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Chavez wants Anti-US Military Alliance

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:24:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah...this guy's not a threat.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has called on other Latin American and Caribbean countries to form a military alliance against the United States.

The vehemently anti-US leader says Nicaragua, Bolivia, Cuba and Dominica should create one united force.

Mr Chavez has urged them to draw up a joint defence policy and create a united military force against US imperialism.

Banned Textbook in Brazil

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:35:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fact that this book was banned is amazing. It must have had some real off-the-wall stuff to get banned in Brazil. The leftists have almost total control of the educational system here.

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

The editor of an eighth-grade text book that praises the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong and Cuba's communist government is crying foul after the Brazilian government stopped using the book in public schools.

Tags: brazil, brazilian, leftist, communist, mao, fidel castro

Missions in Venezuela During the Dictatorship

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:39:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: God's work will go on, regardless of who is in power.

Clip Source: mnnonline.org

Trans World Radio's Jim Munger says many mission agencies are taking a 'wait and see' approach over continued work. Many are voluntarily pulling people out of the tribal areas and away from project zones and placing them in neighboring lower profile areas. Yet, despite a grim pattern, there's still hope.

Munger says China proved that. The Bamboo Curtain was tightly shut against missionary influence for decades, but when the Curtain parted, it revealed an already healthy and growing church network.

The same holds true for countries like Cuba and Venezuela. It all boils down to trust in God's plan. "In Cuba, which Chavez has openly stated that he is using as a pattern, in the last 15 years, we've seen a huge explosion of churches and Christian work in that country, with very few missionaries in from outside. So, God is sovereign and He can work, even though we can't send missionaries in."

Tags: venezuela, missions, hugo chavez, chavez, ministry, christianity, latin america

The Chavez Threat

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:09:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good analysis.

Clip Source: www.mexidata.info

Democracy is still a fragile commodity in the Americas.

In circumspect, we must not see this rogue alignment of left leaning nations as a problem indigenous to just our Western Hemisphere. Chavez continues to regularly visit with government leaders from Syria, China, North Korea, Lebanon and Iran, including the latter’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nor should the venom spewing tirades by Chavez against the United States be looked at solely as unscrupulous truculence.

Chavez’s massive military arms purchases, and a shared desire with many in his radical alliances for nuclear materials, cannot be ignored. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems must be a top United States and free world priority.

As for Cuba, during the waning days of Castro’s power and obsessive control over the small, impoverished, yet strategically located island nation, leftists and their alliance leaders who want to prevent change will watch it closely. However unprecedented Latin American and United States unity could ultimately decide if Cuba will stay on the left, or become a partner in the democratic west.

Tags: chavez, hugo chavez, latin america

Non-aligned?

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:48:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Non-Aligned?

Clip Source: suzieviews.blogspot.com

Cuba with The NON ALIGNED Movement

Tags: islam, theology, latin america, cuba, venezuela

Setback for Bolivian Oil Takeover

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:10:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: According to reports I have read, Andres Soliz hates Brazil. His departure may make negotiating a little easier for Petrobras.

Clip Source: www.taipeitimes.com

Bolivia's Soliz steps down

Bolivia's Hydrocarbons Minister Andres Soliz answers questions during a press conference held on May 3 at the Palmasola gas plant in Santa Cruz.
PHOTO: AFP

President Evo Morales' ambitious plan to nationalize Bolivia's energy sector suffered another setback as the minister spearheading the effort resigned after his government backed down in a dispute with Brazil's state-run energy company.

Soliz announced his resignation while President Evo Morales was at the Nonaligned Movement summit in Cuba. In Havana, Morales declined to comment and said he would issue a statement later.

"Whatever happens, nationalization is irreversible," Garcia told Bolivians in a nationally televised address.

"It is our commitment to history, our commitment to you and our commitment to our country."

The vice president also said the change would not affect the terms of nationalization, which require foreign oil companies to sign new contracts ceding control of their operations by Nov. 1 or leave the country.

But one industry analyst said Soliz's departure adds to the uncertainty surrounding the future of Bolivia's petroleum industry, and will only hurt its position at the bargaining table.

Tags: boliva, evo morales, brazil, latin america

Capture of Four US Spies in Venezuela?

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:51:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is it just me, or does this guy get more unhinged as time goes on?

Clip Source: www.mercurynews.com

Chavez: Venezuela captured 4 U.S spies

Speaking at a campaign rally, Chavez referred to the four after reading aloud a news report about the U.S. naming a "mission manager" for Cuba and Venezuela to oversee U.S. intelligence efforts for the two countries.

The Venezuelan leader gave few details about the circumstances, or how recently the four cases occurred. But he said one woman was caught not long ago while taking photos - of what it remained unclear - in the north-central city of Valencia.

"I've caught four of their spies, four, and I've put them back in their hands. Not long ago we caught a very beautiful woman in Valencia, taking photos," Chavez told the rally in western Venezuela.

Tags: chavez, hugo chavez, venezuela

Press Objectivity

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:14:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah right.

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Reuters Uses Havana Correspondent Who Wrote for Communist Daily

Havana-based Reuters correspondent Marc Frank is a former writer for the People’s Daily World, a Communist Party USA publication.

In Frank’s little-known 1993 book, “Cuba Looks to the Year 2000,” he admits having written over 1,000 articles for the communist publication as their Havana-based Latin American correspondent during a five year period in the 1980’s. According to its website, the publication (which has since changed its name to the People’s Weekly World) shares a “special relationship” with the Communist Party USA:

His piece praising Cubans who are coping with the crisis was written for Sunday's Financial Times.

Cuba remained calm on Sunday as people engaged in voluntary work, cleaned neighbourhoods and donated blood in Mr Castro’s honour.

Throughout the leadership crisis, people have gone about their daily business and enjoyed summer holidays, though there is an unmistakable undercurrent of anxiety over the future without Fidel - the only leader most Cubans have ever known.

What explains Reuters' use of Marc Frank?

Reuters is either unaware of Marc Frank’s decidedly pro-communist past or believes the 1,000 articles he wrote as the Havana-based correspondent for the communist People’s Daily World have little to do with his current reporting of communist Cuba, which he once accused the United States of “terrorizing…while trying to starve them into submission.”

Tags: cuba, press

Anti-Castro TV

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:23:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cool.

Clip Source: www.csmonitor.com

US steps up anti-Castro TV

Every evening from Monday to Saturday, a small twin-engine prop plane taxis down the runway past combat-ready jet-fighters at Naval Air Station, Key West.

The commuter aircraft takes off and banks to the south over the deep-blue Florida Straits as pilot and crew prepare for their nightly invasion of Cuba.

Their mission: to spread democracy there by serving as an airborne broadcast platform for a US Spanish-language television network known as TV Martí.

Officials with the Miami-based Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), an arm of the US government, are quick to point out that their twin-prop Grumman G-1 at no time leaves international air space. Nonetheless, the Cuban government views the operation as the equivalent of a full-on invasion of Cuban sovereignty.

Tags: fidel castro, cuba

Fidel And Chavez

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:11:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pretty funny little animation, if you happen to speak Portuguese...

Clip Source: charges.uol.com.br

Versão com legenda

Tags: cuba

"Interesting" Raul Castro Videos

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:39:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Raul Castro, the Bill Clinton of Cuba.

Clip Source: www.miami.com

Video depicts a crude side to Raúl Castro

Tags: cuba, castro

Trying to Ease Fidel's Pain?

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:15:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He can't make him better, but at least he can make his last moments "happier".

Clip Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

Morales promises coca cake for Castro

BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales has sung "Happy Birthday, comandante" to Cuba's convalescing leader Fidel Castro and vowed to take him a birthday cake made with coca leaves in December.

Tags: fidel castro, evo morales

Interesting Perspective on Fidel

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:57:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Castro's Deal With the Soviet Devil

The hundreds of thousands who have fled Castro's Cuba over the last 47 years have already voted. But clearly some portion of the island's 11.2 million people still fervently support "Fidel," though how many remains guesswork because Cubans don't have the freedom to speak negatively about their lider maximo. Leftist and populist leaders in Latin America lionize Castro for having defied the Americans, but they are too realistic to adopt the Cuban model for their own countries.

Tags: fidel castro

Birds of a Feather 2.0

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:51:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 90,000 barrels of oil per day!!! Holy subsidation, Batman!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Is Hugo Chavez Cuba's Kingmaker?

Cuba receives more than 90,000 barrels of Venezuela crude a day at favorable rates of financing in exchange for deploying an estimated 20,000 doctors in Venezuela. Although the presence of Cuban doctors has deepened Chavez's support among his country's poor, the arrangement has yielded extraordinary benefits for Castro as well. Over the last six years, oil prices have more than tripled, from $20 to about $76 a barrel. Not only has Cuba avoided oil sticker shock, it has received a modest windfall. In 2005, bilateral trade between the two countries reached $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billion in Venezuelan oil sales to Cuba on deferred financing plans — and nonpayment by Cuba is the norm.

Tags: chavez, hugo chavez, cuba, fidel castro

Hugo Chavez--Artifical Life Support for a Dead System

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:31:24 GMT

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Clip Source: service.spiegel.de

Hugo Chavez and the Future of Cuba

As Cuba inches toward a post-Fidel existence, international attention has focused on the ailing leader and his brother Raul. But it's worth keeping an eye on Fidel's staunchest ally. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is likely to pour millions of petrodollars into keeping Cuba socialist.

Tags: cuba, fidel castro, chavez, hugo chavez