamentales suman 269; aclara, sin embargo, que hay  retraso por mora procesal y sólo 8 casos tienen sentencia · (LT – 15/06/08). Referéndum Autonómico en Tarija 1.

I have several favorite blogs that I visit every few days.  As friends and family spread across the globe, blogging has been a great way to feel connected.  Often I have thought about what I would blog about if I had a blog of my own, and I never really came up withanything - until

Numeralia    (Semana del 22 al 28/06/0 ·       Crecimiento económico del Perú. Economía peruana alcanzó su crecimiento más alto de los últimos 13 años al llegar al 13,25% de expansión el pasado mes de abril, debido al comportamiento positivo de todos los sectores económicos. Perú viene creciendo sostenidamente durante los últimos 86 meses consecutivos a una

The Government Office and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed a Memorandum of Intention (MOI) on an extended project “in Support for Trade Acceleration” (STAR) for the 2010-11 period. Addressing the signing ceremony in Hanoi on July 4, Minister, Director of the Government Office Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the project, which