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 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

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

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One if by land…      (Fiji)   As a youth, I read so many Frederick Forsyth thrillers that I long thought it would be cool to be caught in the middle of a coup. Not that I had a deathwish or wanted to streak in my undies from my hotel towards a hovering helicopter under a hail of gunfire,

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All that has happened in Colombia since March 1, 2008, when Colombia bombed a FARC camp in Ecuador that killed several people including FARC Commander, Raul Reyes, amounts to nothing but a prelude for the main event. If the US has its way, Colombia, especially after the “rescue” of the hostages a few days

Finally caught up with THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, in which the editor of French Elle suffers a massive neurological kerfuffle which paralyses everything but one eyelid, transforming him into a sentient version of Errol Morris’ Interrotron, the camera everybody talks to. The late great Jean-Pierre Cassel. It’s a fine film, directed by Julian Schnabel with some